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During one of his "thank-you" tour stops, Donald Trump announced on Dec. 1 : We will pursue a new foreign policy that finally learns from the mistakes of the past. We will stop looking to topple regimes and overthrow governments, folks.
As America's first family enjoys its eighth and final vacation in Hawaii, new estimates put the price tag of the Obamas' annual trip at $3.5 million or more. In total, the cost of the first family's personal or largely personal travel during the last eight years comes to $85 million - though that is likely to climb to $90 million after additional records are released, according to the conservative group Judicial Watch based on federal government records.
A federal judge ordered the government Wednesday to preserve a 2014 Senate report documenting the alleged abuse of CIA detainees that occurred after the September 11 attacks. Lawyers for Abd al-Rahim Al-Nashiri -- who has been charged for his involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 -- sought preservation last month of a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report entitled, "Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program."
Every four years after a presidential election, it seems, delegates and senators introduce bills to the General Assembly to change the way Virginia allocates its 13 Electoral College votes. A pair of Republicans prefiled identical House and Senate bills for the 2017 legislative session beginning Jan. 11 that would award only two of the commonwealth's 13 electoral votes to the winner of the statewide popular vote.
President-elect Donald Trump tapped an experienced hand from the George W. Bush era and a longtime Trump Organization official to become members of his inner circle when he assumes office next month. Thomas Bossert will become an assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism.
Security surrounding the inauguration of Donald Trump is proving to be the most challenging in recent history, according to senior officials involved in its planning, largely because of the same forces of political rancor that shaped the race for the presidency. On top of the daunting threats to any inaugural ceremony, the three dozen agencies responsible for security at the Jan. 20 festivities are preparing for the possibility of large numbers of protesters flooding the capital, along with what may be nearly 1 million supporters of Trump.
After turning over the White House next month to a successor who aims to scuttle some of his key initiatives, President Barack Obama and his foundation will begin seeking out donors to lead their fund drive for a presidential library and museum on Chicago's South Side. Obama's library planners have declined to provide a cost estimate, but the George W. Bush library and endowment cost more than $500 million.
The United States last week abstained vetoing a United Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements as illegal under international law. Our country has a duty and obligation to support a resilient peace in the Middle East even if it has a sincere disagreement with its close ally Israel.
The children were found disheveled with dirt, animal hair, urine and feces in their clothing and encrusted into their skin, according to court paperwork. The children were found disheveled with dirt, animal hair, urine and feces in their clothing and encrusted into their skin, according to court paperwork.
Mr. Trump will inherit an estimated 103 such vacancies throughout federal and district courts, allowing him and his Republican allies to reshape the judiciary with dozens of lifetime appointments. President Barack Obama only inherited 54 such vacancies from his predecessor, President George W. Bush.
Barack Obama first came to national attention as a conciliator. It was 2004 at the Democratic National Convention and the Illinois state senator made a resounding, eloquent speech calling for national unity.
One of the basic principles of democracy is "one person, one vote". Other criteria for an efficient and robust model of democracy include an informed and critically inclined citizenry and the presence of a political culture catering to the "common good" instead of the self-centred whims and boundless greed of the rich and powerful.
I'm dreaming of a bleak Christmas, my mind full of the ways Barack Obama's presidency is going down in history. Yes, with every Christmas card I write, as the song goes.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in an interview that aired Sunday compared President Barack Obama's legacy to a deflating doll and argued Obama is in a "desperate frenzy" to save it. "His legacy is like one of those dolls that, as the air comes out of it, shrinks and shrinks and shrinks," Gingrich said.
US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle sent their final Christmas salutations from the White House, highlighting common values uniting Americans of all faiths. "The idea that we are our brother's keeper and our sister's keeper.
One of Donald Trump's senior communications staffers says he will not take the job of White House communications director after all. Jason Miller said in a statement Saturday that he's decided not to accept Jimmy Carter only ex-president to commit to Trump inaugural .
When Donald Trump ran for president, most of the Republican Party's biggest donors sat out, believing he couldn't win or troubled by what he was saying on the campaign trail. Or both.
" In a story Dec. 22 about President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy, The Associated Press erroneously reported the title of Michael Mandelbaum at John Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He is professor emeritus, not foreign policy director.
India's national security adviser made a low-key visit to Washington earlier this week to meet with a senior aide to President-elect Donald Trump, Indian diplomats said Friday, in a sign of New Delhi's desire to forge close ties with the incoming U.S. administration. India's Ajit Doval met for more than one hour with Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, and they discussed their respective security priorities, including counterterrorism.