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The death of Fidel Castro was long in coming, and so world reaction was somber and introspective from foes and friends alike. President Barack Obama alluded to both the history of animosity between the United States and Cuba and the advent of change in those relations.
In this Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama took on America's problems of a lack of access to health care and high cost, but he and the Democrats paid a political price.
Fidel Castro's passing removes what was long the single greatest psychological barrier to a warmer U.S.-Cuba relationship. But it also adds to the uncertainty ahead with the transition from an Obama to a Trump administration.
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. - The hard-eyed view along the Tug Fork River in West Virginia coal country is that President-elect Donald Trump has something to prove: that he'll help bring back Appalachian mining, as he promised time and again on the campaign trail.
President Barack Obama will hand over the keys to the White House to President-elect Donald Trump in less than two months. And Twitter users are already suggesting some lighthearted practical jokes the outgoing POTUS could play on his successor, via @TheWeeHoursWar and @Dubzzzinyaface's globally trending #WhiteHouseExitPranks hashtag.
Trump would hike taxes for some in middle class President-elect Trump's proposals modestly cut income taxes for most middle-class Americans. Check out this story on pal-item.com: http://usat.ly/2gvFbsL President-elect Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine whether the nation's busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death a convicted killer who's intellectually disabled. That would make him ineligible... The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine whether the nation's busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death a convicted killer who's intellectually disabled, which would make him ineligible for... Wearing his "Bay of Pigs Veteran" shirt, 80-year-old Rafael Torre stood amid hundreds of Cuban-Americans celebrating the death of Fidel Castro and marveled that he remained in power for so long.
After the death of Fidel Castro, several U.S. and world leaders weighed in with condolences and their thoughts on the Cuban dictator, his years in power and his legacy. President Barack Obama, who resumed diplomatic relations with Cuba and became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the island, released this statement: At this time of Fidel Castro's passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people.
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday condemned a growing push to force recounts in three states pivotal to his Nov. 8 victory, confronting the Green Party-backed effort for the first time even as he worked to address key Cabinet vacancies. The New York billionaire, who charged the election was "rigged" on a daily basis before his victory, called the developing recount effort "a scam" in a statement released by his transition team.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. >> President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday condemned a growing push to force recounts in three states pivotal to his Nov. 8 victory, confronting the Green Party-backed effort for the first time even as he worked to address key Cabinet vacancies.
The US president-elect called the former Cuban leader "a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades". Trump said Castro, who has died aged 90 , leaves a legacy of "firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights".
For half a century, as Fidel Castro transformed Cuba into a communist state and sparred with the U.S., his brother Ral worked in his shadow, the authoritarian leader's disciplined, junior partner. But by the time the elder Castro died Friday night, Ral Castro, who assumed presidential powers in 2006 before getting the official title in 2008, had transformed Cuba into country that was unrecognizable in many ways - and yet remarkably the same.
Within half an hour of the Cuban government's announcement Saturday of the death of the 90-year-old revolutionary leader, cheers were heard in Miami's Little Havana. Within half an hour of the Cuban government's announcement Saturday of the death of the 90-year-old revolutionary leader, cheers were heard in Miami's Little Havana.
Fidel Castro visited the United States only a handful of times. But the late Cuban dictator for decades had an outsized effect on the presidential politics of his northern neighbor.
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President-elect Donald Trump's proposals would modestly cut income taxes for most middle-class Americans. But for nearly 8 million families - including a majority of single-parent households - the opposite would occur: They'd pay more.
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Fidel Castro as the "symbol of an era," the Kremlin said in a statement Saturday. Former London mayor Ken Livingstone said Mr Castro was an "absolute giant of the 20th century", and blamed the US for the restrictions on civil liberties under his leadership.
President-elect Donald Trump looked at hundreds of marble samples before selecting one for the lobby of Trump Tower. He can recall, in painstaking detail even decades later, how he stood in the cold and oversaw the ice-making process at Central Park's rink.
For Democrats, the loss in 2016 might prove a blessing in disguise. During the administration of Barack Obama, the party declined at the state level with a massive amount of Republican governors and 60 legislative houses controlled by the GOP.
McGahn, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, had been the chief counsel of the Trump campaign and was one of the few members of the Republican establishment to embrace the outsider candidate. While Trump during his campaign frequently promised to "drain the swamp" of the political establishment in Washington, McGahn has an extensive history in the capital, especially in conservative politics.