President Obama Talks Race Relations, Calls Alleged Hate Crime in Facebook Video ‘Terrible’  —  President Obama said “we appear to have seen” a hate crime in the alleged attack on a Chicago man captured on Facebook.  —  “It's terrible,” the president said about the incident, during an interview with ABC affiliate WLS in Chicago.

U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win  —  Senior officials in the Russian government celebrated Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton as a geopolitical win for Moscow, according to U.S. officials who said that American intelligence agencies intercepted communications …

Megyn Kelly Being Replaced by Tucker Carlson at Fox  —  Tucker Carlson, the veteran cable television host and conservative writer, will succeed Megyn Kelly in the coveted 9 p.m. slot on Fox News, solidifying the network's right-wing identity in prime time as it prepares to cover the administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.

House Republicans revive obscure rule that could allow them to slash the pay of individual federal workers to $1  —  House Republicans this week reinstated an arcane procedural rule that enables lawmakers to reach deep into the budget and slash the pay of an individual federal worker …

Trump's Debts Are Widely Held on Wall Street, Creating New Potential Conflicts  —  More than 150 financial institutions hold debts connected to president-elect, analysis shows  —  The debts of President-elect Donald Trump and his businesses are scattered across Wall Street banks …

Trump expected to name ex-senator Dan Coats as director of national intelligence  —  President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name former senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.) to be his director of national intelligence, according to a Trump transition team official.

‘Grow up, Donald... Time to be an adult,’ Biden says in PBS NewsHour interview  —  Vice President Joe Biden urged Donald Trump to “grow up” on Thursday, criticizing the incoming president's attacks on the U.S. intelligence community and his grasp of health care policy, which is now up for debate …

Former CIA director James Woolsey has split with Trump, ‘effective immediately’  —  Former CIA director James Woolsey will no longer serve as a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, Woolsey's spokesman said in a statement provided to reporters on Thursday.

Democratic lawmakers considering challenge to Trump's Electoral College victory  —  Several House Democrats are weighing a formal challenge to Donald Trump's election on Friday, when Congress meets in joint session to certify Trump's Electoral College victory.

The Health Care Plan Trump Voters Really Want  —  This week Republicans in Congress began their effort to repeal and potentially replace the Affordable Care Act.  But after listening to working-class supporters of Donald J. Trump — people who are enrolled in the very health care marketplaces created …

Donald Trump, Julian Assange, and the Control of the Republican Mind  —  The cruelest, most condescending, and also devastatingly correct indictment of Donald Trump's supporters was uttered not by a member of the liberal media but by Donald Trump himself, when he mentioned that he could shoot somebody …

The Cheapest Cocktail at the Trump Hotel Is Now $24  —  And you thought the $14 cocktail was too pricey?  The Trump hotel's lobby bar has raised its cocktail prices yet again.  The cheapest option now is $24, while the most expensive is $100.  —  It's safe to say the Trump hotel's Benjamin Bar & Lounge …

Trump's Systematic Attack on U.S. Institutions  —  There is no T-E-A-M in “I.”  —  This was the obvious lesson as Donald Trump sold out House Republicans this week.  GOP members had sought to quietly defang an anti-corruption watchdog office.  After angry constituents phoned House offices …

EXCLUSIVE: At least 18 MORE Guantanamo detainees to be freed within days as Obama starts mass transfer of fanatics who have threatened to bomb and behead Americans  — DailyMail.com has learned that at least 22 of the 59 Guantanamo Bay detainees should be transferred before January 20; four were moved on Thursday

Less shrinkage: This is your aging brain on the Mediterranean diet  —  The study looked at a group of 562 Scots in their 70s over a three-year period.  Those whose eating habits resembled the diet experienced, on average, half the brain shrinkage that was normal for the group.  (Jan. 5, 2017)

Trump's Twitter feed traumatizes Washington  —  Donald Trump's unique, chaos theory of presidential communications is upending Washington, leaving lawmakers, government officials and lobbyists aghast that they are beholden to a single leader's whims, not to mention the uncertainty about his true thoughts and intentions.

Exit Memo From Secretary Kerry to President Obama  —  Remarks  —  Secretary of State Cabinet Exit Memo Washington, DC  —  When President Obama took office in 2009, the United States was engaged in two costly wars, faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression …

GOP aims to rein in liberal cities  —  After consolidating power in Washington, D.C. and state capitals under President-elect Donald Trump  —  , Republicans are moving to prevent large cities dominated by Democrats from enacting sweeping liberal agendas.  —  Republican state legislatures …