Monsey Stabbing: 5 Wounded at Rabbi's Home in N.Y. Suburb  —  The attack occurred in an area with a large population of ultra-Orthodox Jews.  —  An intruder with a knife stormed into the home of a Hasidic rabbi in a New York suburb on Saturday, stabbing and wounding five people, officials said.

'If you have a rigged trial there's no exoneration in acquittal': Sen. Chris Van Hollen  —  Pelosi and McConnell have been at an impasse over the Senate impeachment trial.  —  Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski put her finger on the big issue of an impeachment trial …

Left presses 2020 Democrats to retake the courts from Trump  —  Democratic presidential contenders are facing increasing pressure to detail their plans for filling federal court vacancies amid angst over President Trump's success in packing the benches with conservative judges.

Trump retweets post naming alleged whistleblower  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump retweeted a post that included the alleged name of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint ultimately led to Trump's impeachment by the House.  —  Just before midnight Friday …

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 …

Record hit for most ice to melt in Antarctica in one day, data suggests: “We are in a climate emergency”  —  The record in recent decades for the highest level of ice to melt in Antarctica in one day was reached on Christmas Eve, data suggests.  —  Around 15 percent of the continent's surface melted …

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.

Graham: Rudy Should Scrub Evidence for Russian Propaganda  —  In the weeks leading up to their impeachment trial, senators on Capitol Hill are actively avoiding meeting with President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani—partly because they fear he might try to pass off Russian conspiracy theories …

Trump downplays concerns of North Korea's ‘Christmas gift’: Maybe it's ‘a beautiful vase’  —  Officials are on alert this week for a potential long-range missile test.  —  After months of stalled nuclear negotiations and ratcheting up rhetoric, North Korea has promised to deliver a …

‘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.

Greece had long banned cremation.  Then it began running out of room for bodies  —  To show that cremation has long been part of the Greek way of life and death, Antonis Alakiotis proudly displays a wide range of funerary urns modeled on ancient Greek designs, available to house the ashes of your loved one for eternity.

U.S. companies are forcing workers to train their own foreign replacements  —  Opponents of job outsourcing are making a holiday-season appeal to President Trump: Stop U.S. companies from forcing American workers to train the very same cheaper foreign laborers who will soon replace them.