Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now  —  The Constitution provides that an oath-breaking insurrectionist is ineligible to be president.  This is the plain wording of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

These MAGA farmers could be ruined if Trump follows through with mass deportations  —  California's farm owners bet on President-elect Donald Trump and won.  His campaign promise of mass deportations could ruin them.  —  SACRAMENTO, California — California farmers could soon enjoy bumper crops thanks …

Breaking news.  Exclusive: Preliminary investigation confirms Russian missile caused Azerbaijan Airlines crash  —  38 passengers were killed on Wednesday after Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8432 crashed as it attempted to make an emergency landing near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.

Trump's top border adviser says he will bring back family detention  —  Tom Homan oversaw implementation of the “zero tolerance” policy that separated more than 4,000 children from their parents during Trump's first term.  —  U.S. immigration authorities will once more put families with children …

I'M RUNNING FOR DNC CHAIR!  —  My letter to members of the Democratic National Committee  —  To Democratic National Committee Members,  —  This year's election of a DNC Chair feels different than in past years.  Before now, the party had faced defeats to be sure.  But our playbook still basically worked.

Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak  —  The idea that the pandemic's origins lie with a research facility in China was once labeled a conspiracy theory

Republicans Quietly Axed IRS Funding Amid Government Shutdown Chaos  —  During last week's negotiations to avert a government shutdown, Congress quietly slashed $20 billion from the Internal Revenue Service.  —  Republicans have long targeted the tax agency, and their cuts will hurt its efforts …

Elon Musk reveals he's taking drug for weight loss in bizarre ‘Ozempic Santa’ post  —  The world's richest man has clashed with incoming Health and Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the role weight-loss medications should play in making Americans healthier and thinner.

Head of WHO was in Yemen airport during Israeli air strikes, with crew member injured  —  Summary  — Israel has launched air strikes in Yemen, targeting several sites controlled by the Houthis  — At least three people have been killed and 14 injured.  It is unclear if they were civilians

What if Trump Does Everything He's Promised—and the People Don't Care?  —  And here we go again.  President-elect Donald Trump wasted little time in signaling to Americans, through his Cabinet nominations and White House appointments, that he plans to move quickly to act on his most extreme promises.

Former FBI and CIA head prods Senate to reject Patel, Gabbard  —  A former head of the FBI and CIA is raising objections over whether Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump's picks to be directors of the FBI and national intelligence, respectively, are qualified to serve in the Cabinet.

Americans are exhausted by political news.  TV ratings and a new AP-NORC poll show they're tuning out  —  As a Democrat who immersed himself in political news during the presidential campaign, Ziad Aunallah has much in common with many Americans since the election.  He's tuned out.

Last survivor of USS Utah, sunk during Pearl Harbor attack, dies at age 105  —  Warren “Red” Upton, the last surviving veteran of the battleship USS Utah, which sank in Pearl Harbor during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack and remains there as a memorial, died Wednesday in San Jose, Calif. He was 105.

In reporting on hate and extremism, ‘while the attacks are personal, so is the cause’  —  “Journalists like myself have a choice: surrender to the fascist mob that wants to intimidate the truth-tellers - or rededicate ourselves to doing what's right no matter the cost.”