Why Obama broke with Israel at UN  —  The White House's decision to break with decades of U.S. policy and allow the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements is the culmination of years of bad blood between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Actress Carrie Fisher is in critical condition after a ‘cardiac episode’ on flight from London to L.A.  —  Actress Carrie Fisher, shown in 2007, was taken to a hospital Friday after a “cardiac episode” on a flight from London to Los Angeles.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Trump team: NY co-chair's remarks about Obamas ‘reprehensible’  —  's team condemned the racist comments one of its former state co-chairmen made about the Obamas Thursday.  —  Carl Paladino, the Trump campaign's former New York co-chairman, said in an interview with a Buffalo alternative magazine …

Liberal prof ‘watchlist’ is McCarthyism for the bullying age  —  Anthea Butler thought she'd heard it all before.  —  A religious studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a black woman who teaches a class about the religious right in America and has a fiery liberal persona on social media …

French woman wants to marry a robot as expert predicts sex robots to become preferable to humans  —  French woman Lilly wants to marry her robot.  Picture: Twitter.  —  ON THE surface, Lilly seems like a blushing young woman ready to marry the man of her dreams who makes her “totally happy.”

Trump praises Putin's criticism of Democrats in tweet  —  Trump tweeted his praise for Russian president Vladimir Putin's criticism of Hillary Clinton  —  Friday night, agreeing with a statement he made earlier in the day that it was “humiliating” Democrats did not “lose with dignity.”

World War Three, by Mistake  —  Harsh political rhetoric, combined with the vulnerability of the nuclear command-and-control system, has made the risk of global catastrophe greater than ever.  —  On June 3, 1980, at about two-thirty in the morning, computers at the National Military Command Center …

A Prayer for Peace in Bethlehem  —  Vera Baboun was 24 years old when she first realized that her hometown was truly different from other cities in the world.  —  Her childhood in Bethlehem had seemed normal, even idyllic.  Born in 1963, Baboun attended a Christian school, sang in the church choir, and played tennis.

Pressure grows on Mormon choir over Trump inauguration  —  Thousands of people are backing a petition urging the Mormon Tabernacle Choir not to perform at President-elect Donald Trump  —  's inauguration.  —  The Change.org petition has accumulated more than 6,500 signatures since it was created Thursday.

Teen Vogue Writer Battles Tucker Carlson: 'You're Actually Being a Partisan Hack'  —  Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca faced off with Fox's Tucker Carlson tonight in what became a mesmerizing and fierce back and forth about Ivanka Trump and various things that Duca has written.