Netanyahu set to meet Trump, as MKs urge candidate be shunned  —  Sources say December 28 powwow was scheduled two weeks ago, before GOP front-runner's call to ban Muslims from entering US; Arab-Israeli MK seeks to bar Trump from Israel  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set …

Trump Proves That Liberals Have Been Right All Along  —  The left nailed the pathology of the conservative movement years ago.  The Donald is just making that impossible to deny.  —  If you've been following Donald Trump's presidential candidacy and his effect on the Republican primary closely …

San Bernardino Shooters Practiced for Attack a Year in Advance  —  San Bernardino terror couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik spent at least a year preparing for their terror attack, NBC News has learned, practicing at a local gun range and making financial plans for their family after their deaths.

University Affirmative Action Questioned at Supreme Court  —  Members of the U.S. Supreme Court clashed over the value of university affirmative action policies, as a pivotal justice raised the prospect that the court might put off issuing a broad ruling.  —  In an argument that ran …

Joe Biden: I Made ‘the Right Decision’  —  In an interview with Bloomberg, the vice president talks about his late son, his decision to end his 45 years in public office, and his plans for the future.  —  margarettalev  —  More than six months after his eldest son, Beau …

“I. Will.  Never.  Leave.  This.  Race.”  —  Donald Trump came down the stairs, stopped in the middle of the clubhouse restaurant, thrust his arms out and proclaimed: “How great is this?”  —  It was his way of saying hello and also a declaration of how America's boss planned to try to own the room …

Bitcoin's Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius  —  Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor's Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody.

Cruz Won't Criticize Trump But Offers His Own Plan To Bar Refugees  —  Listen to the Story  —  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz doesn't want to “get down in the mud and engage in personal insults and attacks” — one reason he has declined to criticize Donald Trump more directly in the wake of Trump's plan to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.

Clinton intervened for firm after request to son-in-law  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm to meet with her or other State Department officials after one of the firm's investors …

Poll: Donald Trump nearly doubles lead in New Hampshire  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has a growing lead among likely primary voters in New Hampshire, and both he and Marco Rubio have gained ground in the state since September, according to a new CNN/WMUR poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.

Carter Banned Iranians from Coming to US During Hostage Crisis  —  Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist.  He's just like Hitler.  Or Jimmy Carter.  —  During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran.  Among these, Iranians were banned …

Know Your Fascist Dictators  —  As long as we're on to the subject of fascist dictators and Donald Trump is now being compared to Adolf Hitler in major urban newspapers, I thought I should speak up on behalf of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as the true proto-Trump.  —  Mussolini wasn't just a fascist dictator.

Why I Caved on Guns When I Ran for Governor of Texas  —  I am a lifelong Democrat.  I proudly boast an “F” rating from the NRA.  And, yet during my 2014 gubernatorial campaign in Texas, I supported the open carry of handguns in my state.  —  It is a position that haunts me.