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Washington (dpa) – US president-elect Donald Trump said Thursday the man he has named to be US ambassador to China will lead the way to an improved relationship between the US and China. Trump said Iowa Governor Terry Branstad knows China, has led six trade missions to the country and “knows how to deliver results.”

WASHINGTON — Fast-food executive Andrew Puzder, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Labor Department secretary, turned around the Southern California-based parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s with help from scantily clad women hawking oversized burgers in racy ads. More recently, he’s raised his own profile by becoming an outspoken national advocate on

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Forest City, N.C., man who resigned as Santa in the town’s Christmas house after apparently telling a 9-year-old boy to “lay off” the burgers and fries has been hospitalized since Wednesday with a blood clot in his lung, his niece says. The man, Earl Crowder, woke up Wednesday with trouble breathing

WASHINGTON — Since Election Day, President Barack Obama has appointed 56 people to boards, commissions and offices in the hopes that they remain in those posts for years to come. He has reduced the prison sentences of 79 federal inmates. He has handed out the nation’s highest civilian honor to 21 people who he said

LOS ANGELES — A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked the Northern California coast Thursday morning. The quake occurred about 100 miles off the coast of Eureka, near the Oregon border, around 6:50 a.m. local time. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The depth of the quake was about 6.2 miles, according to

Who acted more presidential? With friends and fellow union members slated to lose their jobs, Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1999 at the Carrier plant, wasn’t happy that Donald Trump took credit for saving more than 1,100 positions at the plant while delivering a $7 million tax break to Carrier and their

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Forest City man portraying St. Nicholas in the town’s Santa House who apparently told a child to “lay off” the burgers and fries has resigned amid backlash from the community. Nine-year-old Anthony Mayse visited the Santa on Saturday and asked for an iPod Touch and a drone for Christmas, but left

The nominee has extensive ties to fossil fuel companies Gage Skidmore Scott Pruitt The current nominee to head the EPA. Also, someone who is currently suing the EPA. Scott Pruitt, currently the Oklahoma Attorney General, has been nominated by President-elect Trump to be the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Environmental groups have

CHICAGO — In the list of potential risk factors that companies include in their regulatory filings, a new one has surfaced: Donald Trump. Methode Electronics, a Chicago-based designer and maker of parts for automotive, appliance and other industries, on Thursday added the president-elect to its list of potential “risk factors.” Disclosures of a wide range

Linda McMahon, who co-founded the World Wrestling Entertainment franchise and spent a fortune on two unsuccessful runs for the U.S. Senate, was named Wednesday as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Small Business Administration. “Linda is going to be a phenomenal leader and champion for small businesses and unleash America’s entrepreneurial spirit all across

Hundreds of protesters face off with supporters of Richard Spencer, self-styled leader of the so-called ‘alt-right,’ during talk at A&M University By Ricky Ben-David Richard Spencer, the self-styled leader of the so-called alt-right movement, speaks at Texas A&M University on December 6, 2016. (Screenshot) Protesters at Texas A&M University demonstrate against a speech on December