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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: As a veteran, concerns about generals serving in Trump's administration are "pretty offensive" https://t.co/cXP5J1g7aY Tulsi Gabbard Gabbard: 'Offensive' to worry about number of generals in Trump's Cabinet Trump flirts with Dems for Cabinet Dem senator to meet with Trump MORE Donald Trump Trump meets with Ohio State victims Trump to remain Celebrity Apprentice's executive producer Trump's attempts to pick industry winners and losers will ultimately fail MORE is considering too many retired generals for Cabinet positions.
Democratic congresswoman and veteran Tulsi Gabbard is not happy about all the criticism of Donald Trump picking generals for his cabinet. Trump is picking General James Mattis , General John Kelly , and Lieutenant General Michael Flynn for high-level positions in his administration, and there's been quite a bit of blowback to that.
Variety reports that President-elect Donald Trump will retain his executive producer credit on the Celebrity Apprentice when the show returns for its 15th season on Jan.2 According to the article, Trump's per-episode fee is "likely to be in the low five-figures, at minimum." The report notes that it is not unprecedented for a sitting President to receive royalty checks.
For protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline, the messages from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation are confusing: The tribal chairman tells demonstrators that it's time to leave their camp and go home. Another leader implores them to stay through the bitter North Dakota winter.
The search for a small plane missing in Alaska with four people on board has been hampered by fog and darkness in a narrow river valley believed to be part of the aircraft's flight path, responders said Thursday. The single-engine Piper PA-28 Cherokee left Port Alsworth about 10 a.m. Wednesday and was due around noon in Anchorage 170 miles to the northeast, Alaska Air National Guard Staff Sgt.
A local union president slammed by Donald Trump on Twitter stood his ground Thursday, maintaining the president-elect gave false hope to hundreds of workers by inflating the number of jobs being saved at a Carrier Corp. factory in Indianapolis. United Steelworkers Local 1999 President Chuck Jones spent much of the day doing television interviews after Trump called out by name Wednesday night the leader of the union for a few thousand workers at the Carrier factory and 11 other plants.
During the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, Americans spent too much time on the roller coaster and got addicted to it. We are now in the post-election phase of our national life, starring President-elect Donald Trump and his victory-and-transition magical mystery tour.
The election is over and the establishment of the Democratic Party cannot accept the reason for their defeat. They want to blame the FBI director and every other excuse they can come up with to explain why Hillary Clinton lost.
Thousands of Native Americans and activists have braved blizzard conditions to protest against the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline near tribal lands. Harold Hamm, a billionaire oilman and President-elect Donald Trump's top energy adviser, doesn't seem to believe the protests were authentic.
Hillary Clinton, speaking in public Thursday for one of the first times since losing the presidential election a month ago, called the proliferation of fake news "an epidemic." So-called fake news -- often blatant falsehoods passed off online as the truth and spread by conspiracy theorists -- rose to prominence around the 2016 campaign and since Clinton's defeat millions have read "Pizzagate," a false report spread online that erroneously accused Clinton and her campaign of running a child sex ring at a pizza shop .
In this Nov. 19, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump walks with CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder from Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. Trump is expected to add another wealthy business person and elite donor to his Cabinet, with fast food executive Andrew Puzder as Labor secretary. In the background is Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
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It has to be benchmarked to Donald Trump, although changes on both sides of the Atlantic had been incubating for a good length of time to hit the road with a bang! A new milestone around our neck? The widely read British columnist Rod Riddle had relied on quotes from The Guardian to explain the Trump factor as it impacted the US presidential election. Joan Cook, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale attributed it to 'traumatic bonding,' like the Stockholm syndrome-an emotional dependency forged through abuse.
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a compromise version of an annual defense policy bill on Thursday without controversial provisions such as requiring women to register for the draft or allowing contractors to make religion-based hiring decisions. Ninety-two senators backed the $618.7 billion National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, and seven opposed it.
Senator Lamar Alexander on Thursday released the following statement after the Senate passed a bipartisan agreement for the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act that establishes the nation's military spending priorities: He said, "Governing is about setting priorities, and this bill shows our priority is the men and women who serve ... (more)
Wednesday, U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly helped the Senate pass the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act , which includes $1 billion over the next two years to help combat the opioid abuse and heroin use epidemics. Funding will be distributed to states to help them address these drug epidemics.
Senator Ben Cardin speaks during a press conference introducing the Iran Policy Oversight Act on October 1, 2015 in Washington, DC Legislation expanding the 2012 U.S. Magnitsky human rights act from Russian citizens to cover abusers in any country passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday as part of an annual defense policy bill, leaving the landmark measure on the verge of becoming law. The legislation was included in the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, setting policy for the Department of Defense, despite the recent election of Republican Donald Trump as the U.S. president.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media in the lobby at Trump Tower in New York, Dec. 6, 2016. CREDIT: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik This week, President-elect Donald Trump met with some of the biggest names in climate activism: former vice president Al Gore and actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
Congress is sending President Barack Obama a defense policy bill that seeks to give Republicans the final word on key national security issues. The bill rebuffs his attempts to shutter the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and reduce the size of armed forces.
In a video titled "Man of Steel," J.J. Hanson goes for a run along a tree-lined road, pumps iron in his garage, plays in a park with his three-year-old son, and walks hand in hand with his beautiful wife. This idyllic image is spliced with tragedy: in 2014, Hanson was diagnosed with a quickly growing brain tumor.