Shelby: My state of Alabama ‘deserves better’ than Moore  —  Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said Sunday that his home state “deserves better” than to be represented by Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the state's Supreme Court who has been accused of sexual misconduct …

Op-Ed The campaign to delegitimize the Russia probe is well under way  —  Sean Hannity interviews Former White House strategist Steve Bannon on the set of Fox News Channel's Hannity in New York on Oct. 9.  (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press)  —  Some of President Trump's biggest fans …

Lindsey Vonn suffers back injury in World Cup race after Trump comments  —  American skiing star Lindsey Vonn has withdrawn from her Sunday events at the World Cup in Switzerland after suffering a back injury during a super-G race on Saturday.  —  The injury occurred two days …

Horror as ‘20 masked men attack synagogue with petrol bombs’  —  A SYNAGOGUE was attacked by around 20 masked men while hosting a youth party in Gothenburg, Sweden, local media have reported.  —  Police arrived at the scene, where Jewish students had taken refuge in the basement.

Under Trump, E.P.A. Has Slowed Actions Against Polluters, and Put Limits on Enforcement Officers  —  EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — The highway billboard at the entrance to town still displays a giant campaign photograph of President Trump, who handily won the election across industrial Ohio.

Why the #MeToo Moment Should Be Ready for a Backlash  —  In the final five years of his presidency Barack Obama's administration undertook a worthy and bold challenge: The elimination of sexual assault on campuses.  In fact, Obama's team had a much more ambitious goal in mind.

Roadkill on Capitol Hill  —  WASHINGTON — Alan Simpson was appalled by the injustice of it all.  —  Back in 1991, during the incendiary Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, the salty Republican senator from Wyoming was very concerned at the idea that a woman would wait many years …

Manafort and Gates discussed ‘press strategy’ after he left Trump's campaign, emails reveal  —  Newly unsealed court documents reveal August 2016 emails between former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his former deputy Rick Gates in the days after Manafort left the Trump campaign …

As tax plan gained steam, GOP lost focus on the middle class  —  The GOP tax plan on the cusp of becoming law diverges wildly from the promises President Trump and top advisers said they would deliver for the middle class — an evolution that shows how traditional Republican orthodoxy swamped …

More women plan to run for Congress than ever before  —  As of December 7 there were 369 women running or planning to run for Congress in 2018, according to Rutgers University's Center for American Women and Politics, which would biggest group of women House candidates ever.

White House Names Trump Loyalist to Iran Policy Job at State Department  —  The Trump administration's pick for the Iran post will likely back a more aggressive stance.  —  The Trump administration plans to install a political appointee at the State Department to a key position managing policy …