‘Negotiating with Jell-O’: How Trump's shifting positions fueled the rush to a shutdown … In a remarkable, televised 55-minute meeting with about two dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers earlier this month, President Trump twice proclaimed that any immigration deal would need to be …

Patrick Meehan, Congressman Combating Harassment, Settled His Own Misconduct Case  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle …

Welcome to Trump's whatever shutdown  —  Trump has spent a year upending the rules of being president, and so far he's approaching the congressional spending crisis as another episode that will work itself out.  —  Little of the congressional drama that precipitated the weekend's government shutdown …

Gutiérrez ready to give in on wall  —  Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) said Saturday that he's ready to give President Trump  —  his signature border wall if the Republicans will agree to new legal protections for “Dreamers.”  —  Furthermore, he said he'd help with the construction.

Women's March 2018: Thousands of Protesters Take to the Streets  —  A year after millions of people turned out for the Women's March and took to the streets en masse to protest President Trump's inauguration, demonstrators gathered on Saturday in cities across the United States …

Iraq War vet Tammy Duckworth nails Trump: I will not be lectured by a draft dodger  —  “I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs: If you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops ... in danger.”  —  Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) …

You'll get your mail, but not your passports.  Here's what's affected by the shutdown  —  (CNN)In the final moments leading up to Friday's midnight deadline, Senate Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on a stopgap funding measure to continue government services.

Amid Trump's inaugural festivities, members of Russia's elite anticipated a thaw between Moscow and Washington … In the days before Donald Trump's inauguration, a wealthy Russian pharmaceutical executive named Alexey Repik arrived in Washington, expressing excitement about the new administration.

Meadows: House majority loss wouldn't ‘change a whole lot’  —  (R-N.C.) Thursday in the midst of the GOP's hunt for a spending deal that could attract enough votes in the House to shift the risk of a shutdown to Democrats in the Senate.  —  The president didn't realize he reached Meadows …

Minnesota woman strikes St. Kate's  —  St. Catherine University (a/k/a St. Kate's, formerly St. Catherine College) sits on a leafy 110-acre campus in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul.  It is located a few blocks down the street from my high school alma mater and within shouting distance …

They Were Bad.  He May Be Worse.  —  Historians have long looked to a few key criteria in evaluating the beginning of a president's administration.  First and foremost, any new president should execute public duties with a commanding civility and poise befitting the nation's chief executive, but without appearing aloof or haughty.

Overseas military families lose AFN; access to other services remains unclear  —  KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Defense Department personnel and their families overseas woke up Saturday to much confusion, uncertainty and some anger about how their lives would be affected by the U.S. government shutdown.