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.

Trump Says Transition's Going ‘Smoothly,’ Disputing Disarray Reports  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump denied Wednesday morning that his transition is in disarray, assailing news media reports about firings and infighting and insisting in an early-morning Twitter burst that everything is going “so smoothly.”

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Here's How Trump Could Take Down Muslim Civil Rights Groups  —  Designating Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization could lead to major fallout for American Muslims.  —  Members of the hardline anti-Islam lobby are eagerly anticipating the possibility of the Trump administration designating …

Could the Electoral College elect Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump?  —  The electoral college is a part of the Constitution.  And it's been more than two decades since we've made any amendments.  Video provided by Newsy Newslook  —  Question:  —  Can the Electoral College elect Hillary Clinton on Dec. 19?

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.

Clinton to urge supporters to remain active in progressive politics  —  will use her first public appearance since conceding the presidential election to call on supporters to remain involved in progressive politics.  —  Clinton is expected to urge Americans to help children strive …

This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World  —  The soon-to-be White House chief strategist laid out a global vision in a rare 2014 talk, one where he said racism in the far right gets “washed out” and called Vladimir Putin a kleptocrat.  BuzzFeed News publishes the complete transcript for the first time.

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.

Conway: Trump committed to campaign SCOTUS list  —  President-elect Donald Trump is “committed” to only nominating a Supreme Court justice from his previously disclosed list of potential additions to the high court, his campaign manager said Wednesday.  —  As the presumptive Republican …

GOP rep: Anti-Trump college protesters ‘morons’  —  Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday called college students “morons” for ignoring their studies to protest President-elect Donald Trump  —  “These college students, I find it incredible,” he told host Jay Oliver on LI News Radio's “LI in the AM.”

Man reportedly echoes Trump in verbal assault of UGA student  —  A University of Georgia student recently reported to police a man threatened her with the same words that President-Elect Donald Trump once used to describe how he could assault women and get away with it.

Pence guts roster of Trump policy teams  —  Vice-president elect Mike Pence has gutted the transition's so-called “landing teams,” the people responsible for going into federal agencies and helping to reshape them under a Trump administration, according to one source inside the transition and one downtown lobbyist close to it.