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President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert Lighthizer to be his pick for U.S. trade representative, his transition team announced Tuesday. Lighthizer "has extensive experience striking agreements that protect some of the most important sectors of our economy, and has repeatedly fought in the private sector to prevent bad deals from hurting Americans," Trump said in a statement.
Democrats plotting a return from the political wilderness are facing their first big dilemma: how fiercely to fight President-elect Donald Trump. A new conservative era will dawn in Washington Tuesday when the next Congress, dominated by Republicans, is sworn in.
As he prepares to take office, Donald Trump has set high expectations that he can deliver quickly on his many ambitious campaign promises. No one knows better how hard that will be than his Republican allies in Congress.
For your semi-faithful correspondent, 2016 has been a 12-month exercise in humility. I apologize to you, gentle reader, for the errors - all unforced - to which I subjected you.
Republicans will take over the Kentucky legislature next week with the help of millions of dollars in contributions from the finance and energy industries. Republican House candidates and committees received more than $8 million in contributions for the 2016 election cycle, according to an analysis of disclosure reports by The Associated Press.
Colorado Photographer Comes Out With New Book Tracing Obama's Journey With just three weeks left before President Barack Obama leaves office, a Colorado photographer is coming out with her third book tracing the historic journey of the country's 44th president. Bloodhounds Search For Missing Aurora Boy, Amber Alert Issued Police in charge of the search for a missing 6-year-old Aurora boy have asked citizens to temporarily stop walking around the area in their efforts to help out with the search.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , who is taking over his position from former Sen. Harry Reid , has warned Republican that they cannot expect an easy time for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet choices. Republicans can count on delaying tactics while Democrats "aggressively target" eight nominees.
Will Bunch has worked at the Daily News for 20-plus years and is now senior writer. Since 2005, he's written the uber-opinionated, fair-but-dangerously unbalanced opinion blog "Attytood," covering a range of topics ; it's been named best blog in the state by the Associated Press Managing Editors and best blog in the city by Philadelphia Magazine.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling for an aggressive response to Russia's alleged hacking of Democrats during the presidential election. The Connecticut Democrat pointed to recently discovered malware at a Vermont utility as further evidence the nation needs to toughen its cybersecurity.
The day has barely started, but Mary Stewart is already worried about one homeless student and others who arrive at her Kansas City, Kansas, high school in below-freezing temperatures with no winter coats. The principal never knows what's happened at home for these students - when they last ate, when they last slept, when they last were warm.
President-elect Donald Trump is showing little sign of forgiving his critics as he prepares to move into the Oval Office. The incoming president tweeted Monday that, "Various media outlets and pundits say that I thought I was going to lose the election.
Senate Democrats reportedly plan to attack eight of Republican President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks and stretch their confirmation process from days to perhaps months, despite having essentially no chance of blocking their nominations. The Democratic senators are vowing to make good on their vow unless the nominees start disclosing personal financial information, according to The Washington Post .
For a political movement that prides themselves in being reality based, there is probably no group more susceptible to wish-casting and the use of Martian logic than the left. Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump has created an industry about the ridiculous idea that Russian hancking or fake news was the reason for her loss.
His last presidential vacation behind him, Barack Obama is entering the closing stretch of his term, an eleventh-hour push to tie up loose ends and put finishing touches on his legacy before handing the reins to President-elect Donald Trump. Obama returns to Washington at midday Monday from Hawaii with less than three weeks remaining in his presidency.
Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has scheduled a hearing for Thursday on foreign cyberthreats. He has said Russia must be made to pay a price for attacks "on our very fundamentals of democracy."
As Republicans prepare to make good on their promises to dismantle and bury ObamaCare, Democrats have settled on a strategy for a final defense of the controversial law: a conference call with reporters. In communicating indignation to their grassroots voters and donors, however, Democrats are passing on a means of effectively defending ObamaCare from the coming GOP onslaught.
20, 2016, file photo, Senate Banking Committee member Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questions Wells Fargo Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf on Capitol Hill in Washington. Warren is leading a new eff... .
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at a Dec. 8, 2016 ceremony where the official portrait of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was unveiled in the Kennedy Caucus Room on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at a Dec. 8, 2016 ceremony where the official portrait of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was unveiled in the Kennedy Caucus Room on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. For six years, since they took back the House of Representatives, Republicans have added to a pile of legislation that moldered outside the White House. In their thwarted agenda, financial regulations were to be unspooled.