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.

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.

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 …

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.

More than half of arrested anti-Trump protesters didn't vote in Oregon … Portland, Ore.—More than half of the anti-Trump protesters arrested in Portland didn't vote in Oregon, according to state election records.  —  At least sixty-nine demonstrators either didn't turn in a ballot or weren't registered to vote in the state.

OSU Protester tackled while demonstrating against Pres. elect Trump  —  COLUMBUS (WCMH) — The suspect accused of tackling a speaker at an anti-trump protest at Ohio State Monday night was in court this morning.  —  The suspect OSU student Shane Michael Stanton, 24, was given a $2,500 bond while being arraigned Tuesday.

Trump Considering Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theorist For Top Nat Sec Role  —  Donald Trump is considering naming anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Clare Lopez as his deputy national security adviser, according to a list of possible appointees the Daily Caller published Tuesday.

George W. Bush Warns Against ‘Anger’ Driving Policy  —  Former President George W. Bush warned against allowing anger to shape policy, especially in instances where it could shut the United States off economically from the rest of the world.  —  “I understand anger, and some people may have been angry when I was president.

House Democrats delay leadership elections in blow to Pelosi  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi agreed Tuesday morning to delay Democratic leadership elections until after Thanksgiving following an outcry from several dozen members who said they needed more time to assess last week's devastating election.

Exclusive: Fox anchor Megyn Kelly describes scary, bullying ‘Year of Trump’  —  NEW YORK — Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly said she thinks Donald Trump was agitated before the first GOP primary debate not because he'd learned she was going to confront him about his insulting descriptions of women …

We need to talk about the online radicalisation of young, white men  —  With the appointment of Breitbart News's chair to Trump's staff we need to be clear about the links between misogyny, racism and neofascism on alt-right websites  —  Become a Guardian supporter or make a contribution