Poll: 68% of Trump's supporters would vote for him if he bolts the GOP  —  Donald Trump is defending his controversial plan regarding Muslim immigration.  The billionaire business mogul and Republican presidential front runner is facing backlash after calling for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

This Girl Whose Entire Family Got Killed In An Act Of Arson Just Wants Cards For Christmas  —  Safyre Terry of New York is asking people to help her make this Christmas a little more merry.  Normally, Christmas is a holiday associated with family, but for Safyre, that just isn't possible.

Forsyth County first grader dragged nearly a mile by school bus  —  FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. — A child was dragged by a school bus for nearly a mile in Forsyth County on Monday afternoon.  —  According to Highway Patrol, the incident was dispatched as a “child drug by school bus” at 3:43 p.m. Monday.

Potential Power Shift as Court Weighs ‘One Person One Vote’  —  WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to decide “what kind of democracy people wanted,” as Justice Stephen G. Breyer put it during an argument over the meaning of the constitutional principle of “one person one vote.”

House passes visa waiver overhaul  —  Paul Ryan condemns Donald Trump's call to ban Muslims  — Would bar those from Iraq, Syria, Iran and the Sudan, or those who have visited those countries in the last five years, from traveling to the United States without a visa

‘Spinning up as we speak’: Email shows Pentagon was ready to roll as Benghazi attack occurred  —  As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.

Scott Weiland's Family: 'Don't Glorify This Tragedy'  —  A letter from late singer's ex-wife, Mary Weiland, on behalf of his two children … December 3rd, 2015 is not the day Scott Weiland died.  It is the official day the public will use to mourn him, and it was the last day he could be propped …

EXCLUSIVE: Shooting targets, GoPro packaging, hammer and ‘vise grips’ found by FBI in car belonging to San Bernardino shooter's MOTHER  — Car registered to Rafia Farook was searched by FBI agents after her son and daughter-in-law massacred 14 last Wednesday

Severed pig's head left at N. Phila. mosque  —  Philadelphia police, the FBI, and the city's Human Relations Commission launched investigations Monday after a worker at a North Philadelphia mosque found a severed pig's head outside its door.  —  Surveillance video outside the Al Aqsa Islamic Society …

Inside The Sad, Strange Family Feud That Helped Sink Rand Paul  —  Among the many early obituaries for Rand Paul's presidential campaign that have lately littered the internet, one story has remained largely untold: the intensely personal father-son rivalry that helped derail the younger Paul's presidential ambitions — twice.

Is an immigration ban on Muslims unconstitutional?  —  Probably not.  The Supreme Court has held consistently, for more than a century, that constitutional protections that normally benefit Americans and people on American territory do not apply when Congress decides who to admit and who to exclude as immigrants or other entrants.

Son in hot water as mom stews over posole burglary  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jonathan Ray wanted some of his mom's posole last week.  —  So much so that, police say, he broke into her Northeast Albuquerque home, made a beeline for the fridge and ran away with a pot of homemade posole.

Diane Rehm, an NPR staple, eyes retirement from broadcasting  —  Diane Rehm, the host of one of public radio's longest-running and most popular news discussion programs, will retire next year, ending nearly 40 years on the air.  —  A retirement date has not been firmly established, but Rehm …