WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has named his media-savvy campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, to advise him in the White House in the role of counselor, his transition team announced early Thursday morning. The move comes after Conway sought to put to rest speculation that she would continue to serve as the public face of the Trump […]
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USAWhile speaking with Fox Business Network on Thursday, Kellyanne Conway was asked how she will manage her new, top-level White House job of Presidential Counselor while being a mother of four children, and she was not having it. RELATED: Kellyanne Conway’s Trump White House position finally becomes clear Watch the video “I would say that
Anis Amri, the chief suspect in Monday’s truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market, has been shot dead by police in Milan. Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti told a news conference on Friday morning that Amri was killed during a shootout with police at 3am. Amri opened fire during a routine check when he was
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International, Middle EastVice President Joseph R. Biden said Thursday that Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election because she never knew why she was running, and she felt a “burden” to become the first woman president. “I don’t think she ever really figured it out,” Mr. Biden told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Thursday. “And
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USAThe United States was planning to abstain from the vote at the UN Security Council on a resolution which would have called on Israel to halt “settlement building”, U.S.-based media outlets reported on Thursday. Several diplomatic sources told NBC News that the outgoing Obama administration had planned to abstain from the vote, which would have
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Middle East, USATokyo (dpa) – A record number of visitors celebrated Japanese Emperor Akihito’s 83rd birthday at a ceremony held at the Imperial Palace on Friday, as he once again flagged the possibility of his impending abdication. The emperor, alongside his wife Empress Michiko, waved to the crowd from the palace’s balcony at the event in Tokyo
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InternationalWASHINGTON, December 22, 2016 – President-elect Donald Trump announced his communications team on Thursday, continuing to fill the posts in the administration. He first announced that Republican Party communications chief Sean Spicer will be press secretary for the Trump administration. He also announced that Hope Hicks will serve as director of strategic communications; Jason Miller
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USAIn London recently I met a Jesuit priest from Syria. He gave me a graphic account of what life is like for those Christians he was forced to leave behind. He told me of mass kidnappings in parts of Syria and Iraq and how he feared that Christians will be driven en-masse out of lands
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InternationalRussian President Vladimir Putin had an exceptionally successful year, with Moscow making geostrategic gains in Syria, Europe as well as the US in 2016. What a difference a year makes. Back in 2015, things weren’t looking particularly good for Russia. With the country suffering from falling oil prices and sanctions for the annexation of Crimea,
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International, Middle East, USABerlin (dpa) – The main suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was reportedly filmed eight hours after the deadly incident, at a mosque apparently frequented by Islamist extremists. Local broadcaster rbb late Thursday published CCTV images of 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri in front of the building in the Moabit area, four kilometres from
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International, Middle EastThe entire police force in a small Indiana town has quit to protest the town council’s funding decisions and its alleged requests that the officers perform “illegal, unethical and immoral things.” The town marshal of Bunker Hill, Indiana, and his four volunteer reserve officers submitted their resignations Monday evening, report the Washington Post, BuzzFeed News,
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s flair for connecting with veterans won him an overwhelming share of their votes, but the durability of the alliance is already being tested as Trump’s search for a Veterans Affairs secretary veers in a direction that has alarmed some of America’s most influential retired soldiers. Under pressure from conservative activists, including
Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photo by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – There are four factoids about Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that discreet Iranians never talk about, certainly not in public, according to Oded Brosh, a former analyst in Israel’s prime minister’s office who now is serving as a visiting professor at San Diego
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. MasoriPresident-elect Donald Trump called for the U.S. to expand its nuclear capabilities, in a surprising Twitter post Thursday that raised questions about what he intends to do. “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes,” he said. It was not
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