Russia Says It Was in Contact With Trump's Team During Campaign  —  Russia said it was in contact with President-elect Donald Trump's team during the U.S. election campaign, despite repeated denials by the Republican candidate's advisers that any links existed.

‘People Have to Die’: Anti-Trump Protester Calls For Violence on CNN  —  During the massive anti-Donald Trump protests held in California the day after Election Day, one woman CNN spoke to called for violence and death as a means to enact political change.  —  “If we don't fight, who is going to fight for us?

Democrats face a power outage in Washington — and an identity crisis  —  The biggest stain on Barack Obama's political legacy may turn out to be the decimation of the Democratic Party on his watch.  —  The 2016 election has brought a moment of reckoning — and a new era to the party.

Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days  —  At the end of October, Donald Trump spoke in Gettysburg, Pa., and released a plan for his first 100 days in office.  —  The plan (below) outlines three main areas of focus: cleaning up Washington, including by imposing term limits on Congress …

Trump Unbound  —  The president-elect owes hardly anyone.  The number of people who'll be able to rein him in is vanishingly small.  —  Once Donald Trump takes office, he will be the most widely loathed president in modern American history.  Yet he will also have far more room to maneuver than any of his recent predecessors.

Trump maps out a new administration to bring a seismic shift to Washington  —  Washington began its transition of power Wednesday as the ascendancy of President-elect Donald Trump promised a seismic shift in nearly every facet of the capital city, from military and executive agencies …

Secretary Of Education Ben Carson?  Here's A List Of Potential Trump Cabinet Picks  —  President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has put together a who's who shortlist of Trump surrogates and advisers to take top positions in his administration next year, ranging from former …

Anti-Trump protesters shut down 101 Freeway in L.A., burn Trump's head in effigy  —  Thousands of people poured into the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night, and hundreds of them later spilled onto the 101 Freeway, shutting down traffic as they forcefully denounced President-elect Donald J. Trump.

Trump's Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right  —  The president-elect's analysts picked up disturbances others weren't seeing—the beginning of the storm that would deliver Trump to the White House.  —  Subscribe Reprints  —  Nobody saw it coming.  Not the media.

What A Difference 2 Percentage Points Makes  —  Here's the Electoral College map we're going to end up with, assuming that every uncalled state goes to the candidate leading in the vote count there as of 4 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday.  There's a sea of red for President-elect Donald Trump.

People in California are calling for a ‘Calexit’ from the US in the wake of Trump's win  —  “Calexit” is swiftly taking over social media.  —  After Donald Trump won the race to the White House, people across California took to social media Tuesday night to call for “Calexit,” recalling Brexit in its push to leave the union.

Trump voters will not like what happens next  —  Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality.  —  So he won.  The nation takes a deep breath.  Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character problem will be president.

Trump poised to erase Obama policies  —  Prepare for an imperial presidency.  —  Donald Trump has pledged to “reform the entire regulatory code,” to “cancel immediately all illegal and overreaching executive orders,” and to place a “temporary moratorium on new agency regulations that are not compelled by Congress or public safety.”

America Elects a Bigot  —  Donald J. Trump is president-elect of the United States.  Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd write.  —  Against all odds and against all forms of the establishment, he prevailed.  He won, legitimately, including in many states that were thought to be safely blue.

Reince Priebus' moment  —  The cast of characters behind Donald Trump changed repeatedly during the course of his improbable presidential campaign as the rookie candidate struggled to strike the balance between Republican politician and anti-establishment crusader, but one person remained constant: Reince Priebus.

Team Trump Struggling to Fill National Security Jobs  —  President-Elect Donald Trump is scrambling to line up senior officials to run the government's sprawling intelligence and homeland security bureaucracy.  —  Team Trump is struggling to fill numerous key slots or even attract many candidates …

Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook  —  A close and — to pundits, journalists, and Democrats — unexpected victory like Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's is always overdetermined, and no one particular thing pushed Trump over the edge on Tuesday night.