Trump Transition: Getting Set to Kick Ass  —  RUSH: I told the Snerdley, he had not heard — have you heard that Ted Cruz met with Trump for a full hour?  Ted Cruz was at Trump Tower for five hours meeting with various people, a full hour with Donald Trump, and the word is he's …

Twitter suspends alt-right accounts  —  Twitter released a new set of tools on Tuesday that could finally stop the unregulated craziness that happens on Twitter.  The ‘Mute Words’ feature gives the user the ability to mute certain words, phrases, hashtags, emojis, or usernames.

President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom  —  WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Barack Obama named 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals …

The Clinton Campaign Was Undone By Its Own Neglect And A Touch Of Arrogance, Staffers Say  —  In key battleground states, calls for help weren't taken seriously enough.  —  WASHINGTON In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton's staff in key Midwest states sent out alarms to their headquarters in Brooklyn.

Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The US Election  —  A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined.  —  BuzzFeed Founding Editor, Canada

Scott to visit Trump Tower on Thursday  —  TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott will be flying to New York on Thursday to meet with President-elect Donald Trump in Trump Tower.  —  “He wants to congratulate [Trump] on his big win and help him reinvent the federal government,” said Scott spokeswoman Jackie Schutz.

Want to keep fake news out of your newsfeed?  College professor creates list of sites to avoid  —  During the election, many people fell prey to fake news stories on social media — even the president-elect ended up retweeting fake statistics.  A professor of communication has created a list …

Man wearing Donald Trump hat choked, pinned on subway train  —  Corey Cataldo, 24, of the Bronx, said he was riding the uptown 5 train from Union Square to Morris Park Friday, when another rider on the subway spotted his “Make America Great Again” hat and apparently didn't like it.

Man killed, woman injured in shooting outside popular Atlanta bar  —  ATLANTA - A woman says it was “senseless and horrible” that she was shot and the man she was on a first date with was killed outside a popular Atlanta bar.  —  The shooting outside Church bar left 32-year-old Mitchell Mormon Jr. dead.

Jesse Jackson: Obama should pardon Hillary Clinton  —  Speaking at President Gerald Ford's alma mater, The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for President Obama to issue a blanket pardon to Hillary Clinton before he leaves office, just like Ford did for Richard Nixon.

Bannon Once Suggested To Trump Silicon Valley Has Too Many Asian CEOs  —  Steve Bannon suggested there were too many Asian CEOs working in Silicon Valley in a discussion about immigration with then-candidate Donald Trump on his radio program last November.  —  The Washington Post late Tuesday flagged …

The NSA's Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight … They called it Project X. It was an unusually audacious, highly sensitive assignment: to build a massive skyscraper, capable of withstanding an atomic blast, in the middle of New York City.  It would have no windows …

China Tells Trump That Climate Change Is No Hoax It Invented  —  Top official urges U.S. to stick with Paris Agreement pledges  —  China cites U.S. Republican leadership against climate change  —  China couldn't have invented global warming as a hoax to harm U.S. competitiveness …

Clinton to urge Americans ‘not to give up’ in first post-election speech  —  Clinton to staff: Being your candidate was an honor  —  Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton, in her first public speech since last week's crushing presidential loss, will urge her supports to “remain engaged …

Megyn Kelly Gets Candid: “Dangerous” Roger Ailes, Her Trump Saga, That Offer and Why She Won't Call Herself a Feminist  —  Fox News' superstar won't reveal whom she voted for ("Who the hell cares?") but just about everything else as she weighs the Murdochs' offer of a new $20 million contract: “I am trying to not confine myself.”

Lindsey Graham Calls For Senate Investigation Into Whether Russia Hacked DNC  —  A congressional probe may cool Donald Trump's enthusiasm for warmer Russian relations.  —  Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post  —  WASHINGTON Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday …

Sanders named to Senate leadership post  —  (I-Vt.) is joining the ranks of Senate Democratic leadership next year.  —  Sanders was named chairman of outreach during a closed-door Senate Democratic caucus meeting Wednesday morning.  —  In the role, Sanders will be in charge of reaching …

I don't want Trump to succeed.  I want him to fail spectacularly.  —  Between now and Jan. 20, when Donald Trump takes the oath of office as America's 45th president, many Americans will wish for him to be a successful president.  —  Not me.  —  I don't want Trump to succeed.

The God That Failed  —  The 2000 election left a Democratic Party that was simultaneously angry, dispirited and divided.  Populists believed that Al Gore made a terrible mistake by embracing the “New Democrats”—what we then called a group of socially moderate, culturally cosmopolitan …

Next Slide  —  Former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, a onetime Navy officer from Wisconsin who survived a Kamikaze attack and went on to oversee the drawdown of American troops in Vietnam, died Wednesday at 94.  —  Laird served on the destroyer USS Maddox in the Pacific in World War II …

Trump Team Floats ‘Infrastructure Bank’ Derided by Campaign  —  Priorities are taxes, regulations, trade, infrastructure  —  Mnuchin says goal is economy plan to execute in first 100 days  —  A key member of Donald Trump's transition team said the incoming administration is exploring ways …

Sources: 3 NBA teams stop staying at Trump-brand hotels in NYC and Chicago  —  At least three NBA teams have stopped staying at Donald Trump-branded hotels this season in part to avoid any implied association with the new president-elect, according to league sources.