The Bush Sisters Wrote the Obama Girls A Letter  —  Bush is the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps  —  Malia and Sasha, eight years ago on a cold November day, we greeted you on the steps of the White House.  We saw both the light and wariness in your eyes as you gazed at your new home.

GOP Activist Who Says ACA Saved His Life Confronts Ryan At Town Hall (VIDEO)  —  In a remarkable exchange, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) was asked during CNN's Thursday town hall to explain to a cancer patient who said the Affordable Care Act saved his life how congressional Republicans …

Chaffetz threatens to subpoena federal ethics watchdog over Trump criticism  —  House Republicans have found a subject for their opening review of conflicts of interest under Donald Trump: the federal official in charge of investigating conflicts of interest.

Approval of Trump Transition Still Low as Inauguration Nears  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — In Gallup polling conducted two weeks before Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump continues to garner historically low approval for his transition performance, with 51% of Americans disapproving …

Why did Obama dawdle on Russia's hacking?  —  “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” mutters Marcellus as ghosts and mad spirits haunt Elsinore castle in the first act of Shakespeare's “Hamlet.”  —  After this past week of salacious leaks about foreign espionage plots and indignant denials …

Davos Wonders If It's Part of the Problem  —  Did the global elite's devotion to borderless capitalism sow the seeds of a populist backlash?  —  by  —  Kenneth Rogoff can pinpoint the moment he started to grow concerned Donald Trump would be the next U.S. president: It was when Rogoff's fellow attendees …

Trump's Cabinet nominees keep contradicting him  —  Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees, in their first round of confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill, have one after another contradicted the president-elect on key issues, promising to trim back or disregard some of the signature promises on which he campaigned.

How Putin Played the Far Left  —  In the aftermath of the U.S. intelligence community's recent report on the Russian-directed hacking of the Democratic National Committee, it's easy but misleading to conclude that the Russian government's propaganda strategy lies solely in advancing the careers …

'It's Game of Thrones, the Apprentice, and Survivor all mixed into one'  —  Behind closed doors, Chris Christie — unceremoniously sent packing from Donald Trump's transition headquarters in Washington two months ago — is telegraphing a message to his confidants: I'll be back.

Robert Reich speechless after Jeffrey Lord claims Trump free to flout ethics because he won  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Robert Reich doesn't understand why Donald Trump isn't going out of his way to reassure Americans that there are no conflicts of interest in his businesses and political dealings.

Breitbart Alumni Launch ‘Populist-Nationalist’ Group  —  Patrick Howley, a former Breitbart News reporter, left the site under vague circumstances back in November.  Howley told me at the time that he was leaving of his own volition because the site had become more “controlled” …

Krauthammer: Trump honeymoon ‘officially over’  —  Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer says President-elect Donald Trump  —  has already lost any goodwill following his White House win.  —  “The shortest honeymoon on record is officially over,” he wrote in Thursday's edition of his column.

Marijuana reforms flood state legislatures  —  Legislators in more than a dozen states have introduced measures to loosen laws restricting access to or criminalizing marijuana, a rush of legislative activity that supporters hope reflects a newfound willingness by public officials to embrace a trend toward legalization.

UK PM May says Trump dossier author has not worked for Britain for years  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May said the person who wrote reports containing details of compromising material Russia allegedly collected on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has not worked for the British government for years.

Jeb Bush Says It's Unlikely He Will Run For Office Again  —  COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose bid for the presidency was derailed by businessman and eventual winner Donald Trump, says it's unlikely he'll ever run for office again.

First on CNN: Trump expected to tap longtime federal prosecutor for key DOJ post  —  (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Baltimore US Attorney Rod Rosenstein for deputy attorney general, according to people close to the Trump transition.

GOP governors fight their own party on Obamacare  —  Republican governors who reaped the benefits of Obamacare now find themselves in an untenable position — fighting GOP lawmakers in Washington to protect their states' health coverage.  —  This rift between state and federal GOP officials …

Freshman Democrat Kamala Harris grills CIA director nominee on climate change  —  Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., grilled CIA director Mike Pompeo on whether climate change was a leading national security threat during his Senate confirmation hearings Thursday.

Trump revives attack on intel community in early morning Twitter burst  —  President-elect Donald Trump renewed his criticism of the intelligence community Friday morning, blaming it once again for leaking an unverified report containing compromising and salacious allegations about him to the media …

WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages  —  Exclusive: Privacy campaigners criticise WhatsApp vulnerability as a ‘huge threat to freedom of speech’ and warn it could be exploited by government agencies  —  A security backdoor that can be used to allow Facebook and others …

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Charges possible in Space Needle drone crash  —  Drone crashes into Seattle Space Needle tower  —  (CNN)The city of Seattle could file charges against a drone owner after the device crashed on top Seattle's iconic Space Needle.  —  Seattle police continue to investigate the incident …

His Way!  Inside Paul Anka's Top-Secret Performance Plan For Trump Inauguration  —  The music legend is re-writing the lyrics to an entire song.  —  President Donald Trump did it his way — and Paul Anka will let him know it!  —  A source close to the “(You're) Having My Baby” crooner …

Call To Action  —  DisruptJ20: Call for a bold mobilization against the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017  —  Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President of the United States.  We call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies.

You've probably never heard of this creepy genealogy site.  But it knows a lot about you.  —  Early Tuesday morning, Anna Brittain got a text from her sister: Did she know about Familytreenow.com?  The relatively unknown site, which presents itself as a free genealogy resource, seemed to know an awful lot about her.