“Fake news is a great term, isn’t it? You don’t have this problem in Russia, but we do.”

Politics: Congress has until midnight tomorrow to pass a spending bill and avoid a government shutdown. In the mix of issues is border security, a solution for the younger illegal immigrants known as Dreamers, and the Children’s health Insurance Program. …

Street Terror: The driver of a pickup truck that ran down and killed eight people on a West Side Manhattan bike path yesterday wrote a note mentioning the Islamic State, investigators say. He left behind a trail of mangled bodies …

We Regret to Inform You: President Trump escalated his fight yesterday over which president has done more to console the families of soldiers killed in action. “You could ask General Kelly, did he get a call from Obama. You could …

Spillway: As many as 180,000 people have been ordered to evacuate downstream from Northern California’s giant Oroville dam after the discovery of a hole in an auxiliary spillway used to lower the level of the brimming Lake Oroville. If the …

The Manchurian Candidate: Reports have surfaced that both President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump were shown intelligence documents that say Russian operatives claim to have information that is both personally and financially compromising to Trump. CNN and The New York …

Ghost Ship: The Alameda County prosecutor says charges of murder or manslaughter may result from the warehouse fire that killed at least 36 people over the weekend in Oakland, Calif. “It’s too premature to say where the investigation will lead …

E Minus 7: The FBI has begun to examine a newly-discovered trove of Hillary Clinton emails to determine whether they contain classified information.  The emails came from a computer belonging to disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who’s under investigated for …