Lessig: 20 Trump electors could flip  —  Larry Lessig, a Harvard University constitutional law professor who made a brief run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, claimed Tuesday that 20 Republican members of the Electoral College are considering voting against Donald Trump …

Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal  —  Twitter was told it was “bounced” from Wednesday's meeting between tech executives and President-elect Donald Trump in retribution for refusing during the campaign to allow an emoji version of the hashtag #CrookedHillary …

U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack  —  U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Did Donald Trump need an apology from Mitt Romney?  —  Source: Trump told Romney he won't be nominee  —  (CNN)As President-elect Donald Trump considered Mitt Romney for secretary of state, Trump wanted one thing Romney wouldn't give him: an apology.  —  Trump was willing to move past Romney's bitter campaign-trail criticism of him.

How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election  —  Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.  So when, a week-and-a-half out, the Service Employees International Union started hearing anxiety out of Michigan, union officials decided to reroute their volunteers …

Trump team disavows survey seeking names of climate workers  —  President-elect Donald Trump's transition team on Wednesday disavowed a survey sent to the U.S. Department of Energy that requested the names of people working on climate change in the agency.  —  “The questionnaire was not authorized …

Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State:  —  “Rex Tillerson is an excellent choice for Secretary of State.  He will bring to the post remarkable and broad international experience; a deep understanding of the global economy; and a belief in America's special role in the world.

President-Elect Donald J. Trump Announces Travis Kalanick of Uber, Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla, and Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo to Join President's Strategic and Policy Forum  —  (New York, NY)—President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that three additional members will join …

Woman Made Up Tale of Anti-Muslim Attack by Men Shouting ‘Trump’: Sources  —  MANHATTAN — An 18-year-old Muslim college student who claimed three men screaming “Donald Trump!” attacked her on a Manhattan subway platform is being charged with filing a false report after admitting she made up the incident, sources told DNAinfo New York.

Huma vs. the “Night Stalkers”  —  After a stunning election loss, the knives appear to be out in Clintonworld.  —  “Maybe I'm just pissed off, but I really don't give a s**t about what happens to Huma to be honest with you,” one close adviser to Hillary Clinton told me recently.

Obama Bars States From Denying Federal Money to Planned Parenthood  —  WASHINGTON — Mindful of the clock ticking down to a Trump presidency, the Obama administration issued a final rule on Wednesday to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates …

Trump's national security adviser shared secrets without permission, files show  —  A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, “inappropriately shared” …

Here's the Public Evidence Russia Hacked the DNC - It's Not Enough  —  There are some good reasons to believe Russians had something to do with the breaches into email accounts belonging to members of the Democratic party, which proved varyingly embarrassing or disruptive for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Lights Out for the Old Order  —  Trump has wrought a revolution.  —  This is the ninth time I have witnessed, usually from afar but not this time, a party transition in the administration of the United States government.  British prime minister Harold Macmillan famously described the process …

Georgia secretary of state says cyberattacks traced to DHS addresses  —  ATLANTA - The Georgia Secretary of State's Office now confirms 10 separate cyberattacks on its network were all traced back to U.S. Department of Homeland Security addresses.  —  In an exclusive interview …

Sheriff Joe Arpaio resurfaces investigation into Obama citizenship  —  Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who lost his Maricopa County, Ariz., reelection bid in November, has restarted his investigation into President Obama's citizenship.  —  Arpaio, a vocal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump

Senate Dems Call On DeVos To Pay $5 Million Fine From 2008 PAC Violation  —  Multiple Democratic senators have called on President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Education, Betsy DeVos, to pay more than $5 million in fines and late fees owed by a now-inactive school choice organization …

Trump Must Give Up Hotel Before Inauguration, Agency Tells Lawmakers  —  Major development in dispute over Donald Trump's conflicts of interest: The government agency that leases a taxpayer-owned landmark for Trump's Washington hotel has told lawmakers that the president-elect will be in breach …

For release at 2:00 p.m. EST  —  Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in November indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace since mid-year.  Job gains have been solid in recent months and the unemployment rate has declined.