U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack  —  Vladimir Putin personally involved in US election hack, intelligence officials say 2:36  —  U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved …

North Carolina G.O.P. Moves to Curb Power of New Democratic Governor  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Republicans in the North Carolina legislature on Wednesday took the highly unusual step of moving to strip power from the incoming Democratic governor after a bitter election that extended years of fierce ideological battles in the state.

Trump Grill Could Be the Worst Restaurant in America  —  And it reveals everything you need to know about our next president.  —  Halfway through a recent late lunch at the Trump Grill—the clubby steakhouse in the lobby of Trump Tower that has recently become famous through …

Griping about the popular vote?  Get over it.  —  What an outrage: On Sunday, the National Football League awarded the Tennessee Titans a win over the Denver Broncos because they scored more points, even though the Broncos got more total yards than the Titans.

Muslim college student who claimed Trump supporters attacked her on the subway under arrest for making story up  —  She made it all up — and now she's under arrest.  —  The Muslim college student who claimed she was harassed on the subway by three men who shouted “Donald Trump,” …

Fake news is a convenient scapegoat, but the big 2016 problem was the real news  —  You can't blame Macedonian teens for disastrously email-centric coverage.  —  Speaking in early December at a ceremony to honor Harry Reid's retirement from the US Senate, Hillary Clinton took aim at a target …

Critics bash Trump children's presence at tech meeting  —  's adult children attended a Wednesday meeting the president-elect convened with top Silicon Valley executives, prompting backlash from critics with questions about conflicts of interests.  —  The meeting was meant as an olive branch …

Ivanka Trump to get office in WH space reserved for first lady: report  —  A spokesperson for President-elect Donald Trump  —  is pushing back on a report that Ivanka Trump will get an office in the space typically reserved for the first lady.  —  “This is false.

“Prevent Tragedy Before It's Too Late”: Read the Statement 1,200 Scholars Just Released About Trump  —  Concerned by the hateful rhetoric that has accompanied President-elect Donald Trump's transition to the White House, a group of 1,200 historians and other scholars have put …

Do Americans think Donald Trump will be a good president?  —  With the inauguration a little over a month away, just over a third of Americans (34 percent) think President-elect Trump will be a good or very good president, and another 23 percent think he will be average.

Democrats open to replacing Obamacare  —  Senate Democrats will never vote to repeal Obamacare.  But once the deed is done, a surprising number of them say they're open to helping Republicans replace it.  —  “If it makes sense, I think there'll be a lot of Democrats who would be for it,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.).

His appointments are wrecking balls and swamp creatures, and his supporters won't care.  This is what white populism looks like.  —  You don't have to look carefully to see the pattern in President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet.  To run the government, he has picked men and women …

To Combat Trump, Democrats Ready a G.O.P. Tactic: Lawsuits  —  One attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is already investigating Donald J. Trump over possible violations of New York State law at his charity foundation.  —  Another, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, has joined Mr. Schneiderman …

Americans Name the 10 Most Significant Historic Events of Their Lifetimes  —  9/11, Obama election and the tech revolution among those with greatest impact on the country  —  Shared experiences define what it means to be an American.  The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were such a unifying event for modern Americans.