Report: Trump team wants Romney to apologize  —  Fox News is reporting that Donald Trump  —  's transition team wants Mitt Romney to publicly apologize for railing against the president-elect during the campaign.  —  According to Mediaite, a transition official told Fox's Ed Henry …

The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner.  They should choose Clinton.  —  Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School and the author of “Republic, Lost: Version 2.0.” In 2015, he was a candidate in the Democratic presidential primary.

Russia tells U.S. to get out of the way in Syria  —  If the U.S. won't fight terrorists in Syria, it should stop getting in the way, said Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.  —  Konashenkov was responding to the U.S. State Department's calls to other countries …

Trump taps KT McFarland for deputy national security adviser  —  has tapped K.T. McFarland to serve as his deputy national security adviser.  —  McFarland has worked under three Republican administrations and is currently a national security analyst for Fox News.

Electoral College must reject Trump unless he sells his business, top lawyers for Bush and Obama say  —  Ethics lawyers for the last two presidents are in agreement.  —  Members of the Electoral College should not make Donald Trump the next president unless he sells his companies and puts …

Jill Stein Can't ‘Guarantee’ Money Will Go to Recount, Changes $$$ Goal  —  Before you donate to Green Party candidate Jill Stein's effort to demand a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, you may want to read the fine print on her website.  So far, she has raised $4.8 million …

CNN accidentally broadcast 30 minutes of hardcore porn last night  —  We all mess up every now and then — and that's totally okay.  But someone is probably getting fired for this mistake.  —  Last night at 11PM EST, some unsuspecting viewers getting ready for a brand new episode …

Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say  —  The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton …

Florence Henderson, Upbeat Mom of ‘The Brady Bunch,’ Dies at 82  —  Florence Henderson, who began her career as an ingénue soprano in stage musicals in the 1950s but made a more lasting impression on television, as the perky 1970s sitcom mom on “The Brady Bunch,” died Thursday.  She was 82.

Steve Bannon's First Pick For President  —  Steve Bannon thought he had found his perfect presidential candidate.  This person was “an outsider,” someone who was “not part of the political establishment,” “not for sale,” with “an ‘America First’ foreign policy approach” and “a ‘Drain the Swamp’ mentality about Washington, DC.”

Trump inspires scramble on spying powers  —  Tech and civil liberties advocates are imploring the Obama administration to rein in the government's massive surveillance apparatus before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, fearful he will carry out his campaign promises to register Muslims …

In Scotland, Trump Built a Wall.  Then He Sent Residents the Bill.  —  BALMEDIE, Scotland — President-elect Donald J. Trump has already built a wall — not on the border with Mexico, but on the border of his exclusive golf course in northeastern Scotland, blocking the sea view of local residents who refused to sell their homes.

British benefits payments used to fund Paris and Brussels attack suspects' campaign of terror, court hears  —  The jihadists suspected of carrying out the bomb and gun attacks in Paris and Brussels used British benefits payments to fund international terrorism, a court has heard.

Noam Chomsky: People Who Didn't Vote For Clinton To Block Trump Made A ‘Bad Mistake’  —  “I didn't like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump's on every issue I can think of.”  —  Noam Chomsky, the renowned scholar and MIT professor emeritus, said people who didn't vote …

Trump Stock In Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Raises Questions  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump holds stock in the company building the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline, and pipeline opponents warn that Trump's investments could affect any decision he makes on the $3.8 billion project as president.

Donald Trump and the Lawsuit Presidency  —  Donald Trump will take office as president facing a tsunami of litigation over his business practices and personal behavior.  He may have settled the fraud suits involving Trump University, but at least 75 other lawsuits are underway against him or his companies, according to USA Today.

Trump names Don McGahn as White House Counsel - transition official  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Don McGahn, a well-known campaign finance lawyer, as his White House counsel and K.T. McFarland, a national security analyst, to be his deputy national security adviser, a transition official said on Friday.