Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world …

Betsy DeVos says guns in schools may be necessary to protect students from grizzly bears  —  Trump's Education nominee tells Newtown's former representative that bears justify the presence of guns in schools.  —  On Tuesday, Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's Education Secretary nominee …

As GOP Pushes Repeal, Obamacare Has Never Been More Popular: NBC News/WSJ poll  —  As Republicans get closer to repealing it, President Barack Obama's federal health-care law — or Obamacare — has never been more popular, according to results from a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal.

Rep. Steve King: John Lewis trades on status as civil rights icon, hasn't contributed since  —  Rep. John Lewis returns to the Edmund Pettus Bridge  — Iowa Rep. Steve King said Tuesday that Georgia Rep. John Lewis trades on his status as a civil rights icon.

Trump wrote inauguration speech himself  —  Washington (CNN)President-elect Trump has written his inauguration address draft himself, two senior Trump transition officials told CNN Tuesday.  —  Last month, Trump told guests at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, as well as presidential historian …

The New Trump Defamation Lawsuit Is Daring Trump to Incriminate Himself in Court  —  LOS ANGELES—One of the women who accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct last year has filed a defamation lawsuit against the president-elect.  Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant who alleged …

Trump: 'I don't like tweeting'  —  declared in an interview released late Tuesday that he dislikes tweeting and uses Twitter as a defense against media.  —  “Look, I don't like tweeting,” Trump insisted during a Fox News interview scheduled to air Wednesday.  “I have other things I could be doing.”

How Repealing Portions of the Affordable Care Act Would Affect Health Insurance Coverage and Premiums  —  CBO reports on the estimated changes in health insurance coverage and premiums that would result from leaving the Affordable Care Act's insurance market reforms in place while repealing the law's mandate penalties and subsidies.

Michael Moore on Why Donald Trump Will Build a Wall and Ban Muslims  —  Michael Moore saw this coming.  Last summer, when Hillary Clinton was enjoying a seemingly insurmountable lead over Donald Trump, the documentary filmmaker correctly predicted that the billionaire businessman would capture the White House.

Trump Claims To Have Met Putin In Newly Resurfaced Interview From 2015 (AUDIO)  —  In a newly resurfaced 2015 radio interview, Donald Trump claimed that he met Russian President Vladimir Putin and that they “got along great,” contradicting his later campaign trail claims that he never met or spoke with Putin.

U.S. Abortion Rate Continues to Decline, Hits Historic Low  —  Improvements in Contraceptive Use Are Likely Contributing to the Decline, But Punitive Abortion Restrictions May Also Be a Factor  —  For the first time since 1975, the number of abortions in the United States dropped under one million …

An open letter to Trump from the US press corps  —  Dear Mr. President Elect:  —  In these final days before your inauguration, we thought it might be helpful to clarify how we see the relationship between your administration and the American press corps.  —  It will come as no surprise …

Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls  —  The Japan Sanitary Equipment Industry Association, a consortium of companies producing plumbing products including Toto, Panasonic, and Toshiba, has agreed to unify the iconography used on the often baffling control panels for Japanese toilets.

The Alt-Right Comes to Washington  —  East Lansing, Michigan—Lounging at the back of his tour bus in a parking lot behind the Springhill Suites, Milo Yiannopoulos, the flamboyant right-wing British provocateur known for his bleach-blond frosted tips and relentless campaign against Islam …

Philly mayor: 'I'd take George W. back in a minute'  —  With just days to go before Donald Trump takes office, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney says he and his fellow mayors have no idea what to expect from the incoming administration.  —  “I'd take George W. back in a minute,” …

Republican Men Say It's a Better Time to Be a Woman Than a Man  —  To be a woman in the United States is to feel unequal, despite great strides in gender equality, according to a wide-ranging poll about gender in postelection America released Tuesday.  It's catcalls on the street …

Hair stylist to Marla Maples: No free services in exchange for Inauguration Day ‘exposure’  —  Though Donald Trump and his family project an image of boundless wealth, a Washington-based hairstylist says the president-elect's second wife tried to get out of paying her to style her tresses …

Boom: Trump eyes 10% spending cuts, 20% slash of federal workers  —  Making good on a promise to slash government, President-elect Trump has asked his incoming team to pursue spending and staffing cuts.  —  Insiders said that the spending reductions in some departments could go as high …