Pentagon chief asks for Navy secretary's resignation over private proposal in Navy SEAL's case  —  Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper asked for the resignation of Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer on Sunday after losing confidence in him over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq, the Pentagon said.

House Intelligence Committee in possession of video, audio recordings from Giuliani associate Lev Parnas  —  The House Intelligence Committee is in possession of audio and video recordings and photographs provided to the committee by Lev Parnas, an associate of President Donald Trump's personal attorney …

White House review turns up emails showing extensive effort to justify Trump's decision to block Ukraine military aid  —  A confidential White House review of the President Trump's decision to place a hold on military aid to Ukraine has turned up hundreds of documents that reveal extensive efforts …

Hong Kong elections: pro-Beijing camp left reeling from landslide defeat  —  By 9am, pro-democracy camp has won 17 out of 18 district councils, all of which were previously under pro-establishment control Result set to give pan-democrat bloc significant increase in seats on election committee …

Scoop: White House directed block of Armenian genocide resolution  —  Many were perplexed and outraged when, right after clashing with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a heated Oval Office meeting on Nov. 13, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham hurried back to the Senate floor …

Her Battles With the Press Corps Behind Her, Sanders Plans a Political Future  —  President Trump's former press secretary has returned to Arkansas a bona fide star eager to play a new role in a post-Trump Republican Party.  —  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It has been less than six months since …

Exposed: China's Operating Manuals For Mass Internment And Arrest By Algorithm  —  A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region's Orwellian system of mass surveillance and “predictive policing.”

WeWork Founder Adam Neumann ‘Helped Kushner Craft Mideast Peace Plan’  —  The now disgraced ex-CEO reportedly claimed that three people would save the world: Mohammed bin Salman, Jared Kushner and Neumann himself  —  The rise and catastrophic downfall of WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann …

How Russian intelligence officers interfered in the 2016 election  —  Twelve Russian military officers have been indicted for breaking into the Democratic Party's computers, stealing compromising information and selectively releasing it to undermine candidates.  Bill Whitaker reports on the case against them

Bloomberg entry into presidential race raises ethics issues  —  1 of 3  —  NEW YORK (AP) — With Michael Bloomberg now running for president, the news service that bears his name said Sunday it will not “investigate” him or any of his Democratic rivals, and Bloomberg Opinion will no longer run unsigned editorials.

University to Students on Medicaid: Buy Private Coverage, or Drop Out  —  Emily and Kullen Langston were enrolling in classes for the winter semester at Brigham Young University-Idaho when they hit an unexpected roadblock.  —  The school, like many others, requires all students to have health coverage.