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Donald Trump embraced new Cabinet officers Wednesday whose backgrounds suggest he's primed to put tough actions behind his campaign rhetoric on immigration and the environment, even as he seemed to soften his yearlong stance on immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. It's clearer by the day, underscored by Trump's at-times contradictory words, that his actual policies as president won't be settled until after he takes his seat in the Oval Office.
A leading Texas candidate for the job of EPA administrator was passed over Wednesday in favor of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. But President-elect Donald Trump's new top environmental official has Texas ties aside from the Red River.
President-elect Donald Trump and U.S. Marine Corps General John Kelly emerge from the clubhouse following their meeting at Trump International Golf Club, November 20, 2016 in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration.
It looks like President Barack Obama will be leaving office the same way he arrived: overestimating his actual commitment to rule of law and government transparency. That's one takeaway from the president's counterterrorism speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida, yesterday.
The billionaire real estate mogul and reality TV star became the unlikely Republican nominee for president among a field of 17 former governors, senators and other candidates. He then shocked pollsters who had shown Hillary Clinton ahead in the general election, getting more than the 270 electoral votes needed to be named the country's next commander-in-chief.
China said on Wednesday the governor of the U.S. state of Iowa, Terry Branstad, was an "old friend" after a report that he had accepted an offer from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to become the next U.S. ambassador to China. "We welcome him to play a greater role in advancing the development of China-U.S. relations," Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a daily press briefing when asked about the Bloomberg report.
Donald Trump is Time's 'Person of the Year' President-elect complained about being passed over last year Check out this story on pal-item.com: http://usat.ly/2gT3eW8 The magazine named the president-elect the year's most significant person a year after passing him over for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, drawing complains from the then-candidate. Accepting what he called the "great honor" for this year on NBC's Today show, Trump said he will wait a few more days to make his own announcement: His choice for secretary of State.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence claimed a governing mandate for the incoming White House, calling on Republican activists to help the Trump administration pass an ambitiously conservative agenda. The Indiana governor made little reference to still-simmering national divides in his Tuesday evening remarks before top donors of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that's working closely with Donald Trump's transition effort.
A famous singer songwriter dies, someone you never found time to appreciate, so you go back and start listening and recognize the distant music you heard long ago walking through the fairgrounds of rock, a snatch of song coming from over there, not far, just a whisper away if you'd taken another turn somewhere between Van Morrison and David Bowie.
Time magazine has named Donald Trump its Person of the Year - calling him "President of the Divided States of America." "I don't think that we have ever seen one person, operating in such an unconventional way, have an impact on the events of the year," said Time editor Nancy Gibbs.
Former Kansas senator and onetime GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole didn't just arrange the phone call between Donald Trump and Taiwan's President last week; he spent months making sure it would happen. Taiwan paid Alston & Bird, the law firm where Dole works, $140,000 from May to October of this year so that the 93-year-old would lobby Trump on its behalf, Politico says.
Lewandowski: We can say 'Merry Christmas' again under Trump Corey Lewandowski claimed Tuesday evening that people are now allowed to say "Merry Christmas" again because of Donald Trump - 's election victory. - "You can say again Merry Christmas because Donald Trump is now the president.
President-elect Donald Trump is tweeting that he will be interviewed Wednesday morning on NBC amid speculation that he'll be named Time magazine's person of the year. He tweeted moments before the expected announcement on NBC that "I will be interviewed on the @TODAYshow at 7:30.
In this Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, supporters of President-elect Donald Trump cheer during as they watch election returns during an election night rally in New York. Among the youngest white adult Americans, feelings of racial and economic vulnerability appear to be closely connected to their support for Donald Trump in last month's election.
President-elect Donald Trump is likely to shake up U.S. foreign policy on a number of fronts, and may take action on areas such as Russia, Cuba and the Korean Peninsula, according to experts. Trump shocked the world last month when he pulled off a surprise victory against rival Hillary Clinton and clinched the White House, proving wrong the vast majority of polls and experts who predicted that Clinton would be the next president.
Santa Ana City Council members voted Tuesday to declare Orange County's second-most populous city a sanctuary city - a largely symbolic gesture to protect immigrants who are in the country illegally. The move is in direct defiance of President-elect Donald Trump, who was critical of illegal immigration and sanctuary cities during his campaign.
At least least there's one country where elections produce swift results. Since Donald Trump's victory, the Mexican peso has collapsed, the cost of mortgages has risen in France, the European Commission has eased its demand for budget austerity, Japan feels encouraged to re-arm, Israel is hoping that the US embassy will move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, opinion pollsters and proponents of campaign micro-targeting have kept their heads down, what little remained of journalistic credibility is all but gone - and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead.
Michael Flynn Jr. was a member of Donald Trump's presidential transition team. He also served as chief of staff for his father, Michael Flynn Sr., who has been picked by Trump to be his National Security Advisor.
It is alleged that Hillary Clinton won a popular vote majority. Therefore, if the nation were not burdened with the antiquated Electoral College, anguished and freaked-out Americans whine, she, instead of Donald Trump, would be the next president of the United States.
Who knows, but there's at least a chance that President-elect Donald Trump could help save the world from global warming and, on top of that, from global warming alarmists with other means of doing harm. He is against President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which has the following faults: 1) It would cost consumers a fortune and save relatively little.