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A bill to fund the US government through April that got caught up in a fight over health insurance for coal miners, cleared a key procedural hurdle late Thursday when senators voted 61-38 to advance it. A group of Democrats, who tried to bolster the health insurance provisions in the bill, were not able to get enough votes to block it.
Hillary Clinton and her supporters spent a record $1.2 billion for her losing presidential campaign - twice as much as the winner, Donald Trump, according to the latest records. The president-elect, who confounded critics during the campaign by saying there was no need to raise or spend $1 billion or more, ended up making do with $600 million.
This image provided by C-SPAN2 shows retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. giving his final speech on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016.
Two Malibu property owners including a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon are fined $5.1MILLION for denying people access to coastline behind their property dubbed 'Billionaires' Beach' CIA concludes 'Russia DID intervene in the elections with the goal of helping Trump win' but transition team dismisses claims saying they come from the 'same people that said Saddam had WMDs' Karaoke bar owner 'shoots his ex-wife' in front of customers during an argument' at a private late night session Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth gets a sequel examining global warming's escalation and will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next year SodaStream CEO slams bottled water as a 'scam' after his Game of Thrones advert encouraging people to 'f*** plastic' and buy its products is hit with six cease-and-desist letters 'Well, I killed them, I guess': The chilling moment Dylann Roof LAUGHS as white supremacist ... (more)
Donald Trump said Friday he doesn't care about prosecuting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, after attendees at his rally chanted "lock her up." After the chants started at the President-elect's post-election "thank you" rally in Michigan, he responded, "That plays great before the election -- now we don't care, right?" The chant "lock her up" became a common occurrence at Trump's rallies while he was running for president.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked a Goldman Sachs executive to head the White House National Economic Council, local media reported Friday. Gary Cohn, Goldman's president and chief operating officer, has been offered the director of the key economic council to coordinate domestic and international economic issues across the Trump's administration, according to NBC News.
Each week, the Maclean's Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac Mac Sweeney to discuss the headlines of the week. This week, the firestorm around electoral reform continues to burn, this week over the government's online survey.
In the heat of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump accused primary rival Ted Cruz of being controlled by Goldman Sachs because his wife, Heidi, previously worked for the Wall Street giant. He slammed Hillary Clinton for receiving speaking fees from the bank.
Appearing jovial and relaxed, Donald Trump plunged back into election politics Friday, a full month after he won the presidency, enthusiastically prodding Louisiana Republicans to turn out for Saturday's Senate runoff election and protect the party's 52-48 margin in Washington. Addressing a large crowd at an airport hangar, at one point he tossed his trademark "Make America Great Again" hat to a supporter.
Michigan's ... /Jackson Citizen Patriot via AP). Diane Petryk of Lansing, Mich., holds a sign that says, "Let the Recount continue" to rally and speak out against the courts decision to shut down the recount, at the ... .
President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that he would propose a lifetime ban on federal employees who grant huge defense contracts from working for those companies - after saying this week that he wanted to cancel the "ridiculous" order for a new Air Force One. "But when you're talking about the kind of money [spent on such contracts] I said: 'Who gives these orders out?'" Trump told a rally in Baton Rouge, La., as part of his "thank you" tour of battleground states.
" How America Is Putting Itself Back Together ," readers share their best aerial photos from across the U.S. Submit your own via hello@theatlantic.com . Remaining states needed: Adam Feiges sends a stunning, lambent view of Chicago's grid system at night on his approach to O'Hare from the east: The Interstate 90/94 split is visible in the bottom of the frame with the Kennedy Expressway curving to the left as it heads "inbound" towards the Loop.
On Friday, CNN reported that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has not only withdrawn his name from consideration for Secretary of State, he has also asked that he not be considered for any cabinet position in the new administration whatsoever. "Rudy Giuliani said he only wanted Secretary of State," said Susan Page of the Washington Post .
The Senate pushed to avert a government shutdown at midnight Friday as coal-state Democrats evoked President-elect Donald Trump in pleading for a more generous extension of health care benefits for retired miners. A key Democrat in the rancorous fight over benefits for retired miners facing a loss of coverage at year's end suggested he would beat a tactical retreat and resume the battle next year.
Donald Trump advocate Rudy Giuliani withdrew his name from the hat of Trump cabinet picks on Friday and almost immediately called into Fox News to further discuss his reasons for withdrawing, Mediaite reports. For weeks, Giuliani's name has been floated as a pick for secretary of state.
Former Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway spoke with MSNBC's Chuck Todd Friday, defending the president-elect over his cabinet positions, noting Trump "railed against" Wall Street influence doing the campaign. Conway argued that Trump said banks "don't have influence over him politically and they will not have influence over him politically in the White House," insisting they will work with Trump to implement his vision.
President-elect Donald Trump has asked Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House, to be his Interior secretary, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
In this Nov. 9, 2008, file photo, Dr. Shirley Caesar-Williams prays for President-elect Barack Obama during a church service at Mt. Calvary Word of God Church in Raleigh, N.C. Caesar, whose sermon-song "Hold My Mule" went viral a few years ago, is suing a Georgia rapper over a remix of her song.