The Treasonous Pardon of Paul Manafort  —  Trump, Russia, and the swamp won.  America lost.  —  For four years we've been force-fed the preposterous dual notions that Donald Trump intended to “drain the swamp” and that any suggestion his campaign colluded with Russia in its interference in the 2016 election was a media hoax.

House Republicans block Democrats' effort to advance $2,000 stimulus checks pushed by Trump  —  The Christmas Eve move came as Trump has refused to sign a $900 billion economic relief package into law  —  House Republicans on Thursday blocked an effort by House Democrats to approve $2,000 stimulus payments for millions of Americans.

Brexit Trade Deal Is Reached Between U.K., European Union  —  Accord sets out terms of a much more distant relationship, averts worst fears of economic disruption  —  The U.K. and the European Union secured an agreement over their future relations, setting the seal on the 2016 British referendum decision …

We in the ‘shallow state’ thought we could help.  Instead, we obscured the reality of a Trump presidency.  —  Sarah Isgur was the director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Justice Department from 2017-2018.  —  As far as I know, no spokesperson for the Justice Department has ever …

Host of ‘The Daily’ Clouds ‘N.Y. Times’ Effort To Restore Trust After ‘Caliphate’  —  Toggle more options  —  Late last week, The New York Times issued one of its biggest mea culpas in years.  The nation's leading newspaper returned a Peabody award and a citation as a finalist …

Millions of U.S. vaccine doses sit on ice, putting 2020 goal in doubt  —  (Reuters) -Millions of COVID-19 vaccines are sitting unused in U.S. hospitals and elsewhere a week into the massive inoculation campaign, putting the government's target for 20 million vaccinations this month in doubt.

How Much Herd Immunity Is Enough?  —  Scientists initially estimated that 60 to 70 percent of the population needed to acquire resistance to the coronavirus to banish it.  Now Dr. Anthony Fauci and others are quietly shifting that number upward.  —  At what point does a country achieve herd immunity?

Exclusive: As Trump leaves office, 50% of Americans see him as a ‘failed’ president  —  Susan Page Sarah ElbeshbishiUSA TODAY  —  President Donald Trump leaves the White House next month with the country more sharply divided than when he moved in and amid caustic assessments of his record in office …

Stopping the abuse of the pardon power  —  How much more corruption do we have to endure before we see Donald Trump's term end on Jan. 20?  Trump's most recent grants of clemency add to his pattern of self-serving publicity stunts and pervert a power designed for mercy …

Black Doctor Dies of Covid-19 After Complaining of Racist Treatment  —  “He made me feel like a drug addict,” Dr. Susan Moore said, accusing a white doctor of downplaying her complaints of pain and suggesting she should be discharged.  —  Lying in a hospital bed with an oxygen tube hugging her nostrils …

Oops!  Trump stomps all over David Perdue's dishonest TV messaging  —  As we have noted, a great many Republican ads in the Georgia runoffs feature endless fearmongering about phantom threats — scary non-white socialists, defunded police departments, Antifa mobs destroying property.

Inside Trump and Barr's Last-Minute Killing Spree  —  Private executioners paid in cash.  Middle-of-the-night killings.  False or incomplete justifications.  ProPublica obtained court records showing how the outgoing administration is using its final days to execute the most federal prisoners since World War II.

Covid-19 Latest Updates: Democrats' Bid to Call Trump's Stimulus Bluff Is Swiftly Rejected  —  Dr. Anthony S. Fauci is inching up percentages for community immunity.  Covid has come to the town where Christmas started.  Millions of Americans are traveling for the holidays.  Here's the latest on the pandemic.

I traveled for Christmas, and I'm not sorry  —  Democrats and cable news anchors have spent the greater part of 2020 telling everyone to “stay home” in order to “stop the spread,” especially during the holidays but — nah.  —  I traveled to South Carolina — on an airplane! …

Exclusive: Donald Trump's Martial-Law Talk Has Military on Red Alert  —  Pentagon and Washington-area military leaders are on red alert, wary of what President Donald Trump might do in his remaining days in office.  Though far-fetched, ranking officers have discussed what they would do if the president declared martial law.

The slow, painful death of California  —  The policies that destroyed America's largest and most economically important state are heading your way  —  Tucker: Incompetent leadership is destroying California  —  You may have noticed we often make fun of California on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” but we're not really joking.

Joe Biden's continued ‘Russian misinformation’ defense of Hunter is conspiracy-level laughable  —  President-elect Joe Biden continued his campaign strategy of running from anything resembling a tough question from a reporter when attempting to leave the stage after another “press conference” …

'I wasn't expected to be alive today': Emotional Rush Limbaugh thanks listeners for their support in his final broadcast of 2020 as he battles stage 4 lung cancer  — Rush Limbaugh has admitted he didn't think he'd even make it to October, as he battles terminal lung cancer