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.

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.

Vaccine tsar calls on White House to allow contact with Biden  —  Head of Operation Warp Speed warns thousands of lives at stake if project is interrupted  —  The head of Donald Trump's flagship vaccine project has called on the White House to allow Operation Warp Speed to make contact …

US Messaging to Russian Citizens: Time to Step It Up?  —  In the first week of August, cellphones across Russia lit up with surprising text messages.  They came from different numbers, but each said the same thing in Russian: “The US State Department is offering up to $10 million for information about interference in the US elections.

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 …

Biden is bringing back the daily briefing.  Here's who is likely to be at the podium.  —  President-elect Joe Biden's return to “normalcy” will include restoring the daily press briefing — and at least two women are under consideration to lead the new post-Trump show, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

‘We are the firewall’: Loeffler and Perdue form GOP unity ticket in Georgia Senate races  —  CUMMING, Ga. — Republican senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are appearing in videos together, releasing statements together and, on Friday, they held a joint rally in this city outside Atlanta.

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.

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.

Charges filed in father-son voter fraud case in Chester County  —  EAST GOSHEN — A Willistown man's clumsy attempt at trying to cast a false ballot in the 2020 presidential election has led to one of the only verified instances in Chester County of alleged voter fraud.

GOP leaders in 4 states quash dubious Trump bid on electors  —  Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won't participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state's electors to vote for President Donald Trump.

Governor Kate Brown Announces Statewide Two-Week Freeze to Stop Rapid Spread of COVID-19  —  New measures take effect Wednesday, Nov. 18, in all Oregon counties  —  Portland, OR—Governor Kate Brown today announced a statewide Two-Week Freeze, implementing new measures to limit gatherings …

America, we've missed you.  Now please get your act together on climate change  —  Opinion by Ban Ki-moon and Patrick Verkooijen  —  Contrast Biden and Trump on climate policy in 90 secs  —  Ban Ki-moon served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and Patrick Verkooijen …