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WASHINGTON — President Trump has seized on a bombshell New York Times scoop as further evidence that he has been unfairly targeted as part of a “witch hunt.” The Times reported on Friday that the FBI was so concerned with his behavior toward Russia that they started an investigation into whether Trump was actually working on behalf of the regime of Vladimir Putin or had fallen under their influence. The investigation…

Despite his long history of making Islamophobic comments, endorsing white supremacists and retweeting neo-Nazis, King previously faced little pushback from his fellow Republican lawmakers. And while his bigoted rhetoric was called out by several media outlets, including HuffPost, in the run-up to the midterm election in November, King was re-elected to the House for a ninth term.

Jeanne Nutter says she hates the phrase “everything happens for a reason.” But a series of small events led her to be in the exactly right place, at the absolutely right time, to bump into Jayme Closs on the road outside her cabin in rural Gordon on Thursday afternoon. Nutter, of Strum, left her home later that day than she wanted to. She wound up making several…

Video New York Times: FBI opened counterintelligence probe on Trump to investigate potential of him working with Russia Reaction from Fox News Contributor Doug Schoen, former Mike Pence Press Secretary Marc Lotter, and Daily Caller Editorial Director Vince Coglianese on ‘Fox News @ Night’ with Shannon Bream. The extraordinary story published Friday night in The New York Times headlined “F.B.I. Opened Inquiry into Whether Trump was Secretly Working on Behalf…

Tom Lynn/Getty Images Tom Lynn/Getty Images Related Content (CNN) – A winter storm that blanketed the Midwest with snow and left seven dead hit Washington and its surrounding areas Sunday — with more than 35 million people under winter weather alerts. Up to a foot of snowfall is possible in Washington and Virginia on Sunday and into Monday morning, the National Weather Service said. Baltimore is also in the path…

Police say one person has died and four are in critical condition following apparent drug overdoses at a house in Chico, the Enterprise-Record newspaper reports. The newspaper says that a dozen people were taken out of the house Saturday morning and brought to hospitals. Chico police commander Mike Rodden tells the Enterprise-Record that all of the people hospitalized were over 18 and most appeared to be in their 20s. Steve…

“And I can tell you this, if you ask the folks in Russia, I’ve been tougher on Russia than anybody else, any other ― probably any other president period,” he said. “But certainly the last three or four presidents, modern day presidents, nobody’s been as tough as I have from any standpoint.”

Mr. Trump’s comments echoed those that his White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, released on Friday night. “This is absurd. James Comey was fired because he’s a disgraced partisan hack, and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, who was in charge at the time, is a known liar fired by the F.B.I.,” Ms. Sanders said. “Unlike President Obama, who let Russia and other foreign adversaries push America around, President Trump has actually…

Video Young California police officer gunned down during traffic stop, suspect found dead from apparent suicide California authorities on Saturday released the identity of the man suspected of killing Officer Natalie Corona earlier this week in an “ambush”-style attack. The Yolo County Sheriff’s Office deputy coroner determined the suspect – who killed himself after the encounter – was Kevin Douglas Limbaugh, 48, authorities said. The identification came two days after…

A massive winter storm sweeping across several Midwest states has snarled traffic in several states, left at least seven people dead and thousands more without power in the dead of winter. The storm forced grounds crews to scramble to clear snow from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City ahead of the NFL divisional playoff game. The storm moved into Kansas and Nebraska from the Rockies on Friday, then east into Missouri,…

Video Chico police hold press conference following a mass fentanyl overdose A “mass overdose” in a California home Saturday morning left one person dead and another 12 hospitalized after police say the victims may have ingested fentanyl, a powerful opioid. Chico Police Chief Michael O’Brien said at a press conference that police received a 911 call from someone inside the residence of a home in the 1100 block of Santana Court…

President Trump speaks to reporters during his visit to the Capitol to meet with Senate Republicans on Jan. 9. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Robert Costa Josh Dawsey Philip Rucker Seung Min Kim January 12 at 5:32 PM When President Trump made a rare journey to the Capitol last week, he was expected to strategize about how to end the government shutdown he instigated. Instead, he spent the first 20-odd minutes…

Comey, who has a contentious relationship with the man who fired him, to say the least, appeared to respond to Trump’s Saturday-morning tweet storm calling Comey a “total sleaze” and a “crooked cop.”

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Police describe him as a monster — a young Wisconsin man so fixated on a hazel-eyed, 13-year-old girl, that he allegedly shot her parents dead in their home and stole her away, keeping her captive in a wooded cabin for 88 days until her escape. But by all accounts, Jake Thomas Patterson, the accused abductor-murderer in the Jayme Closs case, was an average, even boring, young man. The bespectacled 21-year…

A winter storm pummeled parts of the Midwest on Saturday, turning roads into a snowy and slushy mess that has contributed to the deaths of at least five people, the authorities said. The storm is expected to head toward the Mid-Atlantic States, with several inches of snow forecast for Washington, D.C., and much of Virginia. In Missouri, up to 17 inches of snow had fallen in the central part of…