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Chris Budicin, a student at Sierra Nevada College, paddles a canoe from Arctic Village into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I'd like to reframe what happened in early November as the opposite of tragedy.
Many Americans are turning their despair over Trump's win into action, supporting a range of organizations that fight for equality and civil rights. If there is any upside to the U.S. presidential election, it could be that progressive causes around the country are reporting an "unprecedented" surge in donations, the Guardian wrote on Sunday.
In a Democracy Now! special, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sat down with Amy Goodman at the Free Library of Philadelphia in late November in his most extensive broadcast interview since Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton just weeks earlier. Right now in the United States, as you know, Mr. Trump will be inaugurated.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has made it known that Donald Trump should not go unchallenged by his congressional colleagues as troubling comments by the President-elect about nuclear weapons this week sparked alarm across the United States and the world. Following an initial out-of-the-blue tweet Thursday saying the U.S. should "expand" its nuclear arsenal followed by "clarifying" remarks Friday to MSNBC in which Trump said, " Let it be an arms race ," Sanders responded: "It's a miracle a nuclear weapon hasn't been used in war since 1945.
Whenever I do a music thread or movie thread or something like that, lots of people in the comments say they'd like to see more such threads because it's such a depressing time politically. I thought I'd do one on movie musicals.
Given the alarming rise of white nationalism in the United States and the ways in which it is often entangled with Christian nationalism, it is worthwhile remembering whose birth, exactly, is being commemorated today. The association of Christianity with whiteness is relatively new in history, as is the whole idea of a "white" race identified with Europe.
Donald Trump and the business kingpins populating his inner circle want to slice the tax bill of America's top 0.1 percent. In a typical corporate board of directors meeting, what do CEOs see when they look out across their richly lacquered boardroom tables? Lots of other CEOs.
The BBC , and several other news agencies, are reporting that a Russian Tu-154 has disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff from Sochi on the Black Sea. The military jet, believed to be carrying around 100 people, was supposedly bound for Russia's air field in Latakia Province, Syria.
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month. The revelation comes as the New York attorney general's office investigates the foundation following media reports that foundation spending went to benefit Trump's campaign.
Researchers report that 41 percent of scuba divers experience dental symptoms in the water. Due to the constant jaw clenching and fluctuations in the atmospheric pressure underwater, divers may experience symptoms that range from tooth, jaw, and gum pain to loosened crowns and broken dental fillings.
Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin waits after a meeting with Senator Orrin Hatch on Capitol Hill December 8, 2016 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, he is expected to lead Trump's tax reform efforts./ AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski President-elect Donald Trump likes to say he will "drain the swamp" of special interests when he takes up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Donald Trump has gone to great pains making clear to one and all, that his words before the invasion of Iraq when he favored it were misunderstood because he really opposed the war in Iraq. Raghhad Saddam Hussein, the daughter of Saddam Hussein, has come out with words of praise for Donald Trump, the hero of Saddam's followers.
President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "an attack on humanity and it's got to be stopped." He also suggested he might go forward with his campaign pledge to temporarily ban Muslim immigrants from coming to the United States.
One of Donald Trump's most trusted aides is setting up a government consulting shop a block from the White House - a move that complicates the president-elect's promises to "drain the swamp" of Washington. Corey Lewandowski, Trump's first campaign manager, and former Trump adviser Barry Bennett announced Wednesday they are starting a government relations and political consulting firm called Avenue Strategies.
"Obamacare" seems to be holding its own. The administration said Wednesday that 6.4 million people have enrolled for subsidized private coverage through HealthCare.gov, ahead of last year's pace.
With an incoming presidency that was embroiled in charges of using white supremacist rhetoric during the campaign trail, it's no wonder white supremacists across the country are rising from the margins and being frontlined on mainstream platforms. The rise of Richard Spencer - the white supremacist considering running for Congress - is one such case.
Donald Trump's aides are reportedly floating the idea that instead of putting his considerable business assets and holdings into a blind trust a S-a Ssomething other presidents have used to avoid conflicts of interest a S-a She might put his funds into a not-actually-blind-at-all "half-blind trust." Rep. Tom Cole said on Wednesday that he does not think Trump needs to disentangle himself.
The committee's assessment: the federal Environmental Protection Agency is to blame more than Michigan's own leaders. to the House Appropriations Committee closing the investigation, Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, found that the "federal regulatory framework is so outdated that it sets up states to fail."
I realize at this point it is both very rude and a terrible career move to keep say "I told you so". "We've never seen this kind of wealth in the White House, and so traditional rules don't work," Gingrich said Monday during an appearance on NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show" about the president-elect's business interests.