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Pressure on members of the US electoral college to select someone other than Donald Trump as president has grown dramatically - and noisily - in recent weeks, causing some to waver but yielding little evidence that Trump will fall short when electors convene in most state capitals on Monday to cast their votes. Carole Joyce of Arizona expected her role as a Republican Party elector to be pretty simple: she would meet the others in Phoenix and carry out a vote for Trump, who won the most votes in her state and whom she personally supported.
The Federal Communications Commission is about to get a big shakeup in terms of personnel and quite likely in policy. On Thursday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler [seen here], who pushed through controversial rules protecting net neutrality and guarding consumer privacy, announced he will step down from the commission on Jan. 20, the same day that Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president.
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday on Twitter the United States should let China keep the U.S. Navy's unmanned underwater glider that it seized in the South China Sea. "We should tell China that we don't want the drone they stole back.- let them keep it!" Trump tweeted a few hours after the U.S. military announced it had reached an understanding with China for the return of the underwater glider.
China said Saturday its military seized a US Navy unmanned underwater glider in the South China Sea but it would give the drone back. But President-elect Donald Trump tweeted later that the Chinese government should be told "we don't want the drone they stole back" and "let them keep it!" This comes after United States officials had confirmed that they 'secured an understanding' for the return of the device.
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 criticized China Saturday for unlawfully seizing a U.S. naval research drone operating legally in international waters in the South China Sea.
Hundreds of houses of worship are offering sanctuary to people who could face deportation if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his campaign pledge to remove millions of immigrants living in the country illegally.
President-elect Donald Trump this week tapped Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as his secretary of state. If confirmed by the Senate, where opposition is emerging, the move could have broad consequences for U.S. environmental policy and affect the role the U.S. plays in multinational discussions about climate change.
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday wrapped up his postelection victory tour, showing few signs of turning the page from his blustery campaign to focus on uniting a divided nation a month before his inauguration. At each stop, the Republican has gloatingly recapped his election night triumph, reignited some old political feuds while starting some new ones, and done little to quiet the hate-filled chants of "Lock her up!" directed at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
President-elect Donald Trump is holding the final rally on his postelection victory tour in a football stadium in Mobile, Alabama, where he held the biggest rally of his campaign. Trump said he's been told that once he's president he should stop holding such rallies.
President-Elect Donald J. Trump and his team touched down in Alabama this afternoon for the final event of his Thank Your Rally tour. Kellyanne Conway was the first successful female presidential campaign manager in history.
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump regularly attacked Mitt Romney for criticizing him. But the former Massachusetts governor now believes Trump will be open to criticism.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: WASHINGTON - The Chinese government will return a U.S. naval drone seized this week in the South China Sea, the Pentagon said Saturday, in a move that promises to defuse heightened maritime tensions between the two Pacific powers.  Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said that Beijing had agreed to transfer the "ocean glider," a small unmanned vessel used to assess water conditions, back to the United States, but said details on how and when that would occur had not been decided.
Ivanka Trump visits with women members of Congress at the Republican National Committee headquarters in September to promote her father's proposals on child care. She was a key player in her father's winning campaign, and people are closely watching the next moves by president-elect Donald Trump's 35-year-old daughter.
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he would nominate Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina to be his budget director. Mulvaney is a founding member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, the group that led the takedown of John Boehner as speaker In Mulvaney, Trump has chosen for the Office of Management and Budget a spending hard-liner to join an economic team that could be ideologically in conflict, setting up possible collisions during major policymaking next year.
Over the past four months, US intelligence agencies and aides to President Obama assembled a menu of options to respond to Russia's hacking during the election, ranging from the obvious - exposing President Vladimir Putin's financial ties to oligarchs - to the innovative, including manipulating the computer code that Russia uses in designing its cyberweapons. But while Obama vowed Friday to "send a clear message to Russia" as both punishment and deterrent, some of the options were rejected as ineffective, others as too risky.
U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers says she was never offered the job of Interior secretary by President-elect Donald Trump. The Republican lawmaker from Eastern Washington state told The Spokesman-Review that when her name started circulating as Trump's pick for the job it was completely unexpected.
President-elect Donald Trump is greeted by the Azalea Trail Maids after arriving at the airport for a rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, in Mobile, Ala. President-elect Donald Trump is greeted by the Azalea Trail Maids after arriving at the airport for a rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, in Mobile, Ala.
FOR a new American president to pick an ambassador with no experience in trade, cultural or any other form of diplomacy is not particularly remarkable. These appointments tend to be rewards for loyalty, friendship and financial backing during the campaign.
President-elect Donald Trump has come to the conclusion that his own supporters were 'nasty, mean and vicious' people during the election season, even going so far as to call them 'violent.' Find out what Donald thought of his fans then, and how he feels about them now.
President-elect Donald Trump tapped bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman to serve as the US ambassador to Israel on Thursday, raising questions about how Friedman's far-right views will upend Washington's longstanding approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Friedman, who has no diplomatic experience, is a fierce opponent of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine that would create two independent states on either side of the Jordan river.