I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump.  We're Being Hacked.  —  The magnitude of this national security breach is hard to overstate.  —  Mr. Bossert was the homeland security adviser to President Trump and deputy homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush.

Pence prepares to confirm Trump's loss — and then leave town  —  On Jan. 6, Vice President Mike Pence will oversee final confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's victory.  —  Then he'll likely skip town.  —  As vice president, Pence has the awkward but unavoidable duty of presiding …

Texas lawsuit was the last straw.  I'm leaving the Republican Party: Former NH GOP chair  —  The GOP has ransacked our Constitution and attempted a coup.  The Republican Party of Lincoln is no more.  I'm switching my registration to independent.  —  My mother spent a lifetime trying to teach me to stand for what is right.

Jill Biden's Doctorate Is Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage  —  Her dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge.  —  You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician.

Biden's search for an attorney general complicated by ‘competing questions’  —  Washington (CNN)The deliberations among President-elect Joe Biden's tight circle of advisers about whom he should nominate as attorney general have emerged as some of the more complicated of the transition …

'It's turned crazy': Inside the scramble for Trump pardons  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump may not be willing to accept his term is ending, but as the clock ticks down on his time in office, hundreds of his allies — including some of his closest business associates …

Mitch McConnell gives away the game: ‘Kelly and David are getting hammered’  —  Pressure works.  That's what we're learning from the news that congressional negotiators are moving toward a deal on an economic rescue package that includes stimulus checks for individuals.

Alaska Health Worker Had a Serious Allergic Reaction After Pfizer's Vaccine  —  The person had no history of allergies.  Two similar reactions happened last week in Britain.  —  WASHINGTON — A health care worker in Alaska had a serious allergic reaction after getting Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine …

Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary is something Frank Kameny could have only dreamed of  —  President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of Pete Buttigieg as the next transportation secretary made me think of the man who fought for the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Ind., but would never meet him.

We've finally identified the source of fraud in the 2020 election.  It's Ron Johnson.  —  Finally, significant fraud has been identified in the 2020 election.  It is being perpetrated by Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin.  —  President Trump lost the election.  He lost the recounts.

How Savannah Guthrie and Kristen Welker Won the 2020 Election Coverage  —  FIVE MINUTES before NBC called the 2020 election for Joe Biden, Kristen Welker was sprinting.  After rising at 4 a.m. and coanchoring Weekend Today in New York, the White House correspondent darted into a car …

Dominion demands that Sidney Powell retract ‘baseless and false allegations’ about voting machines.  —  Dominion Voting Systems sent a blistering letter on Wednesday night to the right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell, demanding that she publicly retract her “wild, knowingly baseless and false accusations” …

Interior Secretary Bernhardt tests positive for covid-19  —  Two other top Interior officials contracted the virus last month  —  Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt, 51, tested positive for covid-19 Wednesday, the department spokesman confirmed after an inquiry from The Post.

Trump's Latino gains suggest a key progressive theory of politics is wrong  —  White backlash or education polarization?  —  1 hr ago  —  Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson in their widely-cited Trump book write, for example, that: “To advance an unpopular plutocratic agenda …

Raphael Warnock's embrace of anti-Semite Farrakhan is disqualifying for Senate service  —  It was once said of a famously vulnerable Senate candidate that, with respect to the opposition research that could be used against her in a campaign, “there's a haystack of needles.”

US Joint Chiefs chairman meets with Taliban on peace talks  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The top U.S. general held unannounced talks with Taliban peace negotiators in the Persian Gulf to urge a reduction in violence across Afghanistan, even as senior American officials in Kabul warned …

Long shot Newsom recall drive gets serious in California  —  There's a perfect storm of political developments that could make this latest attempt the one to take very seriously.  —  After banging at the recall door unsuccessfully five times, conservative drives to oust Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom may suddenly be getting traction.

Biden shouldn't reject all Trump's foreign policies.  Here are three he should keep.  —  Nikki Haley was governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2019.  —  At the United Nations, I often found that many countries agreed with U.S. policies …

Biden order to halt border wall project would save U.S. $2.6 billion, Pentagon estimates show  —  The U.S. government would save about $2.6 billion if President-elect Joe Biden halts construction on the border wall project on his first day in office, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates reviewed by The Washington Post.

New Supreme Court filing includes blatantly wrong information about Michigan  —  A long-shot legal effort relying on conspiracy theories and inaccurate analyses to argue President Donald Trump actually won Michigan included additional blatantly false information in a new filing with the U.S. Supreme Court this week.

The Swalwell Timeline  —  Did a communist spy know the congressman was about to assume oversight of the CIA?  —  Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) hasn't been willing to say much about his relationship with an alleged spy for the Chinese Communist Party, citing a need to protect classified information.

Vet groups call on Congress to investigate Dan Crenshaw's alleged smearing of a sexual assault victim  —  Ten veterans service organizations are calling on Congress to investigate whether Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) tried to discredit a woman who said she was sexually assaulted in September 2019 …

Trump states shut out COVID headlines as virus rages  —  States that voted for President Trump tend to have high coronavirus caseloads compared to how much COVID content they read online, while the opposite is true of states that voted for President-elect Biden, according to exclusive data …