Rudy Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, is encouraging Ukraine to wade further into sensitive political issues in the United States, seeking to push the incoming government in Kiev …

A Strategy Emerges to Counter House Democrats: Dare Them to Impeach  —  WASHINGTON — As the White House and Congress escalate their constitutional showdown, President Trump and his team are essentially trying to call what they see as the Democrats' bluff.  The message: Put up or shut up.

Allies of Trump's Son Declare War on G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel After Subpoena  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr.'s political allies launched an all-out war against the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee, turning several Republican senators Thursday against the panel's chairman amid news …

Schiff considers fining Trump officials held in contempt $25,000 a day  —  House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told Axios' Mike Allen Friday that the House is considering reviving its “inherent contempt” power, which would allow Congress to enforce subpoenas through coercive measures like fines.

Experts see Russia fingerprints on North Korea's new missile  —  TOKYO (AP) — The three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the Russian military …

Exclusive: Presidential hopeful Biden looking for ‘middle ground’ climate policy  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is crafting a climate change policy he hopes will appeal to both environmentalists and the blue-collar voters that elected Donald Trump …

House Intel Republicans offer rare praise for Adam Schiff  —  Republicans once called for Schiff's resignation.  Now they credit him with bringing the committee together.  —  President Donald Trump and Republicans have harangued House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff …

Three Production Companies Say They Won't Film in Georgia Over Abortion Law  —  David Simon's Blown Deadline Productions, Killer Films CEO Christine Vachon and Mark Duplass pledged to no longer shoot in the state as long as the law exists.  —  Georgia, no stranger to threats of boycotts due …

Why I Do Not Hate Donald Trump  —  Many people would probably believe me justified in hating Donald Trump.  —  While I was general counsel of the FBI, I watched the president fire my boss and friend, Jim Comey.  I've read and heard the many false statements that the president and his supporters have made about him.

Exclusive: Documents Detail Meetings Of Russians With Treasury, Federal Reserve  —  Newly obtained documents describe what happened when two now-infamous Russians took their outreach campaign into the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve in 2015.  —  Alexander Torshin …

US B-52 bombers land in Qatar over unspecified Iran threat  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — B-52 bombers ordered by the White House to deploy to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major American air base in Qatar, the U.S. Air Force acknowledged Friday.

HUD says 55,000 children could be displaced under Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants  —  The Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged that a Trump administration plan to purge undocumented immigrants from public housing could displace more than 55,000 children, all of whom are legal U.S. residents or citizens.

US hikes tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing vows retaliation  —  BEIJING (AP) — President Donald Trump's latest tariff hike on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating a battle over China's technology ambitions and other trade tensions.

How golf explains Trump.  Seriously.  —  “This guy cheats like a mafia accountant.”  —  Have you ever won a tournament you never competed in?  Have you ever stolen the ball from a child to gain a competitive advantage?  —  If the answer to either or both of those questions is no, then you're not cheating at the highest level.

Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted  —  The FBI has opened a public corruption investigation into Republican donor and South Florida massage-parlor entrepreneur Li “Cindy” Yang, focusing on whether she illegally funneled money from China …

“We're Gonna Run the Country!  White Power!  F**k N*****s!":  Turning Point USA Leader Gives Alt-Right Hand Sign While Caught on Racist Rant  —  A video sent to It's Going Down and already going viral on various Facebook pages, shows the leader of the Las Vegas chapter of Turning Point USA …

Beto's Long History of Failing Upward  —  AMES, Iowa—The presidential run of Beto O'Rourke is a profoundly personality-driven exercise, his charisma and Kennedy-esque demeanor the topic of one profile after another, so it's surprising to listen to his speeches on the stump in which he doesn't talk a whole lot about himself.

Comey Admits FBI Was Damaged By Peter Strzok and Lisa Page: They ‘Made Us All Look Bad’  —  In an answer that surely set ten million keyboards on fire on Thursday night, former FBI Director James Comey admitted during his CNN Town Hall that he thinks Peter Strzok and Lisa Page hurt the FBI's image.

Democrats need a power agenda, not just a policy agenda  —  Concentration of power is the problem, so redistribution of power is the policy.  —  The Democratic Party has lots of policy ideas.  But policymaking is downstream from power.  The kinds of policies that get crafted, considered …

Mulvaney says Congress will never see Trump's tax returns  —  Congress should not expect to see President Trump's tax returns, says White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.  Nor should lawmakers think they're entitled to see any more of the special counsel's report, he told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett.