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President-elect Donald Trump greets Army Cadets before the Army-Navy NCAA college football game in Baltimore on Saturday. Army won, 21-17, snapping a 14-year losing streak.
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This Northwest timber county hadn’t voted GOP since Herbert Hoover. But times have changed
A logging truck is parked in front of a mural in Aberdeen, Wash. Many in the Washington timber industry voted for Donald Trump for president.
Iran says it’s finalized $16.6B Boeing deal to buy 80 planes
The long campaign season finally ended Saturday in Louisiana, a month later than the rest of the country, with voters deciding the nation's final three congressional seats in runoff elections. Louisiana voters chose Saturday to send Republican state Treasurer John Kennedy to the U.S. Senate, filling the nation's last Senate seat and giving the GOP a 52-48 edge in the chamber when the new term begins in January.
Brexit uncertainties threaten brain drain for UK science
Like many foreign scientists in Britain, Joanna Bagn... . In this photo taken on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, university lecturer Joanna Bagniewska looks at a tiger skull at the Zoology department of the University of Reading in England.
Trump is OK with safe spaces, but only this particular kind
In a stunning move to appeal to liberals, Donald Trump is reportedly OK with safe spaces. However, it's not the kind you see with therapy dogs, play-doh, cry-ins, and liberals wiping each others tears with GOP funded tissues.
Silicon Valley exec has the last laugh after voting Trump :0
GSV Capital Chief Executive Michael Moe is having the last laugh as a Silicon Valley insider who dared not vote for Hillary Clinton. Call it a real belly laugh for this influential tech investor, who has emerged unbowed - and predicts President-elect Donald Trump may very well pull this economy out of the doldrums with opportunities galore for investors.
U.S. Limits on Wall Street Bonuses Appear Doomed Ahead of Trump
For years the White House has pushed U.S. regulators to finish writing tough new rules that would restrict bonuses for Wall Street executives, one of the most contentious parts of the Dodd-Frank banking reform law. The chances of that actually happening are becoming slimmer by the day.
Hospital director: 160 dead in collapsed Nigerian church
The long campaign season finally ended Saturday in Louisiana, a month later than the rest of the country, with voters deciding the nation's final three congressional seats in runoff elections. Louisiana voters chose Saturday to send Republican state Treasurer John Kennedy to the U.S. Senate, filling the nation's last Senate seat and giving the GOP a 52-48 edge in the chamber when the new term begins in January.
Kenyan police use tear gas to disperse rally against graft
The man who fatally shot retired New Orleans Saints defensive leader Will Smith faces a sentence of up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter during a trial that made spectators of some of the... The man who fatally shot retired New Orleans Saints defensive leader Will Smith was convicted of manslaughter on Sunday night, ending a week-long trial in which the defendant insisted he only fired because the popular... Immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, but were protected from deportation by President Barack Obama, are being warned by some advocates to make sure they are not traveling abroad when... Immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, but were protected from deportation by President Barack Obama, are being warned by some advocates to make sure they are not traveling abroad when Donald Trump... Snow, freezing rain and ... (more)
Director at Crewe suspended amid British sex abuse inquiry
The man who fatally shot retired New Orleans Saints defensive leader Will Smith faces a sentence of up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter during a trial that made spectators of some of the... The man who fatally shot retired New Orleans Saints defensive leader Will Smith faces a sentence of up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter during a trial that made spectators of some of the... The man who fatally shot retired New Orleans Saints defensive leader Will Smith was convicted of manslaughter on Sunday night, ending a week-long trial in which the defendant insisted he only fired because the popular... Immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, but were protected from deportation by President Barack Obama, are being warned by some advocates to make sure they are not traveling abroad when... Immigrants who were brought to ... (more)
Jeff Sadow: Stop pestering Louisiana electors for Trump
Ignorance does not lead to bliss, as the content of unhappy communiquA s raining down on Louisiana's presidential electors proves. Since Nov. 8, Louisiana's Republican electors collectively have received more than 100,000 messages variously suggesting, imploring or demanding that each of the eight pledged to Republican President-elect Donald Trump not vote for him when the Electoral College "meets" on Dec. 19. On that date, in state capitals and the District of Columbia, electors will congregate to cast their ballots; in winner-take-all Louisiana, the Republican ticket received 58 percent of the vote.
Charles Krauthammer: Tweets and theater entertain, but Congress is the main event
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a "Thank You USA" tour rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 9, 2016.
Trump blasts call for ‘deep dive’ into Russia’s role in November election
Samuel Brown was laughing with co-workers when his legs suddenly gave out. He ended up at a New York City hospital and then sent home.
Trump Effect: Louisiana Republican John Kennedy Wins U.S. Senate Runoff Election
Republican John Kennedy has been declared the winner of Louisiana's runoff election for the U.S. Senate, defeating Democrat Foster Campbell and thwarting one of the last opportunities in 2016 for Democrats to gain a seat in the upper chamber. Kennedy's win on Saturday night, the first GOP win since Trump's election, gives Republicans a 52 seat majority in the U.S. Senate, making it that much harder for Democrats to make any headway in Washington.
Tweets, theater entertain, but Congress is main event
The most amusing part of the Trump transition has been watching its effortless confounding of the media, often in fewer than 140 characters. One morning, after a Fox News report on lefty nuttiness at some obscure New England college -- a flag burning that led a more-contemptible-than-usual campus administration to take down the school's own American flag -- Donald Trump tweets that flag burners should go to jail or lose their citizenship.
Who wins and who loses in New York City under Trump
WIN: Shares in banks have soared by 20% since Election Day, making them the hottest sector in the stock market. The rally is fueled by hopes a Trump administration will deliver lower taxes and less regulation, while also stimulating the economy.
Turkish official: 15 killed, dozens wounded in twin bombings
President-elect Donald Trump is partaking in one the nation's most storied football rivalries, saluting U.S. troops at the annual Army-Navy game on Saturday as he prepares to enter the White House. President-elect Donald Trump moved closer to nominating Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of State on Saturday, a decision that would bring a business leader with close ties to Russia into the Cabinet.
Obama orders probe into Russian email hacking claims
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More than 30 dead as tanker rams into vehicles on Kenya road
President-elect Donald Trump is partaking in one the nation's most storied football rivalries, saluting U.S. troops at the annual Army-Navy game on Saturday as he prepares to enter the White House. President-elect Donald Trump moved closer to nominating Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of State on Saturday, a decision that would bring a business leader with close ties to Russia into the Cabinet.