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President-elect Donald Trump says he will dissolve his charitable foundation before taking office to avoid conflicts of interest. The Democratic Party says that's not enough and is calling for the billionaire... President-elect Donald Trump says he will dissolve his charitable foundation before taking office to avoid conflicts of interest.
In a speech Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked President Barack Obama and the United Nations for the passage a day before of a resolution that criticized Israel's settlement activity in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Netanyahu said the resolution was part of the "swan song of old world bias against Israel," and he compared Obama to former President Jimmy Carter, whom the prime minister called the worst president for Israel and the last to break with a traditional U.S. commitment to support Israel.
Several months ago, before the presidential election, San Francisco poet and author Dean Rader found himself engaged in a philosophical debate with some of his fellow poets: If Donald Trump were to win the presidency, and if he asked one of them to compose a poem to be read at the inauguration, would they do it? On the one hand, none of them supported Trump for the presidency. Rader didn't know many politically conservative poets, in general, and his friends found the prospect of Trump's election to be "terrifying" and offensive.
President-elect Donald Trump says he will dissolve his charitable foundation before taking office to avoid conflicts of interest. The Democratic Party says that's not enough and is calling for the billionaire... It'll be a white Christmas for the northern Plains and some Western states, but it's likely to cause troublesome travel.
With the closure of the abbey of the uniquely women-led Bridgettine Order the more than 500 books of the library are ... . In this Dec. 6, 2016 photo Sister Apollonia historian Volker Schier looks at a mural in the abbey in Altomuenster, Germany.
Travel conditions remain hazardous across much of the northern Great Plains as a winter storm continues to sweep across the region. Travel conditions remain hazardous across much of the northern Great Plains as a winter storm continues to sweep across the region.
President-elect Donald Trump has yet to articulate his plans for the space agency, NASA still hasn't replaced its shuttle program and it's to early to tell whether hte Jupiter probe mission will be a sucecss.
One of Donald Trump's senior communications staffers says he will not take the job of White House communications director after all. Jason Miller said in a statement Saturday that he's decided not to accept Jimmy Carter only ex-president to commit to Trump inaugural .
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month. The revelation comes as the New York attorney general's office investigates the foundation following media reports that foundation spending went to benefit Trump's campaign.
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President-elect Donald Trump said he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month.
Jason Miller, who was named President-elect Donald Trump's White House communications director just two days ago, announced Saturday he will not be taking a job in the incoming administration. The 41-year-old aide, who served as Sen. Ted Cruz's communications adviser before joining Trump's campaign, said he needed to spend more time with his family.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. >> President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama sent their final Christmas salutations from the White House on Saturday, highlighting common values uniting Americans of all faiths. "The idea that we are our brother's keeper and our sister's keeper.
US President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he intends to dissolve his controversial philanthropic foundation to avoid conflicts of interest, but the move was quickly complicated by an ongoing legal probe. Trump's sprawling portfolio of US and overseas business interests and holdings, as well as his Donald J. Trump Foundation, have come under increased scrutiny in the weeks since his election, and the shuttering of his charity would be his first big step to avoid a brewing storm of potential conflicts of interest.
When Donald Trump ran for president, most of the Republican Party's biggest donors sat out, believing he couldn't win or troubled by what he was saying on the campaign trail. Or both.
Senior diplomatic sources described the US abstention on the resolution as Obama's last act of "sticking it" to Israel. Israel reacted furiously Saturday to the anti-settlement resolution passed a day earlier in the UN, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that he spoke with leaders in the incoming Trump administration as well as both Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress and vowed an all-out fight against the measure.
Donald Trump supporers hold up giant letters spelling out the word "vote" in Denver, Colorado on November 5, 2016. Picture: AFP Americans call it the Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."