As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office next month, the soon-to-be First Daughter is capitalizing on her family”s fame, offering well-heeled fans and admirers the opportunity for an exclusive sit-down meeting – for a price. In what could be the most expensive selfie opportunity with a celeb, Ivanka Trump is auctioning off an opportunity […]
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USAReprinted with permission from LobeLog. National Security Adviser-designate Michael T. Flynn has come under increasing fire. The retired general’s personal Twitter account and his son’s promotion of Twitter-based conspiracy theories about the Washington, D.C. pizzeria Comet Ping Pong are prompting renewed scrutiny of President-elect Trump’s pick for the top national security position in the White
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USAOn Monday, Kanye West took a trip to New York City reportedly in search of a finding a psychiatrist for when he visits the East Coast but it appears the rapper had other plans on his schedule as well. According to video from C-SPAN, the rapper, accompanied by his entourage, arrived for a meeting on
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USANEW YORK — Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Energy Department, according to news reports early Tuesday. The former Republican campaign rivals met for about 90 minutes Monday. It’s unclear when the pick, reported by NBC News and ABC News, will be announced. Energy is the department that
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USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump announced Tuesday he will nominate oil tycoon Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state, setting up a potential confrontation with fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill who are uneasy with the Exxon Mobil chief executive’s close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a brief statement released by his transition office early
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International, USAFour Georgia police officers were shot and wounded Monday in two separate incidents, according to reports. Two police officers were shot early in the day while carrying out a search warrant in Fort Valley and, in the evening, a person suspected of driving a stolen car opened fire on two other officers in Lavonia in
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USAClose Donald Trump hasn’t been sworn in yet, but he is already making decisions and issuing statements to world leaders that radically depart from American foreign policy, all to the benefit of his family’s corporate empire. Because of this, the next president of the United States is already vulnerable to undue influence by other nations,
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International, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — If Arieh Deri, Israel’s interior minister and the leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, gets his way, Israel will become the only country in the free world that discriminates against Jews. The legislation that Shas and its Ashkenazi counterpart are putting before the Knesset – with the help of
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Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump previously announced that he would divulge his plan for insulating himself from charges of business conflicts of interest as President this Thursday. Now he has postponed this speech until January (of 2021?). * Donald Trump decided to appoint Rex Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil, to be his Secretary of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAMemo to Corporate America: Be ready to be Donald Trump’s next target. Defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. found that out Monday when the president-elect again used Twitter to blast the F-35 fighter-jet program for costs he termed “out of control.” The stock prices of Lockheed Martin, the project’s prime contractor, and of one of its
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USAGreen Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein’s election recount efforts in Wisconsin have shown that the grand total from the state was off after all. President-elect Donald Trump ended up gaining an extra 162 votes in Wisconsin, increasing his margin of victory by .06 percent. Watch the video The recount results were learned Monday. In the
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USAMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Police are investigating an alleged scheme in which high school students exchanged nude photos of female students using a shared Dropbox account that apparently spans several schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, authorities said. Mountain View High School is the only campus identified as having students tied to the ersatz
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump, whose global business deals pose major ethical challenges, scratched plans Monday for a “major news conference” on Thursday to disclose how he would avoid conflicts of interest in the White House. Legal advisers to the president-in-waiting need more time to structure arrangements for a withdrawal from his business empire, Trump spokeswoman Hope
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USABeijing asks president-elect not to destroy foundation for Sino-US cooperation The Foreign Ministry urged US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday to act prudently on the Taiwan question to avoid “serious damage to the Sino-US relationship”, after Trump once again publicly provoked China. Beijing could react with countermeasures in trade and regional issues, if Trump keeps
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