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An Alabama senator who once reportedly called the NAACP "un-American" and a congressman who blasted the Iran nuclear deal were tapped to serve as attorney general and CIA director, respectively, under the Trump administration. A spokesperson for President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday the selections of Sen. Jeff Sessions and Rep. Mike Pompeo to the two top positions, The Associated Press reported .
Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse is no stranger to letters criticizing his way of doing things. Add to that tweets, Facebook messages, and phone calls to his office giving feedback - both positive and negative - on his job as an elected official.
Authorities are searching for the missing week-old baby after her mother was found fatally shot in Wichi... A 38-year-old woman accused of killing her twin sister by driving their SUV off a cliff in Hawaii will decide if she wants to fight extradition from New York. A woman accused of killing her twin sister by driving their SUV off a cliff in Hawaii traveled to upstate New York to grieve the loss of her "soul mate," her lawyer said Friday after a brief court appearance.
A 38-year-old woman accused of killing her twin sister by driving their SUV off a cliff in Hawaii will decide if she wants to fight extradition from New York. A woman accused of killing her twin sister by driving their SUV off a cliff in Hawaii traveled to upstate New York to grieve the loss of her "soul mate," her lawyer said Friday after a brief court appearance.
President-elect Donald Trump is offering former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn the position of national security adviser, elevating a fierce critic of current U.S. foreign policy into a crucial White... President-elect Donald Trump is moving ahead with filling key posts in his administration, picking Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for the job of attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo as head of the CIA. Immigration hotlines, legal clinics and public schools around the country have been fielding a flood of questions about immigration since Donald Trump's election.
Donald Trump Chooses Mike Pompeo as C.I.A. Director New York Times, by MARK MAZZETTI and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Representative Mike Pompeo, a hawkish Republican from Kansas and a former Army officer, to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, according to officials close to Mr. Trump's transition team. Mr. Pompeo, who has served for three terms in Congress and is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, gained prominence for his role in the congressional investigation into the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo has accepted President-elect Donald TrumpA s offer to be the head of the CIA in his new administration, a transition official confirmed. PompeoA s selection Friday comes after NBC News confirmed Trump offered the attorney general post to Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions and the national adviser post to retired Army Lt.
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped three senior leaders of his national security and law enforcement teams, choosing Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Representative Mike Pompeo as CIA director and General Mike Flynn as national security adviser, a transition official said on Friday. In choosing Sessions as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Trump would award a loyalist whose hard-line and at times inflammatory statements on immigration were similar to his own.
The conservative Judicial Crisis Network is launching $175,000 in ads praising Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, for his role in blocking President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. According to Politico , the network's ads are encouraging Grassley toward the impending confirmation of a high court nominee submitted by President-elect Donald Trump.
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With some in the finance industry salivating over the prospect of deregulation under Donald Trump, a key power broker is emerging who might bring headaches for Wall Street. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling has already been rumored as a potential Treasury Secretary under Trump and he's got a plan at his fingertips for ripping up and replacing the Dodd-Frank Act.
In the ceremony to formally give ... . A cardinal holds a red three-cornered biretta hat before a consistory inside the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016.
Donald Trump has offered the position of national security adviser to retired Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, according to multiple news outlets. Unlike some names being floated for positions in Trump's administration - such as potential secretary of State Rudy Giuliani - Flynn has extensive experience in his field.
Sen. Jeff Sessions has emerged as the top candidate to be the next attorney general in President-elect Donald Trump's administration, a transition official told CNN Thursday. Sessions, 69, is currently serving his fourth Senate term and was the first sitting senator to endorse Trump.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has explained to members of the U.S. Congress the details of the modified peace accord reached with FARC guerrillas. The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize recipient told reporters that he had productive Thursday meetings with both Democratic and GOP lawmakers, including the chairman of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations, Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee.
A powerful California congressman of Portuguese descent has pushed for years for the installation of a costly U.S. intelligence facility in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic. On Thursday, Rep. Devin Nunes of Visalia, the Republican chair of the House intelligence committee, kept at his campaign, confronting two senior Pentagon officials and the top U.S. intelligence chief over why they favored a site in England.
Before taking office, Trump signals campaign promises are negotiable U.S. presidential candidates frequently make campaign promises they can't deliver once in power. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: http://usat.ly/2g2JP36 Trump made a lot of big promises on the campaign trail, as President-elect many of those declarations are starting to look less and less possible.
North Dakota's democrat senator Heidi Heitkamp is pushing back against her party's negative stereotypes of Donald Trump supporters. In a piece appearing on the website Politico, Heitkamp challenged the idea that Trump supporters are different than anyone else.