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The revelation that President-elect Donald Trump does not intend to seek a new investigation into Hillary Clinton was startling not only because it seemed to reverse a campaign pledge. It also suggested that Trump thinks that that's his decision to make, reflecting an apparent lack of regard for the cherished independence of the Justice Department, which is responsible for conducting investigations without the influence or opinion of the White House.
Citing his meeting with Indian businessmen, Democratic lawmakers have expressed concerns over "conflict of interest" of Donald Trump, with one Senator planning to introduce a resolution asking the President-elect to ensure that his dealings do not violate the Constitution. Senator Ben Cardin, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and a senior Member of Senate Finance Committee, has said he will introduce a resolution next week stating the sense of Congress that President-elect Trump should convert his assets to simple, conflict-free holdings, adopt blind trusts, or take other equivalent measures, in order to ensure consistency with the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution.
After a campaign filled with Donald Trump's denunciations of "Crooked Hillary" Clinton, the president-elect declared Tuesday that "I don't want to hurt the Clintons; I really don't," and a top adviser said he had no interest in pursuing further investigations. Trump also said he saw no potential conflicts of interest between his new job and his worldwide businesses, and he disavowed praise and support from extremist "alt-right" groups.
Two weeks after his election victory, President-elect Donald Trump began backing off campaign promises Tuesday, including his hard line on climate change and his vow to jail "Crooked Hillary" Clinton that had brought thunderous "Lock her up" chants at his rallies. A top adviser said Trump is now focused on matters that are essential in setting up his administration, not on comments he made during the heat of the campaign.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media after having lunch with formerly incarcerated individuals who have received commutations, including Ramona Brant and Phillip Emmert , at Bus Boys and Poets restaurant on March 30, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Pool - Getty Images President Obama continued his historic efforts to reshape the approach to clemency and announced 79 more commutations for federal offenders. As of Tuesday, White House officials noted, Obama has shortened the sentences of over 1,000 federal prison inmates, 342 of whom were serving life sentences.
Amid all the media prattle about the white working class, the rejection of the status quo, and the great divide in the US, there remains one simple, but exceedingly dangerous, truth which none dare speak: the US election may have been stolen. Now, before temporal arteries start bulging with rage, allow me to make clear that this assertion is in no way an attempt to promote the criminal warmonger Hillary Clinton or make a case for her taking a seat in the Oval Office.
A Fayetteville native turned Air Force veteran is at the helm of a new Department of Justice program aimed at protecting the rights of troops and their families. The DOJ's Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Enforcement Support Pilot Program, launched earlier this month, will provide dedicated legal support to five military communities across the country.
Chico >> Claudia Martinez Pureco, 20, was leading a club meeting at Chico State University on the night of the election. The third-year concrete industry management major remembers wishing the meeting were longer because she didn't want to go home and watch the votes come in.
Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor at Arizona State University. He is the author of " United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists ."
In this Jan. 19, 2010 file photo, Brendan Dassey, left, listens to testimony at the Manitowoc County Courthouse in Manitowoc, Wis. Dassey, whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was ordered released Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, from federal prison while prosecutors appeal.
Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth said he was keeping a close eye on "warning signs" from US President-elect Donald Trump after the Republican's tough talk during his campaign about torture and drone strikes. "I don't take entirely seriously what he said on the campaign trail... I don't take entirely at face value that he is going to kill families is just a blatant war crime," Roth told AFP.
In this Jan. 19, 2010 file photo, Brendan Dassey, left, listens to testimony at the Manitowoc County Courthouse in Manitowoc, Wis. Dassey, whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was ordered released Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, from federal prison while prosecutors appeal.
But Trump's enforcement approach is not only reasonable, it is very feasible, and will address the most disastrous failings of the Obama administration's faux-enforcement regime, which brought interior deportations to a ten-year low and caused the release of tens of thousands of criminal aliens back to our communities to Said Trump: "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate."
Rudy Giuliani, President-elect Donald Trump's top candidate for top diplomat, has advised foreign political figures and worked for lobbying and security firms whose clients have had complicated relationships with the U.S. government. While not personally involved in lobbying, Giuliani spent years at firms that represented governments and multinational companies, some of which had interests that diverged from those of the United States.
While the United States presidential election bitterly divided the American public, most Israelis were sanguine about the race. Both candidates - Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton - were keen to end eight years of icy mistrust between Barack Obama, the outgoing president, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
R will be game changer for forecasting across the United States, but did you know Earth's weather is not the only weather the satellite will monitor? In today's digital world, space weather is no joke. Geomagnetic storms, caused by eruptions on the surface of the sun, can interfere with communications and navigation systems on Earth, threaten power utilities, damage satellites, and cause risk to astronauts.
Celebrating immigrants' place in society and concerned about the incoming president's hardline stance toward illegal immigration and refugees during the campaign, a major advocate said Tuesday she hopes Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric was only "marketing." "We will have a new president starting in January, and he said some pretty harsh things about immigrants and refugees during the campaign, but we hope that that was just marketing during the campaign," Eva Millona, the executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition , told reporters.
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.
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.
If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his plan to deport the millions of undocumented immigrants he claims have criminal records, Portland's policy is to cooperate. Although Maine's largest city historically has been welcoming to immigrants and has taken steps to protect them , it lacks the policies of so-called sanctuary cities.