Diplomacy: North Korea will send athletes to the Winter Olympics in South Korea as a result of three hours of direct talks today. It’s a symbolic easing of tensions over North Korea’s escalating nuclear missile development. It will be the …

What I Meant Was: In Washington, it’s called “walking that back.” President Trump’s former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon modified but didn’t retract his comments about a “treasonous” 2016 meeting between top campaign staffers and a Russian lawyer dealing dirt on …

The Genius Bar: After several days getting pummeled about his mental and intellectual capability to be President, Donald Trump yesterday declared himself “a very stable genius.” The mental competence issue had the President in a Twitter rage. “Now that Russian …

The Wall for Hostages: The Trump administration has presented Congress with a list of immigration demands, including $18 billion to build the President’s southern border wall in exchange for protecting the undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers,” who were brought to …

Weather Watch: The East Coast is zipping up for its first major winter storm. The system crawling up the coast is called a “bomb cyclone,” which sounds ominous, but it’s named for its sudden drop in atmospheric pressure. It happens …

Buttonman: President Trump was busy on Twitter yesterday, singing his own praises, chest bumping with North Korea, claiming credit for airline safety, criticizing the Palestinians, the Justice Department, and “the failing” NY Times. Where to begin? Most alarmingly, Trump was …

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, …

Death in New York: A 3-year-old boy playing with the stove in a first -floor apartment started the fire that raced through a five-story Bronx apartment building, killing 12 people. According to authorities, the boy’s mother grabbed him and a …