The prevailing opinion on President-elect Donald Trump is that he’s unpredictable, a man of no fixed views who transcends traditional notions of right and left. “Donald Trump is post-ideological,” Trump’s campaign pollster, Tony Fabrizio, said at a Harvard University conference last week. With Trump, “you will have no idea each morning what’s going to happen,” […]
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USAThe search for remains at the scene of the deadly Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, Calif., has concluded, leaving the death toll at 36, officials said Wednesday. “We are not going to find more victims in the fire,” said Sgt. Ray Kelly, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. Although the search for
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USAChina has accused Taiwan’s president of seeking to use a planned stopover in the United States to undermine Beijing. It comes as Tsai Ing-wen’s controversial phone call to Donald Trump continues to cause rancour. China regards the self-governing island of Taiwan as a rogue province, and in Beijing the Chinese foreign ministry seized on the
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International, USAChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel met with President-Elect Donald Trump in New York on Wednesday morning, using the discussion to urge Trump to reconsider his positions on immigration. During his 45-minute meeting with the president-elect in his personal office high above Manhattan in Trump Tower, Emanuel hand-delivered a letter from the mayors of some of the
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USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump has picked Terry Branstad, the long-serving Iowa governor who proved a loyal and unflinching surrogate in the presidential race, to be the ambassador to China, the transition team said Wednesday. The choice of Branstad is likely to reassure Beijing, which has been rattled by Trump’s rhetoric about China and his breaking
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USAPresident-elect Donald Trump picked retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly to be the next chief of Homeland Security, The Washington Times confirmed Wednesday, selecting a man who has repeatedly warned of the dangers of a porous southwestern border and has been a staunch opponent of drug legalization. After watching the surge of illegal immigrants in
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International, USAUS Navy Rear Admiral James Bynum (second from left), Carrier Strike Group 9 commander, welcomes Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Rear Admiral Huang Xinjian on Tuesday at the port of San Diego, where three PLA ships led by Huang Xinjian and Rear Admiral Wu Haihua arrived for a 4-day visit. HEZI JIANG/CHINA DAILY The Chinese
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International, USABy Edwin Black Anxiety continues to roil through the pro-Israel world over a possible last-minute political move by the Obama administration that could permanently alter the Israeli-Palestinian geo-political landscape. Forty-eight hours after the November 8 election, I flew to South Florida for a series of lectures and briefings organized by StandWithUs, NOVA Southeast University
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Edwin Black, International, Middle East, USABy Stephanie Schorow, Adjunct Professor of Professional Writing, Regis College, Regis College. During a Nov. 22 celebration of Donald Trump’s election triumph, members of a far-right organization, the National Policy Institute, were filmed extending a stiff arm in the iconic “Heil Hitler” salute of Nazi Germany. Ensuring there would be no mistaking the gesture, National
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USAPresident-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen broke a decades-long U.S. policy of avoiding direct contact between the U.S. government and Taiwanese leaders. Trump supporters said his maverick foreign policy instincts prompted the call; detractors accused him of rashly provoking China (which doesn’t recognize the Taiwanese government, and considers the Island to
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International, USAHouse Republicans have introduced a bill that would prevent colleges that have banned the American flag from receiving federal funding. It started as a petition to defund schools that remove the flag, and on Friday, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and 52 other House GOP members officially put forward legislation to do just that, calling it
Most Americans think President-elect Donald Trump will put country over his family’s bottom line when dealing with foreign leaders, according to a Bloomberg poll released Wednesday. A majority – 51 percent – said they’re “very” or “mostly” confident Mr. Trump will put the country’s best interests ahead of his family’s finances when dealing with foreign
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USAIt was really only a matter of time before the modern art world, which has long ridiculed conservatives and Christians with wink-wink in-jokes, would provide fodder for the far-right fake-news machine. Marina Abramović, whose shock art serves up masochistic self-display in the context of pseudo-occult ritual, has become just that: For some fake-news believers in
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USAWASHINGTON — Two days after conceding in the North Carolina gubernatorial race, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory plans to meet with President-elect Donald Trump in New York, Trump’s transition team announced Tuesday morning. Sean Spicer, a Trump spokesman, told reporters McCrory is expected to meet with Trump on Wednesday at Trump Tower but gave no further
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