QAnon's Dominion voter fraud conspiracy theory reaches the president  —  For days after the election, adherents to the QAnon conspiracy movement had been trying to get President Donald Trump's attention with constant false claims about voter fraud connected to a company that makes voting machines.

Al Qaeda's No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran  —  Israeli agents shot Abu Muhammad al-Masri on the streets of Tehran at the behest of the U.S., officials said, but no one — Iran, Al Qaeda, the U.S. or Israel — has publicly acknowledged the killing.

Pentagon senior adviser accused Pompeo and senior politicians of taking money and getting rich from ‘the Israeli lobby’  —  (CNN)A new senior adviser at the Pentagon repeatedly said the United States' support for Israel was the result of “Israeli lobby” money and accused prominent officials …

John Kelly criticizes Trump over delay of Biden transition  —  President-elect Joe Biden should start receiving intelligence briefings, and the delay in allowing the transition to officially get started is damaging U.S. national security, President Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly told POLITICO in an exclusive interview.

Trump team persists in Pa. court fights despite COVID quarantine, quitting lawyers, and courtroom losses  —  President Donald Trump's effort to contest the Nov. 3 election in court suffered a series of setbacks Friday, leaving his house-of-cards legal strategy to reverse the results in Pennsylvania teetering on the edge of collapse.

Federal prosecutors assigned to monitor election malfeasance tell Barr they see no evidence of substantial irregularities  —  Sixteen assistant U.S. attorneys specially assigned to monitor malfeasance in the 2020 election urged Attorney General William P. Barr on Friday to rescind …

In Trump's final days, a 30-year-old aide purges officials seen as insufficiently loyal  —  Over the past week, President Trump has axed his defense secretary and other top Pentagon aides, his second-in-command at the U.S. Agency for International Development, two top Homeland Security officials …

Christopher Krebs Hasn't Been Fired, Yet  —  Mr. Krebs's government agency contradicted President Trump's false claims that the election was rigged.  At this point, Mr. Krebs, a former Microsoft executive, still has a job.  —  WASHINGTON — Christopher Krebs is a 43-year-old former Microsoft executive …

Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans  —  President Donald Trump's senior campaign aides were gathered in their headquarters Saturday morning when word emerged that Rudy Giuliani would be holding a news conference in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping business.

Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville flubs basics of the Constitution, World War II and the 2000 election.  —  In his first big interview as a senator-elect, Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, misidentified the three branches of the federal government, claimed erroneously that World War II …

Two accused ‘dead’ Georgia voters very much alive despite claims - and they voted legally  —  11Alive confirmed that two of the four Georgia voters the president accused of fraudulently voting “dead” are alive.  —  Accusations of voter fraud continue to be in the headlines …

Democrats Work to Defy History in Georgia Runoffs That Have Favored G.O.P.  —  The special elections were devised by white Republicans to dilute the power of Black voters.  But those involved in earlier contests say demographic change and Democratic energy could allow the party to finally beat the odds.

Stop the Steal's massive disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone  —  Massive election disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone  —  (CNN)It is an internet battle cry: Stop the Steal has swept across inboxes, Facebook pages and Twitter like an out-of-control virus …

Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The sound of gunfire has become so familiar across North Minneapolis that Cathy Spann worries she has grown numb to it.  —  Day and night the bullets zip through this predominantly Black neighborhood, hitting cars and homes and people.

Why Matthew Yglesias Left Vox  —  The journalist Matthew Yglesias, a co-founder of Vox, announced today that he is leaving that publication for the paid-newsletter platform Substack, so that he can enjoy more editorial independence.  —  The move may prove a good fit for Yglesias …

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's children withdrawn from school after administrators raised concerns about adherence to Covid precautions  —  (CNN)Administrators at the posh Washington private school that the three young children of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner attended …

Newsom attended French Laundry party with more households than California advises during pandemic  —  SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom attended a birthday party for one of his political advisers last week that included people from several households, the type of gathering his administration …

Grading Biden's Foreign Policy Team: Tony Blinken  —  Background: Blinken is a liberal interventionist with an emphatic idealism about the virtues of “American leadership.”  His relationship to Biden goes back decades, and he is considered a favorite for national security adviser or secretary of state.

CNN anchor uses anniversary of Kristallnacht to compare Trump to Hitler  —  They are broken over there at CNN.  —  Host Christiane Amanpour this week used the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the informal launch of the Holocaust, to compare the Trump administration to the Third Reich.

How Trump's Voter Fraud War Room Became a Fart-Infused ‘Room From Hell’  —  The president's campaign built a tip line.  Instead, it traumatized their own staff, just as staffers felt Team Trump had hung them out to dry.  —  On Friday, the remnants of Donald Trump's failed re-election campaign informed staff …

Ann Coulter: What America Wants Is ‘Trumpism without Trump’  —  “Trumpism without Trump” is what America needs in four years, said conservative author Ann Coulter during a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin on Thursday night hosted by the university's Young Conservatives of Texas.

'It's Traumatizing': Coronavirus Deaths Are Climbing Once Again  —  Deaths are far below the rate of the spring, when as many as 2,200 people were dying every day, but experts warn they are rising fast.  —  By the time Doug Raysby's wife was allowed to enter his hospital room …