Donald Trump may be the first U.S. president with no prior political or military experience, but clues from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg suggest he might not be the last. Zuckerberg has regularly publicized his New Year’s resolutions in recent years—learning Mandarin, running 365 miles, reading 25 books—and 2017’s involves doing a tour of the U.S. […]
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USASACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bracing for an adversarial relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, the California Legislature has selected former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to serve as outside counsel to advise the state’s legal strategy against the incoming administration. The unusual arrangement will give Holder, leading a team of attorneys from the firm Covington
China has signalled it wants to avoid a trade war with the United States after President-elect Donald Trump named tough-talking Robert Lighthizer as his chief trade negotiator. When he worked for President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, Lighthizer was tasked with helping reduce imports into the US from Japan through threats of quotas and punitive
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International, USAWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate Wall Street attorney Jay Clayton to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, transition spokesman Sean Spicer said Wednesday. Clayton, a partner with New York-based global law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, would take over for Mary Jo White, who announced in November she would step down at the
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USAOn Nov. 2, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a private phone call to a friend of Richard Milhous Nixon, and bluntly accused the Republican presidential candidate of treason. Treason. There was no doubt, said Johnson, that Nixon’s campaign team was trying to scupper peace talks aimed at ending the Vietnam War. They were afraid
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International, USAPeople attending the inauguration may find themselves catching a contact high when thousands of people start smoking joints at the National Mall while President-Elect Donald Trump takes his oath of office on Jan. 20. The DC Cannabis Coalition will host a protest at the inauguration, during which members of the organization will reportedly pass out
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USAHouse Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Wednesday called WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a “sycophant for Russia,” as Mr. Assange reiterated this week that Russia was not the source for internal communications from Democratic officials during the presidential campaign. Mr. Ryan told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he really has no opinion on Mr. Assange, “other
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International, USAROCKVILLE, Maryland (Press Release) —The Israeli-American Council and the Bender JCC of Greater Washington D.C. announced a new joint venture on Wednesday, Jan. 4, to establish an IAC Center (Merkaz) at the Bender JCC, and to formalize the two organizations’ joint initiatives to bring together the Jewish-American and Israeli-American communities. “We have entered an exciting
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USAD.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton called on House Speaker Paul D. Ryan to restore some of her voting rights on the House floor as the 115th Congress convened Tuesday. “This vote is a down payment for full voting rights to the more than 680,000 American citizens residing in the District of Columbia who pay the
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USALas Vegas — Qualcomm shared more details about its latest chip, the Snapdragon 835 at a CES 2017 press conference Tuesday. Having initially announced the chip at a technology summit in November, the semiconductor manufacturer is now publicly sharing specs and features for the component. With the Snapdragon 835, Qualcomm is aiming to tackle several
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USARep. Paul D. Ryan easily won re-election as House speaker as the new Congress convened Tuesday – though not before Democrats warned he was off to a bad start. Mr. Ryan won 239 votes to be speaker, putting him second in the line of presidential succession and giving him a full two-year term at the
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USAMass murderer Charles Manson was taken from a Central Valley prison in California to a hospital for an undisclosed medical issue, two sources familiar with the situation said. One of the sources said Manson was seriously ill but could not provide specific information. Officials with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation declined to comment, citing
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAA House resolution condemning President Obama’s refusal to veto an anti-Israel U.N. measure was introduced Tuesday with the support of 51 Republican cosponsors but no Democrats. Rep. Dennis Ross, Florida Republican, submitted the language moments after the start of the 115th Congress. Sen. Jerry Moran, Kansas Republican, is expected to introduce a companion measure in
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Members of Congress reportedly cited an 8-year-old ethics investigation into Missouri Rep. Sam Graves, at a closed-door meeting Monday night, as an example of why they needed to rein in their independent ethics watchdog. Graves’ spokesman, Wesley Shaw, declined to say Tuesday how the congressman had voted in the secret ballot Monday, “due
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