STUNNER: House GOP Votes Down Own Bill To Avert Shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — In a huge embarrassment for Republican leaders, the House voted down their bill Friday to avert a Homeland Security shutdown hours before the midnight deadline.  —  The House GOP plan was to pass a three-week stopgap bill …

House will vote Friday to prevent Homeland Security shutdown  —  The House will vote Friday on a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security for three weeks in an attempt to avert a shutdown slated for Saturday at the massive agency.  —  If the bill is approved by the House …

John Boehner scrambles for Plan B  —  Boehner and the GOP leadership searching for a way to keep DHS from shutting down at midnight.  —  What's the Plan B?  —  After 52 GOP lawmakers brought down a three-week spending bill for the agency, House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team …

Rubio: I've learned lesson on immigration  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that he's learned he was wrong on his approach to immigration reform.  —  Rubio, a onetime Tea Party favorite whose support for a comprehensive immigration reform package hurt …

Jeb Bush: 'I'm not backing down' from immigration stance  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — In perhaps his most campaign-style speech so far, not-yet-official GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush vowed Thursday not to alter his views on immigration despite intense opposition among some parts of the Republican base.

Ronald Reagan, Scott Walker, and the ISIS Gaffe  —  How Scott Walker's fandom of the 40th president hurts him.  —  The ledes were written, the narrative was set.  At CPAC, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was going to have another knockout speech in front of conservatives and national media.

Russia opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead  —  A leading Russian opposition politician, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian officials say.  —  An unidentified attacker in a car shot Mr Nemtsov four times in the back as he crossed a bridge in view of the Kremlin, police say.