Trump turns on Pence, McConnell and White House counsel Cipollone in desperate final days  —  President Trump, in his final days, is turning bitterly on virtually every person around him, griping about anyone who refuses to indulge conspiracy theories or hopeless bids to overturn the election, several top officials tell Axios.

Biden poised to nominate Connecticut education chief Miguel Cardona as education secretary  —  (CNN)President-elect Joe Biden is poised to nominate Connecticut education commissioner Miguel Cardona as his education secretary, two people familiar with the matter say, a decision …

The Military Would Not Participate in a Coup.  Trump Can't Understand Why.  —  Politicians from both parties have called on the armed forces to enforce election outcomes.  The generals know better.  —  The president of the United States considered using the military to overturn an election, according to press reports.

Feds have discussed making a legal request for Giuliani's electronic communications, say two sources  —  WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have discussed making a legal request for Rudy Giuliani's electronic communications, two sources familiar with the probe tell NBC News …

Washington Football Team settled sexual misconduct claim against Daniel Snyder for $1.6 million  —  The Washington Football Team paid a female former employee $1.6 million as part of a confidential settlement in 2009, according to a copy of the agreement reviewed by The Washington Post.

Treasury Department's Senior Leaders Were Targeted by Hacking  —  The disclosure was the first acknowledgment of a specific intrusion in the vast cyberattack.  At the White House, national security leaders met to assess how to deal with the situation.  —  WASHINGTON — The Russian hackers …

The Left's Most Naïve Cynics Have Turned on AOC  —  Jimmy Dore is undeniably good at swearing.  A left-wing comedian turned pundit, Dore has earned himself a considerable YouTube following by giving expletive-laden expression to the rage that many American progressives feel when contemplating …

The Full(est Possible) Story of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Press Conference  —  On the afternoon of November 13, Mike Siravo was standing outside his family's landscaping business in Northeast Philadelphia, dressed in khakis and a company polo shirt, watching as strangers pulled up in nice cars …

Christie Smythe, 24 Hours Later  —  Stephanie Clifford follows up with the subject of the wildly viral  —  story, The Journalist and the Pharma Bro.  —  On Sunday night, Christie Smythe transformed from journalist to subject, when ELLE's  —  story  —  about Smythe's romance with “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli went live.

Uncontested CNN Guest: ‘There Was a Little Cheating’ to Reelect McConnell  —  Text to Speech  —  Disconnected from reality didn't begin to describe what occurred on CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront on Monday night.  Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson was his usual unhinged self when he proclaimed …

Harry Reid made Nevada a presidential battleground.  Now he wants more  —  When Harry Reid met Joe Biden it was 1987.  Reid was new to the Senate and had a favor to ask the Judiciary Committee chairman.  —  “There was a Nevada person that had been nominated to be a federal judge …

Suspicions grow that nanoparticles in Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine trigger rare allergic reactions  —  Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.  —  Severe allergy-like reactions in at least eight people who received the COVID-19 vaccine produced …

How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners  —  CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of a startup trying to survive, and that strand of its corporate DNA is becoming a liability  —  Jeff Bezos built Amazon.com Inc. from his garage with an underdog's ambition to take on the establishment.

Retiring Texas Republican, Rep. Mac Thornberry, chides GOP for ‘mindless sort of obedience’ to Trump  —  The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee said Congress ‘was created to be and meant to be a separate independent branch of government.’  —  WASHINGTON — Clarendon …

A Delaware County man charged with registering dead relatives to vote in presidential election  —  In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, Elizabeth Bartman and Elizabeth Weihman registered to vote as Republicans in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County officials said Monday.

Millions of Christmas presents may arrive late because of USPS package delays  —  Unprecedented package volume has paralyzed the agency, leading managers to divert vast shipments of mail across the country  —  Competing crises are slamming the U.S. Postal Service just days before Christmas …

The enduring lessons of a New Deal writers project  —  In 1937, Sterling A. Brown, a poet and literature professor at Howard University, published a forthright essay charting the history of Black life in his hometown of Washington, DC—from the district's early status as the “very seat and center” …

The North Face is the new king of environmental hypocrisy  —  Environmental hypocrisy is nothing new when it comes to politicians and celebrities.  Green extremist Al Gore is a hypocritical fraud who famously refuses to practice what he preaches.  The former vice president's Nashville-area …

Why I will not accept Joe Biden as president  —  Unwillingness to accept election result grows out of a level of outrage unlike anything previously experienced  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  A smart friend of mine who is a moderate liberal asked why I was not recognizing Joe Biden's victory.

How “Pro-Israel” Orthodoxy Keeps US Foreign Policymaking White  —  IN OCTOBER, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who is seeking re-election in Georgia, released an ad called “Birds of Prey” attacking her Democratic opponent, Raphael Warnock.  The title refers to a sermon Warnock gave during protests …

A Pandemic of Misinformation  —  The media's politicization of Covid has proved deadly and puts Americans' freedoms at risk.  —  America has been paralyzed by death and fear for nearly a year, and the politicization of the pandemic has made things worse by adding misinformation and vitriol to the mix.

The Fauci Who Stole Christmas  —  The original grinch, as everyone knows, did not succeed in ruining Christmas—and neither should the Fauci. … The misery merchants of 2020, sadly, do not plan to take a much-needed Christmas break.  To the contrary, they're closing out a joyless year with more gloom …

U.S. vs. Facebook: Inside the tech giant's behind-the-scenes campaign to battle back antitrust lawsuits  —  The company ramped up its lobbying, hired high-powered lawyers and launched a slew of internal initiatives as the government prepared to sue — and rebuffed its early entreaties to try to ward off the case

Is Trump Really All That Holds the G.O.P. Together?  —  The Republican Party has embraced reality-TV authoritarianism not out of strength but weakness.  —  Mr. Continetti is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.  —  Republican officials who have indulged or assisted …

Why Americans are numb to the staggering coronavirus death toll  —  Death is everywhere and yet nowhere in America during the worst stretch of the pandemic  —  When Todd Klindt buried his dad, he was stunned.  Some of the mourners arrived not wearing masks — for the funeral of a man killed by the coronavirus.