Michael Flynn Is Owed an Apology  —  One year after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, there is still no evidence that he is a traitor.  —  Remember when Michael Flynn was a traitor?  It was early 2017.  Democrats were still stinging from their defeat at the hands of Donald Trump.

Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III, says report prepared for Senate  —  Months after President Trump took office, Russia's disinformation teams trained their sites on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.  Having worked to help get Trump into the White House …

Mueller Ready to Pounce on Trumpworld Concessions to Moscow  —  New court filings by Mueller's office could answer a central question of the Russia investigation: What did the Kremlin hope to get from its political machinations?  —  For more than a year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office …

Roger Stone Admits Spreading Lies on InfoWars  —  Trump adviser made the admission in settling a defamation suit brought against him by an exiled Chinese businessman  —  As questions swirl about his credibility, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone settled a defamation suit seeking $100 million …

Ocasio-Cortez weighs a new primary target: Hakeem Jeffries  —  Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is eyeing a new member of House Democratic leadership as a 2020 primary target: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).  —  Ocasio-Cortez, who ousted House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley earlier …

Advertisers Ditch Fox News' Tucker Carlson for Saying Immigration Makes U.S. ‘Dirtier’  —  Four advertisers, including Indeed and Pacific Life, say they have no plans to advertise on the Fox News host's show in the future.  —  Several advertisers have dropped Tucker Carlson's show …

Top Republicans struggle to persuade Trump not to shut down the government  —  Congressional Republicans struggled Monday to find a way to persuade President Trump to back off a public threat to shut down the government over border wall money, staying largely in the dark over the impasse …

Wall Street Hits New 2018 Lows as Fed Decision Looms Over Markets  —  Stocks on Wall Street notched a new low for the year on Monday, as worries about the economy continued to dog investors ahead of a crucial Federal Reserve decision on interest rates later this week.

Trump launches unprecedented reelection machine  —  President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president's campaign into a single entity.

Trump School-Safety Panel Targets Obama Policy on Race and Discipline  —  Commission urges end of guideline seeking fairness in student punishments, avoids gun-control issue  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump's commission on school safety has recommended revoking a federal guideline directing schools …

Donald Trump Hates Christmas Parties  —  On Monday and Wednesday this week, Donald Trump will leave the Oval Office in the West Wing in the late afternoon and walk eastward to the White House residence, where he will meet Melania Trump.  Together, they will head downstairs at 5:15 to the Grand Foyer …

The Bible-Thumping Tech CEO Who's Proud Of Keeping Neo-Nazis Online  —  Rob Monster claims he helped resurrect Gab because of his commitment to free speech.  He also has a lot to say about Jews.  —  Most tech CEOs who provide safe spaces for neo-Nazis to organize, propagandize, and terrorize do so as quietly as possible.

The stock market is on pace for its worst December since the Great Depression  —  Two benchmark U.S. stock indexes are careening toward a historically bad December.  —  Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 are on pace for their worst December performance since 1931 …

Death of The Weekly Standard Signals Rebirth of the Right  —  Neoconservatism is dead, long live American conservatism.  That's what I thought when I learned The Weekly Standard would be shuttered by longtime owner Clarity Media.  The Standard was a creature of a particular time and place …

A child occupies the White House — and the world knows it  —  Patti Davis is the author, most recently, of the novel “The Earth Breaks in Colors” and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.  —  Lately, I've been looking at home movies and photographs of my childhood years …

How totalitarian regimes will take over social media and destroy the West  —  Porous borders and radio waves and other methods enabled people to learn what was happening outside of various police states, such as the Soviet empire.  —  Totalitarian regimes are increasingly turning to the Internet …

“Men for Others, My Ass”: After Kavanaugh, Inside Georgetown Prep's Culture of Omertà  —  For generations, the renowned Jesuit prep school groomed its students to live up to the mantra “men for others.”  But after Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, the school and its alumni are contending with other demons.

Different kind of Blue Dog Coalition intent on being a force in House  —  Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) is living proof that the Blue Dog Coalition has morphed into something its founders would struggle to recognize.  —  “This is not your father's Blue Dog caucus anymore,” Murphy, 40, said in a recent interview.

Reporter who broke news of Steele dossier used to surveil ex-Trump aide calls its claims largely ‘false’  —  The salacious and unverified opposition research dossier cited by the FBI as its main justification to surveil a top Trump aide contains many claims that are “likely false,” …

Even a War Hero Is Not Above the Law  —  On the battlefield, listening to a small voice that says, ‘This is not normal.’  —  Mr. Ackerman is a former Marine and recipient of the Silver Star.  —  Last Thursday, Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, an Army Special Forces officer, was charged with the murder …

Donald Trump Awarded ‘Golden Idiot’ Prize by German TV Show as Much of the World Laughs at U.S. President  —  President Donald Trump has publicly called for authorities to investigate primetime comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live over its humorous depictions of his presidency …

Blaming the Deep State: Officials Accused of Wrongdoing Adopt Trump's Response  —  WASHINGTON — Call it the deep-state defense.  —  After the Pentagon stripped an official's security clearance for reading a top-secret paper in public, his allies said he was “caught in the web of the deep state.”

CROSSED THE LINE Controversial Playboy model Marisa Papen is arrested for nude photos of her being crucified on a cross at the Vatican  —  Papen was held for 10 hours before being released and has made headlines in the past for her controversial photoshoots  —  CONTROVERSIAL Playboy model Marisa Papen …

Rudy Giuliani says Trump may give Mueller more written answers  —  President Trump's lawyers are negotiating with Robert Mueller's team over whether to provide additional written answers, Rudy Giuliani tells me.  —  The backdrop: Giuliani said that when Trump lawyers were determining the rules …