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The hedge funds and insurance companies that want financially strapped Puerto Rico to pay them back in full may have found a new ally: Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. The newly elected governor of Puerto Rico is in discussions to hire Lewandowski’s lobbying firm, at a time when the island’s creditors are hoping

Rudy Giuliani has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team to share his “expertise and insight” on cybersecurity. The former New York City mayor will give advice on “private sector security problems and emerging solutions developing in the private sector,” according to a statement from the transition team released on Thursday. Trump also plans

The Senate is not always as civil as it makes itself out to be. In 1856, after delivering a series of abolitionist speeches, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was nearly beaten to death in the chamber by Representative Preston Brooks, a South Carolinian who laid in wait and greeted Sumner with a gutta-percha cane with

WASHINGTON — Of all of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees, Elaine Chao will have a relatively easy time getting confirmed. But in her new job at the Department of Transportation, there may be a rough road ahead. Chao stands to inherit a long-term funding crisis in the nation’s transportation system, and in spite of Trump’s promises

President Obama delivered his farewell speech on Tuesday night to an appreciative crowd at McCormick Place in Chicago. First lady Michelle Obama and daughter Malia, 18, were front and center for the special moment. However, the Obamas’ younger daughter, 15-year-old Sasha, was nowhere to be found. Sasha’s absence became even more noticeable when President Obama

WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., had a pacemaker installed Tuesday, just hours after questioning President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee. Feinstein, 83, is the oldest member of the Senate and the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held its first day of confirmation hearings on Trump’s nominee, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., on

Donald Trump’s first press conference since the summer was one of the more unusual spectacles that we’ve seen in the wake of perhaps the most unusual election in American history. Typically, press conferences with presidents can be tense but they hardly ever reach, the intensity of Trump’s first meeting. Obama has adapted a sort of

President-elect Donald Trump, under fire for his business conflicts, said Wednesday that he will turn his company over to his sons — but he won’t sell his network of properties and deals. Trump will create a trust and turn it over to his sons Donald Jr. and Eric along with another business executive, Trump lawyer