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Thousands of protesters expected to join Boston Women’s March Saturday

In a few hours, the Boston Common will be awash in pink hats, protest signs, and a sea of demonstrators joining the Women’s March for America to speak out against hostile rhetoric and violence directed at immigrants, Muslims, and others during the presidential campaign and in the wake of the election. The Boston event is expected to draw tens of thousands of demonstrators and is one of more than 670 marches being held nationwide and globally, a day after President Trump formally took office.

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Senate confirms Trump’s picks for defense, homeland security

The Republican-led Senate, taking little time to fill two critical national security posts, overwhelmingly confirmed a pair of retired Marine generals tapped by President Donald Trump to run the Pentagon and secure America’s borders. A little more than an hour later, Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to James Mattis to be defense secretary and John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

The Latest: Mattis promises military that’s ‘ready to fight’

Defense Secretary James Mattis is telling military personnel and their families that his actions are aimed at making sure “our military is ready to fight today and in the future.” Mattis said in a statement Friday evening that he recognizes that “no nation is secure without friends” and is pledging to “work with the State Department to strengthen” the nation’s alliances.

From terrorism to ‘burdensome’ energy regulations, Trump wastes no time in posting policy positions

Shortly after his inauguration as president, Donald Trump, joined by the congressional leadership and his family, formally signs his cabinet nominations in the President’s Room of the Senate, in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Moments after Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president, the White House website on Friday posted a series of statements outlining the new administration’s policy positions on everything from energy and foreign policy to economic growth and the military.

‘The Trump effect’ on Canadian food prices: Sad

PENNY PINCHING Canadians can expect to pay up to five per cent more on food in 2017 due to a number of factors: weather, a weak loonie, rising energy costs and a certain controversy-courting president south of the border. Canadians’ food costs are expected to go up by as much as five per cent in 2017, and consumers have incoming U.S. President Donald Trump at least in part to thank for the price hike, according to a recent report.

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.

These courageous HIV advocates will lead the way against Trump in 2017

Donald J. Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are a threat to everything HIV advocates have been fighting for during the last thirty years, and that includes access to healthcare, bans on insurance companies using HIV as reason to deny coverage, HIV prevention programs like PrEP, and the dignity with which we treat those who are most vulnerable to HIV infection. This new political reality is reflected in the 2017 list of HIV Advocates to Watch from Queerty health writer Mark King’s blog My Fabulous Disease .

Editorial: Bad bug

Forget fake news and the Russian influence on the U.S. election. Forget about ripping up trade deals and building walls and deporting illegal immigrants.

Women have many motivations for DC inauguration protest

When throngs of women from around the nation converge on Washington for a march on the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, they will arrive driven by a multitude of motivations. Gay rights, gun control, immigrant rights, equal pay, reproductive freedom, racial justice, worker rights, climate change, support for vaccinations: They all make the list of progressive causes that are attracting people to the Women’s March on Washington and its sister marches across the country and the world this coming Saturday.

Women Have Many Motivations for DC Inauguration Protest

When throngs of women from around the nation converge on Washington for a march on the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, they will arrive driven by a multitude of motivations. Gay rights, gun control, immigrant rights, equal pay, reproductive freedom, racial justice, worker rights, climate change, support for vaccinations: They all make the list of progressive causes that are attracting people to the Women’s March on Washington and its sister marches across the country and the world this coming Saturday.

Republicans in Minn. Legislature, following Trump, take aim at cities’ immigration policies

President-elect Donald Trump swept to the White House promising to clamp down on illegal immigration and so-called “sanctuary cities” like Minneapolis and St. Paul whose leaders vow not to act as local immigration enforcers. Republicans around the country – including the newly empowered GOP majorities in the Minnesota Legislature – have followed suit, threatening to withhold government aid from cities that decline to work with federal immigration authorities, and represent themselves as safe havens against deportation.

Protesters across US decry Trump’s anti-immigrant stance

Protesters gathered Saturday to support immigrant rights at rallies around the U.S., denouncing President-elect Donald Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric and his pledges to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and to crack down on Muslims entering the country. “We are not going to allow Donald Trump to bury the Statue of Liberty,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, told a standing-room-only crowd at historic African-American church in downtown Washington during one of dozens of rallies around the nation.

Protesters across US decry Trump’s anti-immigrant stance

Protesters gathered Saturday to support immigrant rights at rallies around the U.S., denouncing President-elect Donald Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric and his pledges to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and to crack down on Muslims entering the country. “We are not going to allow Donald Trump to bury the Statue of Liberty,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, told a standing-room-only crowd at historic African-American church in downtown Washington during one of dozens of rallies around the nation.

Protesters denounce Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, plans

Protesters gathered Saturday to support immigrant rights at rallies around the United States, denouncing President-elect Donald Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric and his pledges to build a wall on the US-Mexican border and to crack down on Muslims entering the country. A standing-room-only crowd packed into a historic African-American church in downtown Washington for one of dozens of rallies around the nation.

