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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped three senior leaders of his national security and law enforcement teams, choosing Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Representative Mike Pompeo as CIA director and General Mike Flynn as national security adviser, a transition official said on Friday. In choosing Sessions as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Trump would award a loyalist whose hard-line and at times inflammatory statements on immigration were similar to his own.
The conservative Judicial Crisis Network is launching $175,000 in ads praising Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, for his role in blocking President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. According to Politico , the network's ads are encouraging Grassley toward the impending confirmation of a high court nominee submitted by President-elect Donald Trump.
Outgoing US President Barack Obama and European leaders including Theresa May have stressed the continued importance of Nato amid concerns about Donald Trump's commitment to the alliance. The Prime Minister was in Berlin for talks with Mr Obama hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which also covered the fight against Islamic State and Russia's actions in the Ukraine and Syria.
As he gets set to turn the Oval Office over to Donald Trump, President Barack Obama says he expects about 15-20 percent of his policies to be rolled back. In a wide-ranging interview with The New Yorker magazine, Obama said he had accomplished "70 or 75 percent" of what he set out to do as president.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and President-elect Donald Trump don't see eye to eye on much, but on this they do agree: both want to re-establishment the Glass Steagall Banking Act of 1933, which separated risky trading and investment from traditional banking activities such as business lending and consumer finance. The act was repealed in 1999.
But like it or not, President Barack Obama has become an unofficial ambassador of sorts for President-Elect ... Mr. Andreas, right, meeting with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at a Kremlin reception in Moscow in 1988.
With some in the finance industry salivating over the prospect of deregulation under Donald Trump, a key power broker is emerging who might bring headaches for Wall Street. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling has already been rumored as a potential Treasury Secretary under Trump and he's got a plan at his fingertips for ripping up and replacing the Dodd-Frank Act.
President Barack Obama has embarked on what presumably will be his last foreign trip, to Greece, Germany and Peru. The Peru part is partly because he wants to visit Machu Picchu as a tourist, but it will also give him a chance to review the bidding in America's relations with Latin American countries post-Cuba opening and with Venezuela disintegrating.
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, America spoke and demanded to be heard. In a stunning rebuke to the Washington establishment and Beltway insiders, the electorate catapulted the ultimate outsider to victory and declared enough is enough.
Overregulation, a worry expressed by Donald Trump in the presidential campaign, diminishes freedom and stymies the economy. President Barack Obama is its champ.
President-elect Donald Trump is offering former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn the position of national security adviser, elevating a fierce critic of current U.S. foreign policy into a crucial White House role. Flynn's selection amounts to Trump's first signal to allies and adversaries about the course he could take in office.
They'll have the perfect opportunity to make their appeal this week when Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a Pacific Rim summit as part of a visit to Ecuador, Peru and Chile. This is Xi's third time in Latin America since taking office in 2013, and when he wraps up the tour he will have visited 10 countries in the region - the same number as President Barack Obama, who has been in office twice as long.
Executives at WPP Plc, Altice NV and Cap Gemini SA, gathered in Spain for an investor conference this week, voiced confidence that their businesses in the U.S. would profit under President-elect Donald Trump. Clients are more optimistic than they were right after the Nov. 8 election, said Paul Hermelin, chief executive officer of Cap Gemini, the French computer-services firm whose U.S. customers include General Electric Co.
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, speaks during a press conference after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, in the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016. Germany is the last European stop of Obama's final tour abroad as U.S. president.
In what may be his last significant act as President Barack Obama's surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy released a report Thursday calling for a major cultural shift in the way Americans view drug and alcohol addiction. The report, "Facing Addiction in America," details the toll addiction takes on the nation _ 78 people die each day from an opioid overdose; 20 million have a substance use disorder _ and explains how brain science offers hope for recovery.
With Gov. Nikki Haley and Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster currently under potential consideration to take cabinet-level positions within President-elect Donald Trump's administration, what does that mean for South Carolina's top leadership spots? Currently, Haley is being considered for Trump's Secretary of State -- the nation's top diplomat and a position held by such luminaries as Colin Powell, Condaleeza Rice, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry.
In the ceremony to formally give ... . A cardinal holds a red three-cornered biretta hat before a consistory inside the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016.
Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed that Democrats would oppose Donald Trump's most controversial policies, but not all of the president-elect's legislation, echoing earlier reports about Schumer and other Democrat leaders' willingness to align themselves with some of Trump's campaign promises. "We're not going to oppose him just because it's something that Trump sponsors," Schumer said, noting that "candidate Trump voiced very progressive and populist opinions" on things like the carried interest loophole, trade deal reform, and infrastructure spending.
Donald Trump has offered the position of national security adviser to retired Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, according to multiple news outlets. Unlike some names being floated for positions in Trump's administration - such as potential secretary of State Rudy Giuliani - Flynn has extensive experience in his field.
Sen. Jeff Sessions has emerged as the top candidate to be the next attorney general in President-elect Donald Trump's administration, a transition official told CNN Thursday. Sessions, 69, is currently serving his fourth Senate term and was the first sitting senator to endorse Trump.