Trump Set To Meet With Legal Hawk On Regulatory Policy

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the USA Thank You Tour event at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center in West Allis, Wisconsin, U.S., December 13, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with a legal hawk on U.S. regulatory policy Thursday afternoon, according to the Trump Transition pool report.

What Gov. Pence is doing for Christmas Read Story Chelsea Schneider, Indy Star/USA Today Network

Vice President-elect Mike Pence joined other volunteers on the serving line during lunchtime Wednesday at Wheeler Mission Ministries in Downtown Indianapolis. Pence, who has visited the organization that serves the homeless community several times, said he and President-elect Donald Trump will focus on getting people "that have been left behind in this economy back to work."

How Republicans Made Themselves Slaves to Right Wing Media

According to Rachael Bade , even ultra-conservative Republicans are afraid to challenge our president-elect for fear of reprisal. It's true that during the campaign, Trump was known for brow-beating anyone in the GOP who spoke out against him.

Lieberman defends Trump’s controversial Israel ambassador pick

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman on Thursday defended President-elect Donald Trump's controversial selection as the next Israel ambassador, explaining that "some of the things he said really don't reflect what he believes." "I think you're going to find in the weeks ahead in the confirmation process on David Friedman that it's going to be very clear that he wants -- he and President Trump want to be a part of achieving peace between Israelis and Palestinians -- and that some of the things he said don't really reflect what he believes," Lieberman said in an interview on "New Day."

Tom Arnold: Trump lawyers threatening lawsuit over claims of racista …

Just days after Tom Arnold told Seattle's KIRO Radio that he has "Apprentice" outtakes of Donald Trump saying "every offensive, racist thing ever," the comedian is claiming that lawyers for the president-elect are threatening to sue him. "Wife told me there's house line VM from Trump Camp about defamation suit so it's on!" Arnold tweeted Tuesday .

How Trump Can Repeal and Replace DACA

The issue of illegal immigration was a central plank in the campaign of President-elect Donald Trump and played no small role in getting him elected to the White House. His populist, "America First" position spoke to the economic anxieties of many Americans, and it could be argued that he has a mandate to make immigration enforcement a key priority in the first year of his presidency.

Who elected Putin master of the GOP? | Editorial

If America lets Russia get away with this cyberattack, who will be the next target? Russia launched cyberattacks into our election, and senior U.S. intelligence officials now say they have "high confidence" Vladimir Putin ordered the hacking and was personally involved in deciding how the stolen material was leaked and used. We can't just shrug that off and say there's nothing to be done.

Putin: Russia’s military is stronger than anyone’s

The Mississippi fire marshal says investigators don't see politics as the motivation for the burning of an African-American church that was also spray-painted with the words "Vote Trump" a week before the... The Mississippi fire marshal says investigators don't see politics as the motivation for the burning of an African-American church that was also spray-painted with the words "Vote Trump" a week before the presidential... By The Associated Press The Alaska Volcano Observatory has issued its highest level of alert for aviation after what it says was a brief explosion of a volcano on the Aleutian Islands.

Trump threatens electronic rights, EFF warns

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is keenly worried that President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress will step up surveillance activities and pass laws to curtail electronic rights. As a result, the EFF is advising the tech sector to use end-to-end encryption for every transaction by default, and to scrub logs.

So much for ‘draining the swamp’

One of Donald Trump's most trusted aides is setting up a government consulting shop a block from the White House - a move that complicates the president-elect's promises to "drain the swamp" of Washington. Corey Lewandowski, Trump's first campaign manager, and former Trump adviser Barry Bennett announced Wednesday they are starting a government relations and political consulting firm called Avenue Strategies.

Amid scrutiny, Eric Trump to stop raising money for charity

One of President-elect Donald Trump 's sons will stop directly raising money for his namesake foundation, saying he worries the donations could be perceived as buying access to his father. Eric Trump said Wednesday that it pained him to cease soliciting donations for his organization, which he says has raised more than $15 million for terminally ill children with cancer.

Trump’s Normalization of White Supremacy: Will Richard Spencer Sit in Congress?

With an incoming presidency that was embroiled in charges of using white supremacist rhetoric during the campaign trail, it's no wonder white supremacists across the country are rising from the margins and being frontlined on mainstream platforms. The rise of Richard Spencer - the white supremacist considering running for Congress - is one such case.