Airstrike at Baghdad airport kills Iran's most revered military leader, Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi state television reports  —  BREAKING: It was not clear who carried out the strike, but the death of Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander, seems certain to send tensions soaring between the United States and Iran.

Robert Mueller's Secret Memos, Part 3: The Documents The Justice Department Didn't Want Congress To See  —  BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Robert Mueller's team kept secret.  Today we are publishing the third installment of the FBI's summaries of interviews with key witnesses.

Exclusive: Unredacted Ukraine Documents Reveal Extent of Pentagon's Legal Concerns  —  “Clear direction from POTUS to continue to hold.”  —  This is what Michael Duffey, associate director of national security programs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), told Elaine McCusker …

Ascendant Bernie Sanders turns his focus to Joe Biden as Iowa nears  —  DES MOINES — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — who has reignited his presidential campaign in the weeks since a heart attack put his political future in doubt — is now making a direct and sharpened case …

An immensely frustrating time for Julián Castro  —  Julián Castro ends bid for White House  —  Raul A. Reyes is an attorney and a member of the USA Today board of contributors.  Follow him on Twitter @RaulAReyes.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

Congressman Accuses Trump Of Stock Market Fraud And Opens Investigation  —  The House of Representatives may soon be able to add a new high crime and misdemeanor to the growing list of articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.  —  Specifically, Trump is suspected of manipulating futures …

Andrew McCabe said he lied to FBI about Wall Street Journal leak  —  Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe apologized for lying to agents who spent weeks investigating the source of a leak to the Wall Street Journal that actually came from him, new documents reveal.

Liz Crokin Predicts That Tom Hanks Will Soon Be Arrested for Involvement in Occult Pedophilia  —  Last year, right-wing “journalist” and Trump-worshiping conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin publicly declared that if the mass arrests long promised by those promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory …

Police Tracked a Terror Suspect—Until His Phone Went Dark After a Facebook Warning  —  Faced with strong encryption, law-enforcement agencies in Western Europe turned to Israeli company NSO Group to pursue data on WhatsApp messaging tool  —  A team of European law-enforcement officials …

A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden signals what's coming  —  If you thought the 2016 election was awash in disinformation and lies, get ready: The 2020 election is going to make that affair look like a knitting session.  —  A video that was edited in a monumentally dishonest fashion …

Democrat Marianne Williamson lays off campaign staff nationally, including NH  —  Financial issues force spiritual author, lecturer to drastically scale back her unorthodox presidential campaign  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. —  Marianne Williamson, who has been campaigning …

Amazon threatens to fire critics who are outspoken on its environmental policies  —  SEATTLE - Amazon has warned at least two employees who publicly criticized the company's environmental policies that they could be fired for future violations of its communications policy.

Judge rules baby at Cook Children's can be taken off life support against family's wishes  —  A judge ruled Thursday that a 11-month-old baby can be taken off life support at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth against the family's wishes.  —  The family of Tinslee Lewis …

I Was Google's Head of International Relations.  Here's Why I Left.  —  The company's motto used to be “Don't be evil.”  Things have changed.  —  When I walked out the door on my last day as Google's Head of International Relations, I couldn't help but think of my first day at the company.

Hillary Clinton appointed chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast  —  Hillary Clinton is to be the new chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast (QUB).  —  She is the university's 11th chancellor and first woman to take up the post.  —  In a statement, Mrs Clinton said it was a “great privilege” to become the chancellor of QUB.

‘Two hands are a lot’ — we're hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos...  'This is possibly the single largest design flaw contributing to the bad Nash equilibrium in which ... many governments are stuck.  Every individual high-functioning competent person knows …

Manhattan DA Declines to Prosecute Anti-Semitic Attack as Hate Crime  —  The Manhattan district attorney's office has declined to prosecute a recent anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish subway passenger as a hate crime, according to lawyers representing the victim.

Trey Gowdy won't join Trump's legal team.  'He doesn't need another lawyer'  —  Amid confusion late last year regarding his status on President Donald Trump's legal team, former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said Thursday he has no plans to formally assist the White House in its effort to defend …

Over 200 members of Congress ask Supreme Court to ‘reconsider’ Roe v. Wade  —  The lawmakers, largely Republican men, asked the court to uphold a lower court ruling that was in favor of a Louisiana abortion law.  —  Over 200 members of Congress, largely Republican men …

Florida Poised to Surpass New York in Congressional Seats  —  (Bloomberg) — Florida is expected to control more seats in the U.S. Congress than New York after April's decennial census, according to a study by Election Data Services Inc.  —  New York and California are projected to each lose …

Australia's prime minister visited families devastated by the wildfires.  It did not go well.  —  The fire mercilessly tore through Cobargo, a small town near the coast in southern New South Wales, on Monday night, burning down the main street and killing two people, a father and son, caught in its destructive path.