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Donald Trump will take the oath of office at the presidential inauguration Friday, but first up is a dress rehearsal at the Capitol for that elaborate ceremony. The goal is to practice the sequence of events so the real thing goes off as flawlessly - and on time - as possible.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Capitol Hill Tuesday, has been a budget hawk. Don't look now, but it's time to argue about deficits again.
In this Jan. 11, 2017 file photo, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at the confirmation hearing for Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
President-elect Donald Trump began a long holiday weekend that honors slain black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. by attacking another rights activist and politician who had said he does not see Trump as a "legitimate president." U.S. Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, said on a segment of "Meet the Press" released by NBC on Jan. 13 he thought hacking by Russians had helped Trump, a Republican, get elected in November.
A new study that finds gun violence in PG-13 movies has more than doubled since 1985 has prompted experts to urge parents to talk with their kids about the violence they see on the screen. A new study that finds gun violence in PG-13 movies has more than doubled since 1985 has prompted experts to urge parents to talk with their kids about the violence they see on the screen.
Two top aides to President-elect Donald Trump denied a published report on Saturday that he is planning to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin weeks after taking office. The Sunday Times of London reported that Trump had told British officials that such a summit was being planned, possibly to be staged in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik.
President-elect also said that Beijing should show faith in trade practices for him to commit to 'One China' policy Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump has hinted at lifting sanctions against Russia and said he was not committed to the longstanding 'One-China' policy. The incoming President, who is scheduled to take office on January 20, suggested he would be open to lifting sanctions against Russia if Moscow proved helpful in battling terrorists and reaching other goals important to the US.
Some of President-elect Donald Trump's picks for high-level positions in his administration this week split with him on key issues like trade, torture, and the US relationship with Iran and Russia. Trump has taken some controversial stances on many issues throughout his campaign and after the election.
In this Jan. 11, 2017 file photo, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at the confirmation hearing for Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Demonstrators gather for a rally supporting immigrant rights, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017 in Chicago. Immigrant rights advocates are planning demonstrations across the country in what they're calling a "first salvo" against President-elect Donald Trump's pledged hard line on immigration.
Toby Keith, 3 Doors Down and Lee Greenwood will headline a concert for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, his inaugural committee announced. The concert, which takes place at the Lincoln Memorial on January 19, has been dubbed "The Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration."
The US presidential election was barely a week away when the two men first met. David Corn, Washington editor of the liberal news website Mother Jones, had agreed to meet with his contact, a former spy, under the condition that he would neither name him, reveal his identity or the spy service where he had worked for nearly two decades.
You'd never know it from President Barack Obama or the mainstream media, but America is under attack from its ideological adversaries, says an award-winning national security reporter. After writing a comprehensive review of Obama's statecraft, Bill Gertz says ominously, "Americans are in the dark" about the threats we face.
Controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered his security forces to bomb kidnap-for-ransom groups operating in the country's southern islands, even if hostages are killed. "Even if they are kidnappers and they are trying to escape, blow them up," Mr Duterte told businessmen in his home city of Davao.
On Nov. 9, President-elect Donald Trump won the election, and the Dow Jones began its upward march from 18,332 in the wee hours after Hillary Clinton's concession call. The Dow rallied relatively uninterrupted straight through to Jan. 6, when it got within a fraction of a point of crossing the hurdle of 20K, peaking at 19,999.63.
Yesterday, Representative John Lewis said that he doesn't regard Donald Trump as a "legitimate" president, causing the President-elect to insult him back by suggesting he do something to help the people who elected him. As a whole slew of people already pointed out , Lewis has been a public advocate and servant for decades.
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Protesters gathered Saturday to support immigrant rights at rallies around the U.S., denouncing President-elect Donald Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric and his pledges to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and to crack down on Muslims entering the country. "We are not going to allow Donald Trump to bury the Statue of Liberty," Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, told a standing-room-only crowd at historic African-American church in downtown Washington during one of dozens of rallies around the nation.