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.

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.”

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 …

Exclusive: Sen. Corker's Height, Business Dealings Hurt His Secretary Of State Chances  —  Republican Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker was reportedly a contender to become President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of state, but internal documents provided by a Trump confidant reveal …

The attorney general could have ordered FBI Director James Comey not to send his bombshell letter on Clinton emails.  Here's why she didn't.  —  Twelve days before the presidential election, FBI Director James B. Comey dispatched a senior aide to deliver a startling message to the Justice Department.

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.

Kellyanne's Brutal Response to Whether She'll Have Time to Be Special Counselor  —  Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway did not immediately accept a role in his administration because she needed time to consider whether she could both serve the president and care for her family.

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

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 …

Putin urges Russian nuclear weapons boost  —  Moscow (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for the country to reinforce its military nuclear potential and praised the army's performance in its Syria campaign.  —  In a speech that recapped military activities in 2016 …

Trump Vineyard Seeks More Foreign Workers  —  The Virginia wine producer is the latest Trump family business to seek foreign guest workers for US jobs.  —  Eric Trump and his father, Donald Trump  —  Mark Wilson / Getty Images  —  As Donald Trump prepares to assume the presidency …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Exclusive: ISIS Puts Out Holiday Attack List Of U.S. Churches  —  The terror group threatened “bloody celebrations in the Christian New Year”  —  The Islamic State published the names and addresses of thousands of churches in the United States and called on its adherents to attack them during …

Carter is only former president to RSVP for Trump's inauguration  —  One month out, Jimmy Carter is the only former president to RSVP to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, while Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are putting off their decision until the new year.

The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is Building an Algorithmic Model From its Employees' Brains  —  Bridgewater wants day-to-day management—hiring, firing, decision-making—to be guided by software that doles out instructions  —  Deep inside Bridgewater Associates LP, the world's largest hedge-fund firm …

The resolution being considered at the United Nations Security Council regarding Israel should be vetoed.  —  As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of terms by the United Nations.

‘16 and Pregnant’ Star — Valerie Fairman Dead of Presumed Overdose  —  EXCLUSIVE DETAILS  —  Valerie Fairman — the 23-year-old star from the reality show “16 and Pregnant” — has died and her family tells TMZ it appears to be an overdose.  —  Valerie's mom tells us she was at a friend's home …