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His inauguration less than three weeks away, President-elect Donald Trump is raising new doubts about the nation's intelligence community, tweeting fresh criticism at the same people who will help inform his most sensitive decisions once he takes office. Trump charged Tuesday on Twitter, without evidence, that the timing of an upcoming intelligence briefing on suspected Russian interference in the 2016 election had been delayed.
US investment bank Morgan Stanley said it expects Wall Street stocks to fall after Donald Trump's inauguration as president on 20 January after the strong rally since the Republican's election victory. Many analysts predicted doom and gloom in the event of Trump defeating Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that the Dow Jones Industrial average has shot up 9% and looks likely to break the 20,000 mark, while the S&P 500 is also up by around 6%.
Donald Trump promised voters an immediate repeal of Obamacare, but Republicans in Congress likely won't have a bill ready for him on Day One. Or Day Two.
President Barack Obama, anxious to preserve elements of his signature health law, travels to Capitol Hill Wednesday in a bid to fend off Republican efforts to repeal the measure outright. During his morning huddle with congressional Democrats, Obama plans to argue that a robust defense of the Affordable Care Act by lawmakers could help deter the promised GOP effort to scrap it as soon as Donald Trump takes office.
President Obama is traveling to the Capitol to give congressional Democrats advice on how to combat the Republican drive to dismantle his health care overhaul. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is meeting with GOP lawmakers to discuss the best way to send Obama's cherished law to its graveyard and replace it with - well, something.
NAACP president Cornell William Brooks was arrested Tuesday night after staging a sit-in protest at the Mobile, Alabama, office of Republican senator Jeff Sessions, who is Donald Trump's Attorney General nominee. Alabama NAACP president Bernard Simelton and other NAACP members were also arrested.
Either way, the 2016 presidential election was going to be an unprecedented, history-making event. From the Democrats, the first-ever woman candidate for a major party in Hillary Clinton.
His inauguration less than three weeks away, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday raised new doubts about the nation's intelligence community, tweeting fresh criticism at the same officials who will help inform his most sensitive decisions once he takes office. Trump charged on Twitter without evidence that the timing of an upcoming intelligence briefing on Russian interference in the 2016 election had been delayed.
"Optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything is good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong."
The national president of the NAACP and five others were arrested after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the civil rights group said. The organization held the demonstration to protest Sessions' nomination by President-elect Donald Trump, criticizing Sessions' record and views on civil rights, immigration, criminal justice reform, and voting rights enforcement.
Six NAACP demonstrators were arrested after occupying the Mobile office of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, calling for him to turn down his controversial nomination to become the next U.S. Attorney General. More than a dozen protesters entered the office around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Benard Simelton, president of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, told the Daily News from Sessions' office.
The new GOP era in Washington got off to a messy start Tuesday as House Republicans, under pressure from President-elect Donald Trump, abruptly dropped plans to gut an independent congressional ethics board. The dizzying about-face came as lawmakers convened for the first day of the 115th Congress, an occasion normally reserved for pomp and ceremony under the Capitol Dome.
Several NAACP protesters led by their national president were escorted away in handcuffs by police after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general,... Several NAACP protesters led by their national president were escorted away in handcuffs by police after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the... President-elect Donald Trump says Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should ask for federal help if he isn't able to bring down a homicide count that soared last year to 762 - the most killings in nearly two decades... President-elect Donald Trump says Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should ask for federal help if he isn't able to bring down a homicide count that soared last year to 762 - the most killings in nearly two decades and more... Cleveland officials searching ... (more)
The head of a federal agency that oversees potentially risky financial market activities will leave office at the end of the Obama administration on Jan. 20. Timothy Massad announced his resignation Tuesday as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. President Barack Obama appointed the corporate attorney and former Treasury Department official to the post in November 2013.
President-elect Donald Trump says Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should ask for federal help if he isn't able to bring down a homicide count that soared last year to 762 - the most killings in nearly two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined. Trump pointed to the spike in shooting deaths earlier this week in a posting on Twitter, writing: "If Mayor can't do it he must ask for federal help!" Despite Trump's tweet, the federal government has already been involved, albeit with mixed results, via the U.S. attorney's office, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, arrives for the opening of the 115th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 3, 2017. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, arrives for the opening of the 115th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 3, 2017.
The new Congress opened with a stumble Tuesday after the Republican majority's plan for gutting an independent ethics office drew a firestorm of criticism - including tweets of displeasure from President-elect Donald Trump - that forced lawmakers to reverse course in a sign of battles to come. The messy debut of what was supposed to be a celebratory start on Capitol Hill foreshadowed roadblocks ahead as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan tries to lead his often willful GOP majority while maneuvering unexpected outbursts from the party's new leader in the White House .
Texas Congressional representatives were back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, and state legislators head back to work next week. They hope to join efforts to get Texas issues front and center.
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appears at a campaign roundtable event in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., October 28, 2016. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Twitter on Tuesday he will hold a news conference on Jan. 11 in New York.
Pent-up frustration with the Office of Congressional Ethics led to a revolt against GOP leaders, followed by a hasty retreat in the face of public pressure. House Republicans voted Monday night to gut Congress's independent ethics watchdog, but by Tuesday afternoon it was House Republicans who were left gutted, caving to an extraordinary amount of public pressure and reversing their decision.