Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60: ‘She Was Loved by the World and She Will Be Missed Profoundly’  —  Carrie Fisher, the actress best known as Star Wars' Princess Leia Organa, has died after suffering a heart attack.  She was 60.  —  Family spokesman Simon Halls released …

Britain Pulled the Strings and Netanyahu Warned New Zealand It Was Declaring War: New Details on Israel's Battle Against the UN Vote  —  The British secretly worked the Palestinians and urged New Zealand to move ahead with the resolution, and a call from Netanyahu to Putin triggered a real drama …

Belief in conspiracies largely depends on political identity  —  Belief in conspiracy theories depends largely on which side of the spectrum you fall on … Sometimes it seems that Americans will believe anything.  And what we know as true or not true these days can depend on our political point of view.

Former Trump staffer gets 30 days in jail after being convicted on 10 counts of election fraud  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Failed Michigan State House candidate Brandon Michael Hall—who was a prominent volunteer with the Donald Trump campaign—was sentenced to 30 days …

A Rockette Speaks Out  —  Amidst the media storm about the pressure to perform at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, one dancer breaks rank for an exclusive MarieClaire.com interview about the turmoil behind the scenes.  —  The dancer next to Mary was crying.

Obama confesses he was ‘wildly pretentious’ in college  —  President Obama recalled his college years in an interview with his longtime friend and former adviser, telling David Axelrod that he used to be “wildly pretentious.”  —  In an hourlong interview for Axelrod's CNN podcast “The Axe Files …

Lindsey Graham: Donald Trump disagrees with the entire US Senate on Russia  —  Graham: Trump disagrees with US Senate on Russia  —  Watch Jim Sciutto's full interview with Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain on CNN's “The Situation Room” at 5 p.m. ET.  —  (CNN)Two of the Senate's …

‘F**K YOU.  GO TO HELL’: Georgetown Prof Loses It On Muslim Trump Voter  —  A Georgetown University associate professor had a month-long meltdown after a Muslim woman explained why she voted for President-elect Donald Trump.  —  Asra Q. Nomani, a former Georgetown journalism professor …

Obama administration is close to announcing measures to punish Russia for election interference  —  The Obama administration is close to announcing a series of measures to punish Russia for its interference in the 2016 presidential election, including economic sanctions and diplomatic censure, according to U.S. officials.

SC GOP lawmaker pulls gun and punches woman in head because she caught him cheating: police  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  South Carolina Republican state Rep. Chris Corley was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly beating a woman who reportedly caught him “cheating.”

This Is What I Think And This Is What Other People Think Scholarship Looks Like  —  This is what I think scholarship looks like ... I drafted what follows below as a suggested entry (or part of an entry) for a treatise by another author.  —  Neither the Supreme Court nor any other federal court …

Alt-Right in Civil War After Prominent Leader Disinvited From Pro-Trump ‘DeploraBall’  —  The “alt-right” erupted in a civil war Monday after one of the movement's leaders banned another from appearing at the pro-Donald Trump “DepolaBall” for his history of flirting with Nazism.

Fraser sinkhole forces shutdown of 15 Mile for ‘several months’  —  Residents of Fraser and elsewhere in Macomb County heard updates about the sinkhole at 15 Mile Road on Monday  —  The massive sinkhole threatening a Fraser neighborhood will force the shutdown of 15 Mile Road for months …

Richard Adams, Whose Novel ‘Watership Down’ Became a Phenomenon, Dies at 96  —  Richard Adams, the British novelist who became one of the world's best-selling authors with his first book, “Watership Down,” a tale of rabbits whose adventures in a pastoral realm of epic perils explored Homeric themes of exile …

It's Not About the Economy  —  ELKHART, Ind.—This city once had the highest unemployment rate in the nation.  Now, though, it's booming.  The once-shuttered factories of the recreational vehicle industry, which is concentrated here, are full of workers, their parking lots packed …

Kaepernick insists he's not thinking about future with 49ers  —  SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — If Colin Kaepernick is concerned about his future with the 49ers, the veteran quarterback certainly isn't showing it.  At least not publicly.  —  During an 8-minute conversation with reporters Tuesday …

Planned Parenthood, Gloria Steinem, And Harry Belafonte Join Women's March On Washington Leadership  —  Protesters march during a demonstration against President-elect Donald Trump near Trump Tower in New York City on Dec. 12, 2016.  —  The Women's March on Washington …

The Empire Strikes Back  —  We thought women would break new ground in 2016.  We were wrong.  —  Like many journalists who write about the intersections of gender and politics, I was asked to draft an essay in advance of election night about the meaning of Hillary Clinton's expected victory.

Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case (updated)  —  Amazon's Echo devices and its virtual assistant are meant to help find answers by listening for your voice commands.  However, police in Arkansas want to know if one of the gadgets overheard something that can help with a murder case.