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Donald Trump once described Jamie Dimon as "the worst banker in the United States," but the president-elect has helped make the boss of JPMorgan Chase & Co $50 million richer. Dimon is the top beneficiary among the 30 chief executives who run companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average index from a stock rally inspired by Trump's election, according to a Reuters analysis of their option grants.
U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama stops for selfies during her annual visit to the Toys for Tots event at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Dec. 7, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Photo by Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS WASHINGTON First Lady Michelle Obama made an impassioned case for embracing diversity and welcoming all religious groups in a not-so-veiled message to her husband's successor two weeks ahead of Inauguration Day. In what was billed as her last formal speech before President Barack Obama leaves office, the first lady said Friday at an event honoring high school counselors that the United States belonged to people from all backgrounds and walks of life.
Senior U.S. intelligence officials will testify in Congress on Thursday on Russia's alleged cyber attacks during the 2016 election campaign, even as President-elect Donald Trump casts doubt on intelligence agencies' findings that Moscow orchestrated the hacks, Reuters reported. The hearings come a day before Trump is due to be briefed by intelligence agency chiefs on hacks that targeted the Democratic Party.
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appears at a campaign roundtable event in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., October 28, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri Donald Trump gave Democrats a Christmas gift over the weekend, and they said thanks by pulling down the Christmas tree, breaking the nativity scene and shattering the fine China.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the USA Thank You Tour event at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center in West Allis, Wisconsin, U.S., December 13, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with a legal hawk on U.S. regulatory policy Thursday afternoon, according to the Trump Transition pool report.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Exxon-Mobil Corporation's Rex Tillerson as his choice for secretary of state on Tuesday, praising the business leader as a successful international dealmaker who has led a global operation. Trained as an engineer, the silver-haired oilman is 64 and has never worked in government, but his global deal-making experience could be an asset in defending US interests.
Duterte has been criticised for his war on drugs that has left 2,000 people killed [Lean Daval Jr/Reuters] Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has described as "encouraging" his phone call with US President-elect Donald Trump, whom he said was understanding of his bloody war on drugs. "I could sense a good rapport, an animated President-elect Trump.
Donald Trump's White House victory puts a spotlight on Reince Priebus, an establishment Republican figure who emerged as a trusted adviser to the New York businessman and helped encourage discipline in the campaign's final weeks. In a pre-election interview, Priebus told Reuters that Trump won over voters who were frustrated with Washington and its politicians.
PEOPLE DRESS UP as US presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at a Trump campaign rally in Naples, Florida on October 23.. Scandal, democracy's salt and pepper, has been flavoring US presidential races for more than two centuries.
A soldier stands next to a bus stop with a pro-Trump poster near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. Republican nominee Donald J. Trump won the US presidential vote among American citizens voting from Israel, according to an iVoteIsrael exit poll taken this week, but in an election plagued with low favorability ratings for both candidates, he had a far less impressive showing than Republicans did in Israel in the past.
New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin attend a news conference in New York, July 23, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/File Photo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX2NHP1 Disgraced ex-New York congressman Anthony Weiner could face indictment over his sexting with an underage girl within the next several weeks, a law-enforcement source told The Post on Tuesday.
MOSCOW: Americans should vote for Donald Trump as president next month or risk being dragged into a nuclear war, according to a Russian ultra-nationalist ally of President who likes to compare himself to the US Republican candidate. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant veteran lawmaker known for his fiery rhetoric, told Reuters in an interview that was the only person able to de-escalate dangerous tensions between Moscow and Washington.
Two groups that support far-reaching curbs on legal immigration to the United States and ideological screening of would-be immigrants to test their beliefs say Donald Trump's presidential campaign has consulted them on his immigration policy. NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies, which for years have denied accusations they harbor radical views on immigration, told Reuters they had met or had telephone calls with either Trump or senior members of his campaign over the past year.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gestures as he speaks to the Economic Club of New York luncheon in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 15, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar Lawyers representing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sent a letter to The New York Times threatening a lawsuit after the paper published several pages of Trump's 1995 tax returns.
Miss Universe 1996, Alicia Machado of Venezuela, is greeted by businessman Donald Trump during a staged workout at a gym in New York in a January 28, 1997 file photo. Photo: Reuters Donald Trump urged voters on Friday to check out the supposed "sex tape" of a former Miss Universe backing his rival Hillary Clinton, provoking the Democrat to label him "unhinged" in a surreal new turn to the White House race.
Members of the Badr Organisation undergo training before the upcoming battle to recapture Mosul in Diyala province, Iraq, on September 27, 2016. Photo - Reuters Members of the Badr Organisation undergo training before the upcoming battle to recapture Mosul in Diyala province, Iraq, on September 27, 2016.
Britain's HSBC is seeking to release billions of dollars of capital tied up in the United States without upsetting the country's politicians and regulators, senior sources at the bank said. A logo of HSBC is displayed outside a branch in the financial district in Hong Kong, China, June 2, 2015.
Following months of negotiations and several offers, Germany-based Bayer finally managed to purchase Monsanto - one of the world's largest seed giants - on Wednesday, for a whopping $66 billion. The merger is the largest all-cash deal on record, reports Reuters .
A combination photo shows U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in Los Angeles, California on May 5, 2016 and in Eugene, Oregon, U.S. on May 6, 2016 respectively. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson and Jim Urquhart/File Photos Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that health is an issue in the campaign after his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, revealed she had pneumonia, and he said he would soon release detailed health information of his own.
Americans commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Sunday with the recital of the names of the dead, tolling church bells and a tribute in lights at the site where New York City's massive twin towers collapsed.