In an interview with NPR's David Greene, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said U.S. intelligence should investigate claims that Russia tried to insert itself into the 2016 presidential election. However, he added that voters didn't vote for Donald Trump because of propaganda or hacking -- they voted against the policies of the status quo.

California’s top-two nonpartisan primary, authored in 2009 by the Independent Voter Project (IVP) and approved by California voters as Proposition 14 the following year, has become the proverbial “Political Writers Full-Employment Act,” and will continue to be for some time.

A state senator and former state director for Ron Paul's anti-establishment presidential candidacy and a rising star within the Maine Republican Party may issue a challenge to U.S. Senator Angus King when his seat comes up for re-election in the 2018 midterms.

The President-elect’s Cabinet appointments have dominated the news cycle, which only begs the question: What do these departments and offices actually do?

The Cabinet is included in the Constitution, under Article II, Section 2, where it states:

I know. It's been over a month since Election Day, and yet we are still talking about the 2016 presidential election. With the prospect of voting for two broadly unpopular candidates, many voters just wanted the election to be over on November 8.

Editor's note: The following is a transcript of the above video. Reality Check is a segment by investigative journalist Ben Swann on CBS46 in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Well it seems like a ridiculous concern: President-elect Donald Trump takes a phone call from the prime minister of Taiwan, and the media and political establishment go into a frenzy. Well, it turns out Trump is right. Not specifically about the phone call, but about the fact that the U.S. has been arming Taiwan for years.

The movement to reform New York’s election system passed a milestone on December 6, though not the one you might have heard about in the news.

Early Tuesday morning Kanye West was spotted arriving at Trump Tower for a meeting with the President-elect. It is unclear what the reason was for the meeting. According to The New York Times, "'We’ve been friends for a long time,' Mr. Trump told reporters. Asked what he and Mr. West talked about, he responded: “Life. We discussed life.'"

News broke Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump will tap former Texas Governor Rick Perry to head the Energy Department, a move that has the mainstream media recalling the 2011 Republican presidential debate where Perry blanked on naming Energy as a department he would eliminate.

We have never seen a president-elect have more impact on the government BEFORE taking the reins of that government.

President-elect Donald Trump’s Monday morning tweet attack on aerospace maker Lockheed Martin, has, so far, cost the company more than $4 billion in stock value.

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