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President Barack Obama says in his farewell address that protecting the nation's way of life is the job of citizens as well as the military. He is also making a reference to President-elect Donald Trump's campaign calls for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the United States.
President Barack Obama is opening his farewell address in his hometown of Chicago, thanking thousands of supporters and reaffirming his belief in the power of change. In the aftermath of Republican Donald Trump's election as the next president, Obama is acknowledging that the nation's progress has been "uneven."
Popular but politically humbled, President Barack Obama said goodbye to the nation Tuesday night, declaring during his farewell address that he hasn't abandoned his vision of progressive change but warning that it now comes with a new set of caveats. His voice at moments catching with emotion, Obama recounted a presidency that saw setbacks as well as successes.
In his farewell address to the nation Tuesday night, a tearful President Obama called on Americans to keep working on income equality, racial healing and bipartisan cooperation - the same goals he was unable to achieve over the past eight years. With 10 days remaining in his presidency, Mr. Obama traveled to Chicago to deliver his valedictory speech to about 20,000 supporters and urge them to renew the fight for liberal values in the upcoming administration of Republican Donald Trump.
Madonna, covering the February issue of Harper's Bazaar, said she feels like she's living in a nightmare since the election. The "Like a Virgin" singer, who was a fervent Hillary Clinton supporter, sat through Election Night with her agent with both the Quran and the Zohar, she told Harper's Bazaar .
It's all chaos, mayhem and fraught with peril: That is the media narrative leading up to President-elect Donald Trump 's press conference on Wednesday. This is not the case, of course.
Hillary Clinton campaign national press secretary Brian Fallon, left, ripped the media on Twitter after CNN reported Tuesday evening that U.S. intelligence officials briefed President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump on unconfirmed claims that Russia has attempted to compromise Trump. CNN reported Tuesday evening that U.S. intelligence officials last week briefed President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump on unconfirmed claims that Russia has attempted to compromise Trump.
On Jan. 21, the day after President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office, tens of thousands of women plan to descend on Washington to "send a bold message " that "women's rights are human rights." Currently the Women's March on Washington lists 158 partners on its website, and more than a quarter of those groups have been funded by liberal billionaire George Soros.
US President-elect Donald Trump's candidate for attorney general said on Tuesday he was against banning Muslims from entering the country and would enforce a 2015 law that outlawed waterboarding terrorism suspects, even though he had opposed the law. During the 2016 election campaign Trump said waterboarding, which simulates drowning and is widely regarded as torture, was an effective technique and vowed to bring it back and make it "a hell of a lot worse."
Senators used the first day of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions' hearings to test the boundaries of Donald Trump's executive power and highlight areas where Sessions would need to limit him as Attorney General. While several questions at looked back at Sessions' civil rights record, the backdrop to questions about Sessions' future relationship with Trump was set early Tuesday, when Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley asked Sessions whether he would be comfortable saying "no" to the President-elect, given their close relationship on the campaign.
Nominees for top Cabinet posts are grilled by senators for hours -- sometimes even days. Every club they joined, political donation they made or article they wrote is scrutinized.
Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday to testify at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. WASHINGTON >> The Latest on the Senate confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump's selection for attorney general : Sen. Jeff Sessions said that if he is confirmed as attorney general, he would recuse himself from investigations of Hillary Clinton's email server after making comments during the presidential election about the matter.
JANUARY 10: Sen. Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing to be the U.S. Attorney General January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. Sessions was one of the first members of Congress to endorse and support President-elect Donald Trump, who nominated him for Attorney General.
The battling narratives these days seem to involve whether Donald Trump would have been elected president without the help of Russian hackers. The truth is that nobody will ever know.
Unlike President Obama, who apparently only recently started paying attention to his intelligence briefings and said that he underestimated the threat from cyberattacks even though he previously derided Mitt Romney as having a 1980s Cold-War mentality claiming that Russia was our No. 1 threat, Donald Trump said he will support working with the legislature and the intelligence community in drastically improving America's ability to prevent any and all hacking of sensitive data from American servers except for those illegally kept by crooked politicians.
Confirmation hearings begin this week for many of President-elect Donald Trump's most important Cabinet picks - and the Republicans who lead that chamber have a tremendous responsibility to ensure that each Cabinet nominee is thoroughly challenged, even if most of them are sure to be confirmed. So far, they appear to be shirking that responsibility.
People are invited to a vigil to mark the first day of Donald Trump's Presidency of the United States. The gathering will be held in Dalton Square on Saturday, January 21 as one of many women-led events throughout the world.
Mexico's new Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said on Tuesday there is no way his country will pay for the wall that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to build on the United States' southern border to keep out illegal immigrants. "There are no circumstances ... not even the best possible trade deal, investments, support which would justify taking a step that would violate the dignity of Mexicans to such an extent."
Donald Trump called Meryl Streep an "overrated actress" on Monday after the three-time Oscar winner publicly criticized him for having belittled a disabled journalist. Her speech received more than a million YouTube views.
Immigration and domestic security, key themes in Donald Trump's successful campaign, will likely dominate two U.S. Senate hearings on Tuesday as lawmakers begin several days of questioning the president-elect's Cabinet nominees. First to appear before lawmakers will be Trump's pick for attorney general, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama.