Winter: Eastern states from Pennsylvania through Maine are under winter weather advisories this morning as a system of rain and messy snow moves through. Flooding is possible from Oklahoma northeast through southern Illinois. Snow fell overnight on Southern California’s notorious …

Heavy Weather: At least a third of the country is under blizzard and winter storm warnings this morning as winter makes its late arrival. A winter storm is expected all the way from Central Oklahoma through Northern Michigan, bringing ice …

Permawar: OK, sorry. It’s back to reality. While billions of people celebrated Christmas around the world, some definitely did not. The leader and several of his lieutenants commanding one of Syria’s most powerful rebel groups were killed in a rocket …

Debatable: What if they held a Democratic presidential candidate debate on the Saturday night before Christmas? Would it make a noise? If it did, would anybody hear it? The debate opened with Bernie Sanders having to apologize for his staff …

Selling It: Facing criticism that he’s not tough enough on terrorism and the Islamic State, President Obama said yesterday that the US is dropping more bombs than ever on ISIS. Since the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., …

Poll-itics: In a flip-flop from the national trend, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump 24 percent to 19 percent in the Iowa Republican polls. Marco Rubio is running third at 17 percent. Chris Cillizza writes in The Washington Post …

Political Climate: World leaders celebrated yesterday after the release of an agreement that commits nearly every country on earth to lowering carbon emissions. One of the primary goals is — sometime between 2050 and 2100 — to limit the amount …

Trump Über Alles: Never one to back down, Donald Trump is standing by his call to ban all foreign Muslims from entering the US. In interviews Trump cited President Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese, Germans, and Italians during World War …

Homeland: President Obama spoke from the Oval Office last night to assure Americans that he’s handling the threat of international and domestic terrorism. “The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it,” he promised. “We will destroy ISIL …

Fear Itself: In the wake of the San Bernardino massacre, President Obama is scheduled to address the country tonight on the nature of current terrorist threats and what’s being done about it. After the Paris attacks Obama assured the country …