Trump poised to reform America’s failed immigration policies

Individuals raise their right hands as they pledge the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony to become United States citizens presented by the Littleton Immigrant Resources Center at the Littleton Center Council Chamber on September 29, 2016. U.S. immigration policy is a joke – a bad joke that President-elect Donald Trump estimates costs our economy $113 billion per year and hurts millions, including both U.S. taxpayers and non – U.S. citizens waiting in line to come here legally.

Fixing our broken immigration system truly would be great

There are so many flaws in the U.S. immigration system that could be readily fixed by Congress that it’s a shame so much of the election season was focused on illegitimate and downright harmful fears based not in fact, but in jaded rhetoric and political convenience. Our broken immigration system needs real and humane solutions.

Many motivations drive women to DC for inauguration protest

June 27, 2016 file photo pro-abortion rights activists celebrate during a rally at the Supreme Court in Washington. The tens of thousands of women flocking to Washington for a march on the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration come packing a multitude of agendas, but are united in their loathing for Trump.

The Comforting Convictions of Obama’s Farewell Speech

Watching President Barack Obama’s soaring 2008 Democratic National Convention speech in Denver, I never imagined the kind of turmoil his presidency would incite. Almost everything has changed in the subsequent years, and yet his farewell speech to the nation was brimming with the same brand of haughty lecturing.

Chuck Schumer opposes Jeff Sessions for AG

“After reviewing his record and giving careful consideration to his answers during the hearing, I am not confident in Senator Sessions’ ability to be a defender of the rights of all Americans, or to serve as an independent check on the incoming administration,” the New York Democrat said in a statement. “I am also deeply concerned by his views on immigration, which I saw firsthand during the push for comprehensive immigration reform.

Obama Ends Cuban Immigration Perk as Part of Opening

President Barack Obama ended a decades-old policy of granting residency to Cubans who enter the U.S. without a visa, a final step in the outgoing president’s move to reverse the Cold-War isolation of the Caribbean nation. Obama’s order now places President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned as an opponent both of current immigration flows and of normalizing relations with Cuba, in the position of either accepting another opening to Cuba or having one of his early actions in office be making it easier for immigrants to come into the country.

The Latest: Clapper speaks with Trump about Russia report

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says he has spoken with Donald Trump about the unsubstantiated report claiming Russia had compromising personal and financial information about the president-elect. Clapper says in a statement released Wednesday night that he told Trump the intelligence community “has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable.”

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By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press The 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl who was raped, tortured and killed at her adoptive mother’s house had been abused or neglected in at least three homes… By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press A14-year-old Pennsylvania girl raped, tortured and killed at her adoptive mother’s home had been abused or neglected in at least three homes during her short life. Lawyers for Texas death row inmate Christopher Wilkins looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep him from becoming the first prisoner executed in the nation this year.

Army veteran who came to the US illegally as a child gives powerful testimony against Jeff Sessions

Army veteran Oscar Vazquez delivered a powerful testimony against Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, arguing the Republican senator would not protect immigrants in the United States. The testimony came as Democrats and civil-rights advocates wage a confirmation battle to block Sessions from the nation’s top law-enforcement post.

Black lawmakers to speak out against Sessions in hearing

” Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, used strong words in the first day of his Senate confirmation hearings to deny any hints of a racist past. On day two, a group of black lawmakers will speak out against his nomination ” including New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker, who will take the rare step of testifying against a current Senate colleague.

The Latest: Reaction split on proposed California budget

Republican state lawmakers are optimistic about Gov. Jerry Brown’s fiscally restrained budget, while Democrats want more spending on social welfare programs. Brown is proposing more than $3 billion in cuts as California faces uncertainty about federal funding under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump .

Things to know about Trump’s Cabinet confirmation hearings

Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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A Michigan doctor accused of sexually abusing gymnasts has been hit with a new lawsuit by 18 women and girls who say they were molested by him, mostly at his clinic at Michigan State University. A Michigan doctor accused of sexually abusing gymnasts has been hit with a new lawsuit by 18 women and girls who say they were molested by him, mostly at his clinic at Michigan State University.

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KIMT News 3 – An immigration bill backed by some of Iowa’s U.S. lawmakers is meant to honor the memory of an Iowa woman who was killed in a car accident last year in the state. The man who hit the SUV she was riding in was in the country illegally.

Up Against the Wall, Democrat Party

Or just CLICK THIS LINK to start shopping for anything. Don’t worry – anything you buy through it will pay Daily Pundit a commission! Thanks! The GOP’s willingness to fund Trump’s border wall with taxpayer money could put the party’s deeply held desire to rein in government spending in conflict with its long-standing goal of cracking down on illegal immigration and toughening border security.