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.

Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman Will Be Transferred From the White House  —  Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, whose testimony in the House inquiry infuriated President Trump and his allies, will be reassigned within the military, officials said.  —  The White House plans to transfer …

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 …

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.

Coronavirus updates: 8 more Americans diagnosed on cruise ship as death toll hits 638  —  As confirmed cases reach more than 31,000 in mainland China, here is the latest you need to know.  —  • Global death toll rises to at least 638 as confirmed cases reach more than 31,000 in mainland China

Appeals court rejects Democrats' emoluments suit against Trump  —  A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from Congressional Democrats who accused President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by receiving profits from foreign governments' spending at his luxury Washington hotel and other businesses.

Mike Bloomberg Is Paying ‘Influencers’ to Make Him Seem Cool  —  The Bloomberg campaign is trying an ad strategy familiar to every other startup with a ton of cash and a questionable business model: paying influencers to make it seem cool.  —  One day after the Iowa caucuses were effectively botched …

Exclusive photos of Giuliani in Spain show Lev Parnas has lots more to share  —  New York (CNN)Stored in devices seized from Lev Parnas by law enforcement, there's a 34-second cell phone video of Rudy Giuliani relishing a bullfight.  There are also photos of Donald Trump's personal attorney posing …

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.

Shadow's Cancelled Nevada Caucus App Had Errors, Too  —  As the app used to report caucus results in Iowa failed, volunteers for the Nevada State Democratic Party encountered errors while testing their own version of the app made by the same company, Motherboard has learned.

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 …

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 …

Was Ripping Up the SOTU Speech Illegal?  Legal Experts Say No  —  While one lawmaker has filed an ethics complaint against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, legal scholars have refuted this claim.  —  On Feb. 4, 2020, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump finished delivering his State …

Who Is Writing Brad Pitt's Awards Season Speeches?  —  By this point in awards season, Brad Pitt's march toward a Best Supporting Actor Oscar seems all but inevitable.  Not to say anyone's complaining.  In fact, the loudest knock against the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star is that his warm …

Antarctica just hit 65 degrees, its warmest temperature ever recorded  —  It comes days after earth's warmest January on record.  —  Just days after the earth saw its warmest January on record, Antarctica has broken its warmest temperature ever recorded.  A reading of 65 degrees was taken …

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 …

How Never Trumpers Fell in Line  —  Political rationalization has always been part of politics.  But what is happening now is dangerous.  —  Mr. Israel served as a Democratic representative in Congress from 2001 to 2017.  —  During my 16 years in Congress, from 2001 to 2017 …

“We're losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party  —  James Carville arrives for the annual JFK Profiles in Courage Award ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 20, 2018.  Paul Marotta/Getty Images  —  Why the longtime Democratic strategist is “scared to death” of the 2020 election.

The Post's masthead will have to accept that it is not God  —  It's been a grueling couple of weeks for the Washington Post.  The paper found itself as the subject of news, rather than its author.  Morale is hurting.  The newsroom is angry.  Management is stumbling.

Chris Cillizza, impeachment, and a grotesque monument to modern media  —  What CNN's analyst shows about what gets prioritized in the press  —  You know how in movies like Freaky Friday, 13 Going on 30, and Big, there are always those scenes where the main character has to learn how to be an adult?

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 …

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% …