‘Nothing Less Than a Civil War’: These White Voters on the Far Right See Doom Without Trump  —  Deeply conservative, they organize online and outside the Republican Party apparatus, engaging in more explicit versions of the chest-beating seen at the president's rallies.

A Gangster in the White House  —  Amid a two-day binge of post-Christmas rage-tweeting, President Donald Trump retweeted the name of the CIA employee widely presumed to be the whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal.  On Thursday night, December 26, Trump retweeted his campaign account …

Pelosi gets under Trump's skin on impeachment  —  President Trump has made attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a theme of his holiday break at his Mar-a-Lago resort.  —  Trump's comments suggest he is lingering on impeachment and that Pelosi's central role in it is very much on his mind going into 2020.

MONSEY STABBING: Multiple People Stabbed In Synagogue Saturday Night  —  MONSEY (VINnews) — Multiple people were stabbed Saturday night in a synagogue.  —  According to reports, a black male entered Rabbi Rottenburg's Shul, located in the Forshay neighborhood in Monsey, and pulled out a machete.

Ivanka Trump suggests she may leave White House job if father re-elected  —  President's senior adviser says she will put her family's needs first in making decision  —  Ivanka Trump has cast doubt on continuing in her advisory role in the administration if her father wins re-election next year.

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 …

UN Moves Towards Handing Dictatorships Power to Control the Internet  —  The United Nations wants to hand power to dictatorial regimes like China to control the Internet, prompting fears of a massive new free speech purge.  —  The General Assembly has approved a resolution sponsored by China …

In China's Crackdown on Muslims, Children Have Not Been Spared  —  In Xinjiang the authorities have separated nearly half a million children from their families, aiming to instill loyalty to China and the Communist Party.  —  HOTAN, China — The first grader was a good student and beloved by her classmates …

SHOCK VIDEO: Man scales 30-foot border wall — in 23 seconds!  —  A real-life Spiderman lives in Mexico.  —  A migrant scaled a new 30-foot section of the border wall with relative ease recently.  —  Watch: … The photo spoke Spanish throughout the video, which shows the man scaling …

Is ‘Dixie Highway’ racist?  The debate is growing … A movement to rename Dixie Highway — for some a painful reminder of a tragic, racist past — might be gaining steam in Broward County.  —  The argument is being made by one of Broward County's youngest elected officials after she heard of a similar effort in Miami-Dade.

US envoy urges EU to ban Hezbollah after Iran militia kills American  —  US reviews Kataib Hezbollah's role in murder of US contractor  —  The most high-profile US Ambassador in Europe Richard Grenell urged European countries on Saturday to outlaw Hezbollah's entire organization …

Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work  —  WASHINGTON — In just three years, the Trump administration has diminished the role of science in federal policymaking while halting or disrupting research projects nationwide, marking a transformation …

US mass killings hit new high in 2019, most were shootings  —  The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an ax to kill four family members including his infant daughter.  Five months later, 12 people were killed in a workplace shooting in Virginia.

Cory Booker Says Men Should Care About Abortion Access Because ‘Women Are People’  —  2020 presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker said Saturday that abortion rights shouldn't matter to men just because of their female relatives and friends, but because “women are people.”

Maddow Meltdown: In Defense To OAN Lawsuit, Host Argues Her Words Are Not Facts  —  Back in September, we reported that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that OAN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.”

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 …