Security investigators from RecountNow.org found the latest Election Systems and Software (ES&S) DS200 optical scanners, the machines that scan and count ballots, have cellular capabilities and are therefore not as secure as once thought.

There are many reasons why the 2016 election turned out as it did. One reason, voter suppression, played a particularly central role in the outcome on November 8. It is no coincidence that numerous state legislatures have implemented laws that make it harder to vote.

Michael Morell: "A foreign government messing around in our elections is, I think, an existential threat to our way of life. To me, and this is to me not an overstatement, this is the political equivalent of 9/11."

Despite the difficulties news organizations are facing in the Internet era, given the tension between clicks and journalistic integrity, there were some bright spots.

Mirroring what we saw during the general election, a mere 37% of the public believes Trump is well qualified for the presidency. A measly 5 point increase from October.

Major pollsters had Hillary Clinton winning the election, and in one sense they got it right -- Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by over 2.5 million votes. In another and vastly more consequential sense, pollsters had it wrong -- Donald Trump comprehensively won the Electoral College, despite many crucial states being extreme close.

Conservative radio show host Laura Ingraham has been floated as a top contender for White House Press Secretary, the public face of the administration. Both share a fondness for the alt-right, or what she calls "new media."

Danny Cox, a marketing major at ASU, began his political career with John McCain shortly before being poached by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. His meteoric rise is evidence of the deep structural changes in politics caused by Trump's emergence.

Donald Trump has yet to be sworn in as President of the United States, yet his impulsiveness and dearth of knowledge are already setting off diplomatic rows. Trump's call with the president of Taiwan and subsequent tweets, where he attacked Chinese currency manipulation and military expansion, seem to signal a potentially volatile new direction for U.S.-China relations, and U.S. diplomacy as a whole.

The Trump transition team has stacked up a few more administration picks this week, and reports say the team hopes to fill most of the spots by the end of next week. We are slowly getting a stronger sense of what type of team the Trump administration will be, though some looming questions remain.