‘Hamilton’ Had Some Unscripted Lines for Pence.  Trump Wasn't Happy.  —  “Hamilton,” the hit Broadway musical about colonial rebels shaping the future of an unformed country, took an even more political turn at the end of its performance on Friday night.  —  With Vice President-elect Mike …

Inside Chris Christie's fall from grace  —  Chris Christie, once one of the Republican Party's brightest stars, was virtually assured a position in a Donald Trump administration.  As one of the first big-name politicians to endorse the Manhattan billionaire, the New Jersey governor had earned Trump's gratitude.

For foreign diplomats, Trump hotel is place to be  —  About 100 foreign diplomats, from Brazil to Turkey, gathered at the Trump International Hotel this week to sip Trump-branded champagne, dine on sliders and hear a sales pitch about the U.S. president-elect's newest hotel.

Obama loyalists plot Trump resistance  —  President Barack Obama told his most loyal operatives that they have 10 days to get over their grief.  —  They're already ahead of schedule.  —  In the past week, Obama alumni have planned gatherings at Glascott's Saloon in Chicago (an old campaign haunt) and The Winslow in New York.

A lot of you have asked what we're doing about misinformation, so I wanted to give an update.  —  The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously.  Our goal is to connect people with the stories they find most meaningful, and we know people want accurate information.

Trump's big infrastructure plan?  It's a trap.  —  Ronald A. Klain served as assistant to President Obama and oversaw the team implementing the American Recovery and Renewal Act from 2009-2011.  He was an adviser to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign.  The views expressed here are solely his own.

Jeff Sessions as Attorney General: An Insult to Justice  —  In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions, then a United States attorney from Alabama, to be a federal judge.  The Republican-controlled Senate rejected Mr. Sessions out of concern, based on devastating testimony by former colleagues, that he was a racist.

Democrats on the brink  —  The American left is in danger of learning precisely the wrong lesson from defeat  —  AGHAST at the defection of millions who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 but for Donald Trump in 2016—notably working-class whites in the Midwest—the left wants the Democratic Party …

Teen grandson of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis shot dead in Englewood over gym shoes  —  Jovan Wilson, 15-year-old grandson of Rep. Danny Davis and son of Stacey Wilson, was shot and killed Nov. 18, 2016, in his home in Englewood.  (Alyssa Pointer / Chicago Tribune)

Incidents of Hateful Harassment Since Election Day Now Number 701  —  This is the second update from the Southern Poverty Law Center's effort to collect reports of hateful incidents of harassment around the country.  This report covers the full week (Wednesday Nov. 9 to Wednesday Nov. 16) since the presidential election.

Steve Bannon on Politics as War  —  The Trump adviser talks about the winning campaign and says the political attacks against him and Breitbart News are ‘just nonsense.’  —  It's hard to think of Steve Bannon as a low-profile guy.  He has garnered about as many headlines over the past week as Donald Trump—no small feat.

Pentagon and intelligence community chiefs have urged Obama to remove the head of the NSA  —  The heads of the Pentagon and the nation's intelligence community have recommended to President Obama that the director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, be removed.

With National Security Choices, Trump Builds Team to Bulldoze Status Quo  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump's remarkable appointments on Friday served notice that he not only intends to reverse eight years of liberal domestic policies but also overturn decades of bipartisan consensus …