Schumer adopts Trump slogan: GOP wants to ‘Make America sick again’  —  It's a world where health insurance companies are jacking up rates, Americans are losing benefits and illness is racking the nation.  —  This is the apocalyptic picture of America offered by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer …

To Julian Assange: I apologize.  —  Please watch Sean Hannity's interview with Julian Assange (Wikileaks).  —  Exposing the truth re: the Left having been oh-so-guilty of atrocious actions and attitudes of which they've falsely accused others.  The media collusion that hid what many on the Left have been supporting is shocking.

Why Republicans took aim at an ethics watchdog  —  The failed attempt by Republicans to rein in an independent ethics office was the culmination of years of mounting frustration on Capitol Hill.  —  While House Republicans backed down Tuesday from their effort to tighten oversight of the Office …

How to Stop a Trump Supreme Court Nominee  —  President-elect Donald Trump will soon announce his nominee to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.  Once he does, we'll know within just a few hours whether there is any chance that the Senate will reject his choice.

Doctors group warns against loss of coverage from ObamaCare repeal  —  The country's leading doctors group is urging Republicans to take steps to ensure that people do not lose their health insurance once ObamaCare is repealed.  —  The American Medical Association (AMA) …

Dylann Roof, Addressing Court, Offers No Apology or Explanation for Massacre  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Sometime in the six weeks after he killed nine people at this city's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Dylann S. Roof wrote in a journal that he had “not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.”

Congressman spent campaign funds for rabbit air travel  —  Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife, Margaret, who is paid $3,000 a month in campaign funds to serve as his campaign manager.  (AP file/Alex Brandon)  —  Rep. Duncan Hunter used campaign funds to pay for $600 of airline fees to fly a family rabbit …

Mariah Carey breaks silence on New Year's mishap: ‘Mortified’  —  One day after Mariah Carey's management team blasted Dick Clark Productions for its response to her now-infamous performance during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest, the singer is breaking her silence on the matter as well.

ExxonMobil, Tillerson Reach Agreement to Comply with Conflict of Interest Requirements  —  Dateline:  —  IRVING, Texas  —  Public Company Information:  —  NYSE:  —  XOM  —  IRVING, Texas—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The board of directors of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) …

Trump to tap Wall Street lawyer, Jay Clayton, to head SEC  —  NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Wall Street lawyer, Jay Clayton, to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to Sean Spicer, a spokesman for Trump's transition team.

Megyn Kelly's Departure Is a Big Clue About the Future of Fox News  —  Megyn Kelly's decision to jump from Fox News to NBC resolves one of the last unanswered questions of the Roger Ailes scandal: Would she stay or would she go when her contract ended?  With her last show set to air on Friday …

Every year I take on a personal challenge to learn new things and grow outside of my work.  In recent years, I've run 365 miles, built a simple AI for my home, read 25 books and learned Mandarin.  —  My personal challenge for 2017 is to have visited and met people in every state in the US by the end of the year.

Washington state denies lease permit for proposed coal export terminal  —  If constructed, the terminal at Longview would be the largest coal export terminal in the country.  —  Washington state dealt a blow Tuesday to the last remaining coal export terminal proposed along the West Coast …

Congressman's son dabs during official swearing-in photo, adults don't get what's happening  —  Washington (CNN)On a day filled with pomp, circumstance and photo ops meant to commemorate pomp and circumstance, leave it to the youth to out-ridiculous everyone else.

Mass murderer Charles Manson seriously ill, moved to hospital, sources say  —  Charles Manson and other members of his so-called family were convicted of killing actress Sharon Tate and six other people during a bloody rampage in the Los Angeles area during two August nights in 1969.

GM posts strong December finish with 10% sales increase  —  General Motors U.S. sales finished strong with a 10% increase from December 2015, as rising sales of midsize pickups Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon partially offset weakening sales of their full-size counterparts Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra.

California Hires Eric Holder as Legal Bulwark Against Donald Trump  —  LOS ANGELES — Girding for four years of potential battles with President-elect Donald J. Trump, Democratic leaders of the California Legislature announced Wednesday that they had hired Eric H. Holder Jr. …

U.S. Conservatives Outnumber Liberals by Narrowing Margin  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Many more Americans have considered themselves politically conservative than liberal since the early 1990s.  That remained the case in 2016, when an average of 36% of U.S. adults throughout the year identified themselves as conservative and 25% as liberal.