Russian ambassador to Turkey killed in Ankara shooting  —  Gunman reportedly killed by police after firing at least eight times while Andrei Karlov was giving speech at art gallery  —  The Russian ambassador to Ankara has been killed in a gun attack at an art gallery in the Turkish capital …

Love it or hate it, here's the statement I'll issue after the Electoral college vote today.  —  Statement by Democratic Elector David Bright  —  Dec. 19, 2016  —  If my vote today could have helped Secretary Clinton win the presidency, I would have voted for her.

Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — 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.

Transcript And Video: NPR's Exit Interview With President Obama  —  In a wide-ranging exit interview, NPR's Steve Inskeep asks President Obama about Russian interference in the U.S. election, executive power, the future of the Democratic party and his future role.

Bill Clinton: Trump knows how to get ‘angry, white men to vote for him’  —  President-elect Donald Trump “doesn't know much,” former President Bill Clinton told a local newspaper earlier this month, but “one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”

Chief Justice John Roberts Denies Plea To Force Senate Action On Merrick Garland  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has denied a lawyer's bid to get the Supreme Court to force the Senate to consider the high court nomination of Judge Merrick Garland.

UK prof: Singing a Beach Boys' tune got me punished for ‘sexual misconduct’  —  The University of Kentucky has punished me in a “sexual misconduct” case, in part, for singing a Beach Boys tune covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks.  —  Under Administrative Regulation 6:1, Discrimination and Harassment …

Gov. Pat McCrory calls for special legislative session to repeal HB2  —  Following a surprise move by the Charlotte City Council, Gov. Pat McCrory said Monday he would call a special session to consider repeal of House Bill 2.  —  The governor's statement came in a rapidly unfolding series …

How Republics End  —  Many people are reacting to the rise of Trumpism and nativist movements in Europe by reading history — specifically, the history of the 1930s.  And they are right to do so.  It takes willful blindness not to see the parallels between the rise of fascism and our current political nightmare.

In Poland, a window on what happens when populists come to power  —  WARSAW — The Law and Justice Party rode to power on a pledge to drain the swamp of Polish politics and roll back the legacy of the previous administration.  One year later, its patriotic revolution, the party proclaims …

A dad was awakened by his toddler's crying.  He found a stranger holding her in the living room.  —  Around 2:30 a.m. last Thursday, a father in Tempe, Ariz., awoke to the sounds of his 2-year-old daughter crying, so he left his bedroom to check on her.  —  In his living room …

Trump's Budget Director Pick Spoke at a John Birch Society Event  —  Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), the ultra-conservative congressman tapped by Donald Trump to run the Office of Management and Budget, recently accepted a speaking invitation from the notorious John Birch Society …