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.

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.

Pence prepares to oversee 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 …

French President Macron tests positive for the coronavirus after showing symptoms  —  PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for the coronavirus, the country's presidential palace announced Thursday.  —  He was administered a test after he began to show symptoms associated with the virus.

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 …

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” …

Pete Buttigieg is right.  Airports are romantic.  —  In accepting his pending appointment to be the next U.S. transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg spoke about how travel, in his mind, “is synonymous with growth, with adventure — even love.”  Then he went for a laugh line, adding …

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.

O'Malley Dillon's line that GOP are “f-ckers” worries some Biden aides  —  Some advisers close to President-elect Joe Biden are frustrated over a Glamour magazine interview in which incoming White House deputy chief of staff Jen O'Malley Dillon referred to Republicans on Capitol Hill as “f*ckers.”

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 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 …

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 …

This hedge-fund billionaire is a huge fan of Sen. Kelly Loeffler — but why?  —  Finance mogul Ken Griffin gave big chunks of cash to Kelly Loeffler's PAC — and the timing is intriguing  —  On Oct. 9, billionaire Ken Griffin, the head of a multinational financial services company …

Trump cuts $200M in health care funds to California over abortions  —  President Trump's administration announced on Wednesday an upcoming cut of $200 million in federal Medicaid funding to California over the state's requirement for abortions to be covered under health care plans.

This Series Of Fact-Checks On America's Mission To Defeat COVID Exposes Media Hatred  —  Fact checks on the United States' COVID vaccine timeline expose how outlets like NBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post are willing to attack American aspirations to score political points.

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.”

Robinhood Financial to Pay $65 Million to Settle SEC Probe  —  The brokerage firm settles investigation over early failure to highlight deals with high-speed trading firms  —  WASHINGTON—Robinhood Financial LLC has agreed to pay $65 million to settle regulatory claims that it didn't sufficiently disclose …

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 …

The Vaccines Are Supposed to Be Free.  Surprise Bills Could Happen Anyway.  —  “It is the American health care system, so there are bound to be loopholes.”  —  When Americans receive a coronavirus vaccine, federal rules say they shouldn't have to pay anything out of pocket.

Column: Yes, Feinstein is the oldest U.S. senator.  But she should be able to retire on her own terms  —  California Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she hasn't thought about retiring soon despite some assertions that the 87-year-old lawmaker should step aside because her cognitive abilities have allegedly declined.

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 …

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.

GOP launches legal war on absentee voting ahead of Georgia runoffs  —  Federal judges in Georgia will hear arguments Thursday in Republican-led lawsuits to restrict absentee voting ahead of next month's Senate runoffs — the first salvos in a GOP effort to change voting rules …