Charles Krauthammer: Tweets and theater entertain, but Congress is the main event
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a "Thank You USA" tour rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 9, 2016.
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Free speech loses in Holland
This week, a court in the Netherlands found Geert Wilders, leader of Holland's Party for Freedom, guilty of inciting discrimination and insulting a group after a trial over statements he made about Moroccans. At a rally, Wilders asked his audience: "Do you want more or less Moroccans in this city and in the Netherlands?" The audience repeatedly chanted "less."
Tweets, theater entertain, but Congress is main event
The most amusing part of the Trump transition has been watching its effortless confounding of the media, often in fewer than 140 characters. One morning, after a Fox News report on lefty nuttiness at some obscure New England college -- a flag burning that led a more-contemptible-than-usual campus administration to take down the school's own American flag -- Donald Trump tweets that flag burners should go to jail or lose their citizenship.
Trump To Name Environmental Chief Who Fought Obama Climate Rules
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Charles Krauthammer: Tweets entertain, but Congress is the main event
The most amusing part of the Trump transition has been watching its effortless confounding of the media, often in fewer than 140 characters. One morning, after a Fox News report on lefty nuttiness at some obscure New England college -- a flag burning that led a more-contemptible-than-usual campus administration to take down the school's own American flag -- Donald Trump tweets that flag burners should go to jail or lose their citizenship.
What the 114th Congress did and didn’t do
Congress wrapped up the 114th session early Saturday, a tumultuous two years marked by the resignation of a House speaker, a fight over a Supreme Court vacancy, bipartisan bills on health care and education and inaction on immigration and criminal justice. The new Congress will be sworn-in Jan. 3. - A hard-fought budget and debt agreement that provided two years of relief from unpopular automatic budget cuts and extended the government's borrowing cap through next March.
Will justice in America be Trumped?
His Nixonian campaign mantra of "law and order" demonstrates no empathy for those ensnared in the criminal justice system. Trump is not the first presidential candidate who, while running, assured his followers he would address the nation's perceived lackluster enforcement of criminal law.
Report: Condemned Alabama man coughed, heaved during execution
An Alabama death row inmate coughed and heaved for about 13 minutes during his execution by lethal injection on Thursday night, AL.com reported. Ronald B. Smith, convicted in Alabama of a 1994 robbery and murder, was pronounced dead at 11:05 p.m. CT, 34 minutes after the execution began at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, according to AL.com, whose reporter Kent Faulk was present.
Alabama inmate coughs, heaves 13 minutes into execution
This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Ronald Bert Smith Jr..
Big business warns Trump against mass deportation
Still grappling with Donald Trump's surprise election, the nation's business community has begun to pressure the president-elect to abandon campaign-trail pledges of mass deportation and other hardline immigration policies that some large employers fear would hurt the economy. The push, led by an advocacy group backed by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is still in its infancy as the business world struggles to understand the tough-talking Trump's true intentions on an issue that defined his outsider campaign.
The Latest: Supreme Court says Alabama execution can proceed
The U.S. Supreme Court has again ruled that Alabama can move forward with the execution of an inmate convicted of killing a convenience store clerk more than two decades ago. The Supreme Court ruled late Thursday that the execution could proceed, after issuing two temporary delays earlier in the night.
US Supreme Court lets Alabama execution go ahead
The U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday said Alabama could execute an inmate convicted of killing a convenience store clerk, a decision handed down after a whirlwind of legal fillings and two court-ordered delays. Justices twice paused the execution as attorneys for Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, argued for a delay, saying a judge shouldn't have been able to impose the death penalty when a jury recommended he receive life imprisonment.
The Latest: Supreme Court delays Alabama execution
In Washington, the court issued a second temporary stay late Thursday after attorneys for inmate Ronald Bert Smith, Jr. requested that the justices reconsider an earlier decision to let the execution proceed.
South African man admits to child sexual exploitation, sending child porn
A man from South Africa, who was extradited to Maine in 2014, admitted in federal court on Thursday that he took sexually explicit photographs of a minor girl and sent them to undercover federal agents in Maine investigating the online exchange of child pornography. Denver Carolissen, 42, of Kuilsrivier, South Africa, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to sexually exploiting a minor and transporting child pornography, the U.S. attorney's office said in a press release.
US Congress votes to apply Magnitsky human rights act globally
Senator Ben Cardin speaks during a press conference introducing the Iran Policy Oversight Act on October 1, 2015 in Washington, DC Legislation expanding the 2012 U.S. Magnitsky human rights act from Russian citizens to cover abusers in any country passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday as part of an annual defense policy bill, leaving the landmark measure on the verge of becoming law. The legislation was included in the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, setting policy for the Department of Defense, despite the recent election of Republican Donald Trump as the U.S. president.
Assessing the President-Elect’s Foreign Policy Advisors
The hubbub surrounding President-Elect Donald Trump's foreign and defense policy appointments has been pretty intense. Some of this is ghoulish fascination, perhaps akin to Americans' collective hunger for so-bad-it's-good reality TV.
Trump’s Homeland Security Pick Fears Women in Combat Will ‘Lower Standards’
The retired four-star general has had an extensive career in the military. He served over 40 years in the Marine Corps before retiring this year.
Georgia executes ninth inmate this year, most in US
Georgia executed its ninth inmate this year on Tuesday night, putting to death a man convicted of killing his father-in-law more than a quarter century ago. William Sallie, 50, was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m. after a lethal injection at the state prison in Jackson.
Los Angeles County officials push back against threats of deportation
The reconstituted Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 Tuesday to explore strategies to protect county residents from any potential changes in federal immigration policy. Supervisor Hilda Solis recommended the analysis, saying many of her constituents are worried about President-elect Donald Trump's statements about illegal immigration.
Bangor parade, wreath-laying planned for 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack
Lt. Cmdr. Matt Billings and petty officer Vekisha McCall of the Navy Operational Support Center in Bangor prepare to release two wreaths into the Kenduskeag Stream during the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony on Dec. 7, 2015, in Bangor.