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 …

Bob Woodson says he is being considered by Trump for housing post  —  Robert L. Woodson Sr., who heads the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise in Washington and advises House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on poverty issues, said late Friday that he is under consideration to be secretary …

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 …

'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.

California's Democrats Are Ready for Political War  —  “We're going to do everything in our power to protect our people and our values.”  —  James Nash , Esmé E Deprez  —  Subscribe Reprints  —  The Republicans are about to control Congress and the presidency for the first time in a decade …

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

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.”

AP: Obama Mentoring Trump On World Leadering  —  BERLIN (AP) — It's the last thing President Barack Obama ever expected he'd be doing in his final months in office: Coaching Donald Trump on how to be a world leader.  —  As the president-elect holes up in his skyscraper …

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 …

Autographed Trump Hats and Books Sold on His Website Were Signed by Machine  —  Throughout now-President-elect Donald Trump's presidential campaign, countless money was raised by offering signed items in exchange for a donation.  —  These items offered on his website, including signed hats …

Michael Flynn, Trump's reported pick for national security adviser, sat in on intel briefings — while advising foreign clients  —  Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who has reportedly been offered the role of national security adviser in Donald Trump's White House, began receiving classified …

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.