Obama’s stunning parting shot at Israel
The UN Security Council has voted to pass a resolution condemning Israel's settlement construction. The United States abstained in the voting, allowing the resolution to pass.
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The ‘grudge match’ between Obama and Israel ‘has finally reached its peak’
The UN Security Council passed a resolution Friday urging Israel to halt building settlements on occupied Palestinian land, in an unexpected vote from which the US abstained. The US's ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, abstained from voting on the resolution, which has been perceived as a slight against Israel.
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For all eight years of the Obama administration, Democrats have made believe that Barack Obama is a firm and enthusiastic supporter and defender of the Jewish state. Arguments to the contrary were not only dismissed but angrily denounced as the products of nothing more than vicious partisanship.
Fla. scientists seek meeting with Trump on climate change
A group of Florida scientists has written a letter to President-elect Donald Trump , asking for a meeting to discuss climate change while he is at his Florida home for the Christmas holiday. The Miami Herald reported Friday that the 10 scientists from Florida's largest universities sent the letter this week asking for a meeting.
Trump’s team and Trump don’t mesh on expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according... Senate Republicans refused to give President Obama's pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Scalia even the courtesy of a... Both Philip Bump at The Washington Post and Sam Stein at The Huffington Post have taken note of the apparent conflict between Donald Trump and his staff over the meaning of his tweet Thursday morning about expanding America's nuclear arsenal: The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes "strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces, especially with missile complexes that can reliably penetrate any existing and prospective missile defense systems."
CIA chief warns against in-kind retaliation for Russian hacking – NPR
Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan has warned the U.S. government against a tit-for-tat response to Russian hacking during the presidential election. "I don't think we should resort to some of the tactics and techniques that our adversaries employ against us.
Protesting Trumpa s a racism,a artists want his daughter Ivanka not to display their work
Some artists whose works are on display at Ivanka Trump's home are asking her to remove them to protest what they called the "racism" of her father, President-elect Donald Trump. Visual artists Jonathan Horowitz and Alex Da Corte joined with curator Alison Gingeras, dealer Bill Powers and several others on the art scene in forming a group they call Halt Action.
Trump: U.S. must a greatly strengthena nuclear capability
President-elect Donald Trump has re-opened the debate over nuclear proliferation, calling for the United States to "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability" until the rest of the world "comes to its senses" regarding nuclear weapons. His comments Thursday on Twitter came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said strengthening his country's nuclear capabilities should be a chief military objective in the coming year.
Vladimir Putin offers cooperation with Donald Trump in Christmas letter
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked to "restore the framework of bilateral cooperation" with the U.S. in a letter to President-elect Donald Trump earlier this month - which the transition team released Friday. The letter offers Christmas and New Year's wishes, then Mr. Putin suggests the two nations find a way to get beyond the loggerheads of the last few years.
Fran O’Sullivan: Cooler heads can keep Trump’s US out of isolation
Trump has said he will instead "negotiate fair bilateral trade deals" that bring jobs and industry onto American shores. Photo / AP It would be short-sighted, and naive, to use the "H" word when looking at the composition of Donald Trump's intended Cabinet.
Trumpa s deregulatory opportunity
President-elect Donald Trump should expeditiously restore the legislative veto upended by the U.S. Supreme Court in INS v. Chadha to downsize the mammoth regulatory state.
With nearly a 2.9 million-vote margin, Clinton the most successful loser in U.S. presidential history
Hillary Clinton received nearly 2.9 million more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, giving her the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate. Certified results in all 50 states and the District of Columbia show Clinton winning nearly 65,844,610 votes - 48 per cent - to Trump's 62,979,636 votes - 46 per cent - according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
Trump Purposely Ignored 4 Golden Rules of Sales and Marketing
He knew voters were tired of being wooed and campaigned to in the typical way. So he disrupted the typical approach.
Promises that Trump needs to keep
Donald Trump promised coal miners he'd bring back their jobs. He vowed he has an "absolute way" of defeating the Islamic State very quickly.
Trump in Palm Beach: Tiger Woods to join president-elect on links, Golf Digest says
President-elect Donald Trump and Tiger Woods are scheduled to play golf today at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, according to a report in Golf Digest that cites a source close to Trump. Donald Trump with Tiger Woods after the final round of the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship at the Trump Doral Golf Resort & Spa on March 10, 2013 in Doral, Florida.
Trump: US must ‘greatly strengthen’ nuclear capability
President-elect Donald Trump takes a question from a member of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Trump on Thursday abruptly called for the United States to "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability" until the rest of the world "comes to its senses" regarding nuclear weapons.
Official: Israel turned to Trump to head off UN resolution
Israel's prime minister turned to President-elect Donald Trump to help head off a critical U.N. resolution after learning that the White House did not intend to veto the measure, an Israeli official said Friday. The admission marked a final chapter in the icy relations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama over the last eight years, and signaled an era of close ties between Israel and the incoming Trump administration.
The Latest: Putin says cease-fire needed across Syria
President Vladimir Putin says it's necessary to establish a cease-fire across the entire territory of Syria, to be followed by peace talks. Putin, speaking at an end-of-year news conference Friday, said that now that Syrian government forces have taken full control of Aleppo, "the next stage should be a cease-fire on the entire territory of Syria and the launch of talks on a political settlement."
Guest Column: Energy sabotage costs Colorado jobs.and Democrats blue collar support
Election postmortems often mention how blue-collar Democrats abandoned their party in big numbers, tipping the race toward President-Elect Donald Trump. But only rarely do writers link these politically damaging defections to the party's job-killing energy attitudes, though to me the connection is crystal clear.
The five biggest obstacles to Trump’s plan to overhaul the tax code
Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin waits after a meeting with Senator Orrin Hatch on Capitol Hill December 8, 2016 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, he is expected to lead Trump's tax reform efforts./ AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski President-elect Donald Trump likes to say he will "drain the swamp" of special interests when he takes up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.