The Anti-Trump Electoral College Effort Is Only The Beginning  —  WASHINGTON — The battle over Monday's electoral college vote is the beginning, not the end.  A larger campaign to undermine the legitimacy — and constitutionality — of Donald Trump's presidency is likely just getting underway.

Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company  —  Rex Tillerson, the businessman nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US secretary of state, is the long-time director of a US-Russian oil firm based in the tax haven of the Bahamas, leaked documents show.

Trump holds off record session with reporters  —  held an off-the-record conversation with reporters on Sunday evening.  —  While the topics of conversation were not reported, the meeting was confirmed in a presidential pool report.  It's been more than 140 days since Trump has held a press conference.

Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at least some members of the team after he becomes president, according to people familiar with the plans.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress Famous for Her Glamour (and Her Marriages), Dies at 99  —  Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles.

Big questions over Trump's pick for schools  —  Is President-elect Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education a Christmas present for America's public schools or shiny wrapping paper on a lump of coal?  —  A teacher from Iowa recently wrote an open letter to DeVos …

White nationalists target Jews in small Montana town  —  A call to action in the Daily Stormer describes Jews as a “vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths.”  —  A white-supremacist call to action to “troll” Jewish people in Whitefish, Montana—home of white nationalist Richard Spencer's mother …

Inside the Ku Klux Klan, With an A&E Documentary Series  —  The setup is warm and fuzzy.  “Girls, I got y'all some gifts,” says Steven Howard, presenting his two young daughters with prettily wrapped packages, which they eagerly rip into.  The cameras then reveal what's inside: the distinctive pointed hoods of the Ku Klux Klan.

All This Talk of Voter Fraud?  Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None  —  After all the allegations of rampant voter fraud and claims that millions had voted illegally, the people who supervised the general election last month in states around the nation have been adding up how many credible reports of fraud they actually received.

Election officials focus on whether voter ID laws contributed to Hillary Clinton's defeat  —  Delia Anderson, a 77-year-old Milwaukee resident, did not vote on election day because she did not have the correct photo ID card.  —  Starting with John F. Kennedy's victory over Richard Nixon in 1960 …

Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses … Follow the pills and you'll find the overdose deaths.  —  The trail of painkillers leads to West Virginia's southern coalfields, to places like Kermit, population 392.  There, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly …

Shul ties: Ivanka and Jared's big move has D.C.'s Jews buzzing  —  At the intimate, light-brick synagogue in Georgetown, members don't fuss over their famous-for-Washington congregants.  Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew prays at Kesher Israel just like everybody else in the tight-knit Modern Orthodox community.

The Curious World of Donald Trump's Private Russian Connections  —  Did the American people really know they were putting such a “well-connected” guy in the White House?  —  Throughout Donald Trump's presidential campaign he expressed glowing admiration for Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

McCain: Russian election-related hacks threaten to ‘destroy democracy’  —  Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain said Russian election-related hacks threaten to “destroy democracy” and faulted the American response as “totally paralyzed.”  —  McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs …

Senior GOP Lawmaker Calls for Investigation of CIA Director Over Media Leaks on Russian Hacking  —  A senior Republican congressman called for an investigation into whether the head of the CIA leaked to the media while withholding from Congress the agency's findings that Russians used hacking …