President Obama championed America’s diversity in an upbeat final news conference Wednesday, challenging Americans to do more to ensure civil rights for everyone and insisting that future presidents will reflect the mixed-up “stew” of Americans of all faiths and backgrounds. ‘I believe in the American people’: Obama upbeat in last news conference President Obama championed America’s diversity in an upbeat final news conference Wednesday, challenging Americans to do more to ensure civil rights for everyone and insisting that future presidents will reflect the mixed-up “stew” of Americans of all faiths and backgrounds.
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The Republicans’ Counterrevolution
For referring to Donald Trump’s presidency as illegitimate, Rep. John Lewis found himself in the crosshairs of Donald Trump’s weaponized iPhone and his itchy Twitter-finger. And having been in the fight to secure voting rights for Americans, facing bricks, water cannons, attack dogs, batons and the threat of imminent death from the Klan, he speaks from a place of some knowledge.
A lot of Trump’s views may be shaped by advisers: Obama
President Barack Obama says it is appropriate for President-elect Donald Trump to go forward with his vision and his values but says ”I think a lot of his views are going to be shaped by his advisers.’ ‘ Rough Cut .
Not real impressed with that speech
Governor Rick Snyder gave his annual state of the state speech last night. If you missed it, don’t feel bad.
1793 edition of ‘Wealth of Nations’ donated to FHSU
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers — led by higher gasoline prices — increased 0.3 percent in December on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Over the last 12 months, the all items index rose 2.1 percent before seasonal adjustment.
Congresswoman Gabbard makes unannounced trip to Syria
Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has made an unannounced trip to Syria and Lebanon, traveling to the region two months after she sat down with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss foreign policy.
Health Nominee: Replace ‘Democrat Health Care’
Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary opened with the GOP chairman calling him an excellent nominee. But the top Democrat is criticizing the goal of getting rid of President Barack Obama’s health law.
NORC Poll: Americans of all stripes say fix health care
Sylvia Douglas twice voted for President Barack Obama and last year cast a ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton. But when it comes to “Obamacare,” she now sounds like President-elect Donald Trump.
President Obama hits 60% approval rate
President Barack Obama will leave office Friday with his highest approval rating since 2009, his presidency largely viewed as a success, and a majority saying they will miss him when he is gone. A new CNN/ORC poll finds Obama’s approval rating stands at 60%, his best mark since June of his first year in office.
More clemency coming after Obama shortens Manninga s sentence
In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army, Pfc. Chelsea Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick.
5 things for Wednesday, January 18, 2017: Chelsea Manning, Obamacare, Markeith Loyd
Good morning. I’m back at it after feeling a little under the weather. But enough about me.
Chelsea Manning’s family welcome imminent release of whistleblower
The Welsh-Irish family of whistleblower Chelsea Manning have said they are “overjoyed” she will soon be free after her sentence was commuted by outgoing US President Barack Obama. A statement released on behalf of her mother, Susan Manning, and other family members said they hoped the transgender former intelligence analyst, born Bradley Manning, would “now be able to get on with the rest of her life”, adding there would “always be a welcome for her here in Wales”.
Obama Appoints Anti-Israel Adviser to Holocaust Museum Council
President Barack Obama appointed White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes to a post on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s council, the White House Reported Tuesday. Rhodes was probed by Congress over revelations that he served in his sensitive position as the president’s most trusted advisor despite the fact that he had not qualified for security clearances based on FBI background checks in 2008.
Nikki Haley Set for Confirmation Hearing
Nikki Haley delivers the State of the State in the House chambers at the South Carolina Statehouse, Jan. 20, 2016, in Columbia, South Carolina. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will face the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday for her confirmation hearing to be considered as President-elect Donald Trump ‘s choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations .
British Lawmakers Worry About Donald Trump’s Offer of a Deal
British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after delivering her keynote speech on Brexit at Lancaster House in London, England on Jan. 17, 2017. Before Nov. 8, the vast majority of British politicians did not believe they would be dealing with a U.S. President Donald Trump.
Your expat vote can make a difference to those back home with skin in the game
My return to America came after five years in Tokyo, a drop in the bucket next to many of my “lifer” expat colleagues who had accrued wives, kids and mortgages. Their lives weren’t fully checked into either Japanese or American existence, and I was somewhere in the middle myself.
Billionaire heads toward confirmation as Commerce secretary
The Senate is set to vote on Ross’ nomination Monday evening. Ross easily cleared the Senate Commerce Committee and a procedural vote by the full Senate.
A timeline of the Dakota Access oil pipeline
December 2014 – Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners applies to the federal government to build the 1,200-mile Dakota Access pipeline to carry North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to an existing pipeline in Illinois. The pipeline is projected to carry half a million barrels of oil daily.
With clemency for Manning, attention turns to WikiLeaks head
President Barack Obama’s decision Tuesday to commute Chelsea Manning’s sentence brought fresh attention to another figure involved in the Army leaker’s case: Julian Assange. On Twitter last week, Assange’s anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks posted, “If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case.”
Obama surprises his press secretary, Josh Earnest, at last White House briefing
US President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to the White House daily press briefing on Tuesday to praise his spokesman Josh Earnest. “He’s never disappointed.
Schapiro ends as US ambassador on Friday, family stays in Prague
The U.S. ambassador to Prague, Andrew Schapiro, will leave the post on Friday, he told journalists on Tuesday, adding that he will be returning to the Czech Republic because his children will complete their school attendance in the current school year in the country. Schapiro will leave his office on the day of the inauguration of the new U.S. president, Republican Donald Trump.
