Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump's Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’  —  WASHINGTON — By the time Richard B. Spencer, the leading ideologue of the alt-right movement and the final speaker of the night, rose to address a gathering of his followers on Saturday, the crowd was restless.

Poll: Trump's popularity soars after election  —  Donald Trump's popularity is rising in the days since his election, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of registered voters.  —  Forty-six percent of voters now have a very favorable or somewhat favorable opinion of the president-elect.

Trump has a plan for government workers.  They're not going to like it.  —  President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are drawing up plans to take on the government bureaucracy they have long railed against, by eroding job protections and grinding down benefits …

Donald Trump Pivots to Economic and Domestic Policy Posts  —  With Thanksgiving approaching, the transition team is putting the last touches on President-elect Donald J. Trump's national security leadership even as Mr. Trump pivots to his domestic and economic policy cabinet posts.

The real problem with the ‘Hamilton’ shout-out to Pence  —  Brandon Victor Dixon's remarks Friday night came from a good place.  But they also yet again revealed the peculiar failure of liberal America to practice the empathy it preaches.  —  The actor who plays Aaron Burr in “Hamilton” …

Obama says he may take on Trump  —  President Barack Obama on Sunday started mapping out his vision of Democrats' path back—and all but pledged to be part of it himself.  —  In his fourth press conference in a week of sounding out to Americans and world leaders what he thinks …

ST. LOUIS  • A man being sought as a suspect in the shooting of a St. Louis police officer Sunday night was shot and killed in a shootout with police early Monday.  —  Undercover officers had found the suspect's car abandoned at a parking garage at Laclede's Landing, police said.

Richard Rorty's 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming  —  Three days after the presidential election, an astute law professor tweeted a picture of three paragraphs, very slightly condensed, from Richard Rorty's “Achieving Our Country,” published in 1998.

A scramble to assess the dangers of President-elect Donald Trump's global business empire  —  Turkey is a nation in crisis, scarred by government crackdowns following a failed coup attempt and on a potential collision course with the West.  It is also home to a valuable revenue stream …

Hillary or Blood?  Democrats and Post-Election Angry Mobs  —  It has been difficult to discern exactly what the anti-Trump protesters are protesting.  The election is over.  Donald Trump will be president after Jan. 20.  —  As it turns out, they have five demands, according to CNN.

Low Marks for Major Players in 2016 Election - Including the Winner  —  Half of voters are happy Trump won; Democrats take a hard line  —  For most voters, the 2016 presidential campaign was one to forget.  Post-election evaluations of the way that the winning candidate, the parties …

Elizabeth Warren fills the Democratic void  —  In the days since Hillary Clinton's stunning electoral defeat to Donald Trump, the vacuum she left atop the Democratic Party hasn't gone unfilled.  —  Elizabeth Warren has moved aggressively to occupy the space, a timely reminder to the party …

Trump: Making America White Again  —  This may well be the beginning of the end: the early moments of a historical pivot point, when the slide of the republic into something untoward and unrecognizable still feels like a small collection of poor judgments and reversible decisions …

Kanye West Calls Out Beyoncé and Praises Trump in Onstage Tirade  —  Kanye West likened himself to Donald J. Trump at a concert on Saturday in California before tumbling into a 17-minute, free-associative speech addressing radio programmers, MTV, his friends and collaborators Jay Z and Beyoncé …

Reporter to Obama: Will You Be Like Bush And Not Criticize Your Successor?  ; Obama: I Will If “Necessary”  —  President Obama is asked if he will be like former President George W. Bush and pledge to stay out of politics and not criticize decisions made by his successor.

House GOP maps out ambitious start to Trump presidency  —  House Republican leaders, looking to jump-start Donald Trump's presidency, have already begun to map out an ambitious agenda for early next year.  On the early to do-list, according to leadership insiders: repealing a host …

Swedish government pays thousands to ISIS fighter despite living in Syria for a YEAR  —  THE Swedish government has paid out hundreds of thousands of pounds to an Islamic State (ISIS) fighter they did not realise had moved to Raqqa.  —  PH  —  The family are thought to have lived off Swedish state handouts