Month: December 2016

Congress to Seek Justice Against the UN

In his scathing response to the Obama administration’s UN decision against Israel, Sen. Ted Cruz reminded the White House that Congress has constitutional authority over taxpayer funding. With that power, he said Congress will not stand by and let the executive branch continue its assault against their Middle East ally.

Pressure’s on for Trump to make diplomats safer

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 little insight into how he’ll do that.

Netanyahu calls Kerry speech ‘deep disappointment’

Israel’s prime minister decried Secretary of State John Kerry’s Mideast policy speech as a “deep disappointment” on Wednesday and vowed to work with the incoming Trump administration to contain the fallout from last week’s U.N. resolution calling Israeli settlements illegal. Netanyahu’s angry statement, delivered at a late-night news conference shortly after Kerry’s address, capped a tumultuous week in which years of tense relations with President Barack Obama boiled over.

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Tensions erupt between Obama and Trump, setting up fraught transition

The anxious armistice between U.S. President Barack Obama and president-elect Donald Trump came to an abrupt halt Wednesday and put the United States on course for the rockiest presidential transition in at least six decades. Cracks in the relationship have been evident for weeks, but the fissure between the two broke into the open when Mr. Obama’s Secretary of State defended the American position in the United Nations on the issue of Israeli settlements and when Mr. Trump went to his Twitter account and banged out an unambiguous end to the surface niceties the two have laboured to present to a divided American public.

At Pearl Harbor, U.S., Japan look to move past legacy of war

President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the USS Arizona Memorial, part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, adjacent to Honolulu, Hawaii, Tuesday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit Tuesday with President Barack Obama is powerful proof that the former enemies have transcended the recriminatory impulses that weighed down relations after the war, Japan’s government has said.

Mayo CEO Noseworthy Meets with Donald Trump

Donald Trump now says the White House transition is going “smoothly” after complaining earlier about some of President Barack Obama’s “statements and roadblocks.” Earlier Wednesday, Trump wrote on Twitter: “Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks.

Cotton: Trump earned clearmandate to stop illegal immigration

Sen. Tom Cotton argued Wednesday that President-elect Trump has a A clear mandateA to weed out illegal immigration and reform a system to prioritize American workers over unskilled, foreign workers. “President-elect Trump now has a clear mandate not only to stop illegal immigration, but also to finally cut the generation-long influx of low-skilled immigrants that undermines American workers,” Cotton said, arguing that the immigration system skews toward the rich and powerful and their ability to bring in cheap, migrant workers in order to drive down wages.

Trump shatters peace with Obama with tweet on ‘roadblocks’

In an interview published by CNN on Monday, Obama said that he would have beaten Trump had he run for a third term. Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama of hobbling the transition to the Republican’s administration with unspecified “inflammatory” statements and “roadblocks,” as tensions between the two men spilt into the open less than a month before Inauguration Day.

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Transfer of Power: President ObamaA s “exit interview” on CNN with former advisor David Axelrod generated plenty of attention when Obama bragged that he could have beaten Donald Trump. Missed in the hullabaloo, however, was a pledge by Obama that he would abide by tradition and retire with dignity as ex-president.

Live: Secretary Kerry’s Speech on Israel-PA Peace

Secretary of State John Kerry said that the two-state solution is in jeopardy despite being the “only” path towards peace between Arabs and Israel. Kerry claimed that the Obama Administration did not betray Israel when it allowed the passage of an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council last week.

Trump accuses Obama of ‘inflammatory’ roadblocks

President-elect Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of throwing up “inflammatory” roadblocks during the transition of power and his administration of treating Israel with “total disdain,” further straining the veneer of civility between the incoming and outgoing leaders. Although Trump didn’t detail his complaints in his morning broadsides on Twitter, the president-elect has made it clear that it didn’t sit well with him when Obama recently boasted that he would have won the election if he’d been running.

