‘I am all alone’: An isolated Trump unleashes a storm of Yuletide gloom  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  The Christmas Eve grievances billowing from the White House on Monday formed a heavy cloud of Yuletide gloom.

ICE dumps hundreds of migrants with nowhere to go at a bus station on eve of Christmas without warning shelters  —  Lawmakers and immigrant rights groups scramble after ICE releases hundreds of migrants without alerting local shelters. … EL PASO - Hundreds of asylum-seekers spent part …

Time for G.O.P. to Threaten to Fire Trump  —  Republican leaders need to mount an intervention.  —  Up to now I have not favored removing President Trump from office.  I felt strongly that it would be best for the country that he leave the way he came in, through the ballot box.

Why the Trump presidency will end poorly  —  As we celebrate Christmastime amid an unnecessary and indefinite government shutdown and the worst December for the stock market since 1931, I'm reminded once again of my longstanding prediction: The Trump presidency will end poorly because character is destiny.

Trump Says He's Confident in ‘Very Talented’ Mnuchin After Slide  — President complains again about Fed interest-rate increases  —  President Donald Trump expressed confidence on Tuesday in Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who is struggling to contain his first real crisis but has failed …

Dutch church clocks up 1,400 hours to prevent family being deported  —  Non-stop service held to prevent deportation  —  (CNN)A non-stop church service in the Netherlands — aimed at stopping an Armenian family from being deported — has become so popular it has issued tickets for the Christmas period to control numbers.

Kevin Spacey Releases Bizarre Video Monologue Amid Sexual Assault Charge  —  “You never actually saw me die, did you?  Conclusions can be so deceiving.  Miss me?”  —  Kevin Spacey, fresh off the news that he faces a felony charge over an alleged sexual assault at a bar in 2016 …

TSA moving toward floppy-ear airport dog force because pointy-ear dogs ‘scare children’  —  The Transportation Security Administration is in the process of swapping out pointy-ear dogs for floppy-ear ones in an effort to put more of the public at ease when interacting with its canines.

McCaskill warns Dems about ‘cheap’ rhetoric; says GOP senators privately believe Trump is ‘nuts’  —  (CNN)Sen. Claire McCaskill has some advice for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the incoming freshman who has rapidly risen from obscurity to one of the most well-known figures in the Democratic Party: Talk is cheap.

‘Hunker down like a jackass’: Shutdown could drag on for weeks  —  A large swath of the federal government is shut down — and so are negotiations to reopen it.  —  President Donald Trump's standoff with Democratic leaders over the border wall dragged into a third day on Monday …

‘No bottom for Trump’: Disgusted conservative launches epic rant over ouster of Mattis on MSNBC  —  Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes battered Donald Trump on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” calling him the “chaos candidate” and stating that there is “no bottom” to his lack of “decency.”