The FBI Is Investigating Me Because I Tweeted A Joke About Fake News  —  Seriously?  Seriously.  —  Senior Enterprise Editor, The Huffington Post  —  This is a story about how the FBI came to investigate a joke I tweeted about fake news.  —  I'm a journalist, and I've written lots of stories about the FBI.

Trump Fires Adviser's Son From Transition for Spreading Fake News  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday fired one of his transition team's staff members, Michael G. Flynn, the son of Mr. Trump's choice for national security adviser, for using Twitter to spread …

Republicans force Mattis issue in must-pass spending bill  —  Republicans are betting that Senate Democrats won't shut the government down over a GOP effort to speed the confirmation of retired Gen. James Mattis as Donald Trump's defense secretary.  —  GOP leaders slipped in a provision …

Bob Dole Worked Behind the Scenes on Trump-Taiwan Call  —  WASHINGTON — Former Senator Bob Dole, acting as a foreign agent for the government of Taiwan, worked behind the scenes over the past six months to establish high-level contact between Taiwanese officials and President-elect Donald J. Trump's staff …

He ‘lied his a- off’: Carrier union leader on Trump's big deal  —  The Secret Service agents told the Carrier workers to stay put, so Chuck Jones sat in the factory conference room for nearly three hours, waiting for president-elect Donald Trump.  He'd grown used to this suspense.

Did Donald Trump tank Boeing's stock because he was mad about a news article?  —  Shares of stock in aircraft manufacturer Boeing fell nearly $2 a share before markets opened on Tuesday.  —  The reason?  A tweet from the president-elect. … Were Boeing to lose a $4 billion contract …

Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans  —  Global warming is not expected to end anytime soon, despite what Breitbart.com wrote in an article published last week.  —  Though we would prefer to focus on our usual coverage …

SoftBank Pledges to Invest $50 Billion in U.S. After Meeting With Trump  —  President-elect met with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son in Trump Tower  —  SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said Tuesday he would invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 new jobs …

Most Americans Who See Fake News Believe It, New Survey Says  —  Fake news headlines fool American adults about 75% of the time, according to a large-scale new survey conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs for BuzzFeed News.  —  The survey also found that people who cite Facebook as a major source …

Troubling op-ed in Trump in-law's newspaper calls for FBI crackdown on anti-Trump protests  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Jared Kushner's newspaper, the New York Observer, ran an op-ed last week that called for a FBI crackdown on the anti-Trump protests that have swept the nation, AlterNet reports.

Trump Picks Iowa Governor Branstad as China Ambassador  —  Longest serving U.S. governor said to accept the position  —  Branstad, China's Xi have friendship dating back to 1985  —  President-elect Donald Trump offered the post of U.S. ambassador to China to Iowa Governor Terry Branstad …

Secret Service advertised as hot ‘new amenity’ at Trump Tower  —  The U.S. Secret Service is the hot, new “amenity” at Trump Tower, where desperate brokers are trying to lure well-heeled clients into the building on Fifth Avenue that has served as President-elect Donald Trump's home as well as his campaign and transition headquarters.

Trump transition team members sign non-disclosure agreements  —  Trump transition team members had to sign a code of ethics with a pretty significant lobbying ban, but they've also had to sign a non-disclosure agreement to make certain they keep all of their work confidential, according to a copy obtained by POLITICO.

House rebukes Freedom Caucus effort to oust IRS chief  —  The House squelched a resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in a bipartisan rebuke of conservative House Freedom Caucus efforts.  —  Lawmakers voted 342-72 to kick the resolution back to the Judiciary Committee …

Ditching Electoral College would allow California to impose imperial rule on a colonial America  —  Elections, Executive Branch, Politics and Public Opinion, Society and Culture  —  They're still counting the votes, going on four weeks after the election, in California.

We're set to reach 100% renewable energy — and it's just the beginning  —  Every year people search on Google trillions of times; every minute people upload more than 400 hours of YouTube videos.  All of that takes an incredible amount of processing power — which means energy.

California KKK leader arrested in North Carolina stabbing before Trump victory parade  —  William Hagen, right, shown at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim, was arrested and charged with assault with intent to kill in North Carolina.  Hagen is a high-ranking Klansman based in California.

The Smearing of Keith Ellison Reveals the Warped Priorities of the Israel Lobby  —  The attacks on the would-be DNC chairman are undermining an ally of Jews in America.  —  The first time I visited Shuhada Street in Hebron, a city of 200,000 in Israel's West Bank, I felt as if I'd stepped through a looking glass.

No evidence to verify bomb threat on L.A.'s subway system, investigators conclude  —  L.A. subway commuters encounter bag searches, heavily armed deputies and bomb-sniffing dogs as the city responds to terrorism threat.  —  Investigators have found no evidence to corroborate a warning …