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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 New York Stock Exchange is located in lower Manhattan. On Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 297.84 points, or 1.5 percent, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 29.12 points, or 1.3 percent.
A famous singer songwriter dies, someone you never found time to appreciate, so you go back and start listening and recognize the distant music you heard long ago walking through the fairgrounds of rock, a snatch of song coming from over there, not far, just a whisper away if you'd taken another turn somewhere between Van Morrison and David Bowie.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has offered the post of nationalsecurity adviser to retired three-star Gen. Michael T. Flynn, aneoconservative war hawk with anti-muslim views.
At least nine people are killed and another dozen missing after devastating fire breaks out on the second floor of a 100-person late-night 'Rave Cave' event inside an Oakland warehouse China lodges formal complaint over Trump's historic phone call with Taiwan's president and 'urges relevant parties to handle issues carefully' Anthony Weiner is 'so broke he can't afford sexting rehab any longer so his parents have taken out a mortgage on their home to pay for the $25k program' New York man who lost his eyesight 20 years ago has regained nearly all of it - and doctors can't explain why Heartbreaking scenes as 100,000 Chapecoense fans arrive to see their players' coffins brought back following Colombian air crash tragedy Colombian authorities say the pilot of tragic crash plane LIED about where he was taking off from as the first of the footballers' bodies are brought back to Brazil Tearful ... (more)
At least nine people are killed and another dozen missing after devastating fire breaks out on the second floor of a 100-person late-night 'Rave Cave' event inside an Oakland warehouse China lodges formal complaint over Trump's historic phone call with Taiwan's president and 'urges relevant parties to handle issues carefully' Anthony Weiner is 'so broke he can't afford sexting rehab any longer so his parents have taken out a mortgage on their home to pay for the $25k program' New York man who lost his eyesight 20 years ago has regained nearly all of it - and doctors can't explain why Heartbreaking scenes as 100,000 Chapecoense fans arrive to see their players' coffins brought back following Colombian air crash tragedy Colombian authorities say the pilot of tragic crash plane LIED about where he was taking off from as the first of the footballers' bodies are brought back to Brazil Tearful ... (more)
Secretary of state isn't some kind of patronage job. It doesn't involve award points Rudolph Giuliani earned with Donald Trump during his campaign, first to be the Republican nominee and then President of the United States.
Railroad travelers and commuters make their way through Union Station in Los Angeles, Nov. 23, 2016. Tens of millions of Americans are taking to the roads, airports and railways for the Thanksgiving holiday.
U.S. equities opened higher on Tuesday, hitting new all-time highs, as investors awaited housing data and kept an eye on President-elect Donald Trump's policy agenda. The Dow Jones industrial average broke above 19,000 for the first time ever shortly after the open, with Boeing contributing the most gains.
China is moving after Donald Trump's election win to claim the mantle of the world's champion of free trade and the fight against climate change, prompting a melancholy warning from President Barack Obama that the U.S. risks getting left behind in Asia. Obama met in Peru on Sunday with leaders of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that Trump vowed to kill on the campaign trail along with the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change.
When Queens, N.Y.-born journalist and PBS' "NewsHour" co-anchor Gwen Ifill died last week, not many media reports spoke about her Barbadian roots. Ifill's death from endometrial cancer brought a multitude of condolences for her family and loads of praise and platitudes from media colleagues, TV viewers and left, right and moderate politicians.
In this image made from a video provided by Hamilton LLC, actor Brandon Victor Dixon who plays Aaron Burr, the nation's third vice president, in "Hamilton" speaks from the stage after the curtain call in New York, Friday, Nov. 18... . In this photo taken Nov. 17, 2016, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.
Obama traveled to South America to attend the annual Asi... . President Barack Obama boards Air Force One during a refueling stop at Lajes Field, Azores on the island of Terceira, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016.
Yep. President-elect Donald J. Trump. That's still a thing. So while you continue to process that, we wanted to catch you up on some of some things you ought to read, hear and watch around the world of race and culture.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called on fellow conservatives Thursday to continue the work of the late Justice Antonin Scalia to keep the power of the courts and other branches of government in check. Thomas told 1,700 people at a dinner in honour of Scalia that the Supreme Court has too often granted rights to people that are not found in the Constitution.
Pictured on his perp walk: Party boy, 25, who changed his last name to match close friend and celebrity jeweler Jeffrey Rackover is led out by police cuffed in a suit after being charged with murder Actress, 52, who had roles in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Gossip Girl and Ugly Betty commits suicide in her hotel room during a modeling trip in Peru 'Maybe I Would Have Been Elected President' says Bernie Sanders who says he'd team up with Trump if the president-elect has the 'guts' to take on corporate American Bobbi Kristina Brown's boyfriend Nick Gordon is ordered to pay $36million in damages for the wrongful death of Whitney Houston's daughter Obama says he is 'cautiously optimistic' about Trump's presidency - but the president-elect needs to moderate his tone and 'stand up to Russia' New York academic who killed herself in her upscale Manhattan condo 'was driven to suicide by a ... (more)
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.
Good morning! Seeing strange lights and hearing loud noises? Don't let it faze you: Wildlife biologists are scaring away crows . The special state pay raise commission has wrapped up its work without recommending a pay raise for lawmakers.