In this Nov. 10, 2016 photo, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. In this Nov. 10, 2016 photo, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
Seward Johnson's sculpture "The Awakening" is secured by Allen Lawrence before being driven on a truck from East Patomac Park in Washington to its new home at the National Harbor in Prince George's County, Maryland, February 20, 2008. Perhaps you didn't know this, but the US and China have been battling over aluminum for quite some time now, and over the last week or so the conflict has gotten particularly weird.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are supposed to be the grownups in the room, but a spat over a high school student's painting is revealing their childish tendencies-and the episode could have broad implications for race relations under President Donald J. Trump . Every year high school students across the U.S. compete to get their art hung in the Capitol where it's on display for the millions of visitors who walk through the complex annually, but this year one young artist's work has inflamed racial tensions among lawmakers and revived a debate over police tactics.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are supposed to be the grownups in the room, but a spat over a high school student's painting is revealing their childish tendencies-and the episode could have broad implications for race relations under President Donald J. Trump . Every year high school students across the U.S. compete to get their art hung in the Capitol where it's on display for the millions of visitors who walk through the complex annually, but this year one young artist's work has inflamed racial tensions among lawmakers and revived a debate over police tactics.
A bizarre technical glitch interrupted The Washington Post's David Ignatius during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. Ignatius was talking about President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees taking "a hard line on Russia," when a glitch made Ignatius appear to say "Russia" several times in succession.
A bizarre technical glitch interrupted The Washington Post's David Ignatius during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. Ignatius was talking about President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees taking "a hard line on Russia," when a glitch made Ignatius appear to say "Russia" several times in succession.
Rep. Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's nominee for the director of the CIA, says he would make the transition from a partisan, policymaking lawmaker to an objective intelligence collector. Rep. Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's nominee for the director of the CIA, says he would make the transition from a partisan, policymaking lawmaker to an objective intelligence collector.
Ben Carson testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, January 12, 2017. It's no great stretch to say that retired neurosurgeon and scam presidential candidate Ben Carson is not qualified to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
'My Michelle amour': Stevie Wonder floors emotional Michelle Obama with special medley of Isn't She Lovely and My Cherie Amour to close out Jimmy Fallon's FLOTUS send-off special 'I do not believe the leaks came from the intelligence community': Director of National Intelligence James Clapper speaks to Trump and releases rare statement to express 'profound dismay' at Russian dirty dossier leaks Tillerson nomination hangs in the balance after head-to-head with Marco Rubio who now says he could vote against him: 'I'm prepared to do what's right' 'A despicable insult to Holocaust survivors': Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect demands apology from Trump after he compared the US to Nazi Germany in response to leaked dossier 'What you said was great': Robert De Niro pens letter of support to Meryl Streep after her Golden Globes speech Girl, 12, livestreams her own suicide on Facebook after ... (more)
'Big up yaself O': Drake pays tribute to Obama by sharing bizarre faceswap meme showing the president sporting the rapper's beard and haircut Drake paid tribute to President Barack Obama by sharing a bizarre image from a popular meme of the Canadian rapper's face mixed with the president's. In the caption Drake wrote: 'As a Canadian that calls America home for part of the year I will always carry your words and the memory of your time in office with me as inspiration.
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange's campaign for U.S. Senate is expected to report more than $300,000 in his first federal filing. Strange is seeking the Senate seat that will be vacated if Sen. Jeff Sessions is approved as the nation's next attorney general.
Clinton campaign's chief press spokesman tweets claim that implies a deliberate attempt to keep secret error-strewn and unverified claims of Russia dossier BuzzFeed published the memos in full, but most news outlets did not include the specific allegations because they were unable to independently verify them CNN and the New York Times publicly defended their decisions not to publish the dossier - The Times saying the claims were 'totally unsubstantiated' Latest claim by Clinton aides that there was unfairness to them in election - which they never claimed before they lost One of Hillary Clinton's chief aides has surfaced to claim the media 'sat on' an error-filled and unverifiable dossier of allegations of Russia having a blackmail tape of Donald Trump.
Clinton campaign's chief press spokesman tweets claim that implies a deliberate attempt to keep secret error-strewn and unverified claims of Russia dossier BuzzFeed published the memos in full, but most news outlets did not include the specific allegations because they were unable to independently verify them CNN and the New York Times publicly defended their decisions not to publish the dossier - The Times saying the claims were 'totally unsubstantiated' Latest claim by Clinton aides that there was unfairness to them in election - which they never claimed before they lost One of Hillary Clinton's chief aides has surfaced to claim the media 'sat on' an error-filled and unverifiable dossier of allegations of Russia having a blackmail tape of Donald Trump.
