A shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is all but certain this weekend, after senators left town for a planned recess with no funding deal in place. Follow for live updates.

Most notably, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former British Prince, alleged by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre to have raped her, lost his royal title and house and is facing a criminal investigation ...

CNN’s Michael Smerconish weighs in on the recent dramatic developments out of Washington, DC on The Situation Room ...

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.