Donald Trump Selects Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Senator Jeff Sessions, a conservative from Alabama who became a close adviser after endorsing him early in his campaign, to be the attorney general of the United States …

Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots “An Entirely New Political Movement” (Exclusive)  —  “I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist.  I'm an economic nationalist,” Bannon tells THR media columnist Michael Wolff as the controversial Breitbart …

Donald Trump Agrees to Pay $25 Million in Trump University Settlement  —  Donald J. Trump has reversed course and agreed to pay $25 million to settle a series of lawsuits stemming from his defunct for-profit education venture, Trump University, finally putting to rest fraud allegations by former students …

Man who yelled ‘Trump!’ in viral Starbucks video: ‘I had a bad day’  —  David Sanguesa said he was having a bad day.  —  But it seems Sanguesa has had many bad days.  Wednesday was just the latest.  That was the day he was captured on video angrily yelling “Trump!” and “I voted for Trump! …

Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick for CIA director, could take the agency back to its darkest days  —  President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas to head the Central Intelligence Agency, putting a hawkish lawmaker who favors brutally interrogating detainees and expanding …

Cruz doesn't close door on Supreme Court seat  —  (R-Texas) is not ruling out the possibility of filling the Supreme Court's open seat.  —  Asked Friday at a National Lawyers Convention event whether he'd accept a high court nomination, Cruz responded, “What I will say is that history is long and can take unexpected paths.”

'Designers Won't Dress the Trumps,' Source Says, as Sophie Theallet Writes Open Letter Refusing to Dress Melania  —  A week and a half after Donald Trump officially became America's new President-Elect, the reverberations of that decisions can still be felt far and wide.

Obama cuts Arctic waters from five-year drilling plan  —  President Barack Obama is throwing up roadblocks to Donald Trump's pledges to expand offshore drilling, with a new plan that will declare parts of the Arctic off-limits.  —  Obama's Interior Department on Friday issued …

Transition official says Trump will make Mike Huckabee ambassador to Israel and move U.S. embassy to Jerusalem: ‘Governor Huckabee is going to see it through’  — Huckabee is a two-time former White House hopeful and former governor of Arkansas; he met with Donald Trump on Friday afternoon

Paul Ryan's Favorable Rating Edges Up to New High  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — After navigating a shaky political tightrope throughout 2016, House Speaker Paul Ryan has reached his highest favorable rating to date.  Nearly half of Americans (48%) hold a positive view of Ryan, up slightly from 44% in July and August before the election.

Donald Trump Building Team of Racists  —  Donald Trump's presidential campaign bludgeoned modern norms about the acceptability of racism.  The candidate proposed a religious test for immigrants, and called a federal judge unfit on the grounds of his heritage.

Obama Suggests Meeting With Trump Wasn't All It Was Cracked Up To Be  —  President Barack Obama acknowledged in a New Yorker profile published online Thursday that his first meeting with Donald Trump may not have actually lived up to its sunny official description.

Santa at Sanford mall replaced for saying Hillary Clinton on naughty list  —  Oviedo mother reports incident to Seminole Towne Center  —  SANFORD, Fla. - A Santa Claus at Seminole Towne Center in Sanford has been removed from his duties after an Oviedo woman claimed that he told her child Hillary Clinton was on his naughty list.