GM to slash jobs and production, cancel some car models: sources  —  DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co will cut car production, stop building several low-selling car models, and slash its North American workforce, sources said on Monday, marking its biggest restructuring in North America since its bankruptcy a decade ago.

In 2018, political gravity caught up to Trump  —  First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  WASHINGTON — A few hours into Election Night 2018, it felt like it was happening again …

‘These children are barefoot.  In diapers.  Choking on tear gas.’  —  A little girl from Honduras stares into the camera, her young features contorted in anguish.  She's barefoot, dusty, and clad only in a diaper and T-shirt.  And she's just had to run from clouds of choking tear gas fired across the border by U.S. agents.

How a Liberal Couple Became Two of N.Y.'s Biggest Trump Supporters  —  In some ways, they are a typical political power couple seeking to “Make America Great Again.”  —  They are throwing a $5 million fund-raiser for President Trump this winter, and are quick to make it known …

Trump Accuses Mueller of ‘Conflicts of Interest’ in Explosive Tweet: ‘NO Collusion & Mueller Knows It!’  —  President Donald Trump on Monday morning attacked Special Counsel Robert Mueller directly and personally on Twitter, questioning his honesty and integrity.

Conservative pundit Jesse Kelly's Twitter ban sparks outrage: ‘New low’  —  Jesse Kelly, an Iraq War veteran and former GOP congressional candidate, has been banned from Twitter for unspecified reasons, sparking outrage from conservatives. … Kelly, a former Marine who failed in two attempts …

In the United States, right-wing violence is on the rise  —  As a Republican, Mitchell Adkins complained of feeling like an outcast at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. “Hardcore liberals” made fun of him, he wrote, and he faced “discrimination on a daily basis.”  He soon dropped out and enrolled in trade school.

Franken scandal haunts Gillibrand's 2020 chances  —  Just a month after Al Franken formally resigned from the Senate amid sexual misconduct allegations, the former senator met with an intimate group of Bay Area supporters at the home of major Democratic Party financiers Mary and Steve Swig.

AP Exclusive: First gene-edited babies claimed in China  —  HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life.

Defending America First foreign policy  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  President Trump's statement this week in defense of an America First foreign policy has united what otherwise appears to be a divided foreign policy establishment.  —  While Washington demands Mr. Trump punish Saudi Arabia's …

‘I connect the dots’: Mueller target claims Podesta hack knowledge was educated guess  —  Conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi said Monday that he knew WikiLeaks had obtained a trove of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in the summer of 2016 — but insisted his awareness was simply an educated guess.

White House lacks lawyers to deal with empowered Democrats  —  The White House counsel's office is down to a skeletal staff, potentially leaving them unprepared to deal with a flood of subpoenas for documents and witnesses when Democrats take control of the House.

'It's a Long Story': Justice John Paul Stevens, 98, Is Publishing a Memoir  —  WASHINGTON — Four years after Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court in 2010, his wife, Maryan, threw a surprise party for his 94th birthday.  The gathering of old friends summoned vivid memories …

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Is Tainted by Crisis After Crisis  —  COO oversaw social-media company's meteoric rise, but her leadership is being questioned now  —  Facebook Inc. crises this year have put immense pressure on Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, undermining her authority …

The chaos behind Donald Trump's policy of family separation at the border  —  A 60 Minutes investigation has found the separations that dominated headlines this summer began earlier and were greater in number than the Trump administration admits  —  This past week, a federal judge struck down the president's latest immigration order.

The Monopolization of America  —  In one industry after another, big companies have become more dominant over the past 15 years, new data show.  —  The popular telling of the Boston Tea Party gets something wrong.  The colonists were not responding to a tax increase.