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Chicago on Monday joined several major US cities in affirming that it will remain a "sanctuary city" for immigrants, in defiance of President-elect Donald Trump. Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and San Francisco have made similar affirmations since Trump's election on Tuesday, vowing to refuse to jail undocumented immigrants in jail for deportation purposes and pledging that public services will continue to be offered regardless of legal status.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras escorts US President Barack Obama prior to their meeting at the Maximos Mansion on November 15, 2016 in Athens. Photo: AFP The Nato alliance is "absolutely vital" to US interests, President Barack Obama said yesterday, as he flew in to Europe to reassure jittery allies concerned by Donald Trump's shock presidential election win.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday received the blessing of the Peres family, expressing hope that he will maintain strong U.S.-Israel relations. "I would like to wish President Elect Trump the best of luck," Chemi Peres, son of the late Shimon Peres, told thousands of participants at the closing session of the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly in Washington, D.C., as some in the crowd burst into laughter.
With President-Elect Donald Trump expected to name a new U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, the guessing game has begun for a replacement for Deirdre M. Daly, a Fairfield resident, according to the Connecticut Law Tribune. Daly was appointed by President Barack Obama in May 2014.
After years of studying Canada-Cuban relations as a graduate student, Freddy Monasterio is going to get a new lesson this week. The 33-year-old will be one of several people invited to a Canadian-organized reception in old Havana to coincide with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's first official visit to Cuba.
United States President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Donald Trump tapped into a "troubling" strain of rhetoric playing on Americans' fears of globalisation to win the presidency. Obama was speaking after talks with Greek PM Alexis Tsipras in the capital, Athens, as part of a final tour that also takes in Germany and Peru.
U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Greece on Tuesday on his last European tour as president, meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Rough Cut .
President Barack Obama has said world leaders need to pay attention to people's fears of economic dislocation and inequality in the midst of globalisation. President Barack Obama has said world leaders need to pay attention to people's fears of economic dislocation and inequality in the midst of globalisation.
Beirut, Nov 15 : Russia announced a major air offensive in Syria today as Syrian opposition activists reported the first airstrikes in three weeks in the besieged, rebel-held part of the northern city of Aleppo. The offensive began hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump discussed Syria over the phone and agreed on the need to combine efforts in the fight against what the Kremlin called their No 1 enemy "international terrorism and extremism."
President Barack Obama arrived in Greece Tuesday morning on the first stop of his final foreign tour as president, the first visit to Greece by a sitting U.S. president since Bill Clinton in 1999. President Barack Obama opened his final foreign trip as president Tuesday with reassuring words in Greece about the U.S. commitment to NATO even as he prepares to hand off to a Donald Trump administration, saying... A national trucking company has agreed to pay $260,000 to settle discrimination complaints by four Sikh truckers who were denied jobs for refusing drug tests that violated their religious beliefs.
President Barack Obama encouraged Americans Monday to give President-elect Donald Trump some time to get adjusted to the responsibilities of the presidency. But in his first news conference since last week's stunning election results, Obama warned that some of Trump's expectations will soon be shaken up by the gravity of the job.
President Barack Obama opened his final foreign trip as president Tuesday with reassuring words in Greece about the U.S. commitment to NATO even as he prepares to hand off to a Donald Trump administration, saying Democratic and Republican administrations alike recognize the importance of the alliance to the trans-Atlantic relationship. Without mentioning Trump by name, Obama told Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos that a strong NATO is of "utmost importance" and would provide "significant continuity even as we see a transition in government in the United States."
To those of you who are shocked or angered that Donald Trump won the presidency, this is directed to you. Make no mistake; I am not poking fun of your loss.
In spite of the inconvenient fact that when all the votes cast have been tallied Hillary Clinton could turn out to have won the national popular vote by close to 2 million votes, Donald Trump did in fact win an impressive victory Nov. 8 and will become the 45th president of the United States. When one of the joyful men of American politics, Dick Tuck, ran for the California state Senate, he lost the Democratic primary.
Britain will be a "global champion of free trade," according to d... President Barack Obama arrived in Greece Tuesday morning on the first stop of his final foreign tour as president, the first visit to Greece by a sitting U.S. president since Bill Clinton in 1999. President Barack Obama opened his final foreign trip as president Tuesday with reassuring words in Greece about the U.S. commitment to NATO even as he prepares to hand off to a Donald Trump administration, saying... A national trucking company has agreed to pay $260,000 to settle discrimination complaints by four Sikh truckers who were denied jobs for refusing drug tests that violated their religious beliefs.
Ward One, Voting District Four in this town on the western end of Hudson County is located in a quiet neighborhood of mostly two-story, one-family homes tucked away near Route 3 and the New Jersey Turnpike. This is Trump Country, one of several voting districts in largely liberal Hudson County that went for Donald J. Trump over Hillary Clinton in last week's presidential race.
Even with a presumably business-friendly president-elect in Donald Trump, drugmakers that have been battered by criticism over high prices in the past year are bracing for Republican and Democratic lawmakers to take aim at the industry. Although Trump's brief health plan released last week on his transition's website doesn't mention drug prices, he has previously voiced support for having the government negotiate prices in Medicare, and allowing the re-importation of cheaper treatments from other countries -- two proposals the pharmaceutical industry has long opposed.