The Obama administration fires a dangerous parting shot  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA'S decision to abstain on a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements reverses decades of practice by both Democratic and Republican presidents.  The United States vetoed past resolutions …

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.

Trump's unpopularity threatens to hobble his presidency  —  President-elect Donald Trump will descend on Washington next month, buoyed by his upset victory and Republican control of Congress to implement his agenda.  —  But he's facing a major obstacle: Trump will enter the White House …

Five Republicans who could buck Trump in 2017  —  's biggest hurdles next year might not come from Democrats but from within his own party.  —  With a narrow 52-seat majority in the Senate, the president-elect will need to keep Republicans unified if he wants to clear nominations …

Bryn Mawr student hounded after asking to share ride to Trump event  —  Andi Moritz couldn't get the comments out of her head.  A Facebook post the Bryn Mawr College freshman made on the school's ride-share page earlier that September day had drawn harsh backlash from dozens of students, most of whom she didn't know.

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)

The very bad reason Jeff Sessions is ‘very unhappy’  —  “The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world. .   . .  The worst thing in the world varies from individual to individual.”  —  PHILADELPHIA  —  For Christos and Markela Sourovelis …

The chaos theory of Donald Trump: Sowing confusion through tweets  —  Donald Trump's sudden embrace this week of a nuclear arms race — and his staff's scramble to minimize the fallout — underscored an emerging modus operandi for the president-elect: governance by chaos.

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 …

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 …

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.”

N.Y. developer Carl Paladino's ‘gorilla’ remark spurs outrage  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — Former New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is facing backlash on social media for a racist remark about first lady Michelle Obama published Thursday in a Buffalo alt-weekly publication.