Attacker opens fire at Istanbul nightclub, news agency reports  —  Istanbul (CNN)[Breaking news update at 7:35 p.m. ET]  —  An Istanbul nightclub was attacked Sunday morning, killing 35 people and wounding 40 others, according to Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin.

Federal Judge Halts Obamacare Transgender, Abortion-Related Protections Nationwide  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and President Obama  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a nationwide injunction halting enforcement of Obama administration protections …

Trump kicks biographer off golf course  —  President-elect Donald Trump on Friday ejected from his West Palm Beach golf course one of his most critical biographers, Harry Hurt III, who had been preparing to play in a foursome with billionaire mega-donor David Koch.

WATCH: Singer caught screaming hate against ‘perverted’ gays - just days before her appearance on Ellen  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A video has emerged of gospel singer Kim Burrell attacking LGBT people as “perverts” and sinners, just days before she is scheduled to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Shooting in Mount Vernon on New Year's Eve  —  A young woman was accidentally shot in a car and killed on New Year's Eve in the area of Pease Street in Mount Vernon, according to City Council President Marcus Griffith.  —  “I literally heard the shots,” Griffith said.

Obama: I won't leave on Jan 20  —  President Obama used his final weekly address in 2016 to make it plainer than ever that he won't retire quietly once Donald Trump is sworn in as president.  —  Couching his address to the nation as assurance that he will remain committed to defending the …

Four Cabinet spots still open in the Trump administration  —  With less than a month before the inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump  —  's Cabinet still has four major spots waiting to be filled.  —  Trump has picked most of his top Cabinet nominees already.

Jeff Sessions Omits Decades Of Records For His AG Confirmation Hearing  —  He once argued that doing this is a felony.  —  WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is withholding decades' worth of records from his career ahead of his Senate …

Palin calls for Trump to leave UN  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said this week that President-elect Donald Trump  —  should withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations.  —  During an interview with the “Breitbart Daily News” radio show on Thursday, Palin outlined two ways that the country could extricate itself from the U.N.

The West Must Prevent Cold War 2.0  —  If we don't resist Russian political warfare, very soon, Putin will win  —  It was a year of profound, indeed systemic crisis.  Across the West, friends of the Kremlin were surging in democratic elections, playing on legitimate fears of voters about economic anxiety and societal erosion.

New York opens subway line dreamed up in 1920s  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - While more than a million people ring in the new year with their eyes on a glittering ball high above Times Square, a select group of construction workers and city officials will toast 2017 underground on the inaugural ride of a subway line a century in the making.

Dershowitz: I'll leave Democratic Party if Ellison becomes DNC chair  —  Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said Friday he'll leave the Democratic Party if Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) is appointed the next chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).