Obama commutes Chelsea Manninga s sentence and she will be released from prison in May
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Friday that there is temptation to compare the cases of Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning because their crimes are “relatively similar.” Earnest pointed to the scale and aftermath of each of their crimes as the biggest differences that President Barack Obama will consider in the process of presidential clemency.
The 5 craziest hours in the White House
The most frenzied American ritual you’ve never seen is called the “transfer of families,” a five-hour tsunami of activity that transforms President Obama’s home into President Trump’s. “I call it organized chaos,” said Gary Walters, who choreographed several transfers of families in his 21 years as the White House chief usher.
Obamacare more popular than ever before, poll finds, even as GOP plans to repeal it
A new poll suggests President Barack Obama’s besieged health care plan is more popular than it’s ever been, even as congressional Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump prepare to dismantle it. The poll finds 45 percent of respondents think that the Affordable Care Act is a good idea, the highest percentage since the NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll began asking the question in April 2009.
These women shattered ceilings, here’s their message for you
American women have come far since the first women’s rights convention in 1848. The first female conductor, speaker of the house, astronaut to walk in space, chess grandmaster and others explain what it was like to break the glass ceiling in their field, and what is next for America’s women.
The Latest: White House acknowledges Obama can’t close Gitmo
White House press secretary Josh Earnest listens as President Barack Obama speaks at his final daily press briefing, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. White House press secretary Josh Earnest listens as President Barack Obama speaks at his final daily press briefing, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington.
CBO: 18 million more Americans would be uninsured under 2016 GOP repeal
Insurance premiums would soar and some 18 million Americans would lose health coverage if Republicans partially repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law without a replacement, Congress’ nonpartisan budget office estimated Tuesday. The Congressional Budget Office analyzed a GOP 2016 repeal measure, which Republicans have cited as a starting point for their 2017 drive to dismantle and replace Obama’s health overhaul.
Putin: Obama administration trying to undermine Trump
President Vladimir Putin took a parting shot at the Obama administration Tuesday, accusing it of trying to undermine Donald Trump’s legitimacy with fake allegations and “binding the president-elect hand and foot to prevent him from fulfilling his election promises.” In his first public remarks about an unsubstantiated dossier outlining unverified claims that Trump engaged in sexual activities with prostitutes at a Moscow hotel, Putin dismissed the material as “nonsense.”
Poll: Young Americans fear they will be worse off post-Trump
As Donald Trump approaches his inauguration, young Americans have a deeply pessimistic view about his incoming administration, with young blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans particularly concerned about what’s to come in the next four years. That’s according to a new GenForward poll of Americans aged 18 to 30, which found that the country’s young adults are more likely to expect they’ll be worse off at the end of Trump’s first term than better off.
GM To Add Or Keep 7,000 Jobs, Make $1B Factory Investment
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Trump promises his Obamacare replacement plan will cover all, report says
President-elect Donald Trump is putting the finishing touches on an Obamacare replacement plan that aims to provide “insurance for all,” he told The Washington Post. Also, he will demand that drug companies negotiate directly with Medicare and Medicaid and lower their prices, saying they will no longer be “politically protected.”
Donald Trump is most unpopular incoming president in at least 40 years: poll
After a tumultuous campaign and transition, President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office Friday as the least popular incoming president in at least four decades, but a majority of Americans nevertheless express optimism that he will be able to fulfill campaign pledges to boost the economy and deal with threats of terrorism, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Amid controversy and calls for additional investigations into possible Russian interference in the election, most Americans disapprove of Trump’s response to the hacking and other activities.
Putin: Obama’s govt is working hard to undermine Trump
In a biting attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused the outgoing U.S. administration of trying to undermine President-elect Donald Trump by spreading fake allegations and said those who are doing it are “worse than prostitutes.” The statement reflected the Kremlin’s boiling anger at President Barack Obama’s administration, which declined to comment on Putin’s accusation.
Growing list of Democrats boycotting Trump inauguration
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Letter: Don’t stereotype foes of Obama
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Bruce Springsteen cover band drops out of Inauguration
A prominent Bruce Springsteen cover band, The B-Street Band, will not be performing at an Inauguration event this week following widespread criticism. The group was set to perform Thursday at the Garden State Presidential Inaugural Gala on the eve of Donald Trump’s swearing in as president, but after a weekend in the media spotlight, its members decided to change course.
China’s Xi takes spotlight at Davos as US makes transition
China’s President Xi Jinping, center, Xi’s wife Peng Liyuan, left, and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter eat Swiss cheese fondue during lunch during Xi’s two days state visit to Switzerland in Bern, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017.
Chinaa s Xi takes spotlight at Davos as US makes transition
President Xi Jinping leads a Chinese delegation of over 100 officials and scores of business executives attending the World Economic Forum, embodying a tectonic shift at an event that started nearly a half-century ago among Europeans and Americans. Xi’s opening plenary address Tuesday to political and business leaders is shaping up as perhaps the highlight both of this year’s WEF and Xi’s one-country European visit to ultra-stable and chronically neutral Switzerland.
Revelers, rally-goers to clog DC for inauguration
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to clog the nation’s capital for Donald Trump’s inauguration and a major demonstration the day after, but how many will actually arrive to party or protest is an open question. Officials estimate that 800,000 to 900,000 people will be present Friday for the inauguration, a celebration that takes over the city, closing roads, taxing the city’s Metro transit system and making getting around difficult.
Trump, in flap with civil rights icon, meets with MLK’s son
Days before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump attempted to navigate the fallout of his flap with a civil rights leader and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while also losing a member of his incoming administration to accusations of plagiarism.