Half of Americans approve of Trump’s transition handling

Fifty percent of Americans say they approve of the way President-elect Donald Trump is handling the transition and his preparations to take the Oval Office, while 41 percent disapprove, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. But Trump's approval score is significantly below Barack Obama's in December 2008 and Bill Clinton's in December 1992 .

Report: Obama Is Setting Up Shadow Government to Undermine Trump Starting on Inauguration Day

Author Ed Klein told Pete Hegseth on Fox and Friends Weekend this morning that Barack Obama is setting up a shadow government in Washington DC to undermine President Trump after Inauguration Day. Ed Klein: For the past 100 years every president who is outgoing has packed up his stuff gone home and not criticized his successor.

Dershowitz blasts Netanyahu witch-hunts, BDS, and wants a Kotel – for all Jews’

The numerous legal or quasi-legal scandals raised against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are witchhunts which harm democracy, the counterattack against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign is having mixed success, and the Kotel must be "for all Jews," Prof. Alan Dershowitz told The Jerusalem Post in a wide-ranging interview on Thursday.

Daily Show with Trevor Noah EDITS Clip from Trump’s…

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah EDITS clip from the "Thank You" Rally in Grand Rapids, MI to ATTACK PEOTUS Trump- The original video of the rally, the one The Daily Show uses is from Tucker Carlson Tonight. At 44:10 Tucker Carlson Tonight video from Good News Daily youtube channel there is booing from the crowd when Trump mentions Hillary Clinton, along with Bill Clinton, and Barack and Michelle Obama, and their unexpected campaign trip to Michigan.

Trump picks Goldman Sachs executive for top economic post: report

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked a Goldman Sachs executive to head the White House National Economic Council, local media reported Friday. Gary Cohn, Goldman's president and chief operating officer, has been offered the director of the key economic council to coordinate domestic and international economic issues across the Trump's administration, according to NBC News.

John Hood: GOP factions will steer course for more change

The first time I lived in the nation's capital, Ronald Reagan was president. The conservatives I knew there were proud of their movement's accomplishments, in such areas as reforming taxes and challenging the Soviet empire, as well as disappointed by inadequate progress on such issues as cutting the federal budget.

FILE – In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, former President…

In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, former President Bill Clinton applauds as his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in New York, where she conceded her defeat to Republican Donald Trump after the hard-fought presidential election. Hillary Clinton's aides and supporters are urging dispirited Democrats to channel their frustrations about the election results into political causes - just not into efforts to recount ballots in three battleground states.

Fake news stories? That’s a surprise to some55 minutes ago

As Election Day approached, so-called fake news seemed everywhere: intentionally false stories dressed up as news reports, misleading social-media posts, clickbait headlines, hyperpartisan opinion posing as fact. Among the false stories' claims: Pope Francis endorsed Donald Trump, the NYPD was investigating Bill Clinton for sex with underage girls, and ISIS called for Muslims in America to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Letter: Clinton deserved to lose

Now that the U.S. presidential election is over, we conservatives get to indulge in our favourite spectator sport - watching baffled journalists and traumatized celebrities come to grips with the fact that nobody really much cares what they think. In the wake of that earth-shattering discovery, many of them fell back on the old liberal standbys: racism, sexism and "some animals are more equal than others" - or, as comedian Taran Killam tweeted, "Rural = so stupid."

Theory from 1950s can help explain Clinton loss

A theory from the 1950s can help explain. According to University of Michigan researchers in their book "The American Voter," just three factors influence the majority of voters - long-term partisan predispositions, judgments about important issues and images of the candidates.

Nicholas Kristof: Lies in the guise of news in the Trump era

If you get your news from this newspaper or our rival mainstream news sources, there's probably a lot you don't know. You may not realize that our Kenyan-born Muslim president was plotting to serve a third term as our illegitimate president, by allowing Hillary Clinton to win and then indicting her; Pope Francis' endorsement of Donald Trump helped avert the election-rigging.

EU chief worried by Trump’s trans-Atlantic intentions

President Barack Obama arrived in Greece Tuesday morning on the first stop of his final foreign tour as president, the first visit to Greece by a sitting U.S. president since Bill Clinton in 1999. President Barack Obama opened his final foreign trip as president Tuesday with reassuring words in Greece about the U.S. commitment to NATO even as he prepares to hand off to a Donald Trump administration, saying... A national trucking company has agreed to pay $260,000 to settle discrimination complaints by four Sikh truckers who were denied jobs for refusing drug tests that violated their religious beliefs.

Report: UK government said to have no plan for Brexit

Britain will be a "global champion of free trade," according to d... President Barack Obama arrived in Greece Tuesday morning on the first stop of his final foreign tour as president, the first visit to Greece by a sitting U.S. president since Bill Clinton in 1999. President Barack Obama opened his final foreign trip as president Tuesday with reassuring words in Greece about the U.S. commitment to NATO even as he prepares to hand off to a Donald Trump administration, saying... A national trucking company has agreed to pay $260,000 to settle discrimination complaints by four Sikh truckers who were denied jobs for refusing drug tests that violated their religious beliefs.