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The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to condemn a United Nations resolution critical of Israeli settlements as anti-Israel and one-sided, in a rebuke of the Obama administration's decision to allow the resolution to pass. The U.N. resolution, which passed in late December 14 to 0 with an abstention from the United States, declares Israeli settlements a "flagrant violation under international law" and describes east Jerusalem and the Western Wall as "occupied Palestinian territory."
The US House of Representatives passed a scathing rebuke Thursday night to a United Nations Security Council resolution the Obama administration allowed through last month that condemned Israeli settlements as illegal. House Resolution 11 declared the UN motion a "one-sided" effort that is an obstacle to peace, placing disproportionate blame on Israel for the continuation of the conflict and encouraging Palestinians from engaging in direct, bilateral negotiations.
Alaska Airlines launches a daily flight Thursday morning from Los Angeles to Havana. U.S. airlines competed aggressively last year for a limited number of slots to begin regular scheduled service to Cuba.
The second-ranking House Democrat, Steny Hoyer of Maryland, would support an effort to challenge certification of the votes that will formally put Trump in the White House on Friday, he told ABC News Political Director Rick Klein on the Powerhouse Politics podcast. Congress is slated to count the Electoral College ballots to officially elect Donald Trump as President on Friday, but a few House Democrats, led by Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, are weighing options to protest the Electoral College votes.
In fact, intelligence officials say the tension is palpable as Trump prepares to receive the Russia hacking report from Clapper and the heads of the CIA, NSA and FBI . Also Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden was asked by the "PBS News Hour" about the president-elect's criticism of the intelligence community.
The Latest on accusations that Russia meddled in America's presidential election to help Donald Trump win : The White House says President Barack Obama is being briefed on a classified report about Russian and other foreign meddling in U.S. elections. Earnest says Obama has asked intelligence officials to also brief members of Congress and the incoming president.
At least one organization organization argues that "just among Republican electors, there are at least 50 electoral votes that were not regularly given or not lawfully certified." The Electoral College may have voted to name Donald Trump president weeks ago, but there are some protesters still fighting back.
President-elect Donald Trump is shifting the name-calling that helped drive his campaign victories over "lyin,'" "low energy" and "crooked" opponents to the legislative arena, where he's now mocking Democrats as "clowns" trying to escape blame for the nation's troubled health care law. "The Democrats, led by head clown Chuck Schumer, know how bad Obamacare is and what a mess they are in," Trump tweeted Thursday.
U.S. intelligence leaders bristled Thursday at President-elect Donald Trump's mean tweets about the community's conclusion Russian government-directed hackers meddled in the 2016 presidential election, suggesting the president-elect went far beyond expressing mere healthy skepticism. Trump's deriding of the intelligence community's conclusions and capabilities could undermine Americans' faith in what government knows during future national security crises, the officials and some lawmakers warned during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
Time Warner Inc. because he believes it would concentrate too much power in the media industry, according to people close to the president-elect, who has been publicly silent about the transaction for months. Trump told a friend in the last few weeks that he still considers the merger to be a bad deal, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the conversation was private.
The nation's top intelligence official said Thursday that Russia undoubtedly interfered in America's 2016 presidential election but stopped short of using the explosive description "an act of war," telling lawmakers such a call isn't within the purview of the U.S. intelligence community.
Democrat Tom Perriello Thursday joined the 2017 race for governor in Virginia, promising to make sure the commonwealth acts as a firewall to Republican President-elect Trump. Perriello, a former congressman with ties to President Obama , is challenging Lt.
Shares of both Time Warner and AT&T saw pressure after Bloomberg News reported that President-elect Donald Trump still is opposed to the two companies merging , a view he expressed during the campaign. The report cited unnamed people close to the president-elect.
Jon Corzine, the former New Jersey governor who led the collapsed brokerage MF Global, has been ordered to pay a $5 million penalty for his role in the firm's alleged illegal use of almost $1 billion in customer funds. A federal court in Manhattan on Thursday granted the order against Corzine to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which brought civil charges against him in 2013.
The Latest on the beating of a white man in Chicago that was broadcast live on Facebook : White House press secretary Josh Earnest says the beating of a mentally disabled man that was broadcast live on Facebook demonstrates "a level of depravity that is an outrage to a lot of Americans." Earnest says he has not yet spoken to President Barack Obama about the incident in the president's hometown of Chicago but says he's confident Obama "would be angered by the images that are depicted on that video."
Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump have played key roles in Donald Trump's campaign, his transition team and his family businesses. President-elect Donald Trump has suggested he may give his daughter and son-in-law some roles in his new administration, but a 1967 anti-nepotism law makes doing so a lot more complicated.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark says she will not be attending the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump because she doesn't want to "normalize" the "bigoted, misogynist, anti-Semitic, and racist" things he has said. TheHill.com reported Thursday on a Boston Globe report that Clark is the one Democratic elected official from Massachusetts who has chosen to boycott the inauguration.
Longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone claimed that CIA Director John Brennan is a "mole" for the Saudi government and suggested that he be thrown in jail. Stone is a longtime friend and ally of President-elect Trump's with a decades-long history of employing political dirty tricks, and he regularly spouts violent, racist, and sexist rhetoric.
Clapper is among top U.S. intelligence officials set to testify on Jan. 5, 2017, at a Senate hear... WASHINGTON - The Latest on accusations that Russia meddled in America's presidential election to help Donald Trump win : The Director of National Intelligence says he won't discuss details about the Obama administration's comprehensive report on Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election early next week. James Clapper said Thursday at a hearing on foreign cyber threats to the U.S. that he understands there is enormous public interest in the report's conclusions but said he won't be discussing them.