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President-elect Donald Trump has offered the CIA director job to Mike Pompeo, a hard-line Republican congressman from Kansas who heavily criticized the Iran deal, blasted Hillary Clinton over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya and believes Edward Snowden is a traitor. Before starting the job, Pompeo would have to be confirmed by the Senate.
The UK grain trade has experienced a, to put it politely, 'extremely unusual' week following the announcement that Donald Trump will be the next US President on Wednesday morning. The news shocked both the world and the global commodity markets, the UK grain market included.
ABC's "This Week" - Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman and chief of staff to President-elect Donald Trump.; Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. CNN's "State of the Union" - Priebus; Reps. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Diane Black, R-Tenn.
Obama traveled to South America to attend the annual Asi... . President Barack Obama boards Air Force One during a refueling stop at Lajes Field, Azores on the island of Terceira, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence is the latest celebrity to attend the Broadway hit "Hamilton," but the first to get a sharp message from a cast member from the stage. Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Friday was the latest high-profile person to attend the Broadway hit "Hamilton," but he became the first to get a sharp message from a cast member from the stage.
Vice-President-elect Mike Pence is the latest high-profile person to attend the Broadway hit show "Hamilton" - but the first to get a sharp message from a cast member from the stage. Actor Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays Aaron Burr, the nation's third vice-president, had this message Friday from the stage for his political descendant after the curtain call: "We, sir, are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights," he said.
The good news is that we dodged a bullet in this election. The bad news is that we don't know how many other bullets are coming, or from what direction.
The news, as always, came via Twitter: "NBC News: Source close to Trump with direct knowledge of his thinking confirms Sunday's meeting with Romney is to discuss Secretary of State." Mitt Romney, the face - and voice - of the resistance to Donald Trump in the Republican primary and the general election will huddle with the president-elect over the weekend to talk about possibly serving as the nation's top diplomat.
With a wide ocean separating Canada from the Middle East, the Taliban and ISIS, we squirmed in sympathy. Refugees from war-torn countries swarmed Europe's shores.
Chicago police said charges could be announced soon in the fatal shooting of an Illinois congressman's grandson following an argument over a pair of basketball shoes. Chicago police said charges could be announced soon in the fatal shooting of an Illinois congressman's grandson following an argument over a pair of basketball shoes.
The Rhodes Trust has named the 32 American men and women chosen as Rhodes Scholars who will pursue post-graduate studies at Oxford University. This year's class of Rhodes scholars from the U.S. includes students who have used data to visualize sea level rise, some who speak several languages and the son of undocumented immigrants.
The Senate confirmation hearing of Sen. Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump 's pick for attorney general, is likely to rehash racially charged allegations that derailed his efforts to become a federal judge and made him a symbol of black-voter intimidation under the Reagan administration. The expected focus on Sessions' record on race, policing and immigration comes as the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has surged in prominence under the Obama administration.
President Barack Obama won't explicitly say that Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history, but surely he believes it. The president basically thinks anyone who gets in his way is transgressing the larger forces of history with a capital "H."
In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election night rally, in New York. A federal judge in San Diego will consider arguments on President-elect Trump's latest request to delay a civil fraud trial involving his now-defunct Trump University until after his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017.
When Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his expected confirmation hearing after being tapped to be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general, it won't be his first time in front of that panel. Two decades ago, Sessions, then a U.S. attorney from Mobile, Ala., appeared before the body as President Ronald Reagan's nominee for the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama.
Chennai [India], Nov. 19 : The news of Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton to emerge as the 45th U.S. President-elect might have left the world shell shocked, but a restaurant owner here is celebrating the win by serving hot and crispy 'White Dosa' also referred to as the "Trump Dosa". Suprabaa, a local restaurant owned by C.P Mukund has been making headlines for making these scrumptious Dosas'.
Washington: News of President-elect Donald Trump's national security picks set off fresh tremors across the Islamic world on Friday as Middle Eastern allies and Muslim American groups prepared to face advisers and potential Cabinet members noted for harshly anti-Muslim rhetoric. The naming of Trump's picks for attorney-general, CIA director and national security adviser drew public condemnations from Muslim civil rights groups as well as private expressions of concern from several Arab states that cooperate closely with the United States in the fight against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups.
The chief executive of Blue Shield of California, the largest insurer on the state-run marketplace, says he's committed to selling coverage even as Republicans pursue a repeal of the federal health law. In an interview this week with California Healthline, Paul Markovich also criticized President-elect Donald Trump's support for the sale of insurance plans across state lines in order to boost competition and consumer choice.