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Barack Obama is under pressure during his final weeks as president to do something - anything - to secure the future of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children who could face deportation under the Trump administration. His options appear few.
Turkish police struggled Sunday to track down a gunman who attacked New Year's Eve revelers at a popular Istanbul nightclub, killing at least 39 people, most of them foreigners. Close to 70 more were wounded.
As Republicans prepare to make good on their promises to dismantle and bury ObamaCare, Democrats have settled on a strategy for a final defense of the controversial law: a conference call with reporters. In communicating indignation to their grassroots voters and donors, however, Democrats are passing on a means of effectively defending ObamaCare from the coming GOP onslaught.
This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table during a job fair at Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson, N.Y. The Labor Department released its weekly report on applications for unemployment benefits on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016.
"Anything is possible in this world. You just have to believe in yoursel... . In this Dec. 10, 2016 photo, Syrian refugee Ahmad Alkhalaf, left, dashes away from Rayyan Jalal while playing capture the flag with friends during a day camp for local Muslim children in Sharon, Mass.
Melania Trump, right, looks on as her husband President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters during a New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. Melania Trump, right, looks on as her husband President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters during a New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at a Dec. 8, 2016 ceremony where the official portrait of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was unveiled in the Kennedy Caucus Room on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at a Dec. 8, 2016 ceremony where the official portrait of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was unveiled in the Kennedy Caucus Room on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. For six years, since they took back the House of Representatives, Republicans have added to a pile of legislation that moldered outside the White House. In their thwarted agenda, financial regulations were to be unspooled.
Donna Brazile, the ethically challenged interim chair of the DNC was on ABC's This Week and she made an offer to Donald Trump: BRAZILE: Well, if it's my way or the highway, then what you're going to see again is another round of gridlock in Washington, D.C. You're going to see retribution and retaliation. He has an enormous opportunity, as every president in the first 100 days, to show that he is eager to find common ground, to meet with Democrats.
WASHINGTON Democratic senators plan to aggressively target eight of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees in the coming weeks and are pushing to stretch their confirmation votes into March an unprecedented break with Senate tradition. Such delays would upend Republican hopes of quickly holding hearings and confirming most of Trump's top picks on Inauguration Day.
President Barack Obama meets with United Nations Secretary-General-designate, Antonio Guterres, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington Dec. 2, 2016. Guterres took the reins of the United Nations on New Year's Day.
President-elect Donald Trump 's spokesman Sean Spicer asked Sunday whether Hillary Clinton was going to be "punished" for trying to inappropriately influence the election. "The fact is that everyone wants to make Donald Trump admit to certain things.
President-elect Donald Trump says that "no computer is safe" when it comes to keeping information private, expressing new skepticism about the security of online communications his administration is likely to use for everything from day-to-day planning to international relations. "You know, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old-fashioned way," Trump told reporters during his annual New Year's Eve bash.
President-elect Donald Trump won't end the onslaught of posts on Twitter that fed his unconventional campaign, even after taking on the formalized duties of the Oval Office later this month. Making news and issuing statements on social media sites that also include Facebook and Instagram will “absolutely” continue, despite earlier promises by Trump to cut back, incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Sunday on ABC's “This Week.” “You know what? The fact of the matter is that when he tweets, he gets results,” Spicer said.
In his syndicated column, Terry Mattingly marveled that the journalists belonging to the Religion News Association picked Donald Trump's election as the number-one religion story of 2016, but the number one "religion newsmakers of the year" were instead "Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Muslim parents of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, who appeared before the Democratic National Convention as Mr. Khan denounced Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the country as unconstitutional." If the Khans' tour of the liberal media denouncing Trump had actually caused Trump's defeat, that would make them newsworthy.
Trump ally Newt Gingrich says his big worry about President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is that they'll "lose their nerve" and faced with flak from the left, "give in." In an interview with ABC News' "This Week," the former Speaker of the House said the new Trump administration will have to take positions the "left will hate."
President-elect Donald Trump says that "no computer is safe" when it comes to keeping information private, expressing new skepticism about the security of online communications his administration is likely to use for everything from day-to-day planning to international relations. "You know, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old-fashioned way," Trump told reporters during his annual New Year's Eve bash.
Donald Trump rode a wave of conspiracy theory all the way to the White House. His opponents must avoid its allure For several decades now, belief in conspiracy theories has been on the rise, as trust in institutions has declined.
Congressman-elect Charlie Crist said he is willing to consider President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariff on businesses for the sake of keeping jobs in the United States. "Whatever it is that we come to to help American workers get back to work and help the middle class and our country, we need to do it together and do it in a spirit of cooperation," the Florida Democrat told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" in an interview that aired Sunday.