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The Democratic Party of my lifetime - the coalition of Wall St finance capital and identity-politics voters that arose during the 1980s and 90s - is dead. It has been killed, quite ironically, by the revenge of class politics - the kind once championed by the Democrats.
While the United States presidential election bitterly divided the American public, most Israelis were sanguine about the race. Both candidates - Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton - were keen to end eight years of icy mistrust between Barack Obama, the outgoing president, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hoping to ensure his staffers f... . In this Nov. 9, 2016, photo, White House press secretary Josh Earnest waits for President Barack Obama to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
In this Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, file photo, Stephen Bannon, campaign CEO for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, looks on as Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Denver. Following the installation of Breitbart's chief executive, Bannon, to a top job in President-elect Trump's administration, the news organization in its infancy when Barack Obama took office has big expansion plans and the goal of being the best source of news on the new administration.
Trump Tower, a 58-story skyscraper that is home to President-elect Donald J. Trump, looms into a grey sky, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, hovering over Fifth Avenue in New York. For nearly the entire week since he was elected, Trump has been holed up in the gilded New York skyscraper, which he owns.
The man he selected to lead the transition for the Environmental Protection Agency and shape climate policy for the next administration is like-minded. Trump adviser Myron Ebell, trained in philosophy and politics, has spent his career trying to create political uncertainty about the scientific consensus on climate change and preserve the status quo for the fossil fuel industry.
President Barack Obama met with President-elect Donald Trump in the White House on Nov. 10. On Sunday, we asked another Hot Button question: What do you want Donald Trump to do within the first 100 days of his presidency? REFORM GUN LAWS: I would like President Donald Trump to enact some reforms on our federal gun laws, such as enacting national concealed carry reciprocity; signing the Hearing Protection Act; removing importation bans on various firearms; stacking the Supreme Court with pro-gun justices; repealing the Hughes Amendment; and ensuring that modern sporting rifles and standard capacity magazines cannot be banned by individual states such as in California or New York.
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."
Chicago on Monday joined several major US cities in affirming that it will remain a "sanctuary city" for immigrants, in defiance of President-elect Donald Trump. Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and San Francisco have made similar affirmations since Trump's election on Tuesday, vowing to refuse to jail undocumented immigrants in jail for deportation purposes and pledging that public services will continue to be offered regardless of legal status.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras escorts US President Barack Obama prior to their meeting at the Maximos Mansion on November 15, 2016 in Athens. Photo: AFP The Nato alliance is "absolutely vital" to US interests, President Barack Obama said yesterday, as he flew in to Europe to reassure jittery allies concerned by Donald Trump's shock presidential election win.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington, D.C., Nov. 11, 2016. Photo by Bob Jacob/Cleveland Jewish News The associate Supreme Court justice, speaking Monday at the annual Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly, was asked what the immediate impact of a Trump presidency would be.
With President-Elect Donald Trump expected to name a new U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, the guessing game has begun for a replacement for Deirdre M. Daly, a Fairfield resident, according to the Connecticut Law Tribune. Daly was appointed by President Barack Obama in May 2014.
United States President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Donald Trump tapped into a "troubling" strain of rhetoric playing on Americans' fears of globalisation to win the presidency. Obama was speaking after talks with Greek PM Alexis Tsipras in the capital, Athens, as part of a final tour that also takes in Germany and Peru.
U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Greece on Tuesday on his last European tour as president, meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Rough Cut .
Minor clashes broke out in Athens Tuesday as left-wing demonstrators protesting a visit by President Barack Obama tried to break a police cordon and were repelled with tear gas. No injuries or arrests were reported.
President Barack Obama has said world leaders need to pay attention to people's fears of economic dislocation and inequality in the midst of globalisation. President Barack Obama has said world leaders need to pay attention to people's fears of economic dislocation and inequality in the midst of globalisation.
Beirut, Nov 15 : Russia announced a major air offensive in Syria today as Syrian opposition activists reported the first airstrikes in three weeks in the besieged, rebel-held part of the northern city of Aleppo. The offensive began hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump discussed Syria over the phone and agreed on the need to combine efforts in the fight against what the Kremlin called their No 1 enemy "international terrorism and extremism."
President Barack Obama arrived in Greece Tuesday morning on the first stop of his final foreign tour as president, the first visit to Greece by a sitting U.S. president since Bill Clinton in 1999. President Barack Obama opened his final foreign trip as president Tuesday with reassuring words in Greece about the U.S. commitment to NATO even as he prepares to hand off to a Donald Trump administration, saying... A national trucking company has agreed to pay $260,000 to settle discrimination complaints by four Sikh truckers who were denied jobs for refusing drug tests that violated their religious beliefs.
President Barack Obama encouraged Americans Monday to give President-elect Donald Trump some time to get adjusted to the responsibilities of the presidency. But in his first news conference since last week's stunning election results, Obama warned that some of Trump's expectations will soon be shaken up by the gravity of the job.