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.

Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago  —  More than a decade ago, federal and state officials and some of California's largest water agencies rejected concerns that the massive earthen spillway at Oroville Dam — at risk of collapse Sunday night and prompting …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Gerry Baker to staff: Criticism of Wall Street Journal's Trump coverage is ‘fake news’  —  Wall Street Journal editor in chief Gerry Baker on Monday mounted a vigorous defense of his newspaper's Donald Trump coverage, pushing back aggressively on months of internal criticism that the venerable broadsheet …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

Oklahoma Lawmakers Want Men to Approve All Abortions  —  Something unexpected happened in the Oklahoma Legislature on February 8 that had Karo Chowning feeling pretty optimistic.  That morning, lawmakers in the House Public Health Committee blocked one anti-abortion bill and a second was tabled without discussion.

Beyond Flynn, other ties bind the White House to the Kremlin  —  Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.  —  President Trump's national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had a pretty wretched week.  The Post's reporting revealed that Flynn, contrary to his and the White House's earlier assertions …