Rick Gates, above, once the deputy chairman for the Trump campaign, agreed to cooperate with the special counsel’s inquiry into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. But our White House correspondent writes that the flurry of recent action seems to be inexorably leading to a larger target. Separately, the House Intelligence Committee released a redacted Democratic memo rebutting Republican claims of surveillance abuses by the F.B.I. The legal question: Should state government employees in Illinois have to pay their union for representing them in collective bargaining? And Ivanka Trump is in South Korea, where she led the American delegation at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics.

Source: New York Times February 25, 2018 10:52 UTC