Vortex:“Neither snow nor rain,” but nobody said anything about a polar vortex. For the second day the US Postal Service has stopped delivering mail in six midwestern states because it’s so freakin’ cold. Offices and schools have closed. In Chicago …

The Swamp: Congress and the President return to work with an ambitious and pressing agenda before turning to mid-term elections in the fall. Major items include funding the government to avoid a shutdown, re-stabilizing the national health insurance program for …

Happy New Year!: About two million celebrants under close police observation peacefully rang in the new year in New York’s Times Square last night. SWAT teams and snipers watched over the big street parties across the country. In Houston, police …

Baby It’s Cold: The deep freeze is reaching into the South, where it’s 23 degrees in Little Rock, Ark. Up in Niagara Falls, it’s 6 degrees and the falls themselves are beginning to freeze. It’s 15 in New York City, …