Trump Expected to Name Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder as Labor Secretary  —  Mr. Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants, likely to peel back regulations  —  President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary, according to people familiar with the decision.

Donald Trump just insulted a union leader on Twitter.  Then the phone started to ring.  —  Chuck Jones uses a flip phone, so he didn't see the tweet.  His friend of 36 years called him Wednesday night and said: The president-elect is smearing you on Twitter.

Kellyanne Conway Suggests That Women With Kids Shouldn't Take Jobs in the White House  —  Donald Trump's former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said that mothers should not accept high-powered career opportunities—a standard that does not apply to fathers, in Conway's opinion.

Reid predicts death of filibuster  —  Senate Democrats are about to get rolled on Donald Trump's Cabinet picks.  They could spend years in the minority.  And instead of the GOP collapse that many expected on Nov. 8, it's now Democrats soul-searching about what went wrong.

Exclusive: Judge to Trump: No getting out of Jupiter golf club lawsuit  —  President-Elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-A-Lago on Palm Beach  —  U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra on Wednesday refused yet another request by Donald Trump to toss a 2013 lawsuit filed against his Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter.

U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993  —  For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year — a troubling development linked to a panoply of worsening health problems in the United States.  —  Rising fatalities from heart disease …

Michigan recount halted  —  (CNN)A federal judge has ordered Michigan's Board of Elections to stop the state's electoral recount.  —  US District Judge Mark Goldsmith issued the order late Wednesday — dissolving a previous temporary restraining order against the Board of Elections that allowed the recount to continue.

How Donald Trump's Web of LLCs Obscures His Business Interests  —  The opacity of his holdings makes it impossible to gauge the full extent of potential conflicts he may face as president  —  President-elect Donald Trump owns a helicopter in Scotland.  —  To be more precise …

With Trump, conservatives hope for ally in ‘War on Christmas’  —  Conservatives are hoping that Donald Trump  —  will be a strong ally in the “War on Christmas.”  —  The president-elect, who repeatedly promised his supporters “we're going to say ‘merry Christmas’ again,” …

Quite Possibly the Funniest Thing That Brian Williams Has Ever Said  —  For years I've wondering if former NBC news anchor Brian Williams is an aspiring stand-up comic.  What he said last night on The 11th Hour sealed it — this guy can make people laugh, albeit not always intentionally.

Our campaign lost the election.  But Trump's team must own up to how he won.  —  Jennifer Palmieri was communications director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.  —  I know how to be a gracious loser.  —  I could have let it go last week when Kellyanne Conway …

Even anti-Trump working-class voters are having second thoughts  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Robert James stood outside the Carrier plant just before the president-elect addressed workers at the refrigeration and heating assembly plant.  —  “I feel a great swing of emotions that go from disbelief …

Secretary of state candidate Rep. Dana Rohrabacher defends Russia, denounces China  —  Secretary of state candidate Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said in an interview Wednesday that the United States cooperating with Russia is a good thing and that China is not America's friend.

2018 Senate: The Democrats Are Very Exposed  —  But potentially counteracting forces — partisan polarization & the negative midterm effect on the president's party — complicate the midterm picture  —  Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley, UVA Center for Politics December 8th, 2016

Koch Industries Says House GOP's Tax Plan ‘Could Be Devastating’  —  Billionaire brothers' firm adds to retailers' complaints  —  Corporate overhaul would tax imports while exempting exports  —  Koch Industries Inc., the influential private firm headed by billionaire Republican supporters Charles …

CBS2 Exclusive: Giants' Nikita Whitlock Has Home Vandalized With Hateful Graffiti  —  MOONACHIE, N.J. — The Bergen County home of a local athlete was broken into Tuesday evening.  Several items were taken, but what's more disturbing is what the suspects left behind.

Ryan Won't Say How Long GOPers Will Take To Replace Obamacare After Repeal  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Thursday would not say how quickly he would like Congressional Republicans to replace Obamacare after they repeal the health care law.  —  “We'll get to that next year,” …

Trump's Carrier deal is the opposite of conservatism  —  So, this is the new conservatism's recipe for restored greatness: Political coercion shall supplant economic calculation in shaping decisions by companies in what is called, with diminishing accuracy, the private sector.

Meet the Democrats' proto-Trumps  —  Four weeks out from Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, Democrats may soon be launching a few unorthodox, mega-rich candidates of their own.  —  In three major states with a governor's mansion up for grabs in 2018, a big-name …