Roy Moore in 2011: Getting rid of amendments after 10th would ‘eliminate many problems’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore appeared on a conspiracy-driven radio show twice in 2011, where he told the hosts in an interview that getting rid …

Did Roy Moore spend the final weekend of the campaign in Philly?  —  MOBILE, Ala. — In the last weekend of Alabama's wild special Senate election, Doug Jones barnstormed the state with A-list Democrats in a bid to turn out black voters he desperately needs to win in the deep-red state.

Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Wishes Jewish Host Jake Tapper A ‘Merry Christmas’  —  One of the Trump administration's top diplomats, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, wished CNN host Jake Tapper a “Merry Christmas” on Sunday — even though he is Jewish.  —  At the end of an interview with Haley …

The Trump-Russia Probe Is About to Get Uglier  —  Unpleasant facts are spilling out.  Republicans don't want to know them.  —  Here are two certainties about the Trump-Russia investigation.  It won't end soon.  It will get uglier.  —  A new shoe drops almost daily in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

Trump nominates Cha as U.S. ambassador to S. Korea: sources … U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated former White House official Victor Cha as Washington's ambassador to South Korea and requested the approval of the Asian country's government, sources said Sunday.

In Memory of Otis Redding and His Revolution  —  Fifty years ago, on December 10, 1967, a private plane carrying Otis Redding and the members of his touring band stalled on its final approach to the municipal airport in Madison, Wisconsin, and crashed into the waters of Lake Monona, killing all but one of the eight people onboard.

Simeon Booker, intrepid chronicler of civil rights struggle for Jet and Ebony, dies at 99  —  The photographs stunned the country: a 14-year-old boy dead in a coffin, his head crushed, an eye gouged, his body disfigured beyond recognition from an agony in which he was beaten, shot …

Republicans step up defense of ‘not qualified’ judicial nominees  —  Senate Republicans have declared war on the American Bar Association.  —  Since 1953, the venerable legal organization has played a critical, behind-the-scenes role in assessing judicial nominees and their fitness to serve on the bench.

Poll: Most Americans doubt GOP bill will cut their taxes or boost the economy  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are poised to pass the biggest tax overhaul in a generation, but Americans remain unconvinced that the measure will cut their own taxes or significantly boost the economy.

‘What I am detained for?’  Comedian Hannibal Buress arrested in Miami  —  Popular comedian Hannibal Buress was arrested Saturday night in Wynwood on a disorderly intoxication charge after an encounter with a police officer.  —  Buress, 34, was booked into a Miami-Dade jail at 1:57 a.m. Sunday …