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 …

Priebus, Flynn, others on thin ice  —  Imagine you're Reince Priebus.  Every day, you hear speculation that your days as White House chief of staff are numbered.  You wake up on a Sunday and read that colleague Kellyanne Conway's dream job is, well, yours.

Evacuations ordered below Oroville Dam; failure of emergency spillway ‘expected’  —  Millions of gallons of rushing water continued to pound and erode the massive Lake Oroville Dam spillway.  —  Residents of Oroville and nearby towns were ordered to immediately evacuate on Sunday afternoon …

Mar-a-Lago guest takes picture with nuclear ‘football’ briefcase  —  A visitor to President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida posted a Facebook photo with a person he says is responsible for carrying the black bag that contains the nuclear launch codes for the president of the United States.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Libertarians split with Trump over controversial police tactic  —  The White House has riled the country's civil libertarian wing after President Trump enthusiastically voiced support for a controversial law enforcement tool that allows an individual's property or assets to be seized without a guilty verdict.

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 …

'I'm Still All Trumped Up'  —  TERRE HAUTE, Indiana—On the first Saturday of Donald Trump's presidency, as protesters and marchers stormed the nation's capital and cities around the country, Dick and Jane Ames threw a party.  Four days earlier, they visited a Party Mania store and purchased …