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 …

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 …

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 …

Warren stirs talk of 2020 White House run  —  is set to bolster her Senate resume next year, sparking early talk about a 2020 presidential bid.  —  The Massachusetts Democrat will join the Armed Services Committee in 2017, branching out beyond the tough-on-Wall Street message that made her a liberal favorite.

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.

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 …

‘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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …