Biden says he would not comply with a Senate subpoena in the impeachment trial of President Trump  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden confirmed Friday he would not comply with a subpoena to testify in a Senate trial of President Donald Trump.  —  The Democratically controlled U.S. House …

The Secrets of Jewish Genius  —  It's not about having higher I.Q.s.  —  An eminent Lithuanian rabbi is annoyed that his yeshiva students devote their lunch breaks to playing soccer instead of discussing Torah.  The students, intent on convincing their rav of the game's beauty, invite him to watch a professional match.

Fed study finds Trump tariffs backfired  —  President Donald Trump's strategy to use import tariffs to protect and boost U.S. manufacturers backfired and led to job losses and higher prices, according to a Federal Reserve study released this week.  —  “We find that the 2018 tariffs …

Trump's stock market rally is very good, but still lags Obama and Clinton  —  U.S. stocks are closing out a terrific year and President Trump loves it.  He's bragged about the stock market hitting record highs six times this week alone on Twitter.  —  On Friday, be boasted …

UN approves Russian-sponsored, China-backed bid on new cybercrime convention  —  The resolution was approved on Friday by the general assembly by a vote of 79-60, with 33 abstentions The US, European powers and rights groups fear that the resolution would legitimise crackdowns on expression …

Don Imus, Racist Radio Show Host, Dead At 79  —  Imus was fired from CBS in 2007 after he referred to members of the Rutgers women's basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.”  —  Veteran radio broadcaster and known racist Don Imus died Friday.  He was 79.  —  Imus died in the morning …

Impeachment trial will supercharge battle for Senate  —  The battle for the Senate majority in 2020 was always going to be heated.  And now here comes impeachment.  —  The Senate's impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is still stuck in limbo, but the looming verdict represents …

The Public Option Is Politically Superior to M4A — But Only As a Sound Bite  —  The vast majority of Americans believe that every U.S. citizen has a right to quality, affordable health care, and that it is the federal government's job to uphold that right.  —  But roughly 70 percent …

Mysterious drones spotted in 4 Colorado counties  —  WASHINGTON COUNTY, Colo. —Law enforcement officials in at least 4 Colorado counties are looking for the source of some mysterious drone sightings.  —  Sheriffs in Phillips, Lincoln, Yuma, and Washington Counties all confirm unusual sightings over the past week.

NYPD Investigating 9th Anti-Semitic Attack Reported This Week  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New information was released Saturday morning about another anti-Semitic incident in Brooklyn.  —  It follows a series of anti-Semitic attacks this week and an increase in overall hate crimes around the city.

Russia Deploys Hypersonic Weapon, Potentially Renewing Arms Race  —  The new Russian weapon system flies at superfast speeds and can evade traditional missile defense systems.  The United States is trying to catch up.  —  WASHINGTON — The Russian military on Friday said it had deployed …

Rocket Attack in Iraq Kills U.S. Contractor, Wounds Four U.S. Troops  —  U.S. hasn't assigned blame but is focusing on militia backed by Iran  —  A U.S. contractor was killed and four U.S. troops were wounded when more than 30 rockets were fired Friday at an Iraqi military base, a U.S. defense official said.

How the Military Lost Its Proper Place in the Constitutional Order  —  Looking to the country's generals to be a steadying force on a presidential administration is a sign that things have gone very wrong in the system the Framers devised.  —  Professor of law at Yeshiva University

Hunter Biden and pregnant wife spotted in LA amid paternity battle with former stripper  —  Here are the two people Joe Biden doesn't want you to see.  —  A bloated Hunter Biden — who along with his pregnant newlywed wife was left off dad Joe's family Christmas card this year …

Federal judge to halt latest North Carolina voter ID law  —  Raleigh, North Carolina — Republican attempts to require photo identification to vote in North Carolina are being thwarted again by judges hearing arguments that the mandate is tainted by bias that would deter black and Latino residents.

The 2010s Were the End of Normal  —  TWO OF THE MOST WIDELY QUOTED and shared poems in the closing years of this decade were William Butler Yeats's “The Second Coming” ("Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"), and W.H. Auden's “September 1, 1939” ("Waves of anger and fear / Circulate …

Fox News Host Apologizes for Calling CBC's ‘Home Alone 2’ Edit ‘Censorship’  —  Katie Pavlich, after helping to jump-start this ridiculous controversy, insisted that the years-old edits were “still stupid.”  —  Fox News host Katie Pavlich on Friday walked back her assertion …

How Ralph Northam came back from the political dead  —  THE HISTORY of U.S. politics is full of second chances — of scandal-scarred, disgraced and irredeemable public figures staging improbable comebacks — but few back-from-the-dead narratives have been as swift and sure-footed as the one Virginia …

On land, Australia's rising heat is ‘apocalyptic.’ In the ocean, it's worse.  —  BRUNY ISLAND, Tasmania — Even before the ocean caught fever and reached temperatures no one had ever seen, Australia's ancient giant kelp was cooked.  —  Rodney Dillon noticed the day he squeezed …