Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts continued with her attacks against the transition to the Donald Trump White House on Friday by advising Mitt Romney to bring his “binders full of women” to his weekend meeting with the president-elect. Her tweet refers to a comment Romney made during the 2012 election season, when he was […]
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USAAlthough Charles and David Koch are longtime Republican donors, the billionaire brothers declined to back the party’s 2016 presidential nominee. But it looks as though the oil and gas tycoons, who run a network of conservative think-tanks and advocacy groups, will still have an ally in the Donald Trump administration: The president-elect has reportedly tapped
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USAA conservative Kansas congressman who has been accused of being anti-Muslim and having participated in a racist political campaign has been tapped to become the next leader of the Central Intelligence Agency, CNBC reported. Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo accepted the job after he was offered it by President-elect Donald Trump on Friday morning. The third
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USAOne of the most notable absences from the 2016 election cycle was former Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who for 15 years skewered the insanity of our political process nightly before stepping down in 2015. On Thursday morning, Stewart made a rare TV appearance on CBS This Morning, where he talked with Charlie Rose about
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President-elect Donald J. Trump has tweeted that he intends to have a shul built in the White House “to make Judaism great again.” He said that Judaism “was once a great religion, but had waned during the Obama years. And, if Hillary had been elected President, it would
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump could be preparing to make another appointment to his White House staff. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn could become national security adviser, NBC News reported Wednesday. Flynn, a top adviser to Trump throughout his campaign, wouldn’t require confirmation from the Senate to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Henry Kissinger,
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USAPresident-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to appoint Republican primary rival Mike Huckabee as the next ambassador to Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported several members of Trump’s transition team confirmed the former Arkansas governor and minister will assume the post once the administration is installed in January. Earlier this week, Huckabee posted a Conservative Tribune story
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Middle East, USANew York/Tokyo (dpa) – Japan expressed satisfaction on Friday following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s face-to-face talks with Donald Trump in New York, despite remarks made during the president-elect’s campaign which alarmed Tokyo. The two countries got off to “a very good start,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference in Tokyo. Abe, who
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USAWASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, one of Donald Trump’s earliest and most enthusiastic backers to be president, has been offered the job of attorney general, according to two people familiar with the transition effort. Sessions, 69, is considered one of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate and has extensive legal experience as a
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USAHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that FBI Director James B. Comey’s decision to announce a renewed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails dragged down Democrats in the 2016 election, as the California Democrat refused to shoulder “full responsibility” for the party’s poor showing. Mrs. Pelosi is looking to head off a rebellion within the
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USAIf President-elect Donald Trump really wants to stop the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups that are celebrating his victory and encouraging hate crimes across the country, he should offer a detailed and unambiguous apology for the racial vitriol he himself stirred up during his presidential bid. So far, he has not done that. What’s
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USAWASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich said Thursday he will not serve in the Donald Trump administration in any official role. The former House speaker and presidential candidate had been mentioned frequently as a potential top member of the new government, possibly as secretary of defense, state or health and human services. But he ended that speculation
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USAWASHINGTON — So, about that wall. After Donald Trump’s upset win last week, Texas Republicans in Congress find themselves grappling with some of the president-elect’s campaign proposals. Foremost among them is the oft-touted, Mexican-funded, “big, beautiful” border wall that became a defining feature of Trump’s stump speech. Now that he is preparing to take office,
A prominent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump cited the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as a legal justification for creating a national registration list “for immigrants from Muslim countries.” Speaking to anchor Megyn Kelly on Fox News on Wednesday night, Carl Higbie, author of “Enemies, Foreign and Domestic: A SEAL’s Story,” defended