On Twitter, Trump comes out swinging in many directions  —  President Trump lashed out Tuesday morning at threats from many directions, taking aim at the special counsel's Russia inquiry, the Federal Reserve, social media companies and undocumented immigrants in tweets that spanned more than two hours.

Martha McSally will be appointed to John McCain's Senate seat  —  Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl to fill for the next two years the Senate seat long held by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain.  —  Gov. Doug Ducey's decision to appoint McSally …

White House signals it will back down on President Trump's demand for border wall funding and avert a partial government shutdown  —  The Trump administration wants to avoid a partial government shutdown and has found other ways to get the border wall money it wants, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.

A.G. Underwood Announces Stipulation Dissolving Trump Foundation Under Judicial Supervision, With AG Review Of Recipient Charities  —  News from the New York Attorney General's Office  —  Attorney General's Office Press Office / 212-416-8060  —  nyag.pressoffice@ag.ny.gov

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 …

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 …

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 …

Trump school safety group goes after Obama civil rights policy, not guns  —  A Trump administration school safety panel hardly touched on the role of guns in deadly school shootings in its wrap-up Tuesday.  —  Instead, the advisory group headed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos identified …

Elizabeth Warren Plan Would Allow the Government to Manufacture Its Own Generic Drugs  —  If I told you that there are two major efforts on the left to reform the pharmaceutical industry, and one relies on market competition while the other establishes a publicly run office to manufacture prescription drugs …

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 …

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.

Democratic House will address most important civil rights issue in half century  —  A bill of impeachment against the old ways: America has come to expect that its politicians will promise change, yet change nothing.  We need a radically comprehensive and practical fix.  —  CONNECT

New York Times assailed for Alice Walker interview endorsing ‘anti-Semitic’ conspiracy theorist  —  Critics call it anti-Semitic, saying it places Holocaust revisionism at the center of an odious and addled worldview.  Its title has been borrowed by followers of QAnon, a conspiracy movement …

Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap … This might be my Magnum Opus.  Go to https://NordVPN.com/MarkRober and use code MARKROBER to get 75% off a 3 year plan and an extra month for free.  —  My buddy Sean posted a video with more details of the build: https://youtu.be/IpMxOmUcfOI

Work requirement ends Medicaid coverage for 4,600 more Arkansans in December  —  Almost 17,000 Arkansans have now lost their health insurance due to the state's experimental work requirement for certain low-income adult Medicaid beneficiaries, according to a monthly report released by the state Department of Human Services on Monday.

Troops to be on standby in event of no-deal Brexit  —  LONDON — The U.K. government will move to a full no-deal Brexit footing after Theresa May's Cabinet agreed to trigger all remaining contingency plans for such a scenario.  —  Some government officials will be required to work …

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 …

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.