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.

John Glenn, American hero, aviation icon and former U.S. senator, dies at 95  —  His legend is other-worldly and now, in his 95th year, that's where John Glenn has gone.  —  An authentic hero and genuine American icon, Glenn died this afternoon surrounded by family at the Ohio State University …

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 …

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.

Ryan Plays the DC Press Corps Like a Fiddle  —  Millions of people's lives and livelihoods are on the line.  So it's not funny.  But if there weren't such dire real world consequences, Paul Ryan's current flimflam would be straight up hilarious.  Repealing Obamacare has immediate real world consequences.

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.

On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need ‘Safe Spaces’  —  ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Amanda Delekta, a sophomore at the University of Michigan and political director of the College Republicans, was ecstatic when her candidate, Donald J. Trump, won the presidential election.

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.

Trump's Transition Team ‘Is Like Game of Thrones’  —  As the least experienced, least ideological, and therefore perhaps most malleable president-elect in history prepares to take office, all eyes are on who is influencing his decisions.  And so far, Donald Trump's administration is shaping …

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 …

Biden: I'm ‘embarrassed’ by the campaign  —  (CNN)This year's presidential contest was a substance-free spectacle, Vice President Joe Biden lamented on Thursday.  —  “This has been a very tough election.  It's been ugly, it's been divisive, it's been coarse, it's been dispiriting.

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.

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 …

Barely Half of 30-Year-Olds Earn More Than Their Parents  —  As wages stagnate in the middle class, it becomes hard to reverse this trend  —  Barely half of 30-year-olds earn more than their parents did at a similar age, a research team found, an enormous decline from the early 1970s …

Navy admiral's Pearl Harbor speech trolls Colin Kaepernick  —  A decorated US Navy admiral took the time to troll Colin Kaepernick during the 75th Anniversary Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration ceremony on Wednesday — saying those who died on that fateful day “never took a knee and never failed to stand” during the national anthem.

Low Approval of Trump's Transition but Outlook for His Presidency Improves  —  Growing numbers see ‘strong’ partisan and racial conflicts  —  Nearly a month after Donald Trump's election as president, the public views his transition to the White House less positively than those of past presidents-elect.

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.

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 …

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,” …

Facebook's Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest  —  In a lawsuit, shareholders say Andreessen was advising Facebook's CEO when he was supposed to be representing investors.  —  by  —  Jef Feeley  —  Earlier this year, Facebook Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg came …