Report: Trump team wants Romney to apologize  —  Fox News is reporting that Donald Trump  —  's transition team wants Mitt Romney to publicly apologize for railing against the president-elect during the campaign.  —  According to Mediaite, a transition official told Fox's Ed Henry …

Jill Stein Can't ‘Guarantee’ Money Will Go to Recount, Changes $$$ Goal  —  Before you donate to Green Party candidate Jill Stein's effort to demand a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, you may want to read the fine print on her website.  So far, she has raised $4.8 million …

CNN accidentally broadcast 30 minutes of hardcore porn last night  —  We all mess up every now and then — and that's totally okay.  But someone is probably getting fired for this mistake.  —  Last night at 11PM EST, some unsuspecting viewers getting ready for a brand new episode …

The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner.  They should choose Clinton.  —  Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School and the author of “Republic, Lost: Version 2.0.” In 2015, he was a candidate in the Democratic presidential primary.

Russia tells U.S. to get out of the way in Syria  —  If the U.S. won't fight terrorists in Syria, it should stop getting in the way, said Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.  —  Konashenkov was responding to the U.S. State Department's calls to other countries …

Trump taps K.T. McFarland to be deputy national security adviser  —  Donald Trump has selected K.T. McFarland to be his deputy national security adviser, the president-elect's transition team announced.  —  McFarland, a Fox News analyst, served as an official in the Reagan White House.

Top Dem Says GOP Efforts To Overhaul Medicare Will Fail: ‘Make Our Day’  —  Minority leader-elect Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) released a defiant statement on Friday in response to reports that Congressional Republicans plan to shift Medicare towards a more privatized system now that the GOP controls …

Electoral College must reject Trump unless he sells his business, top lawyers for Bush and Obama say  —  Ethics lawyers for the last two presidents are in agreement.  —  Members of the Electoral College should not make Donald Trump the next president unless he sells his companies and puts …

Noam Chomsky: People Who Didn't Vote For Clinton To Block Trump Made A ‘Bad Mistake’  —  “I didn't like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump's on every issue I can think of.”  —  Noam Chomsky, the renowned scholar and MIT professor emeritus, said people who didn't vote …

In Scotland, Trump Built a Wall.  Then He Sent Residents the Bill.  —  BALMEDIE, Scotland — President-elect Donald J. Trump has already built a wall — not on the border with Mexico, but on the border of his exclusive golf course in northeastern Scotland, blocking the sea view of local residents who refused to sell their homes.

British benefits payments used to fund Paris and Brussels attack suspects' campaign of terror, court hears  —  The jihadists suspected of carrying out the bomb and gun attacks in Paris and Brussels used British benefits payments to fund international terrorism, a court has heard.

Steve Bannon's First Pick For President  —  Steve Bannon thought he had found his perfect presidential candidate.  This person was “an outsider,” someone who was “not part of the political establishment,” “not for sale,” with “an ‘America First’ foreign policy approach” and “a ‘Drain the Swamp’ mentality about Washington, DC.”

Regions employee ‘no longer with the company’ after comments about Obama, family  —  “I prefer a man who can buy Michele (sic) and Barack and sell them several times over,” Pridmore wrote.  —  A Regions Bank senior-level employee who was labeled “Racist of the Week” on social media …

Police say dad apparently overdoses with son in car  —  A 13-year-old boy jumped from the back seat of a car that went out of control in a Butler shopping plaza Thanksgiving morning when his father suffered an apparent heroin overdose, authorities said.  —  Neither the boy nor his father …

Trump's education secretary pick supported anti-gay causes  —  Civil rights groups say they're “deeply concerned” that the extension of civil rights protections to gay and transgender students by President Barack Obama's Education Department will be dismantled by Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's pick to lead the department.

Florence Henderson, Upbeat Mom of ‘The Brady Bunch,’ Dies at 82  —  Florence Henderson, who began her career as an ingénue soprano in stage musicals in the 1950s but made a more lasting impression on television, as the perky 1970s sitcom mom on “The Brady Bunch,” died Thursday.  She was 82.

Donald Trump and the Lawsuit Presidency  —  Donald Trump will take office as president facing a tsunami of litigation over his business practices and personal behavior.  He may have settled the fraud suits involving Trump University, but at least 75 other lawsuits are underway against him or his companies, according to USA Today.