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Just a few short months ago, Housing and Urban Development Secretary JuliA n Castro appeared to stand a decent chance of becoming the next vice president. A few weeks ago, the San Antonio Democrat looked poised to assume another high-ranking executive role in a Hillary Clinton administration.
Hillary Clinton presented Katy Perry with the Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award at the UNICEF Ball on Tuesday, calling the singer a "champion." "I've gotten to spend time with her and I know how deeply she cares about making our world a better place," Clinton said .
In this Oct. 19, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the third presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at UNLV in Las Vegas. Trump said Wednesday he will soon announce how he intends to leave his business "in total."
In this Oct. 19, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the third presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at UNLV in Las Vegas. Trump, that most unconventional of presidential candidates, last spring pledged that he would act perfectly presidential when the time was right.
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" Hillary Clinton's aides and supporters are urging dispirited Democrats to channel their frustrations about the election results into political causes " just not into efforts to recount ballots in three battleground states. The former Democratic presidential candidate and her close aides see the recount drive largely as a waste of resources, according to people close to Clinton.
Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump's expected choice to be the nation's 77th treasury secretary, has had a long history as a successful financial executive and a shorter but significant period in a job that ushered him into Trump's inner circle: head of Trump's campaign finance operation. When Mnuchin, 53, was chosen by Trump as his national finance director in May, he told The Associated Press that the two men had been friends for 15 years.
Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump's expected choice to be the nation's 77th treasury secretary, has had a long history as a successful financial executive and a shorter but significant period in a job that ushered him into Trump's inner circle: head of Trump's campaign finance operation. When Mnuchin, 53, was chosen by Trump as his national finance director in May, he told The Associated Press that the two men had been friends for 15 years.
Every new president begins his tenure by trying to manage the press. And even though the press is a far different institution than it was when most of our chief executives took office, that hasn't stopped the current president-elect from doing the same.
Donald Trump has a well thought-out immigration program, far better than anything Hillary Clinton ever came up with, and it's not mass deportation for every illegal immigrant in the land. Much was spelled out months ago and a major modification was added later, but now it seems no one has been listening, and so we are having weeping and gnashing of teeth.
President-elect Donald Trump is railing against the very system that will put him in the White House. Without any substantiation, the man who will be president went on a Twitter rant this weekend, saying he would have "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
Even though Donald Trump won the election, he still is questioning the legitimacy of the election. He now claims that there were millions who voted illegally, all apparently for Hillary Clinton .
President-elect Donald J. Trump's appointments so far indicate that he has in mind betraying the forgotten people who voted for him. It's no comfort, but in my opinion Hillary Rodham Clinton in office would not have had their interests in mind any more than Mr. Trump apparently does.
The Snowflake Ball celebrates UNICEF's lifesaving work for children around the world and has raised $27 million over the past eleven years. Perry was a staunch and outspoken supporter of Clinton during the presidential race and campaigned for her across the country.
The Green Party-backed push for a recount of Pennsylvania's presidential election results will get its day in court. Commonwealth Court has scheduled a hearing for 10 a.m. Monday in Harrisburg to consider the recount effort pushed by former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, according to a court order Tuesday.
Earlier this month, State Representative Bobby Kaufman proposed the "Sick it Up Buttercup" bill. It`s legislation that would financially punish public universities that use a portion of their budgets for grief counseling for students upset about the election results.
Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance at tonight's UNICEF Snowflake Ball in New York to introduce Katy Perry , the singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador honored with the organization's Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award. "We need champions like Katy, now more than ever," Clinton said.
"I've gotten to spend time with her and I know how deeply she cares about making our world a better place," said Clinton of Perry, who was brought to tears on Tuesday night. "We need champions like Katy now more than ever."
Two of the Senate's most liberal lawmakers are assailing a $6.3 billion medical research bill as a gift to drug companies, even as Republican leaders prepare to try pushing the measure through the lame-duck Congress. "It's time for Congress to stand up to the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, not give them more handouts," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said Tuesday in a written statement.
Clinton, then a senator from New York, reportedly opposed a constitutional amendment that would criminalize the desecration of the flag, but introduced legislation in 2005 and backed a second bill in 2006 that would criminalize flag burning . More than half of Democrats in the Senate backed her effort, the New York Times reported at the time.