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 …

Get Out the Vote: President Trump was in Pensacola, Fla. last night for a rally that was really a campaign stop for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore without actually going to Alabama. Pensacola shares the local television market with Mobile, …

Jeff the Plumber: Under pressure from the President who’s called him “weak” on the issue, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a crackdown on information leaks from government sources to the press. Hours later, the NY Times posted a story saying …

Foreign Affairs:  President Trump in a private meeting yesterday spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin about hacking the US election and Putin denied it, according to the administration. How hard Trump pushed it, we don’t know. In a briefing in …

The Travel Ban: A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked President Trump’s ban on travel and immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Airlines that had been refusing to board valid visa holders from the seven countries were told last …

In Transition: In a break with 37 years of US diplomatic policy, President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the telephone yesterday with the president of Taiwan. The US cut off formal relations with the island of Taiwan when it formally recognized …

American Crude: The Washington Post yesterday released a 2005 recording of Donald Trump having a sexually crude conversation with television host Billy Bush about hitting on women, even while he was married to his current wife, Melania. He also talks …

Political Fun House: Now that former reality show host Donald Trump is in reality the Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee, President Obama yesterday asked journalists to take The Donald seriously. “This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show,” Obama …

Quake: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck in Taiwan last night, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 11 people. A 17-story building collapsed in the southern city of Tainan. Water was cut off to 400,000 people and the high-speed rail …

Mr. Speaker: A Montana woman told ABC News yesterday that her brother was sexually abused by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert back in the 1970s when the retired politician was a wrestling coach at a suburban Chicago high school. Jolene …