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WASHINGTON — The buttoned-down millennials, in their dark suits and ties, settled in for the long conference day ahead. They came to Washington to position their interests at the forefront of the political agenda. Their sponsor was the alt-right think tank called the National Policy Institute. The group at the conference was almost entirely young

Vice President-elect Mike Pence exuded confidence Sunday about Donald Trump’s transition, saying Sen. Jeff Sessions will be confirmed as attorney general and that the president-elect is bringing “energy” and “leadership” to a busy round of meetings with potential Cabinet picks at his tony golf club in New Jersey. Amid reports that Mr. Trump’s efforts were

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Sunday Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis is being considered for secretary of defense. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/800332639844659201 Trump’s transition team reported that Vice-President elect Mike Pence and Trump were “very impressed” by Mattis and called him the “real deal” in a readout provided to reporters. The readout continued, “They had an incredibly in-depth conversation

There was some speculation after Trump won the election that Alec Baldwin would abandon playing him on Saturday Night Live. We were all relieved on Friday to find out that Baldwin wasn’t anywhere near done humiliating Lord Cheeto and that he would be resuming the role for this week’s episode. We didn’t have to wait

Adan Yauch Park, in Brooklyn Heights, was named after the member of the Beastie Boys, the famous hip-hop rock group whose three members were all Jewish. Yauch was the founder of the group and passed away four years ago. The park was vandalized in the last few days with swastikas and graffiti that read “Go

The meeting between former foes President-elect Donald Trump and 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney opened with glad-handing and ended with words of optimism. Mr. Romney emerged from the one-hour meeting at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, saying they had “a very thorough and in-depth discussion.” “We had a far reaching conversation with

When Donald Trump’s transition team announced on Friday that Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas would be the new head of the Central Intelligence Agency, tech site ArsTechnica reported: Pompeo has taken a particularly hard-line stance on how to treat NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. After Snowden’s allies began a campaign to get him pardoned, the entire