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A federal court in New York has released redacted copies of the search warrant and other documents that gave the FBI permission to take a second look at Hillary Clinton's emails. Among the documents unsealed Tuesday was an FBI affidavit arguing there was probable cause to examine the emails found on a computer belonging to former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
President Barack Obama has designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing. The move on Tuesday helps put some finishing touches on Obama's environmental legacy while also testing President-elect Donald Trump's promise to unleash the nation's untapped energy reserves.
"I didn't think President Trump had a chance at winning," McConnell said on Kentucky Education Television's "One to One" late Monday. "It never occurred to me that he might be able to win."
The global stock surge tied to Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. has a better chance of enduring if the president-elect can coax nations such as Germany, Japan and China to embrace reforms, said Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz SE's chief economic adviser. "In order for this Trump rally to be sustained, it's not just about implementing policies at home," Mr. El-Erian said Tuesday in an interview on Bloomberg Television.
NO FIT: How Huckabee described the outcome of his talk with Donald Trump about a potential role in his administration. The Wall Street Journal says people are taking note that some Donald Trump loyalists, who defended him in the dark hours after the release of the pussy-grabbing comment on video, haven't landed spots yet in his administration.
Count us among those who hope President Barack Obama will designate a national monument to Reconstruction in Beaufort County before the end of his term. Reconstruction often gets relatively little attention compared to the Civil War that preceded it and "has long been misunderstood," notable historian Eric Foner has written.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested that Donald Trump could pardon members of his administration who break the law, including his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner. "It is a totally open power, and he could simply say, 'Look, I want them to be my advisers.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is rejecting calls for a special Senate investigative committee focused on possible interference in U.S. elections by Russia and other countries. McConnell says a finding by U.S. intelligence officials that Moscow hacked Democratic emails in a bid to elevate Donald Trump "is a serious issue, but it doesn't require a select committee."
Liberal commentator Keith Olbermann suggested Tuesday that President-elect Trump's detractors should take a "passive aggressive" step to undermine his place in American history, by refusing to call him president. "Not using one word can be just as forceful as perpetually using another," he said in a video for GQ magazine posted online Tuesday.
Kellyanne Conway, senior advisor to President-elect Trump's transition team, vowed Tuesday to rein in the power of political consultants, in addition to that of lobbyists. "Draining the swamp is not just about lobbying and politicians, it's also about consultants," Conway said during an interview on "The Laura Ingraham Show" radio program on Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is rejecting bipartisan calls for a special committee to investigate Russian interference in the U.S. election, which American intelligence says was aimed in part at helping Republican Donald Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. The likely meddling by Russia "is a serious issue, but it doesn't require a select committee," said McConnell, R-Ky.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is demanding information about the Obama administration's oversight of foreign nationals who receive flight training in the United States. In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Grassley, R-Iowa, said an Oct. 11 airplane crash in East Hartford, Conn., has raised his suspicions about flight school training of the pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, a Jordanian national living in the United States.
President-elect Donald Trump's drive to rebuild U.S. roads, bridges, ports and other public works projects with a $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan would come as the country faces a shortage of skilled laborers. Before any dirt can be moved, Trump would have to get approval from Congress.
Republican Donald Trump prevailed in U.S. Electoral College voting on Monday to officially win election as the next president, easily dashing a long-shot push by a small movement of detractors to try to block him from gaining the White House. Trump, who is set to take office on Jan. 20, garnered more than the 270 electoral votes required to win, even as at least half a dozen U.S. electors broke with tradition to vote against their own state's directives, the largest number of "faithless electors" seen in more than a century.
In the machinery of the Holocaust, in the places where Jews and others were murdered by the millions, certain prisoners were compelled or volunteered to help the Nazis in the arduous business of genocide. These people were called Kapos, reviled by Jew and Nazi alike, and few of them survived.
On November 21, 2016, Thomas J. Sugrue published an op-ed titled, "Jeff Sessions' Other Civil Rights Problem," in the New York Times that I believe unfairly criticized Senator Sessions regarding the so-called "equity funding" case. Before my retirement, I served as an associate justice on the Alabama Supreme Court that decided four appellate matters arising from that case.
The American middle classes, the Chinese, and Vladimir Putin have never been convinced that Ivy League degrees, vast Washington experience, and cultural sophistication necessarily translate into national wisdom. Trump instead relies more on instinct and operates from cunning - and we will soon see whether we should redefine wisdom.But for now, for example, we have never heard a presidential candidate say such a thing as We love our miners - not we like miners, but we love them.
The outgoing chairman of the Republican National Committee and incoming White House chief of staff often joins Trump when he interviews candidates for his Cabinet in his cozy Trump Tower office. He accompanies Trump at high-level meetings, like their well-publicized dinner with Mitt Romney.
Charlotte City Councilwoman Claire Green Fallon planned on a quick breakfast with legislative leaders before heading off to a doctor's appointment. Then the mayor told her to stay; it was important.