Ivanka Trump Accosted by Passenger on JetBlue Flight (PHOTO + UPDATE)  —  Ivanka Trump — Accosted by Passenger on JetBlue Flight  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Ivanka Trump just had a bumpy start to her Xmas holiday ... an out-of-control passenger on her flight began verbally berating her and “jeering” at her 3 kids.

I goofed earlier, so to clarify, draining the swamp is in, Donald J. Trump is going to do it, and the alligators should be worried.  #DTS

USA TODAY poll: There's a clear Democratic front-runner for 2020  —  WASHINGTON — On the theory that it's never too early to launch the next campaign, the new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll has identified an overwhelming front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

Obama to Dismantle Visitor Registry Before Trump Can Revive It  —  The Obama administration is dismantling a dormant national registry program for visitors from countries with active terrorist groups — a program that President-elect Donald J. Trump has suggested he is considering resurrecting.

Trump names RNC strategist Spicer to press secretary  —  has named Republican National Committee strategist Sean Spicer to be his press secretary, the transition team announced in a statement Thursday.  —  In addition, Hope Hicks was named assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Communications …

Kellyanne Conway lands top WH job in Trump administration  —  Conway on terror: ‘Everything is on the table’  —  (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump tapped former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway as “counselor to the president,” the presidential transition announced Thursday morning.

The photos you haven't seen of Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail  —  Hillary Clinton — former first lady, senator, secretary of state and now Democratic presidential candidate — speaks to a packed room of supporters at the Sheraton Hotel in midtown Manhattan after she won New York's Democratic primary election on April 19, 2016.

Trump team asked State Department for info on women's issues programs, sparking fears of another witch hunt  —  The Trump transition team instructed the State Department to turn over all information Wednesday about “gender-related staffing, programming, and funding,” setting off alarm bells among …

Trump Inauguration Panic: Mark Burnett Throws ‘Hail Mary’ Staff Shake-Up (Exclusive)  —  “Trump is very unhappy,” a person with knowledge of the situation tells TheWrap  —  Donald Trump is so displeased with his team's inability to lock in A-list talent for his inauguration events next month …

Jewish Family Flees Home After Breitbart Runs Story On Canceled Christmas Play  —  A Jewish family has temporarily left its Lancaster County, Pennsylvania home, citing fear of retribution after coming under fire from conservative news outlets that blamed it for the cancellation of an elementary school production of “A Christmas Carol.”

Democrats aim to launch comeback with Cabinet showdown  —  Senate Democrats are approaching the January confirmation battle over Donald Trump's Cabinet as a chance to launch their political comeback and expose the president-elect as a fraud.  —  Lawmakers know they're unlikely, at best …

What it takes to get a meeting with Trump  —  Carl Paladino, the upstate New York developer and local political gadfly, was interested in catching up with Donald Trump in early December, so he rang up the president-elect's private security guard.  The next day, on Dec. 5 …

Reid: DNC was ‘worthless’ under Wasserman Schultz  —  Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid  —  tore into the Democratic National Committee (DNC), calling it a “worthless” organization that doesn't do enough to help state parties.  —  “I believe one of the failures of Democratic Party …

Trump May Have a $300 Million Conflict of Interest With Deutsche Bank  —  Concern about conflict of interest given bank's federal probes  —  Deutsche Bank faces huge potential fines from U.S. government  —  For years, Donald Trump has used a powerful tool when dealing with bankers: his personal guarantee.

Trump Summons Contractors to Mar-a-Lago Over Spending  —  Boeing CEO says new Air Force One will cost under $4 billion  —  Pentagon has rebutted Trump's reproach of F-35 fighter costs  —  The two largest U.S. defense contractors said Wednesday they would seek to control their costs …

North Carolina Fails to Repeal Bathroom Law That Prompted Boycotts  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — After more than nine hours of closed-door meetings, jawboning and complicated legislative stratagems, North Carolina legislators went home in frustration Wednesday after failing to repeal the state law …

Saddam Hussein's daughter: Trump has ‘political sensibility’  —  Basma Atassi, CNN  —  (CNN)On the morning of Eid al-Adha in December 2006, Raghad Saddam Hussein, her sister and their children squeezed together in front of the television in Raghad's home in Amman and wept as they watched footage …

Donald Trump says he wants to ‘greatly strengthen and expand’ U.S. nuclear capability, a radical break from U.S. foreign policy  —  President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday called for the United States to expand its nuclear arsenal, which would be a radical shift in U.S. policy dating back decades.

The Daily 202: What if? 94 questions that still keep some Democrats up at night  —  THE BIG IDEA: The more time that passes, the more that the outcome of every presidential election feels inevitable in retrospect - even the close ones.  That's the way the frosted glass of human memory works.