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In this Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., pose for photographers after a meeting in the Speaker's office on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Donald Trump's relationship with House Speaker Paul Ryan, once rocky, smooth for now, is just the latest in a series of recent pairings between the White House occupant and the speaker.
As we think about the election - what went wrong, what's been unleashed and what we should do about it - please, please, let us expand our vision beyond some technical fix or updated "message." James Zogby , founder of the Arab American Institute and a longtime member of the Democratic National Committee, discussing the Bernie Sanders phenomenon and the future direction of the party, wrote recently: "Many rank and file Democrats had lost confidence in their establishment and were looking for an authentic message that spoke to their needs."
Now that some of Donald Trump's choices for important positions in his administration have been made, it is time to examine the reasons for some of those appointments. An early appointment was that of General Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor.
American punditry and the public intellectual industry, which includes columnists, commentators, are monopolized by White males, whether they be of the Right, Left or Middle. This is unfortunate because no group, whether the brightest and the best, is omniscient and so those who are concerned about the political direction of the country are deprived of points-of-view that might view events differently.
The Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, is seen as the biggest success and the biggest failure of his eight years in office, according to a new Suffolk University/USA Today poll . Asked to chose Obama's biggest success from a list of seven areas, 23.5 percent of respondents chose healthcare/Affordable Care Act.
The city of Chicago released thousands of email messages from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's personal accounts on Wednesday as part of a settlement with a government watchdog organization. Emanuel's office said it was making public any messages pertaining to city business that were sent to and from Emanuel dating to 2011, when the former White House chief of staff took office.
Donald Trump hammered rival Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign for failing to prevent the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when she was secretary of state. Soon he'll be the one responsible for protecting America's diplomats, but he's offered virtually no insight into how he'll do that.
"I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections ... we need to take action." "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections ... we need to take action," Obama said in an interview with NPR, to be broadcast Friday .
The Electoral College votes next week and people across the country have increased efforts to convince members to vote against President-elect Donald Trump. Randy Kirkpatrick, Chairman of Noble County's Republican Party, said he received more than 77,000 e-mails, letters and phone calls.
DECEMBER 14: US President Barack Obama speaks during the annual My Brother's Keeper event at the White House, December 14, 2016 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON - President Obama promised to retaliate against Russia for its attempts to undermine the U.S. elections process, saying that the United States would take action "at a time and place of our own choosing."
To the millions of people who voted for Donald Trump because of his views on improving the economy, reducing the reach of the federal government and controlling immigration, or for the millions more who voted against Hillary Clinton and the perception that she was inadequate for the presidency, revelations about Russian "influence" in the 2016 ... (more)
White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. Earnest answered questions about Russian hacking, healthcare and other topics.
The United States will soon respond to Russia's attack via hacking on the 2016 presidential election, according to President Barack Obama. Speaking to National Public Radio, Obama said, "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing."
In this Dec. 12, 2016 file photo, Interior Secretary-designate, Rep. Ryan Zinke, right, R-Mont., arrives in Trump Tower in New York. As President-elect Donald Trump fills out his Cabinet, it's looking less like America's population and more like the world Trump has always orbited, filled with rich white men and delivering on Trump's promise to ignore political correctness.
The Obama White House knew about Russian hacking in the summer of 2015, but kept quiet about it because it thought Democrat Hillary Clinton would win anyway, and it did not want to risk a cyber war with our Cold War foe, NBC News reported. "They thought she was going to win, so they were willing to kick the can down the road," NBC quoted one government official familiar with the situation.
Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff predicts the U.S. economy will finally fully blossom and flourish once President Barack Obama leaves office. President-elect Donald Trumps' three-pronged catalyst of lower taxes, less regulation and more domestic spending could push gross domestic product well above the trend of the past eight years, CNBC.com explained.
US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday again rejected the CIA's conclusion that Russia manipulated the US election, as the hacking scandal expanded into a hefty foreign policy challenge just five weeks before he takes office. Even as NBC News reported that US intelligence has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a direct hand in the hacking plot, Trump took to Twitter to dismiss the issue, which has been roiling since before he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton on November 8. "If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House waite [sic] so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?" he tweeted.
President Obama will hold his final press conference of the year - and most likely of his presidency - at the White House Friday. Obama will ascend the podium of the White House briefing room at 2:15 pm.