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange's campaign for U.S. Senate is expected to report more than $300,000 in his first federal filing. Strange is seeking the Senate seat that will be vacated if Sen. Jeff Sessions is approved as the nation's next attorney general.
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange's campaign for U.S. Senate is expected to report more than $300,000 in his first federal filing. Strange is seeking the Senate seat that will be vacated if Sen. Jeff Sessions is approved as the nation's next attorney general.
January 11: Sworn Trump enemy John McCain admits HE handed smear dossier to FBI - as details surface of document's bizarre journey from Moscow Sworn Donald Trump enemy John McCain admitted Wednesday that he passed the dossier of claims of a Russian blackmail plot against the president-elect. The Arizona senator issued a public statement amid mounting questions of his exact role in the affair - and how a document riddled with errors and unverifiable claims came to be published.
In this Nov. 20, 2016, file photo, Drake accepts the award for favorite artist - rap/hip-hop at the American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Drake is saluting President Barack Obama with a bizarre image of the Canadian rapper's face mixed with the president's.
Drake is paying tribute to President Barack Obama by sharing am image from a popular meme of the Canadian rapper's face mixed with the president's. Drake shared the picture on his Instagram on Tuesday night following Obama's farewell address to the nation.
Drake is saluting President Barack Obama... Just because some of the families of the nine people killed and three people who survived a racist massacre in a Charleston church have forgiven the man convicted in the shootings doesn't mean they think his... Families of the nine people killed in a racist massacre at a South Carolina church have expressed a broad range of feelings when it comes to how the convicted killer should be punished. 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.
So it looks like Russia may have some dirty secrets on Donald Trump - and that they worked to influence the outcome of the election. Here's a helpful explainer.
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, left, shakes hands with First Vice President of Honduras Ricardo Alvarez after arriving at Soto Cano Air Base outside Comayagua, Honduras, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. The Taiwanese leader will meet with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Monday, as part of a weeklong state tour to reinforce Taiwanese relations with Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 photo, shipyard workers walk to work at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. With President-elect Donald Trump demanding more ships, the Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet threats from a resurgent Russia and saber-rattling China.
In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 photo, shipyard workers walk to work at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. With President-elect Donald Trump demanding more ships, the Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet threats from a resurgent Russia and saber-rattling China.
... take a lot of persuasion. It'll be tough. It'll probably seem hopeless. It has to be done, though. There is no one weird trick to overturning the 2016 election. There is no cute parliamentary trick that will save the day at the last minute, ...
In this Sept. 20, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama hands his coat to aide Marvin Nicholson as he walks to greet people on the tarmac as he arrives at Tampa International Airport on Air Force One in Tampa, Fla.
Baggage claim area of Terminal 1 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 the day after multiple people were shot at the airport. Baggage claim area of Terminal 1 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 the day after multiple people were shot at the airport.
A day after the release of a damning intelligence report on Russia's wide-ranging efforts to influence the U.S. election, President-elect Donald Trump called Saturday for a closer relationship between the two nations, saying only "stupid" people or "fools" would think this is unwise. The United States, Trump wrote in a series of Twitter messages Saturday, has "enough problems around the world without yet another one."
In this Jan. 5, 2017, photo, Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington. Stung by years of failure to stop Syria's bloodshed, the United States is now but a bystander to the civil war as President Barack Obama leaves office.
A part of the declassified version Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia's efforts to interfere with the U.S. political process is photographed in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to influence the American presidential election in favor of electing Donald Trump, according to the report issued by U.S. intelligence agencies.
Coming from a presidential candidate, Donald Trump 's misty-eyed admiration of Russia and its autocratic leader was weird. Coming from a president-elect, it's nothing short of alarming.
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night to say that a planned intelligence briefing for him on "so-called 'Russian-hacking'" had been delayed until Friday, a development he called 'very strange!" However, a U.S. official says there has been no delay in the briefing and that the intelligence community was confused by Trump's tweet. The official was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night to say that a planned intelligence briefing for him on "so-called 'Russian-hacking'" had been delayed until Friday, a development he called "very strange!"   The tweet was the latest sign of Trump's skepticism about a case pressed by the Obama administration, based on the work of U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, that Russia tried to influence the U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic email accounts, among other actions. Several leading Republicans have also endorsed that view.
Arab social media users were not impressed with outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry's speech outlining his vision of a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Twitter users charged that Barack Obama, the lame duck US president, is going out of his way to try to secure a legacy in his last days in office, and said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas does not have the powers necessary to implement the process toward statehood as outlined in Kerry's speech and the UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements.
