Lessig: 20 Trump electors could flip  —  Larry Lessig, a Harvard University constitutional law professor who made a brief run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, claimed Tuesday that 20 Republican members of the Electoral College are considering voting against Donald Trump …

How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election  —  Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.  So when, a week-and-a-half out, the Service Employees International Union started hearing anxiety out of Michigan, union officials decided to reroute their volunteers …

Trump's national security adviser shared secrets without permission, files show  —  A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, “inappropriately shared” …

Trump Must Give Up Hotel Before Inauguration, Agency Tells Lawmakers  —  Major development in dispute over Donald Trump's conflicts of interest: The government agency that leases a taxpayer-owned landmark for Trump's Washington hotel has told lawmakers that the president-elect will be in breach …

Rex Tillerson's 3 a.m. phone call  —  It was nearly 3 o'clock in the morning when the phone rang in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, an impoverished, war-torn country on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula.  —  Hours earlier, Rex Tillerson, then a young, up-and-coming country manager at Exxon …

Huma vs. the “Night Stalkers”  —  After a stunning election loss, the knives appear to be out in Clintonworld.  —  “Maybe I'm just pissed off, but I really don't give a s**t about what happens to Huma to be honest with you,” one close adviser to Hillary Clinton told me recently.

Did Donald Trump need an apology from Mitt Romney?  —  Source: Trump told Romney he won't be nominee  —  (CNN)As President-elect Donald Trump considered Mitt Romney for secretary of state, Trump wanted one thing Romney wouldn't give him: an apology.  —  Trump was willing to move past Romney's bitter campaign-trail criticism of him.

Don Trump Jr. involved in INTERIOR search — WAYNE BERMAN up for TRADE REP — TRUMP'S TECH SUMMIT — SPOTTED AT DAVID RUBENSTEIN'S PARTY — B'DAY: Kirsten Powers  —  By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman) and ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc) with DANIEL LIPPMAN …

Reince Priebus, Incoming White House Chief Of Staff … RNC Chair Reince Priebus, incoming White House chief of staff, joined me this morning:  —  12-14hhs-priebus  —  Transcript:  —  HH: Joined now by the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, incoming White House Chief of Staff as well.

N.J. trooper pulled over women to ask them out, covered it up, state says  —  TRENTON — A New Jersey state trooper has been suspended without pay after an internal investigation found he was pulling over women to ask them out on dates and falsifying police records to cover it up, authorities said.

Obama Administration Bars States From Withholding Federal Money From Planned Parenthood  —  WASHINGTON — Mindful of the clock ticking down to a Trump presidency, the Obama administration on Wednesday issued a final rule to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds …

NFL great Brown on meeting Trump: ‘I fell in love with him’  —  Jim Brown on Trump: He has “my admiration”  —  (CNN)NFL legend Jim Brown stopped by Trump Tower Tuesday for a meeting pegged as a discussion about issues facing the African-American community, saying he “fell in love” with President-elect Donald Trump.

Divisions deepen inside Trump Tower  —  Donald Trump's White House-in-waiting is already being roiled by divisions, with the conservative outsiders who helped power his historic victory colliding with a Republican Party establishment muscling its way in.  —  Insiders paint a picture …

Donald Trump's Nominees Are In for a Rough Ride  —  Worried about the corporate gazillionaires whom Donald Trump is naming to his cabinet?  Don't fret — it could be months, if ever, before these people set foot inside the federal government.  Mr. Trump's transition team is seriously behind …

Algorithms are making us small-minded  —  Your life is mapped out for you but, not in the way that you think.  How predictive algorithms narrow your perspective - and ultimately your choices.  —  We live in a world of curation.  The internet — aided by algorithms that predict what we search …

Alan Thicke — Dead at 69  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  5:50 AM — Robin Thicke posted on Instagram about his father's passing.  —  TV icon Alan Thicke has died ... TMZ has learned.  —  We're told Alan had a heart attack while he was playing hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter.

Rise of the alt-right: How mainstream conservatives' obsession with purity fueled a new right-wing radicalism  —  The GOP's endless battles over who is or isn't a “true conservative” created a movement it couldn't control … Faced with the emergence of the new racist political movement known as the …