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Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Environmental Protection Agency administrator, his former campaign manager told reporters Wednesday. "Attorney General Pruitt has great qualifications and a good record as the AG of Oklahoma, and there were a number of qualified candidates for that particular position that the President-elect interviewed and he settled on Attorney General Pruitt and we'll look forward to the confirmation hearing," Kellyanne Conway told reporters Wednesday.
Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday, "I have no intention of running" for president in 2020, the latest in what has been an eventful week for the vice president. Biden said this after the Senate paid tribute to his work earlier -- and as he headed into a reception in the Capitol.
It may seem odd for the governor of a lightly populated agricultural state to be chosen as U.S. ambassador to China, especially amid escalating talk of a trade war with the major U.S. trading partner. But Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad boasts a 30-year relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader in decades.
But his inconsistencies and contradictions render this nearly impossible. Given that this is perennially the most volatile area of the world, the goal is modest: to minimize problems and avoid disasters.
DECEMBER 1: Congressman-elect Don McEachin, center, a state senator from Richmond who was just elected to the House, gets directions from a staffer on procuring a parking pass as he prepares for his upcoming stint in Congress, on December, 01, 2016 in Washington, DC. The newly elected representative from Virginia fared poorly in the lottery for Congressional office space last week, drawing number 48 out of 50. There's nothing glamorous or even much desirable about the cramped room on the third floor of the Rayburn House office building that McEachin will call his own.
Court records show a 27-year old woman in Fox Lake died of a gun shot wound to the head. Authorities say the body of Sesalie Dixon was found in a truck at a home at 100 We-Go Trail Sunday.
Former U.S. Sen. and astronaut John Glenn has been hospitalized, officials at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University said. Glenn had heart-valve replacement surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in 2014 and suffered a stroke, but the exact illness leading to his hospitalization has not been disclosed.
The New York Stock Exchange is located in lower Manhattan. On Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 297.84 points, or 1.5 percent, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 29.12 points, or 1.3 percent.
Mar-a-Lago is seen before President-elect Donald Trump walks out to his motorcade in Palm Beach, FL on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016. House Republicans are set to approve a must-pass spending bill Thursday that would dramatically reduce the number of visas available next year for seasonal workers like the ones who have been hired at President-elect Donald Trump's golf courses in Florida.
In this image from Senate Television, Vice President Biden presides over the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Dec. 5. Vice President Biden's tribute tour reached a crescendo Wednesday in the rarest possible fashion: He barely said a word on the Senate floor. Biden, who for 36 years filled the chamber with voluble oratory, sat in the presiding officer's chair serving in his other capacity, president of the Senate, as a bipartisan collection of colleagues poured out tributes for the outgoing vice president.
Last week, Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of Taiwan, a self-ruling island of twenty-three million people off China's southeast coast, called President-elect Donald Trump, who by taking the call shattered a decades-long Washington taboo. The news thrilled millions of Taiwanese citizens, who have long complained that the United States has neglected the world's only Chinese-speaking democracy in order to please authorities in Beijing.
This is a miscarriage of justice the likes of which we haven't seen since it was insinuated that San Antonio has better breakfast tacos than Austin . According to a blind taste-test from a group of Republican senators Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Arkansas' cheese dip is better than Texas' queso.
While Friday's warm temperatures allowed many to enjoy the outdoors at Beaumont's Hike and Bike trail, today is expected to be a forty percent chance showers.
A bill that would require the federal government to conduct more research into health risks faced by women who use medications while breast-feeding is headed to President Barack Obama for his signature. The Senate passed the bill on Wednesday, marking a win for its chief author, Washington state Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler .
Donald Trump embraced new Cabinet officers Wednesday whose backgrounds suggest he's primed to put tough actions behind his campaign rhetoric on immigration and the environment, even as he seemed to soften his yearlong stance on immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. It's clearer by the day, underscored by Trump's at-times contradictory words, that his actual policies as president won't be settled until after he takes his seat in the Oval Office.
A leading Texas candidate for the job of EPA administrator was passed over Wednesday in favor of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. But President-elect Donald Trump's new top environmental official has Texas ties aside from the Red River.
It looks like President Barack Obama will be leaving office the same way he arrived: overestimating his actual commitment to rule of law and government transparency. That's one takeaway from the president's counterterrorism speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida, yesterday.
The billionaire real estate mogul and reality TV star became the unlikely Republican nominee for president among a field of 17 former governors, senators and other candidates. He then shocked pollsters who had shown Hillary Clinton ahead in the general election, getting more than the 270 electoral votes needed to be named the country's next commander-in-chief.