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Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his wife Karen arrive for the inaugural ceremony for Indiana's statewide office holders, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Indianapolis. Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his wife Karen arrive for the inaugural ceremony for Indiana's statewide office holders, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Indianapolis.
Statements of Public Citizen Experts on Elizabeth Warren's Legislation to Combat the President-Elect and Vice President-Elect's Financial Conflicts of Interest Note: Today, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced the ''Prevention of Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act of 2017.' ' The legislation seeks to require the president to sell all assets that would create a financial conflict of interest.
Two days after Donald Trump worked the phones to successfully unseat Ohio's Republican Chairman Matt Borges, a close ally of Gov. John Kasich told Newsmax that the purpose of the president-elect's unprecedented involvement in the state party contest was "to take a swat at John Kasich and nothing more." In an exclusive interview with Newsmax following the vote for state chairman Friday night, Franklin County Chairman Doug Preisse recollected that "few former opponents or critics [of Trump] were consistent or as highly placed as John Kasich."
President-elect Donald Trump is firing back at Meryl Streep after the actress used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes to scold him for mocking a disabled reporter during the presidential campaign. "Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes," Trump tweeted, noting that Streep had campaigned for his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
China said Monday it "firmly opposed" a meeting between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen and Senator Ted Cruz, as a state-run newspaper warned of "revenge" against President-elect Donald Trump should he abandon the One China policy. Tsai met Cruz in Houston over the weekend, the Republican from Texas said in a statement, with the two discussing arms sales, diplomatic exchanges and economic relations.
When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., to 2446 Belmont Road, in Washington's Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three postpresidential years. Wilson's embittering foreign-policy failure was the Senate's rejection of the U.S. participation in the embodiment of Wilsonian aspirations, the League of Nations.
There are several reasons why Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler, a member of the court's five-justice conservative majority, will not be challenged in the April 4 election for a second 10-year term. She will be the first justice in 11 years to be unopposed.
President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia engaged in cyber attacks during the U.S. presidential election and may take action in response, his incoming chief of staff said on Sunday. Reince Priebus said Trump believed Russia was behind the intrusions into the Democratic Party organizations, although Priebus did not clarify whether the president-elect agreed that the hacks were directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"La La Land" danced off with seven Golden Globes on Sunday on a night marked by upsets and a stinging indictment of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump by Hollywood favorite Meryl Streep. "La La Land", a romantic musical about a struggling actress and a jazz pianist trying to make it in Hollywood, took home Globes for best comedy/musical and for its stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, as well as for director Damien Chazelle, screenplay, score and original song.
Budget hole - The immediate priority for lawmakers in the 2017 session is dealing with a $350 million hole in the state budget. Next up will be fixing a $500 million revenue shortfall projected for the 2018 fiscal year, which begins July 1. Rather than being worried about the lack of state senators who are attorneys, perhaps the greater concern is that the Senate doesn't have a practicing accountant among its members.
China said Monday it "firmly opposed" a meeting between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen and Senator Ted Cruz, as a state-run newspaper warned of "revenge" against President-elect Donald Trump should he abandon the One China policy. Tsai met Cruz in Houston over the weekend, the Republican from Texas said in a statement, with the two discussing arms sales, diplomatic exchanges and economic relations.
Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has made an unexpected trip to New York to meet with members of US president-elect Donald Trump's transition team, according to the Foreign Office. Johnson met with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and chief strategist Steve Bannon on Sunday, just hours after prime minister Theresa May described the incoming president's comments about groping women "unacceptable".
In a direct contradiction to his campaign promise, President-Elect Donald Trump recently said that he will ask congress for funds to build a wall across the U.S. - Mexico border. The move breaks with Trump's repeated campaign promise that he would make Mexico pay for the wall by October 2017.
The week before Donald Trump takes the oath of office will set the stage for his entry into the Oval Office. Not only will at least nine of his Cabinet nominees begin their Senate confirmation hearings, but the president-elect himself will face reporters at a long-awaited press conference, where he may address how he plans to separate his business interests from his presidency.
The Senate is a beast of its own, and some of Trump's fiercest enemies there are fellow Republicans like Lindsey Graham and John McCain. So let's focus in this column on Republicans in the House.
He didn't have long. Education Secretary John B. King Jr. took office in March 2016 after President Obama's long-serving Secretary, Arne Duncan, stepped down at the end of 2015.
When Egypt Robinson's son was found dead, the 3-year-old boy's body was inside a suitcase that had been left in a swamp at the back of a Florida house. Prosecutors say Robinson stabbed her son the day after Christmas in 2015, then wrapped his body in a sheet and laid him on his back inside the suitcase.
Four days after an Army reservist shot and killed five people at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, federal authorities say they have thus far found no evidence that he was involved in ISIS or any form of radical Islam. Esteban Santiago, the 26-year-old gunman, had connections to New York, Puerto Rico, Southwest Florida and Alaska, but it remains a mystery why he picked Fort Lauderdale to carry out his attack.
A pro-Trump PAC linked to L.L. Bean heiress Linda Bean is now reporting donations it never disclosed to the federal government last year. The amended filings by Making Maine Great Again LLC say Bean donated $30,000, not $60,000 as the political action committee originally reported.