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 …

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

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Iceland breaks taboo with world's largest penis museum  —  Size doesn't matter at the Icelandic Phallological Museum, home to the world's largest collection of penises which has an eye-watering array of specimens carefully collected from hundreds of different animals.

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?

Schumer, McConnell elected top leaders in U.S. Senate  —  Democratic U.S. senators elected Chuck Schumer of New York as minority leader on Wednesday, and he tapped former presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders to help Democrats woo blue-collar workers, many of whom voted for President-elect Donald Trump.