President-elect Donald Trump has scheduled a full day of interviews for Monday back at Trump Tower with business leaders and law enforcement professionals, transition team officials announced. Mr. Trump is spending the long Thanksgiving weekend at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, taking a break from the interview process, which has included meetings with […]
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USAWelcome to Newsweek’s daily rundown of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition process. There are about 4,000 positions to fill, and we’ll be keeping track of appointees through the January 20 inauguration. After a short hiatus for Thanksgiving, Trump’s transition team provided an update on the president-elect’s plans for next week, as inauguration day inches ever closer.
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USAAretha Franklin really stole the show at the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day game. Franklin totally went off book and performed a rather lengthy performance of the National Anthem that made for some pretty hilarious responses from Twitter. RELATED: Soon-to-be first daughter Ivanka Trump gave us a glimpse inside her family’s Thanksgiving Day Yes, Franklin has
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sports & Competitions, USALOS ANGELES — Florence Henderson, whose portrayal of Carol Brady on the iconic television show “The Brady Bunch” created an idealized mother figure for an entire generation, died Thursday. She was 82. Henderson died from heart failure about 7:30 p.m. while surrounded by her four children, said her longtime manager and publicist Kayla Pressman. As
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAHappy Thanksgiving, Ivanka Trump! The business woman and busy mom shared a few special snaps from her adorable family’s Thanksgiving week together. Trump shared a sweet photo of her eldest son, Joseph Kushner during a busy day of volunteering and feeding the homeless. “Thank you Project Ore / UJA for allowing Joseph, Arabella and me
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has called on America to come together this Thanksgiving holiday. In a near-two-minute-long video posted to his Twitter account, Donald Trump has said that when America is unified “there is nothing out of our reach.” He called on the people of the U.S. to move forward and “restore the bonds of
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USALOS ANGELES — President-elect Donald Trump expressed his support for Los Angeles’ 2024 Olympic bid during a phone call with Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday, Garcetti’s office said in a statement. Garcetti spokeswoman Connie Llanos said Trump spoke on the phone with the mayor in their first exchange since the Nov. 8 election. Besides talking
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Sports & Competitions, USAFetene Yezengaw is a crossing guard who has brought smiles and laughter to the same intersection for the last decade – so now, the community is repaying him for all the kindness. When Fetene was a 15-year-old child soldier in Ethiopia, he stepped on a land mine that blew his leg off. After healing in
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USAAlexandra Zapruder was not born when her grandfather trained his home-movie camera on President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade rolling through downtown Dallas 53 years ago, but that 26-second film has become a difficult family legacy. On Nov 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder, a devoted supporter of Kennedy and his vision for America, shot a home movie
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThere are a little less than 2,000 giant pandas in the world, making the chance to name two of the newest born a rather special and rare treat. And that’s exactly what Zoo Atlanta is offering animal lovers around the world to do. The zoo announced Monday it would allow people to name its new
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The World We Share, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump announced that the US ambassador to the UN will be South Carolina Novernor Nikki Haley. Haley, now in her second term as governor and a former member of the House of Representatives. Israel supporters in Washington praised the pick, citing her pro-Israel, anti-BDS bona fides. The Republican Jewish Coalition called the choice
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International, USAHillary Clinton is being pushed by computer scientists and lawyers to challenge the presidential election results in three key swing states, two of which Donald Trump won two weeks ago. While one member of that group said in an online post Wednesday that the results were “probably not” hacked, he advised Clinton to file for
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USAThe White House on Wednesday welcomed the signing of a military intelligence sharing agreement between South Korea and Japan, saying it will bolster three-way cooperation between the two allies and the U.S. in defending against North Korea. Earlier in the day, Seoul and Tokyo formally signed the information sharing accord, known as the General Security
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International, USASAN JOSE, November 23, 2016 – On Thanksgiving Day, most American citizens partake in some sort of a meal, or even a feast to commemorate the holiday. Most likely, many will express personal gratitude for perceived blessings from throughout the year. Yet, the original significance of this harvest festival or celebration of life can easily
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