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Earlier in the week, Rep. John Lewis announced that he would skip the 2017 presidential inauguration. According to Lewis, he did not consider President-elect Donald Trump to be a legitimate president amid allegations that the 2016 presidential race was tampered by Russian interference. Trump came out guns blazing on Saturday morning and criticized Lewis, who

The House passed a 2017 budget Friday that lays the groundwork for dismantling Obamacare, brushing aside intra-GOP anxiety and defiant Democrats to launch the repeal-and-replace strategy staked out by President-elect Donald Trump. Nine Republicans balked at the politically thorny plan – the budget doesn’t balance, and the party hasn’t coalesced around a health bill of

President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at his political opponents early Friday as being responsible for the allegations that Russia had compromising information about the real estate mogul. He once again dismissed the claims as “fake news.” “It now turns out that the phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a

The story reads like a John le Carre Cold War novel, complete with Moscow’s bad guys, Great Britain’s MI6 spy agency and Washington’s FBI counter-intelligence. But the saga is taking place now, in real life. The capitals London, Moscow and Washington have been entwined in a political thriller by an unverified, once-secret, dossier on President-elect

Donald Trump’s struggles to convince artists to perform at his inauguration has been well publicized. He got the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, although one member has left the group in protest. He got the Radio City Rockettes, although several dancers have objected. He’s got 16-year-old singer Jackie Evancho, and then took credit for her album sales.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson emerged from a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump Friday pledging to bring down the cost of the F-35 Lightning II and pledging to hire more than 1,800 additional workers at the Fort Worth plant. Trump has been in a dogfight with Lockheed Martin over the F-35

After a period of extraordinary tension between President-elect Donald Trump and the nation’s intelligence community, the president-elect’s pick to run the CIA vowed Thursday to uphold the morale of America’s career spies and said solid, unbiased intelligence is the “lifeblood” of national security that is “more in demand than ever.” While the four-hour confirmation hearing

It’s the Ben Carson-est thing to come from Ben Carson so far. Everyone’s favorite soft-spoken neurosurgeon-turned Secretary of Housing and Urban Development appointee had a moment during his confirmation hearing that made everyone laugh. Watch the video Though the question period between Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Carson was intense, Carson had to interrupt and