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President-elect Donald Trump's transition team meeting included a sit-down Tuesday with Sen. Ted Cruz, according to the senator's office. Mr. Cruz, a solid conservative and former Texas solicitor general, as been mentioned as a possible pick of a Supreme Court justice or another Cabinet post, although the transition team has not confirmed a possible role for the senator.
In a parting swipe at President-elect Donald Trump, retiring Democratic California Sen. Barbara Boxer filed legislation Tuesday to abolish the Electoral College that has propelled the Manhattan mogul into the White House. Noting that Hillary Clinton got more votes than Trump but still lost the election, Boxer said it is time to do with an "outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society."
Ivanka Trump comes under fire after her company promotes $10k bracelet she wore from her jewelry line during father's first TV interview as president-elect Trump 'threatened to unleash his beautiful Twitter account' on Megyn Kelly after first GOP primary debate as Fox anchor claims that 'strange men turned up outside' her door during turbulent election 'This story needs to go away': Mother who posed with Hillary Clinton in the woods the day after election defeat claims she has been getting death threats because of the picture 'I knew she was "The One" after we had sex': Ryan Reynolds speaks about his 'idiotic Hallmark-card clichA ' romance with wife Blake Lively... as he hints that they slept together on their first date Traditionally, it would have been romantic to say that he knew she was "The One" from the moment they met.
The stock market's post-election bifurcation sharpened Monday as technology shares extended their worst performance since the start of the bull market on speculation Donald Trump's trade and immigration policies will translate into lower earnings. Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc. led the S&P 500 Information Technology Index down 1.7 percent for the biggest retreat since September.
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.
Police in riot gear confront demonstrators outside City Hall during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump in Los Angeles, Nov. 13, 2016. Anti-Trump protesters hold signs as they gather at The Linq Promenade before marching on the Las Vegas Strip, Nov. 12, 2016, in Las Vegas.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is the leading candidate for defense secretary in the Donald Trump administration, Politico reported , quoting sources close to the process. The news comes as the Associated Press reported another close Trump ally, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, tops the list for secretary of state.
Sen. Jeff Sessions "is the leading contender for Donald Trump's secretary of defense, sources close to the transition say - a choice that would reward the president-elect's most outspoken congressional loyalist but offer few olive branches to a Trump-wary Republican national security establishment," Politico reports. "The two men haven't seen eye to eye on everything: Session is a budget hawk who favors caps on defense spending, while Trump has called for an arms and troops buildup that could cost $55 billion or more per year.
Trump, a Republican who defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election, fought allegations during the campaign of encouraging racism and xenophobia. A founder of Human Rights Watch warned that Donald Trump's election as US president is encouraging anti-Semitism in Europe.
Donald Trump's transition is being marked by sharp internal disagreements over key cabinet appointments and direction, both for internal West Wing positions and key national security posts, sources involved in the transition team tell CNN. The split has put traditional Republican operatives such as Reince Priebus -- named Trump's chief of staff Sunday -- against more non-traditional influences such as Steve Bannon -- the alt-right leader of Breitbart News -- who will be Trump's chief strategist.
The world is not new to being in shock on November 9th. In 2016, the worldwide shock was that Donald Trump could garner over 59 million votes and even though getting less votes than Hillary Clinton, seal the Electoral College and become President Elect.
An international relations professor in China believes that social pressure in the U.S. prevented voters from sharing their views about Donald Trump. The professor also sensed many Americans' fundamental distrust of Hillary Clinton, a sentiment the Democrat couldn't shake.
Congressional Republicans are already on the defensive about President-elect Donald Trump's decision to give former Breitbart News chief Steve Bannon a senior job in his White House. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was pressed by reporters in Washington Monday on the appropriateness of Trump's choice of someone who has been a leading figure in the so-called alt-right conservative movement.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White plans to step down around the same time President Barack Obama exits the Oval Office, the agency said on Monday. Her departure will cap a nearly four-year tenure marked by regulatory and enforcement milestones, as well as internal discord over Wall Street rules.
US President-elect Donald Trump has made his first call to the leader of China, and is "getting his arms around our foreign policy" as he prepares to assume the leadership of the world's sole superpower, a top aide said Monday. The Republican billionaire's diplomatic foray came as US President Barack Obama was about to leave for a farewell visit to Europe to reassure worried allies about a man he once warned was "unfit" to lead the United States.
Donald Trump is about to engage in a massive generational theft, and he is likely to use a classic budget trick to pull it off. The method is called dynamic scoring, which is just a fancy way of justifying massive increases in the national debt.
If you'd like to subscribe to The Hill's midday political newsletter, please click here: http://bit.ly/1Tt4hqN Donald Trump Report: Fear of backlash halted Facebook crackdown on fake news Sanders 'deeply humiliated' by Dems losing the white working class The Hill's 12:30 Report MORE named Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon as White House chief strategist. Well, civil rights advocates and critics on both sides of the aisle are expressing alarm over Bannon's new post.
The nationwide protests against Donald Trump stretched into their sixth day on Sunday as demonstrators gathered in cities like New York, Seattle, and Los Angeles to voice their opposition to the president-elect. Following Trump's upset victory in the Electoral College over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, protests not only swept the nation but the entire world.
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.