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The first order of business from the power-hungry Republican members of the US House of Representatives in 2017 turned out to be not their pledge to end Obamacare or to defund Planned Parenthood, but instead their first action taken in the dark of night on January 2 was to gut their own long-standing independent ethics oversight panel! During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump announced that he had a 'secret plan' which would "end the violence in Chicago within 5 days of his taking office".
Let's take a moment to savor what looks to be Henry Kissinger's final act. The man is 93. At that age, most people are lucky to have enough energy for Wheel of Fortune and a few Facebook posts.
First, let me commend you on urging everyone to get behind President Elect Donald Trump. Love him or loath him, he will be our next President and we had all better hope and pray that he is successful.
Trump tweets his anger that Kellyanne Conway interview cut short The president-elect again lashed out at "dishonest media." Check out this story on eveningsun.com: http://usat.ly/2i7myiP President-elect Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter on Sunday against NBC's Meet the Press , saying the show edited out nine minutes of a 10-minute interview that host Chuck Todd did with Kellyanne Conway, Trump's top counselor.
South Korea's finance chief will assure overseas investors about the country's solid economic fundamentals when he visits the United States this week ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in mid-January, the finance ministry said Sunday. Finance Minister Yoo Il-ho will hold a road show for some 120 overseas investors in New York on Wednesday to explain South Korea's solid fundamentals represented by current account surpluses, stable foreign exchange reserves and further room for monetary easing policies, according to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance.
Republicans are intent on getting as many of Trump's choices through the arduous confirmation process as quickly as possible. Several of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet choices have not completed a full review to avoid conflicts of interest, the government's ethics office says, even as Republican senators move quickly to hold at least nine confirmation hearings next week.
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that "only 'stupid' people or fools" would dismiss closer ties with Russia, and he seemed unswayed after his classified briefing on an intelligence report that accused Moscow of meddling on his behalf in the election that catapulted him to power.
Russian commentators on Saturday dismissed, with no small amount of derision, the conclusion by U.S. intelligence agencies that President VladiA mir Putin personally ordered a campaign to sabotage the American presidential election. Few in Russia have ever accepted the notion that the Kremlin intervened to hurt Hillary Clinton and help President-elect Donald Trump, but the 14-page declassified report, lacking as it was in details, drew instant contempt from Moscow's chattering classes.
Monica Crowley, a national security adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, was accused by CNN Saturday of plagiarizing passages in her 2012 book. Crowley got her start as a research assistant on foreign policy to former President Richard Nixon , helping the politician - who had already been impeached for his role in the Watergate break-in at the Democratic National Campaign headquarters and the subsequent cover-up - in the final few years of his life by editing his books, arranging his speaking engagements and coordinating his travel.
Brady Campaign president Dan Gross issued the following statement calling on President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, Senator Jeff Sessions, to respond to the tragedy in Fort Lauderdale with a plan to reduce gun violence. Sessions' nomination hearings before the Senate begins next Tuesday.
At the Golden Globes Sunday night, and the Oscars next month, expect lots of gold-plated bitching about Donald Trump. Honorees will mourn the "dark times in America" in their $20,000 frocks.
Rescue workers attend to the wreckage after they and Syria opposition activists said dozens were killed when a car bomb went off in a busy market in a rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz along the Turkish border Saturday.
Jonathan Zasloff, 51, is a Democratic Jew who said he is most concerned about what he described as Trump's hostility to democracy, including smearing of immigrants and wanting a religious test for those entering the country. Pacific Palisades, CA 1/6/2017.
Pew Research: As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the public views one of his signature campaign promises -- the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border -- as a less important goal for immigration policy than several other objectives, such as cracking down on visa overstays.
Mitt Romney publicly backed President-elect Donald Trump's education secretary nominee in a Washington Post op-ed published Saturday. Betsy DeVos was tapped to lead the Department of Education in Trump's administration in November, but has been considered a controversial choice by the education community.
The US intelligence community concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an "influence campaign" to harm Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the 2016 election. The declassified reported, released Friday, determined with "high confidence" that Russia's interference - consisting of hacking Democratic groups and individuals and releasing that information via third-party websites, including WikiLeaks - helped President-elect Donald Trump win the election.
Several of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet choices have not completed a full review to avoid conflicts of interest, the government's ethics office says, even as Republican senators move quickly to hold at least nine confirmation hearings next week. In a letter to Senate leaders, the director of the Office of Government Ethics described the current status of several nominees, some of whom are billionaires and millionaires, in the ethics process and expressed concern about the lack of ethics reviews just days from committee hearings.
The Obama administration on Friday rejected requests by energy companies to conduct seismic surveys in the Atlantic Ocean to map potential drilling sites for oil and natural gas. The Interior Department said it denied six pending applications in part because President Barack Obama has blocked Atlantic drilling under a five-year offshore drilling plan finalized late last year.
A day after U.S. intelligence officials said Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump, the president-elect renewed his call for better Washington-Moscow relations and suggested naysayers are "fools" or "stupid people." Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing.