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The President has done some very good things. But his support for the arts and humanities is not among them President Barack Obama leaves office this week with a number of significant achievements, many of them involving the economy, which was a smoking ruin when George W. Bush handed the presidency over to him.
U.S. President Barack Obama wipes away tears as he delivers his farewell address in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. January 10, 2017 Over the past 7 decades, I've been a trusted literary confidant and advisor to nearly every American President. FDR, toward his end, praised my WWII novel "The Naked Grunt" as "the finest work of American literature to emerge from the battle-swamps of occupied Asia."
Donald Trump is set to appoint a Cabinet with no Latino members for the first time in 30 years . Trump's Cabinet also has the fewest non-white and female members in decades.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands by his offer to go to the United States now that Chelsea Manning is being released, he told a press conference. Speaking from the Ecuadorian embassy in London via social media, he signalled there would be "many discussions" on his future before Manning leaves prison in May. He welcomed Barack Obama's decision to free the former soldier jailed for handing over classified documents to the anti-secrecy organisation.
Recently elected New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer is diverging from some of his Democratic colleagues and planning to attend Friday's presidential inauguration. It's a not-so-surprising move from someone who's already raised eyebrows by being one of just four Democrats to vote for a Republican-backed bill on regulation rollbacks.
On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, one of the biggest tech-related questions surrounding his administration is the future of net neutrality. The Federal Communications Commission under President Barack Obama has taken steps to prevent internet service providers from favoring certain kinds of content over others, thereby preserving the core principles of a free and open internet.
Singer Katy Perry takes the stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Thursday, July 28, 2016. Singer Katy Perry takes the stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Thursday, July 28, 2016.
Registration will allow you to post comments on fairfieldcitizenonline.com and create a fairfieldcitizenonline.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Rep. John Lewis Lewis said on "Meet the Press" that he doesn't think Trump's presidency is legitimate.
Twenty-four hours before Donald Trump is to be sworn in as president of the United States, several dozen people packed a Moscow nightclub to celebrate his inauguration early. Russian officials openly cheered Trump's win in the November election, and many ordinary Russians see Trump as someone who can mend ties between the two countries following their steady deterioration during Barack Obama's second term.
Ready for his big moment, Donald Trump traded in his beloved private plane for a military jet Thursday and swooped into Washington for three days of inaugural festivities. As the president-elect left New York behind, the capital braced for an onslaught of inaugural crowds and demonstrators numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
What does the Department of Health and Human Services have in common with a small bio-tech company based in Australia? Well, they both appear to be controlled by key figures in the Trump transition team. Innate Immunotherapeutics is a small firm specializing in the development and design of a clinical stage biotechnology drug that targets the human innate immune system.
Participants in the Women's March on Washington intend to wear pink hats with cat ears to symbolize concern over the Trump presidency. President Barack Obama invoked "the peaceful transition of power" in his Nov. 9 speech after Trump was declared the winner, but dozens of Democratic members of the House of Representatives have announced plans to either boycott or simply not attend the inauguration.
In rally after rally, and speech upon speech, Donald Trump built a verbal skyscraper of campaign promises about what he would do on his first day in the White House. Begin building a wall at the nation's southern border.
Even as he maintains ties to oil and gas producers, a Perry-led Energy Department is likely to support renewable energy and the tax incentives that encourage its growth, experts said. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he regrets his famous statement about abolishing the Department of Energy and said it does not reflect his current thinking The White House left Obama's schedule mostly empty for his last day, while saying he'd use the time to pack up the home he and his family have lived in for most of a decade.
In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence wave as they visit to Carrier factory in Indianapolis, Ind. Donald Trump enters the White House on Jan. 20 just as he entered the race for president: defiant, unfiltered, unbound by tradition and utterly confident in his chosen course.
Donald Trump wrapped up his initial Cabinet nominations Thursday, tapping former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to be secretary of Agriculture. Trump: Sonny Perdue will be 'great' Agriculture secretary Donald Trump wrapped up his initial Cabinet nominations Thursday, tapping former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to be secretary of Agriculture.
Donald Trump enters the White House on Friday just as he entered the race for president: defiant, unfiltered, unbound by tradition and utterly confident in his chosen course. In the 10 weeks since his surprise election as the nation's 45th president, Trump has violated decades of established diplomatic protocol, sent shockwaves through business boardrooms, tested long-standing ethics rules and continued his combative style of replying to any slight with a personal attack -- on Twitter and in person.
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named Sonny Perdue III, the former governor of Georgia, as his choice for the next U.S. secretary of agriculture. "From growing up on a farm to being governor of a big agriculture state, he has spent his whole life understanding and solving the challenges our farmers face, and he is going to deliver big results for all Americans who earn their living off the land," Trump said in a statement.