An impasse over immigration threatens the first government shutdown in four years. If the Senate doesn’t vote to pass a temporary bill to fund the government by midnight tonight, the federal government will be forced to close its doors. Increasingly, the only legislating that gets done in Washington happens on…

As news broke of President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea, ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross appeared live on air with a bombshell. As part of his plea agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Flynn was prepared to testify that President Trump directed him to…

Amid the dank rancor, glimmers of light. — A few weeks ago, Americans watched in horror as some of us beat each other with bats and clubs and a car plowed into a crowd leaving a young woman dead. Charlottesville was a demoralizing blow that left us asking, is this who we are? Is this what we’ve become? …

Among the most persistent objections for the attribution to Russia of the 2016 hacking of the DNC is the DNC’s refused to grant access to their physical server to the FBI. President Donald Trump raised the issue as recently as last month at the G-20 in Hamburg. There are…

You probably don’t need to start digging a bomb shelter just yet. — The war of words between North Korea and the U.S. escalated again Wednesday as North Korea announced it was preparing a plan to launch missiles at Guam, a U.S. territory 2,100 miles south of Pyongyang. This latest provocation came a day after President Donald Trump pledged that further threats from…

No. None. Zilch. As Tom Nichols, a professor at the Naval War College and an expert in nuclear strategy put it, the idea of legal grounds to disobey a launch order is “untouched by knowledge of [how] that process works.” Nuclear protocols are designed for decisiveness, not debate. It is Fast The US…

These are extraordinary times — and history is watching. Yesterday, we learned that a grand jury has been empaneled to investigate allegations related to a sitting President; someone within the U.S. government leaked highly sensitive transcripts of a President’s phone calls w foreign leaders — in an apparent effort to…

The Presidency is shrinking. It’s unmistakable. While the current occupant of the Oval Office, Donald J. Trump, dominates the news, it is often for reasons other than the great policy questions of the day. Congress stripped the President of his ability to lift Russia sanctions unilaterally and forced his acquiescence…