The Anti-Trump Electoral College Effort Is Only The Beginning  —  WASHINGTON — The battle over Monday's electoral college vote is the beginning, not the end.  A larger campaign to undermine the legitimacy — and constitutionality — of Donald Trump's presidency is likely just getting underway.

Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at least some members of the team after he becomes president, according to people familiar with the plans.

To Rehabilitate Democratic Party, Obama Plans To ‘Coach’ Young Talent  —  President Obama sees a role for himself in rebuilding the Democratic Party after he leaves office — coach.  —  “What I am interested in is just developing a whole new generation of talent,” Obama told NPR's Steve Inskeep …

Bill Clinton: Trump knows how to get ‘angry, white men to vote for him’  —  President-elect Donald Trump “doesn't know much,” former President Bill Clinton told a local newspaper earlier this month, but “one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”

Trump Team Still Won't Accept CIA Conclusion On Russian Hacks  —  Reince Priebus, incoming chief of staff for Donald Trump, on Sunday morning said that Trump will not yet accept the CIA's conclusion that Russian hacks into Democratic groups were an attempt to boost Trump to victory.

Shul ties: Ivanka and Jared's big move has D.C.'s Jews buzzing  —  At the intimate, light-brick synagogue in Georgetown, members don't fuss over their famous-for-Washington congregants.  Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew prays at Kesher Israel just like everybody else in the tight-knit Modern Orthodox community.

How Republics End  —  Many people are reacting to the rise of Trumpism and nativist movements in Europe by reading history — specifically, the history of the 1930s.  And they are right to do so.  It takes willful blindness not to see the parallels between the rise of fascism and our current political nightmare.

Big questions over Trump's pick for schools  —  Is President-elect Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education a Christmas present for America's public schools or shiny wrapping paper on a lump of coal?  —  A teacher from Iowa recently wrote an open letter to DeVos …

Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company  —  Rex Tillerson, the businessman nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US secretary of state, is the long-time director of a US-Russian oil firm based in the tax haven of the Bahamas, leaked documents show.

Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses … Follow the pills and you'll find the overdose deaths.  —  The trail of painkillers leads to West Virginia's southern coalfields, to places like Kermit, population 392.  There, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly …

All This Talk of Voter Fraud?  Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None  —  After all the allegations of rampant voter fraud and claims that millions had voted illegally, the people who supervised the general election last month in states around the nation have been adding up how many credible reports of fraud they actually received.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress Famous for Her Glamour (and Her Marriages), Dies at 99  —  Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles.

White supremacist website calls for action in Montana  —  A white supremacist website called The Daily Stormer has posted a call to “TAKE ACTION” against Jewish people in Whitefish, providing personal contact information and urging a “troll storm” against them.

McCain: Russian election-related hacks threaten to ‘destroy democracy’  —  Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain said Russian election-related hacks threaten to “destroy democracy” and faulted the American response as “totally paralyzed.”  —  McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs …