Trump Lawyer: DHS Whistleblower Should Be Executed  —  During Newsmax call-in Joe diGenova said Chris Krebs should be put to death.  —  On Monday President Trump's campaign lawyer and former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova said that fired Trump cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs should be executed …

Donald Trump Jr. aides launch super PAC as Georgia worries mount  —  Advisers to Donald Trump Jr. are launching a super PAC to prod the president's supporters to vote in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs, as Republicans grow concerned that Trump's backers will boycott the elections.

Trump's Disgraceful Endgame  —  President Trump said the other day that he'd leave office if he loses the vote of the Electoral College on December 14.  This is not the kind of assurance presidents of the United States typically need to make, but it was noteworthy given Trump's disgraceful …

Everything we needed to know about Melania Trump is in those bewildering Christmas decorations  —  It's our final Christmas with Melania Trump, and we shall celebrate in the usual way: by accompanying FLOTUS on an annual tour of her White House decor, a one-minute video that also appears …

Dr. Scott Atlas resigns as special adviser to Trump on coronavirus  —  Atlas was considered a Special Government Employee (SGE) serving a 130-day detail, which expires this week  —  Dr. Scott Atlas slams Dr. Anthony Fauci over newfound COVID optimism  —  EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Scott Atlas …

Presidential Transition Live Updates: Wisconsin and Arizona Certify Biden's Victory  —  President-elect Joe Biden formally announced his economic team and received his first full presidential daily briefing.  —  RIGHT NOW Iowa officials certify a Republican's House victory by six votes.

Biden's pick to lead White House budget office emerges as lightning rod for GOP  —  Neera Tanden, who served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, would face Senate confirmation early next year  —  President-Elect Joe Biden's pick to lead the powerful White House budget office …

Fox News Anchor Maria Bartiromo's Farcical Interview With Trump Marks the End of Her Days as a Journalist  —  Do you believe in magic?  —  Maria Bartiromo seems to.  During her interview with President Donald Trump on Sunday, the Fox News and Fox Business anchor promoted a Federalist article titled …

Vaccines Are Coming, but Pandemic Experts Expect a ‘Horrible’ Winter  —  With vaccines and a new administration, the pandemic will be tamed.  But experts say the coming months “are going to be just horrible.”  —  Each week, good news about vaccines or antibody treatments surfaces, offering hope that an end to the pandemic is at hand.

The Wuhan files  —  London — A group of frontline medical workers, likely exhausted, stand huddled together on a video-conference call as China's most powerful man raises his hand in greeting.  It is February 10 in Beijing and President Xi Jinping, who for weeks has been absent from public view …

'We've Harmed the Senate Enough': Why Joe Manchin Won't Budge on the Filibuster  —  The moderate senator from West Virginia has a message for his fellow Democrats on muscling through sweeping change.  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, the most conservative member …

Fake Claims About Dominion Voting Systems Do Real Damage  —  Our machines have no secret ‘vote flipping’ algorithm.  We have no ties to dictator Hugo Chávez.  —  Accurate, transparent and accessible elections—this is the objective that motivated me to create Dominion Voting Systems 18 years ago in Canada.

Liberal Hyperbole About Trump's Authoritarianism Was Never the Problem  —  As Donald Trump started shambling toward the exit of the U.S. presidency last week, the U.S. left confronted the pivotal question hanging over our newfound interregnum: Who gets to say, I told you so?

How to protect our democracy from a future Donald Trump  —  American democracy has spent the past four years under attack — from the White House itself.  President Trump's authoritarian populism has damaged the foundations of the republic.  —  Yet Trump's efforts to undermine the system have an unintended benefit.

Federal Judge Advances Lawsuit Accusing Felix Sater of Laundering Loot Through Trump Properties  —  A federal judge on Monday partially advanced a lawsuit accusing Russian mafia-tied businessman Felix Sater of laundering millions stolen from Kazakhstan's BTA Bank through Trump Organization properties.

The GOP Is a Propaganda Party  —  Media parasites have taken control of the host.  —  Cymothoa exigua is a terrifying creature.  —  The parasite enters a fish through its gills, attaches to its tongue, consumes the tongue, and then becomes a sort of new tongue.

The Mastermind Behind Biden's No-Drama Approach to Trump  —  When Julián Castro wasn't given a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in August, he complained that Joe Biden's campaign wasn't showing proper respect to Latino voters.  The real explanation for the snub is much simpler …

‘Any and all possible offenses’: Trump pardon grants Flynn a sweeping reprieve  —  The formal language, revealed Monday, clears the former national security adviser of any crimes he might have committed connected to the Mueller investigation.  —  President Donald Trump's pardon …

Hannah Knowles and By Hannah Knowles  —  National reporter covering law enforcement and criminal justice  —  Samuel Little guided his car to a stop in a secluded area off Route 27 near Miami and cut the engine.  Before long, Mary Brosley had straddled his lap.  He started playing with her necklace.

Navy decides to scrap USS Bonhomme Richard after major fire  —  One of the two masts collapsed and the fire consumed large areas of the interior  —  Helicopters, boats, sailors battle raging Navy ship inferno  —  Four hundred sailors have rotated on and off the USS Bonhomme Richard every 15 minutes …

1918 Germany Has a Warning for America  —  Donald Trump's “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century.  —  HAMBURG, Germany — It may well be that Germans have a special inclination to panic at specters from the past, and I admit that this alarmism annoys me at times.

There Aren't Serious-Enough Consequences for Those Trying to Break American Democracy  —  What the president and his lawyers have been attempting to do deserves punishment that will likely never come.  —  Donald Trump will not serve a second term.  The litigation launched by his campaign …

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20  — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will step down from his post on January 20, the day President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated, he announced Monday.  — The announcement means that the FCC could reach …

Supreme Court skeptical of Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census  —  The U.S. Supreme Court seemed wary on Monday of approving President Donald Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census figures that are used to calculate each state's representation …

What Makes A One-Term President?  —  Donald Trump is officially a one-term president, the first to fail a reelection bid in nearly 30 years.  But history shows his loss isn't surprising, given the circumstances.  —  One-term presidents used to be a lot more common.

Dr. Flip Flop: A timeline of Fauci's school reopening positions  —  Early on, Fauci was “blessing” school closures and attacking proponents of reopening.  He now claims to have supported reopening the whole time.  —  2 hr ago  —  Dr. Anthony Fauci has held many positions when it comes to whether to keep schools open in America.

Slanted: Our Dumb, Incompetent, Dangerous and Awful Media  —  I'd like to do Sharyl Attkisson one better.  —  In her new book Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism, Attkisson indicts the media.  Reporters are, she writes, biased, unprofessional, reckless and stupid.