... the face, only to be exonerated after an investigation revealed that the victim was an attorney. Yes, we've seen some weird years. But we've never seen one as weird as 2016. This was the "Weird Al" Yankovic of years. If years were movies, 2016 would ...
It's the time of year for looking forward. It's when people look for the good in the world, and in one another, and try and let bygones be bygones.
WikiLeaks has received the most attention when it comes to document and e-mail leakers from the 2016 campaign, but a hacker going by the moniker Guccifer 2.0 also leaked several documents from Democratic Party institutions and officials during the 2016 campaign. Unlike WikiLeaks, his leaks weren't searchable, he frequently showed questionable news judgement and once seemed to lie about the contents of a leak.
Greetings Power Lunchers, and welcome to yet another edition in the increasingly weird contest for state party chair of the Florida Democratic Party. FDP OMG: In order to parse the latest news, that state Sen. Dwight Bullard of Miami is in the running for Florida Democratic Party state chair as a state committeeman from the Panhandle county of Gadsden, we need to look at how we got here.
With boxing promoter Don King by his side in front of the Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump opined on a handful of current events, including US Secretary of State John Kerry's final plea for peac e between Israelis and Palestinians. Saying Kerry's assessment "speaks for itself," Trump declined to go into specifics, adding cryptically: "different views we'll see what happens after January 20, right?" Earlier Wednesday, Trump tweeted , "We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has interviewed six more potential candidates for the U.S. Senate seat now held by attorney general-designee Jeff Sessions. Bentley's office said the latest round of interviews include state Attorney General Luther Strange, U.S. Rep. Martha Roby and U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer.
In this May 3, 2011, file photo, first lady Michelle Obama dances with students at Alice Deal Middle School in northwest Washington during a surprise visit for the school's Let's Move! event. When Michelle Obama considered the daunting prospect of becoming first lady, she purposely avoided turning to books by her predecessors for guidance.
In 2016, Donald Trump was elected to the White House. The Cubs won the World Series.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is praising U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for keenly feeling American voters' mood to win the election, and he rejects the White House's accusations of meddling in the vote. Speaking at an annual news conference, Putin said Friday that Russia hopes to develop "businesslike and constructive relations that would benefit both Russia and the United States."
... to lie and the fact that he's a racist, sexist bully who may also be fairly unintelligent. But he also has some weird and disturbing personality tics that are less frequently mentioned, but which nonetheless give us the heebie jeebies. Trump has ...
Rich Tran was just elected the mayor of Milpitas. In his inaugural speech on Dec. 13, Tran lifted heavily from parts of President Barack Obama's inauguration speech in 2008.
Two days after FBI Director James Comey wrote Congress to disclose the apparent discovery of additional Hillary Clinton e-mails, the bureau told a federal judge that a review of the material would likely produce evidence of the improper handling of classified material, court records show. In fact, a subsequent FBI analysis of the e-mails determined that the correspondence--found on a laptop shared by Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband Anthony Weiner--contained no information to alter the previous FBI conclusion that Clinton should not face charges in connection with her use of a private e-mail server when she was Secretary of State.
The 16-year-old singer who will perform at Trump's inauguration has a transgender sister who's vocal about anti-LGBTQ policies. Donald Trump is a president-elect obsessed.
The year will be remembered for the West ending its romance with globalisation, and its impact on the rest of the world. JUST a few days before Christmas, it is time again to look back on the year that is about to pass.
A person dressed in a clown costume stands amongst attendees during the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in Manhattan, New York, US, October 31, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Andrew Kelly/File Photo Searches for selfies led to many bad decisions, an outbreak of creepy clown sightings chilled even horror maestro Stephen King, and a hard-fought campaign ended with the election of former reality TV star Donald Trump as president of the United States.
James Comey turns on Trump: FBI director 'asks the Justice Department to publicly REJECT Trump's claim Obama wire-tapped Trump Tower' as the President returns to DC amid growing scandal Are relations that bad? Video emerges of Trump's 'furious Oval Office argument' with Steve Bannon as Ivanka and Jared look on Towergate WILL be investigated: Congress to probe Trump's claims Obama bugged his Manhattan home after White House request - as former intelligence director James Clapper 'absolutely denies' it is true EXCLUSIVE Undercover lover: Hunter Biden and his brother's widow Hallie step out together for the first time since their romance was revealed - but arrive and leave separately to avoid detection Have scientists FINALLY found the key to successful weightloss? Experts create new 'science based' low carb diet they say is 'easy to stick to' Kim Jong Un rattles the sabre: North Korea ... (more)