Obama offers Greeks reassurance about US commitment to NATO

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 Democratic and Republican administrations alike recognize the importance of the alliance to the trans-Atlantic relationship. Without mentioning Trump by name, Obama told Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos that a strong NATO is of "utmost importance" and would provide "significant continuity even as we see a transition in government in the United States."

Reality check for Democrats’ post-mortems

In spite of the inconvenient fact that when all the votes cast have been tallied Hillary Clinton could turn out to have won the national popular vote by close to 2 million votes, Donald Trump did in fact win an impressive victory Nov. 8 and will become the 45th president of the United States. When one of the joyful men of American politics, Dick Tuck, ran for the California state Senate, he lost the Democratic primary.

Report: UK government said to have no plan for Brexit

Britain will be a "global champion of free trade," according to d... 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.

Trump to reverse Obama policies on energy, environment

President-elect Donald Trump is considering an oil billionaire and a North Dakota lawmaker for top posts as he moves to roll back President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies and allow unfettered production of oil, coal and natural gas. Trump has vowed to rescind "all job-destroying Obama executive actions" and pledges to sharply increase oil and gas drilling on federal lands, while opening up offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean and other areas where it is blocked.

Obama heads to Greece on first leg of final overseas trip

His presidency winding down, Barack Obama headed out on his last official overseas tour hoping to reassure America's allies of the steadiness of U.S. resolve and its reliability as a security partner in a time of surging extremism and a host of global challenges. Obama took off from an air base in suburban Maryland at nightfall Monday on the way to his first stop - in Greece - on his three-nation tour.

How Trump’s China Trade War Could Play Out

When he becomes president on Jan. 20, Trump will have the chance to take action against the country he most for stealing American jobs, intellectual property and capital. But a trade war, like a real war, can have retaliatory strikes and As a candidate, Trump pledged to label China a currency manipulator, bring cases against China for "unfair subsidy behavior" and use "every lawful presidential power to remedy trade disputes," including the application of tariffs.

Editor: Breitbart plans to be ‘best place for news on Trump’

That scares its critics, which consider Breitbart News the home of cheerleaders rather than journalists - and often offensive ones at that. Despite the opponents, Breitbart is unquestionably on a high following the surprise election of Trump, whose candidacy the web site unceasingly backed both before and after its leader, Stephen K. Bannon, was brought in to run the general election campaign.

Portland would likely cooperate with Trump’s mass deportation plan

If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his plan to deport the millions of undocumented immigrants he claims have criminal records, Portland's policy is to cooperate. Although Maine's largest city historically has been welcoming to immigrants and has taken steps to protect them , it lacks the policies of so-called sanctuary cities.

U.S. SEC Chair White to time her exit from agency with Obama’s

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White plans to step down around the same time President Barack Obama exits the Oval Office, the agency said on Monday. Her departure will cap a nearly four-year tenure marked by regulatory and enforcement milestones, as well as internal discord over Wall Street rules.

The Monday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories

OBAMA SAYS U.S. UNDER TRUMP WILL MAINTAIN ALLIANCES: U.S. President Barack Obama says the U.S. under Donald Trump will remain the "indispensable nation" for global security and praised the president-elect for vowing to maintain America's alliances. Obama said relationships and policies go beyond presidents and military officials, diplomats and intelligence officers would with their foreign counterparts as before.

The Latest: Obama to urge Trump to let some immigrants stay

The latest on President Barack Obama's news conference ahead of his last overseas trip as president : President Barack Obama says he will encourage his successor to allow immigrants who came to the country as children to remain in the U.S. Those immigrants, known as DREAMers, were granted legal status under a 2012 executive order. Obama says that the majority of Americans would not want the young people to "start hiding again."

The Latest: Obama blames Congress for not closing Guantanamo

The latest on President Barack Obama's news conference ahead of his last overseas trip as president : President Barack Obama says that he's been unable to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because of "congressional restrictions." In a news conference Monday ahead of his final overseas trip as president, Obama said he still would prefer to have Guantanamo inmates transferred to a facility under U.S. jurisdiction, saying, "we'd do it a lot cheaper.

Trump gets ‘arms around’ foreign policy, talks to China’s Xi

US President-elect Donald Trump has made his first call to the leader of China, and is "getting his arms around our foreign policy" as he prepares to assume the leadership of the world's sole superpower, a top aide said Monday. The Republican billionaire's diplomatic foray came as US President Barack Obama was about to leave for a farewell visit to Europe to reassure worried allies about a man he once warned was "unfit" to lead the United States.

Trump poses daunting new challenge for Germany’s Merkel

Donald Trump's victory has been a shock for America's major partners around the world. But perhaps nowhere has the blow been more painful than in Germany, a country that under Angela Merkel has come to see itself as a bastion of openness and tolerance.

FBI: Hate crimes against Muslims up in 2015

The number of hate crimes reported to police increased by about 6.7 percent last year, led largely by a 67 percent surge in crimes against Muslims, according to FBI statistics released Monday. Civil rights groups had been raising concerns about an anti-Muslim backlash in the U.S. even before the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, late in the year.