538: The members of the Electoral College meet in their state capitals today to cast their votes for president. Although many have been under pressure to abandon Donald Trump, the electors are expected to vote in accordance with the vote …

Godspeed: John Glenn, the last surviving member of the Mercury 7 astronauts and the first American to orbit Earth, died yesterday at age 95. In 1962 with the US losing the space race and the nuclear arms buildup to the …

Yes, He Said It: Donald Trump yesterday questioned the legitimacy of the election tweeting, “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” He …

The Trump Business: The president-elect decided to settle three fraud lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for $25 million. The “university” was supposed to be a real estate sales seminar that would impart the wisdom of Trump. Six thousand former …

E Minus 9: Campaigning in Florida, Hillary Clinton lambasted FBI director James Comey for revealing the existence of a new trove of Clinton’s State Department emails backed up on a computer used by her aide Huma Abedin and her estranged …

The American Way: President Obama suffered the first veto override of his presidency yesterday. Both houses of Congress overwhelmingly voted in favor of a law that would allow 9/11 survivors to sue Saudi Arabia for damages over any complicity the …

It’s Debatable: In the first of three presidential debates, Hillary Clinton delivered a calm, measured, and mostly factual performance, opening the door for Donald Trump to ramble, interrupt, sniff, dissemble, and roll his eyes. Trump was unusually controlled in the …

Mall Murder: Washington State Police are hunting for a man who shot and killed five people in a shopping mall in Burlington, in the northwest corner of the state. He killed four women in the cosmetics department of the Macy’s …

Rattling: A magnitude 5.3 magnitude earthquake detected in North Korea revealed that the Hermit Kingdom had carried out its fifth nuclear bomb test. North Korea claimed it has developed a bomb capable of being mounted on a missile, but it …

Earthquake: A 6.2 magnitude earthquake levelled parts of three historic towns in mountainous central Italy. Whole buildings collapsed, trapping people in the rubble. At least 38 people are reported dead and the death toll is likely to raise. One mayor …