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President-elect Donald Trump was weighing contenders for other top jobs in his administration after choosing Washington insider Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and firebrand outsider Stephen Bannon as senior counselor. Less than a week after his upset win over Democrat Hillary Clinton in last Tuesday's presidential election, Trump's choice on Sunday of Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman and friend of House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, could help him repair his strained relations with members of the Republican Party establishment.
Congressional Republicans are looking for the quickest ways to tear down Obamacare following Donald Trump's election as U.S. president, including rapidly confirming a new health secretary who could recast regulations while waiting for lawmakers to pass sweeping repeal legislation. Trump's victory on Tuesday means Republicans will control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives.
With his first two key personnel appointments, President-elect Donald Trump made an overture to Republican circles by naming GOP chief Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff and fired a shot across the Washington establishment's bow by tapping Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor. The two men had made up the president-elect's chief of staff shortlist, and while Priebus received that job, Bannon's post also is expected to wield significant clout.
Chinese President Xi Jinping today told US President-elect Donald Trump that cooperation was the "only right choice" to bolster ties between the two major powers, in the first contact with the US President-elect who in his campaign had accused China of snatching American jobs. In his first telephonic conversation since Trump won the US presidential election last week, Xi congratulated him on his election victory, state-run CCTV reported.
With a bitter election campaign finally over, the Congress will reconvene this week to try to set aside its partisan differences long enough to keep the government from closing. As President-elect Donald Trump shapes his administration, Republicans are expected to move away from initial plans for compromise funding legislation and opt instead for a short-term measure to keep the government running into next year, when they will have control of Congress and the White House.
Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed the importance of relations with the US in a phone conversation with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, opening communication with a politician who had been strongly critical of China during his campaign. State media reported that Xi congratulated Trump on his election and said co-operation was the "only correct choice" for China and the US, the world's two biggest economies.
Donald Trump on Sunday told his supporters to stop harassing minorities, in his first televised sit-down interview since becoming President-elect. "I am so saddened to hear that," Trump told CBS' Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes" when she said Latinos and Muslims are facing harassment.
Still reeling from a devastating defeat in last week's election, Democrats are beginning the process of charting the direction of their party in the Donald Trump era. With Hillary Clinton and her team staying out of the public eye, liberal politicians have begun jockeying for control of the party's future.
President-elect Donald Trump's tough-talking plan to rein in illegal immigration showed signs of cracking on Sunday, with the president-elect seemingly backing off his vow to build a solid wall along the southern U.S. border and the top House Republican rejecting any "deportation force" targeting people in the country illegally. In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes," Trump said Sunday he would accept a fence in some places along the U.S. southern border where he had promised to build a wall.
We don't agree with President-elect Donald Trump on much, but we happen to share his view that the Obama administration overreached in trying to rewrite immigration law unilaterally. Still, tough enforcement is one thing; gratuitous cruelty is another.
"Turns out instead of showing our daughters that they could some day be president, America proved that no grandpa is too racist to become leader of the free world," Oliver noted. Our future president was supported by a Grand Wizard of the Klan and 60 million people voted for him despite that.
Donald Trump's election as U.S. president has caused consternation for some IT services investors, as there is uncertainty regarding his stance on visas and the IT services industry's use of them. During the campaign, Trump flip-flopped between talking tough on the H-1B visa program, saying he'll end it forever as a cheap labor source, and showing a great willingness for America to attract high-skilled foreign workers.
'Don't be afraid': Trump looks to reassure divided America in first TV interview as President-elect and opens up on abortion, same-sex marriage, Obamacare and THAT vow to punish Hillary The Ex-Goldman banker and Breitbart exec who once said he didn't want his daughters 'going to school with Jews': Meet Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist White high school teacher is suspended after telling black students: 'Don't make me call Donald Trump and get you sent back to Africa' Anti-Trump protests continue for the fifth day as thousands of opponents gather against president-elect in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia - and even Mexico and Germany Chinese president calls Trump and insists cooperation is the 'only choice' - as state-run paper warns country will cut sales of iPhones and US cars if 'naive' Trump pursues trade war Reince Priebus AND Steven Bannon will lead Trump's White House: ... (more)
One of the best things to come out of the traumatising week that saw Donald Trump elected as president of the United States, was the resurgence of Barack Obama and Joe Biden memes. U.S. President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden while delivering a statement on steps the administration is taking to reduce gun violence in the East Room of the White House in Washington January 5, 2016.
Thousands have filled the streets in the Massachusetts city of Springfield to protest the election of Republican Donald Trump for president. Masslive.com reports that activists and college students were among the demonstrators who gathered in the city's Court Square Sunday afternoon before marching through much of the downtown area.
'Don't be afraid': Trump looks to reassure divided America in first TV interview as President-elect and opens up on abortion, same-sex marriage, Obamacare and THAT vow to punish Hillary The Ex-Goldman banker and Breitbart exec who once said he didn't want his daughters 'going to school with Jews': Meet Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist White high school teacher is suspended after telling black students: 'Don't make me call Donald Trump and get you sent back to Africa' Anti-Trump protests continue for the fifth day as thousands of opponents gather against president-elect in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia - and even Mexico and Germany Chinese president calls Trump and insists cooperation is the 'only choice' - as state-run paper warns country will cut sales of iPhones and US cars if 'naive' Trump pursues trade war Reince Priebus AND Steven Bannon will lead Trump's White House: ... (more)
The one lesson the vast majority of news outlets should consider taking on board in these changing times is one that is absolutely central to their role in everyday life is to simply concentrate on reporting the news, just report the news in an unbiased manner and without agenda and allow the public to make of it what they will. I do not need bias or slants placing on my news and I will say that the BBC to which I pay a licence fee is the prime offender in this highly annoying modern twist to news reporting.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told US President-elect Donald Trump in a telephone call that cooperation was the only choice for relations between the two countries, in their first interaction since the election. Mr Trump had lambasted China throughout the US election campaign, drumming up headlines with his pledges to slap 45 per cent tariffs on imported Chinese goods and to label the country a currency manipulator on his first day in office.
Newspapers headlining the US President-elect Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton hang from a wall outside a Democratic party office in downtown Rome, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Headline reads in Italian "And the world woke up with Trump nightmare".
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has emerged as a leading candidate to be U.S. secretary of state for President-elect Donald Trump, a source familiar with the situation said on Monday. The source said John Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, was also under consideration to head the State Department.