Mueller report will be ‘devastating’ for the president: Frequent Trump defender  —  Alan Dershowitz, a frequent defender of President Donald Trump, said special counsel Robert Mueller's report will be “devastating” for the president.  —  The Harvard Law professor emeritus told ABC News Chief …

Congressmen who've seen classified intel dispute Trump on Khashoggi killing  —  Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Adam Schiff (D-CA) all disagree with President Trump's assertion that the CIA has not concluded that crown prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Ex-Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos must report to prison Monday, judge orders  —  A federal judge on Sunday ruled that George Papadopoulos must report to prison as scheduled on Monday, rejecting a bid from the former Trump campaign adviser to delay the start of his prison sentence …

Cummings: Asylum seekers should be allowed in U.S.  —  Rep. Elijah Cummings on Sunday called on Congress to stand up against a proposed deal between Mexico and President Donald Trump that will keep those seeking asylum out of the United States.  —  Cummings (D-Md.) in an interview on NBC's …

Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers  —  Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions.

Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith pushed resolution praising Confederate soldier's effort to ‘defend his homeland’  —  Photo surfaces of Senator with Confederate artifacts  —  (CNN)Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith once promoted a measure that praised a Confederate soldier's effort to …

Alabama GOP: Sessions not guaranteed to win back his old seat  —  Republicans are certain they can win back the Alabama Senate seat they lost in spectacular fashion last year.  They just aren't sure whether Jeff Sessions is the one to do it.  —  Sessions' name surfaced as a potential candidate immediately …

‘Never Trump’ Republicans went Democrat in 2018.  Are they gone for good?  —  Mocked as irrelevant after President Trump's election, voters who leaned Republican in prior races handed Democrats huge wins in suburban districts.  —  WASHINGTON — Kristin Olsen, who until 2016 led …

New Hampshire political legend falls prey to Trump effect  —  Secretary of State Bill Gardner has had a decades-long run as the legendary, hard-nosed guardian of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary.  But he may not make it through the Trump era.  —  Gardner, a fixture …

Ohioans eyeing 2020?  Kasich, Brown ‘very seriously’ consider runs against Trump  —  As the race to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 general election kicks off, two Ohioans addressed speculation that they would mount runs for the White House in 2020.

First caravan-related violence reported in U.S. as rocks thrown at Border Patrol  —  The Border Patrol reported the first major instance of migrant caravan-related violence Saturday, saying a Honduran man threw rocks at agents to try to keep from being arrested Friday in Arizona.

Black Man Killed by Officer in Alabama Mall Shooting Was Not the Gunman, Police Now Say  —  The police in Alabama said an officer fatally shot a 21-year-old black man on Thursday night who they said shot at least one person at a mall near Birmingham, turning a Thanksgiving holiday shopping scene into chaos.

New book by Trump advisers alleges that the president has ‘embedded enemies’  —  Two of the president's longest-serving advisers allege in a new book that scores of officials inside the White House, Congress, the Justice Department and intelligence agencies are “embedded enemies of President Trump” …

Memos to Nobody: Inside the work of a neglected fed agency  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Robbins gets to work at 8:15 each morning and unlocks the door to his office suite.  He switches on the lights and the TV news, brews a pot of coffee and pulls out the first files of the day to review.

EU leaders agree UK's Brexit deal at Brussels summit  —  EU leaders have approved an agreement on the UK's withdrawal and future relations - insisting it is the “best and only deal possible”.  —  After 20 months of negotiations, the 27 leaders gave the deal their blessing after less than an hour's discussion.