Brett McGurk, top U.S. envoy in ISIS fight, resigns  —  Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, had been planning to exit his post in February 2019.  But sources tell CBS News that he informed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he will accelerate …

For Trump, ‘a War Every Day,’ Waged Increasingly Alone  —  At the midpoint of his term, the president has grown more sure of his own judgment and more isolated from anyone else's than at any point since he took office.  —  WASHINGTON — When President Trump grows frustrated with advisers during meetings …

Government Shutdown to Continue for Days as Senate Adjourns Until Thursday  —  WASHINGTON — The partial government shutdown that began early Saturday will continue for the next several days, as Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, adjourned the Senate until Thursday and the White House indicated …

Mystery Filing Appears to Ask High Court to Act in Mueller Probe  — Grand jury dispute has been long been shrouded in mystery  — Special counsel is investigating Russian election meddling  —  A new legal filing appears to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene …

Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say  —  Building support for Stein was one of a “roster of themes” the Moscow-sanctioned internet trolls “turned to repeatedly,” report says.  —  Two days before the 2016 presidential election …

Simcha Rotem, last surviving fighter in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 94  —  Rotem fought Nazis in city streets, later helped rebels flee through sewers; Netanyahu says, ‘His story will forever be with our people’  —  Simcha Rotem, last surviving fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 …

Closed until further notice  —  The government of the greatest country the world has ever known, the wealthiest, most powerful nation on the planet: closed until further notice.  —  This shutdown - hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans working without pay during the holidays …

Fed Scholar Expects Immediate ‘Market Chaos’ If Trump Ousts Powell  —  President Donald Trump would create chaos in financial markets if he ousted Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, according to Peter Conti-Brown, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and author of the 2016 book …

Cory Booker Is Building A 2020 Campaign That's Just Like Him: Vegan, Hyperactive, And Unapologetically Unconventional  —  French fries with Iowans in Newark.  Eager big donors.  A clearly defined message of “radical love.”  Cory Booker has spent a year laying the groundwork for an ambitious possible presidential bid.

The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans  —  In the spring of 2010, I taught a college course on the watershed moments in the American struggle for racial equality, from Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court decision that enshrined segregation …