Turmoil at the National Security Council, From the Top Down  —  WASHINGTON — These are chaotic and anxious days inside the National Security Council, the traditional center of management for a president's dealings with an uncertain world.  —  Three weeks into the Trump administration …

BREAKING: Oroville under immediate evacuation as spillway collapse feared  —  “It's uncontrolled.  It's uncontrolled.”  —  Fearing a gush from Lake Oroville if the emergency spillway collapses, officials are releasing as much as 100,000 cubic feet per second from the main …

America's Biggest Creditors Dump Treasuries in Warning to Trump  —  Japanese investors cull U.S. government debt by most since '13  —  Currency-hedged returns were worst on record last quarter  —  In the age of Trump, America's biggest foreign creditors are suddenly having second thoughts about financing the U.S. government.

Commerce Nominee Wilbur Ross Will Keep His Stake in Chinese-Government-Backed Company  —  Wilbur Ross Jr. plans to keep millions of dollars invested in offshore entities whose values could be affected by policies that he implements as commerce secretary.

Trump's official inauguration poster has glaring typo  —  President Trump's official inauguration portrait offered by the Library of Congress had a glaring typo on it, social media users pointed out Sunday evening.  —  The print of Trump, which was sold on the Library of Congress's website …

Debunked David Rose doubles down, goes full Trump  —  On February 5th, Rose ran a story alleging scandalous behavior by NOAA scientists in a 2015 paper.  The story was based on an interview with retired NOAA scientist John Bates, who was not involved in the study.

Immigration Agents Arrest 600 People Across U.S. in One Week  —  Federal immigration officials arrested more than 600 people across at least 11 states last week, detaining 40 people in the New York City area, law enforcement officials said on Sunday.  —  It remained unclear whether the actions …

Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age  —  Billionaire Elon Musk is known for his futuristic ideas and his latest suggestion might just save us from being irrelevant as artificial intelligence (AI) grows more prominent.  —  The Tesla and SpaceX CEO …

Can a ‘Wrecking Ball’ of a President Evolve?  —  When Bob Corker went to Trump Tower in late November to interview for secretary of state, the disruptive new president and his team were not just idly talking about a potentially explosive start to the new administration.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S LIES ABOUT VOTER FRAUD WILL LEAD TO MASSIVE VOTER SUPPRESSION  —  Twenty-one states are now considering new laws to make it harder to vote.  —  By ,  —  After falsely alleging that three to five million people voted illegally in 2016, Donald Trump debuted a new lie …

Police Officers: “We Didn't Vote Republican To Get Stabbed In The Back”  —  In the highly contentious battle to extinguish public worker rights, Iowa Republicans have attempted a divide-and-conquer approach to pit unions against each other.  Their legislation splits public workers into two groups …

Shoving Alinsky's Rules for Radicals Right Back in the Left's Ugly Face  —  The Left is getting massively out-Alinskyed, and the hilarious thing is that this band of withered hippies, unemployable millennial safe-space cases, and unlovable + unshaven libfeminists don't even know it.

Trump: Media won't report on ‘enthusiastic supporters’ at Mar-a-Lago  —  President Trump on Sunday again slammed the media, this time claiming that there were “enthusiastic supporters lining the roads” as he left his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.  —  “Just leaving Florida.

Senate Democrats: Be afraid when Trump comes to town  —  Among the 23 Democratic senators up for re-election in 2018, there are 10 from states that President Trump won in 2016.  Now that Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party have decided to resist every plan, policy …

Weak congressional Republicans are not standing up to Trump as they should  —  won the election.  He's our President.  —  But his election does nothing to change the Article I Constitutional Authority of the Congress, nor does it change the responsibility of Republican Members of Congress …

Why Saying ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’ Isn't Enough  —  There, I've said it.  —  For three years, as under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, I would not and could not utter that phrase.  No one in the Obama administration could or did.  We used the much less specific term “violent extremism.”

How Trump can be held accountable for violating the Constitution, even if Congress doesn't care  —  A legal breakthrough  —  Among legal scholars, there isn't much debate: President Trump is violating the Constitution.  —  Since Trump decided to retain full ownership of his business empire …

After angry demonstration in Utah, Chaffetz returns to more wrath in D.C.  —  Rep. Jason Chaffetz is not yielding.  —  When he gavels in his House committee Monday night, the Utah Republican will begin the rare act of dismantling a D.C. law — one that allows for assisted suicide …

Focus, People  —  There's a side conversation occurring among Democrats today about whether protests are fueling momentum and organizing for a Democratic electoral comeback or diverting energy from it.  For me, it's all of the above.  I do not believe they're in opposition to each other at all.

G.O.P. Lawmakers Like What They See in Trump.  They Just Have to Squint.  —  WASHINGTON — Republican congressional aides have set their iPhones to flutter every time President Trump hurls a thunderbolt on Twitter.  Senators nod politely at his false claims of mass voter fraud during private White House meetings.