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.

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.

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 …

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” …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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

Record-High 77% of Americans Perceive Nation as Divided  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Seventy-seven percent of Americans, a new high, believe the nation is divided on the most important values, while 21% believe it is united and in agreement.  Over the past 20+ years, the public has tended to perceive …