Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read  —  The president of the United States is not well.  —  The president of the United States is not well.  That is an uncomfortable thing to say, but it is an even worse thing to ignore.

Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in deadly Wichita police shooting  —  Online gamers have said in multiple Twitter posts that the shooting of a man Thursday night by Wichita police was the result of a “swatting” prank involving two gamers.  —  Swatting is an internet prank …

EXCLUSIVE: White power at the White House - Trump intern flashes ‘alt-right’ symbol used by notorious extremists during group photo with the president  — Former White House intern Jack Breuer held up a ‘white power’ sign during a photo-op with President Trump and fellow interns in the East Room in November

Time at Mar-a-Lago is a respite for Trump — and a headache for his staff … PALM BEACH, Fla. — When President Trump sat down with a reporter for a wide-ranging, 30-minute interview at his private golf club here Thursday, not a single aide or adviser was present at the table …

Trump Tweets About the Bitter Cold and Global Warming, Confusing Weather and Climate  — President Trump tweeted about the cold snap hitting the East Coast.  — He seemed to confuse the difference between weather and climate.  —  President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that …

BREAKING NEWS: Jailed pervert Anthony Weiner had CLASSIFIED emails belonging to wife Huma Abedin on his laptop - which the FBI seized after he sexted 15-year-old girl  — The FBI found 2,800 of Huma Abedin's work-related emails and documents on disgraced husband Anthony Weiner's computer

Trump fires all members of HIV/AIDS council without explanation  —  With no explanation, the White House has terminated members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS amid widespread discontent with President Trump's approach to the epidemic.  —  After six members of PACHA resigned in June …

Trump unchained: staff leaves, hardline ideas rise  —  If you ask some close to President Trump what worries them most about 2018, it's not Robert Mueller's probe.  It's that establishment guardrails of 2017 come down — and Trump's actual instincts take over.

Interview Is a Portrait of a Man in Cognitive Decline  —  I don't care whether Michael Schmidt was tough enough.  We've got bigger problems.  —  On Thursday, El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago  —  sat down with Michael Schmidt of The New York Times  —  for what apparently was an open-ended, one-on-one interview.

In Q&A, Sen. Marco Rubio lauds child tax credit expansion, wants Mueller probe to continue  —  Senator Marco Rubio says he's pleasantly ‘encouraged’ at the support from his party to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastation brought on by Hurricane Maria.  Rubio visited the island and says the challenges there are extraordinary.

Iran cities hit by anti-government protests  —  Anti-government demonstrations that began in one city on Thursday have now spread to several major cities in Iran.  —  Large numbers reportedly turned out in Rasht, in the north, and Kermanshah, in the west, with smaller protests in Isfahan, Hamadan and elsewhere.

Trump's ‘No collusion!’ cry is getting increasingly desperate  —  You know how if you repeat a word over and over, eventually it starts to sound strange to your ear, like merely a random collection of sounds?  That is apparently what President Trump is doing with the word “collusion.”

Breitbart's Astonishing Confession  —  Every so often, a right-wing commentator who purports to abhor dishonesty among media elites admits that they've been guilty of dishonestly purveying propaganda.  —  These figures are not marginal.  —  In the final years of the Bush administration …

Exclusive: Russian tankers fueled North Korea via transfers at sea  —  Guy Faulconbridge, Jonathan Saul, Polina Nikolskaya  —  LONDON/MOSCOW - Russian tankers have supplied fuel to North Korea on at least three occasions in recent months by transferring cargoes at sea …

No, Trump's approval rating hasn't caught up to Obama's  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump claimed Friday that his approval ratings at this point in his presidency rival those of Barack Obama, citing a report from “Fox & Friends.”  —  “While the Fake News loves to talk …

Warriors coach Steve Kerr: There's an ‘assault on our institutions and on our core values’  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Outspoken Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr sat down with USA TODAY Sports recently following a tour of the team's Chase Center construction site.

“They'll Have to Destroy Him”: Why Trump's Legal Team Will Turn on Flynn  —  Is there a second, secret plea agreement between Flynn and Mueller, one that contains more explosive evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia?  —  In a year of the nonstop bizarre …

Heckler of Donald Trump Animatronic at Disney World Responds to Haters: ‘Check Your Privilege’  —  “I wanted to show their kids what a protest looks like before Trump destroys democracy,” Jay Malsky says after disrupting performance at theme park's Hall of Presidents

New Year's Eve party in Berlin to have ‘safe zone’ for women  —  Organisers of Berlin's New Year's Eve celebrations are to set up a “safe zone” for women for the first time.  —  The new security measures planned for the Brandenburg Gate party come amid concerns about sexual assaults.

Recy Taylor, Who Fought for Justice After a 1944 Rape, Dies at 97  —  Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old African-American sharecropper, was walking home from church in Abbeville, Ala., on the night of Sept. 3, 1944, when she was abducted and raped by six white men.  —  The crime was extensively covered …

Is the polar vortex back?  Be afraid, frigid friends. … It was too cold to, among other things, ice skate Thursday morning.  Washington woke to its coldest December morning in almost a decade, and the frigid and the frightened braced for what promises to be the chilliest stretch of winter in two years.