U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack  —  U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal  —  Twitter was told it was “bounced” from Wednesday's meeting between tech executives and President-elect Donald Trump in retribution for refusing during the campaign to allow an emoji version of the hashtag #CrookedHillary …

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 …

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.

Woman Made Up Tale of Anti-Muslim Attack by Men Shouting ‘Trump’: Sources  —  MANHATTAN — An 18-year-old Muslim college student who claimed three men screaming “Donald Trump!” attacked her on a Manhattan subway platform is being charged with filing a false report after admitting she made up the incident, sources told DNAinfo New York.

Trump team disavows climate change questionnaire to Energy Department  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's transition team is disavowing a questionnaire sent to the Energy Department requesting the names of employees working on climate change issues,  —  “The questionnaire was not authorized or part of our standard protocol.

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 …

Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle is contender for Trump press secretary  —  Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle has emerged as a contender to be Donald Trump's White House press secretary, and is expected to have a third meeting with his transition team this week, according to two sources familiar with the meetings.

Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State:  —  “Rex Tillerson is an excellent choice for Secretary of State.  He will bring to the post remarkable and broad international experience; a deep understanding of the global economy; and a belief in America's special role in the world.

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

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” …

President-Elect Donald J. Trump Announces Travis Kalanick of Uber, Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla, and Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo to Join President's Strategic and Policy Forum  —  (New York, NY)—President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that three additional members will join …

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.

San Francisco, your Self-Driving Uber is arriving now  —  In September, we introduced the world's first Self-Driving Ubers to the Steel City.  Three months later, we're bringing Volvo XC90s to San Francisco.  We're incredibly excited to work with Volvo to pair our state-of-the-art self-driving technology …

Sheriff Joe Arpaio resurfaces investigation into Obama citizenship  —  Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who lost his Maricopa County, Ariz., reelection bid in November, has restarted his investigation into President Obama's citizenship.  —  Arpaio, a vocal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump

Americans and Trump part ways over Russia  —  Most Americans do not view Russia as friendly, but even many Trump voters think that Trump does … The country is still divided in their feeling about the Trump presidency, with as many people in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll feeling pessimistic as optimistic about the next four years.