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Donald Trump picks debt-warrior Mick Mulvaney to head White House budget office

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he’ll tap Rep. Mick Mulvaney to be his budget director, putting an ardent conservative in the job that has the most control over the size of the federal government. Mr. Mulvaney, a South Carolina Republican, was elected to Congress as part of the 2010 tea party wave, and carved […]

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Heimlich Maneuver inventor dead at 96 after massive heart attack

Dr. Henry Heimlich, the inventor of the namesake maneuver credited with saving thousands of choking victims during the last several decades, died Saturday at the age of 96. The legendary physician passed away early Saturday morning at a Cincinnati hospital where he had been admitted earlier this week after suffering from a massive heart attack,

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Fans of this famed singer are threatening to boycott him should he perform at Trump’s inauguration

Andrea Bocelli is rumored to sing at Donald Trump’s inauguration next month, and not all of his fans are happy about it. Though Bocelli has neither confirmed nor denied the reports that he will perform a duet with “America’s Got Talent” singer Jackie Evancho at the event, some of his fans have started a “Boycott

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Trump promises to stop heroin epidemic with border crackdown, but there are wrinkles

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to curb America’s heroin epidemic by cracking down on the Mexican border. That sounds terrific to DuPage County, Ill., State’s Attorney Robert Berlin, who has seen the drug ravage his suburban jurisdiction. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration “is seizing more and more, but the reality is there’s more that can

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Liberal Hollywood stars reach out to Republican electors to stop them from voting for Trump

A bevy of liberal Hollywood stars have put aside their differences with Republicans in an eleventh-hour plea to GOP electors to convince them not to cast their ballots for Donald Trump at the Monday vote of the Electoral College. A self-described “public service announcement” released last week by Unite for America featured 17 celebrities assuring

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Astronaut John Glenn’s wife of 73 years emotionally bids her final farewell

Annie Glenn was married to her husband and American hero John Glenn for more than seven decades of her life. On Friday, she said goodbye for the final time as he was lying in state at Ohio’s capitol building. Glenn, 95, died a week ago surrounded by family and friends at the Ohio State University

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Show Proof Of Hacking Or Stop Talking, Says Russia To US Government

A Kremlin spokesperson denied any Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election Friday after President Barack Obama promised to take action against alleged hacking. Russia, which has been accused of tampering with the election in order to install Donald Trump in the White House, seized on the fact that no official evidence has been made

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Vanity Fair subscriptions rocket after nasty Trump tweet

Washington (dpa) – Vanity Fair magazine has reportedly seen its subscriptions soar following a tweet by US president-elect Donald Trump which suggested the magazine was “dead” and its editor had “no talent.” The tweet appeared to be a response to a negative review of a Trump restaurant published by the magazine on Wednesday titled “Trump

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Trump’s Nominees and the Coming Environmental Disaster

The day before the presidential election, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck just outside Cushing, Oklahoma—an 8,000-person town that’s also North America’s top oil-trading hub and one of the largest oil-storage facilities in the world. The quake knocked bricks off century-old buildings, cracked foundations and forced Cushing to evacuate its downtown. Workers at the town’s sprawling

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Howard Bingham, Muhammad Ali’s personal photographer, dies at 77

LOS ANGELES — Howard Bingham, a close friend and longtime photographer of Muhammad Ali who was also known for his community activism, died Thursday afternoon. He was 77. Bingham died in a Los Angeles hospital. No cause of death was given by his agent, Harlan Werner. The renowned photographer, who grew up in Compton, had

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Rod Carew’s heart transplant surgery ‘successful’

Rod Carew “is expected to make a full recovery,” the Twins announced Friday, after the Hall of Fame infielder underwent 13-hour surgery to receive a heart and kidney transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “The entire Minnesota Twins family is happy to report that Rod Carew had a successful heart and kidney transplant,”

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CIA director: FBI and CIA find ‘strong consensus’ Russian hacks were intended to help Trump win

WASHINGTON — There is “strong consensus” among U.S. intelligence services that Russia orchestrated hacks and online leaks in part to help Donald Trump win the White House, the head of the CIA told agency employees in a message Friday. FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. agree with

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North Carolina governor signs bill that limits power his successor, Democrats

RALEIGH, N.C. — State legislators wrapped up their work Friday on a pair of controversial bills that would deprive the incoming governor of a substantial part of his power to make appointments and reduce Democrats’ power over elections regulation. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed the bill dealing with elections a short time later. Less than

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