Exclusive NH Tracking Poll: Pete Buttigieg Stays Hot, Ties Bernie Sanders For Lead  —  BOSTON (CBS) - New Hampshire - Hoosier daddy now?  In the latest exclusive WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll, Pete Buttigieg continues his remarkable post-Iowa surge.

Iowa blowback scorches Tom Perez  —  Democrats are fuming that it took a full day for Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez to issue a statement on the caucus debacle in Iowa — and three full days for him to go before national viewers to explain what's going on.

Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump's properties  —  President Trump's company charges the Secret Service for the rooms agents use while protecting him at his luxury properties — billing U.S. taxpayers at rates as high as $650 per night …

White House Weighs Ouster of Aide Who Testified Against Trump  — Army's Vindman could be removed as part of a broader sweep  — Some officials may be reassigned from NSC in impeachment wake  —  The White House is weighing a plan to dismiss Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council …

Mitt Romney's ‘profile in courage’  —  For years Mitt Romney had a reputation as a flip-flopper, an opportunist, a politician who would tailor his beliefs to fit whichever group he was trying to please.  —  Running for office in deep-blue Massachusetts in 1994 and 2002, he pronounced himself strongly pro-choice.

Joe Walsh ends Republican primary challenge against Trump  —  GOPer: If a Democratic President had done this, she would have already been impeached & removed  —  (CNN)Former US Rep. Joe Walsh is ending his uphill challenge against Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination …

China Tightens Wuhan Lockdown in ‘Wartime’ Battle With Coronavirus  —  With infections doubling every four days and more than 600 deaths, China intensified its response in Wuhan, with house-to-house temperature checks and mass confinements at quarantine centers.

Fox News Internal Document Bashes Pro-Trump Fox Regulars for Spreading ‘Disinformation’  —  In a dossier obtained by The Daily Beast, Fox's research unit advises colleagues to be wary of “disinformation” from several Trump-boosting on-air regulars, including Giuliani.

Trump's State of the Union speech was a white supremacist vision of America  —  President Trump defiled the majesty of the East Room of the White House with a vulgar display of vindictiveness that shocked even those of us who didn't expect anything less.  For more than an hour …

Trump's former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer will endorse Mike Bloomberg for president  —  Richard Spencer, fired for objecting to Trump's intervention in the Gallagher case, will be the first Trump appointee to back a possible Trump opponent.  —  NORFOLK, Virginia — Richard Spencer …

January adds a much stronger-than-expected 225,000 jobs, with a boost from warm weather  —  By Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM  — Nonfarm payrolls surged 225,000 for the month, well above Wall Street estimates for a 158,000 gain.  — The unemployment rate ticked higher to 3.6% …

Federal Agencies Use Cellphone Location Data for Immigration Enforcement  —  Commercial database that maps movements of millions of cellphones is deployed by immigration and border authorities  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has bought access to a commercial database that maps …

The Democrats' Unserious Week  —  The fiasco in Iowa, the foolishness at the State of the Union—do they realize how bad they look?  —  Democrats, when they're feeling alarmed or mischievous, will often say that Ronald Reagan would not recognize the current Republican Party.

President's Chicago tax appeal on Trump Tower is under investigation  —  State inspector general, Pritzker administration are looking into allegation a Republican state agency head pressured staff to slash by $1M the $2.5M in property taxes Donald Trump paid in 2012.

How Trump Wins Again  —  Are Democrats going to give this election away?  —  As several people have noticed, this was the most politically successful week of the Trump presidency.  —  First, President Trump's job approval numbers are rising.  When the impeachment inquiry got rolling in October his Gallup approval rating was 39.

Mulvaney's job in doubt now that impeachment dust has settled  —  Mulvaney confesses to quid pro quo: Get over it  —  Washington (CNN)With a five-month impeachment saga behind them, White House aides are bracing for the prospect of another staff shake-up in the West Wing as President Donald Trump looks …

Melania Trump, once a reluctant campaigner, is hitting the trail  —  Who is first lady Melania Trump?  —  Washington (CNN)For a first lady who generally begs off rallies, fundraising shindigs and campaign events, Melania Trump appears poised to be a larger campaign presence for President Donald Trump's reelection.

Steel Tariffs and U.S. Jobs Revisited  —  Harvard University and University of California, Davis  —  The Issue:  —  It has been nearly two years since the Trump administration first imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum.  New data and research are beginning to emerge on the impact that these tariffs …

How Trump Rewired the Electoral Map  —  When President Barack Obama launched his 2012 reelection campaign, he did it with back-to-back rallies in a pair of logical places: Virginia and Ohio.  The two essential swing states, with 31 electoral votes between them, were vital to Obama's chances of winning a second term.

Trump's politicization of the National Prayer Breakfast is unholy and immoral  —  At the 68th, and perhaps last, National Prayer Breakfast, the main remarks were made by the former president of the American Enterprise Institute (and Post columnist) Arthur C. Brooks, who spoke on the themes of his wonderful 2019 book “Love Your Enemies.”

Treasury Department Hands Over Hunter Biden Info After Withholding Trump's Tax Records  —  The impeachment trial is over, but Senate Republicans are pressing forward with an investigation into the Bidens.  —  WASHINGTON ― The Treasury Department has given congressional Republicans …

Kushner: Abbas, Olmert jealous they couldn't bring about peace themselves  —  Jared Kushner spoke out against Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, saying that they are jealous of the peace plan for having the potential to accomplish what they could not.