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London: US Vice President-elect Mike Pence is shaping up to be the most important man in the new US administration, apart from his boss. The long presidential campaign revealed sharp differences between Donald Trump and Mike Pence, which may yet cause difficulties between the now President-elect and Vice-President-elect.
President-elect Donald Trump is considering a woman and an openly gay man to fill major positions in his administration, history-making moves that would inject diversity into a Trump team. The incoming president is considering Richard Grenell as United States ambassador to the United Nations.
A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says the incoming president will make additional appointments to his team this week. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway tells reporters at Trump Tower that the transition team is working on naming members of the incoming president's staff and Cabinet.
They're sending donations to Planned Parenthood in the name of Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who has called for cutting off federal funds to the organization and -- as governor of Indiana -- imposed tougher restrictions on abortion for women in his state. Pence's controversies have often paled in comparison to those of his running mate, but many people unhappy with the election results have made an effort to include him in their protests nonetheless.
Republican President-elect Donald Trump said he's "fine" with same-sex marriage as the law of the land, calling the issue "settled" by the Supreme Court . The comments in his first television interview since winning the presidency sharply contrast with his party's orthodoxy, his running mate's longtime position and comments the New York Republican made during the primary.
GIVING his first official interview as President-elect on CBS's 60 Minutes, an important element sticks out: Donald Trump is not alone. The Republican billionaire is surrounded by his glamorous family, each of whom played an important role in his 18-month election campaign.
President-elect Donald Trump named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media owner Stephen Bannon as his top presidential strategist, two men who represent opposite ends of the unsettled GOP. In bringing Priebus and Bannon into the White House, Trump is making overtures to both traditional Republican circles and the party's anti-establishment wing, which helped fuel the businessman's political rise.
Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry and considered by many to be the father of the same-sex marriage movement, responded on Friday to Donald Trump's election. President-elect Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, oppose marriage equality.
President-elect Donald Trump is shaking up his transition team as he plunges into setting up his administration. It's an enormous undertaking that likely requires him to alter his hands-on management style and consider going outside his small, insular group of loyalists.
Yesterday we were all fretting about Chris Christie being in control of the transition team. What ghoulish gang would he assemble? Giuliani? Gingrich? Santorum? Seems like it makes total sense to put your VP in charge of something important like that.
President-elect Donald Trump is shaking up his transition team as he plunges into the work of setting up his administration, elevating Vice President-elect Mike Pence to head the operations. It amounts to a demotion for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who had been running Trump's transition planning for months.
Vice President-in-waiting Mike Pence will take over the transition for Donald Trump, and he'll be assisted by high-profile Trump backers like Newt Gingrich, Ben Carson, and Rudy Giuliani, the president-elect's team said Friday. Pence will replace New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who will instead serve on the transition executive committee as a vice chair.
A warm ''Hoosier'' welcome for Vice president-elect Mike Pence as he returns to Indiana where he asks for prayers and support for the Trump Administration. Rough Cut .
When President-elect Donald Trump and his family move into The White House in January, 10-year-old Barron Trump will be the youngest presidential son to reside in the executive mansion since John F. Kennedy, Jr. The White House has been home to only presidential daughters since JFK, Jr., whose father was assassinated just before his 3rd birthday in 1963. Kennedy's son broke a long drought of boys living in The White House.
President-elect Donald Trump's early list of potential appointments to top positions appears to reward people who were loyal to him after a campaign in which many Republican Party leaders kept their distance. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama senator who was one of Trump's most fervent supporters in the U.S. Congress, is said to be under consideration for a prominent role, perhaps defence secretary, sources familiar with transition planning said on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama is set to welcome his successor, Donald Trump, to the White House, extending an olive branch to a man he has blasted as unfit to serve as commander in chief and who led the charge to challenge the legitimacy of his own presidency. The Oval Office meeting scheduled Thursday symbolically begins the transition of power from Obama, a Democrat who ushered in a sweeping health care law and brokered a landmark nuclear accord with Iran, and Trump, a Republican who has vowed to wipe those measures away.
Emboldened Republicans claimed a mandate Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump after his astonishing election triumph, and an emotional Hillary Clinton told crestfallen supporters the GOP victor deserved a "chance to lead." President Barack Obama pledged a smooth transition of power.
New Hampshire's U.S. Senate race remained suspenseful though less significant to the national political scene on Wednesday, while Democrats won the two House seats and a Republican will return to the governor's office. The tight race between Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan took top billing as one of half a dozen contests around the country that would determine which party controls the Senate next year.
Shown here at a March presidential debate, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, left, and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, right, are among those pondering 2020 runs in the event of a loss by this year's GOP nominee Donald Trump, center. Long before the first polling places opened on Election Day 2016, the race for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination was already underway.
If all goes smoothly, the American people will cho... . FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2016, file photo, a volunteer hands out stickers during early voting in Las Vegas.