Bonnie Raitt Performs For Mavis Staples At 39th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

Last night CBS aired the 39th Annual Kennedy Center Honors from Washington D.C. Hosted by Stephen Colbert, the event featured a number of musicians performing tributes to Mavis Staples, Eagles and James Taylor who were among this year’s recipients of the distinguished honor. With President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in attendance, Bonnie Raitt spoke on behalf of Staples and strapped on a guitar to perform “We Shall Not Be Moved” and “Freedom Highway” while sharing vocals with Audra Day .

US stocks headed for big gains in 2016 despite early stumble

In a year with no shortage of surprises and stomach-churning turns in the market, stock investors can feel pretty good about 2016. Wall Street repeatedly bounced back from steep slumps, including the worst start to any year for stocks, the second correction for the market in five months and investor fears of a global slowdown.

Trumpa s complaint about Obamaa s a inflammatorya rhetoric fits nicely with his rubber-and-glue strategy

Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks.Thought it was going to be a smooth transition – NOT! The tweet would seem to be a reaction to Obama’s remark that he could have beaten Trump in the 2016 election and the Obama administration’s abstention from a key United Nations vote that ran afoul of Israel. But the language Trump uses here is telling, and it suggests that a feature of Trump’s 2016 campaign will persist during his presidency — the rubber-and-glue strategy.

Michael Moore Lists The Exact Ways Dems Can Defeat Trump

Demonstrators chant during a protest march against the election of Republican Donald Trump as President of the United States, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. November12, 2016. REUTERS/David Becker Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore wants more Democrats to fight President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, and outlined a list of things they can do on his Facebook page Tuesday.

Steve Martin Mourns Carrie Fisher Incorrectly; Feminists Set Him Straight

Princess Leia’s status as the catalyst of male sexual awakening has been alluded to countless times in pop culture. On Friends, when Ross confesses to Rachel that he had a sexual fantasy about bikini-clad Leia, Phoebe assures her it’s a rite of passage And on Tuesday, Steve Martin helpfully reminded us of this fact in a now-deleted tweet when he said that for him as a young man, “she was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen.”

Restaurant in Hawaii Bans Trump Voters, Faces Immediate Backlash

There’s trouble brewing in paradise: CafA 8 A1 2 , an Italian restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii decided to take a stand against Trump supporters this week while the Obama family vacationed nearby . The cafe’s owners posted a sign on their restaurant’s front door that read, “If you voted for Trump you cannot eat here! No Nazis.”

Cam Newton scores with visit to boy battling heart condition

By TAMARA LUSH Associated Press Carrie Fisher and Florence Henderson – and other icons of Generation X’s youth – are now gone, stolen by the cruel thief that is 2016. The year has left the… By TAMARA LUSH Associated Press Princess Leia was our first girl movie heroine, and we made our moms braid brunette yarn so we’d have earmuff buns for Halloween.

Notable deaths in 2016

Chyna, the WWE star who became one of the best known and most popular female professional wrestlers in history in the late 1990s, died in April at age 45. Embracing Soviet-style communism, Fidel Castro overcame imprisonment and exile to become leader of Cuba and defy the power of the United States at every turn. The strongman’s half-century rule was marked by the unsuccessful U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

3 reasons we’ll get tax reform in 2017

“There’s only one missing ingredient for tax reform and that’s going to change in 2017,” House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady 3 reasons we’ll get tax reform in 2017 Trump’s 10 biggest allies in Congress Five questions for Trump’s tax reform MORE said on Tax Day 2016 . On Nov. 8, the chief tax writer in the House got his wish: a president who counts tax reform among his top priorities.

Donald Trump to throw out Obama administration orders

President Barack Obama and his administration used their control of the U.S. government’s executive branch to set numerous policies that President-elect Donald Trump can reverse when he takes office next month. Here are eight of the Obama administration rules and regulations that Trump has said he’ll scrap or significantly alter when he becomes president.

The Grist holiday letter

Well, it’s been quite a year for the Grist family. We’ve had some cool adventures, visited exciting new places and met interesting people , sampled new foods and new lifestyle choices , ran for public office , and experienced tough times and triumphs along the way.