Trump Staff Shake-Up Slows Transition to Near Halt  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump's transition operation plunged into disarray on Tuesday with the abrupt resignation of Mike Rogers, who had handled national security matters, the second shake-up in a week on a team …

Breitbart News planning lawsuit against ‘major media company’  —  Breitbart News is preparing a lawsuit against a “major media company” over claims that it is a white nationalist website, it said in an exclusive statement to The Hill.  —  The website has been under intense scrutiny since President-elect Donald Trump

Rand Paul: Will Donald Trump betray voters by hiring John Bolton?  —  Article will continue after advertisement  —  Rumors are that Donald Trump might pick John Bolton for Secretary of State.  Heaven forbid.  —  One of the things I occasionally liked about the President-elect was his opposition to the Iraq war and regime change.

Carson not interested in serving in Trump administration  —  Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has told President-elect Donald Trump  —  that he isn't interested in serving as secretary of Health and Human Services, a Carson ally confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday.

There's No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter  —  People voted for a racist who promised racist outcomes.  They don't deserve your empathy.  —  Donald Trump ran a campaign of racist demagoguery against Muslim Americans, Hispanic immigrants, and black protesters.

Colin Kaepernick has never registered to vote in any election  —  Colin Kaepernick raised eyebrows last week when he revealed that he did not vote in the presidential election amid a football season in which his protest of racial inequality gained national attention.  In fact, it would have been problematic if he had.

Manhattan's Trump Place to Change Name, Use Street Addresses  —  Almost 600 residents signed petition to ‘Dump the Trump Name’  —  Presidential race was marked by offensive comments by Trump  —  The Trump Place apartment complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side is about to drop the president-elect's name after an outcry by residents.

Kris Kobach - Trump's attorney general?  —  WASHINGTON  —  Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state whose hardline immigration stance has caught the attention of President-elect Donald Trump, could be a candidate for attorney general.  —  Kobach, already a member of Trump's transition team …

George W. Bush laments role of ‘anger’ in politics  —  Washington (CNN)Former President George W. Bush lamented the role of “anger” in politics after the grievance-fueled victory of Donald Trump, expressing a worry that the emotional response could unfortunately “drive policy.”

GOP and Trump put deficit on back burner  —  A serious case of fiscal amnesia may soon be sweeping the GOP.  —  For eight years, Republicans hammered President Barack Obama for exploding the national debt.  But now a GOP-led spending spree is coming, with Donald Trump riding to the White House …

Clinton's lead in the popular vote passes 1 million  —  Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote over President-elect Donald Trump has surpassed 1 million, according to Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.  —  As the final vote counts continue to trickle in a week after Election Day …

‘My life goal is to assassinate Trump’: Ohio man is first to be charged for sending threatening election night tweet  —  A 24-year-old man from Ohio has been charged in a federal court after tweeting a threat to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump on election night.

Trump's coalition won the demographic battle.  It'll still lose the war.  —  Here's one way to think about the 2016 election.  We are witnessing a great race in this country between demographic and economic change that's driving a new America, and reaction to those changes.

Obama's job approval hits four-year high  —  President Obama's approval rating is now at 57 percent, the highest it's been in his second term, according to a new Gallup survey.  —  The previous poll, conducted in the first week of November, found his approval rating at 53 percent.

Hillsboro woman recalls racist attack: 'I don't deserve this'  —  HILLSBORO, Ore. (KOIN) — A Hillsboro woman's trip to a local Safeway the day after Donald Trump's presidential victory is something she won't soon forget.  —  Kara Stevens told KOIN 6 News she hopes no one has to go through what she did.

Rob Reiner: Trump represents last ‘battle of the Civil War’  —  The last shots of the Civil War rang out in 1865, but director Rob Reiner believes the election of Donald Trump  —  represents the final gasp in the war among the states.  —  “The way I look at it, if you are trying to take an overview …

Issa holds larger lead than state had reported  —  Rep. Darrell Issa has a small lead over retired Marine colonel Doug Applegate Tuesday in one of the country's most-watched House races.  —  Rep. Darrell Issa continued to lead Democratic challenger Doug Applegate Tuesday as elections officials …

When Trump says he wants to deport criminals, he means something starkly different than Obama  —  In this photo taken Nov. 10, President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.  (Associated Press)