President-elect Trump names campaign chief Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Trump names campaign chief Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff.
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Imagine the scene, at noon, on January 20, on the west front of the US Capitol.
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Authoritarianism Expert Flags Chilling Thing That’s ‘Happening Now’ With Donald Trump
Ruth Ben-Ghiat talked about the "personalist rule" and its worrying effects.
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Kari Lake's New Trump-Announced Gig Has Critics Fuming
Social media users slammed the role as "shameful."
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Biden commutes 1,500 sentences and issues 39 pardons in biggest single-day act of clemency in history
‘America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,’ Biden said in a statement
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Stephen Colbert Predicts Wildly Petty Trump Act That Will Make Headlines Next
"You know that's coming," the "Late Show" host joked.
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Critics Slam Time's 'Person Of The Year' Award For Donald Trump
Commenters also damningly recalled a brutal previous recipient of the title.
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Mitch McConnell Says Trump Win Puts Americans In A 'Very Dangerous World'
The GOP's outgoing Senate leader said he plans to spend his final two years in office pushing back against the Trump-fueled isolationism within his party.
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GOP Never Trumper Mocks Kevin McCarthy's Trump Support To His Face
“Donald Trump lied about an election being stolen and ... you’re the one who went down and resurrected him,” Sarah Longwell told the former House speaker.
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Don Trump Jr didn’t like Kimberly Guilfoyle’s fashion sense and thought new beau would be more of a win with dad
‘Kim is so uptight and always dresses so professionally in these kinds of dresses and high heels,’ Trump Jr. allegedly said to Guilfoyle, according to a source
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Time Undercuts Trump Interview With 2,300-Word Fact Check
Time magazine contested Donald Trump’s claims about undocumented immigrants, a link between vaccines and autism, and gender-transition regret in a sprawling fact-check published alongside its Person of the Year interview. The president-elect was awarded the magazine’s Person of the Year title—which has gone to influential figures as disparate as Taylor Swift and Joseph Stalin—for the second time, having also won it in 2016. Trump proudly attended the award ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange
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Syria latest news: Thousands celebrate fall of Assad amid fears chemical weapons could fall into wrong hands
Fears are growing that terrorist groups may get hold of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile
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Syria's new administration takes over country's main international airport
Cleaning staff were removed broken furniture, glass windows, and trash from ransacking by looters following the demise of the al Assad regime. Officials said the operations to clean up the airport aimed to encourage international airlines to resume their flights to Damascus.
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Opinion - Democrats should stop saving the Republicans from themselves
If Republicans want to drive the government into a shutdown or default — or refuse to fund disaster aid — let them.
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Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal
Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al Assad.
- The Daily Beast
Trump Has Invited China’s Xi Jinping to Inauguration: Report
President-elect Donald Trump invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration in January, multiple sources told CBS News on Wednesday. The president-elect reportedly sent the invite to the leader of China, a nation he has threatened with tariffs for months, shortly after his electoral victory in November, the sources told the network. It is unclear if the Chinese government has accepted the invite, and the Chinese Embassy has not commented on the invitation. A Chinese head of stat
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Donald Trump Offers Vague Answer On Melania's White House Plans
The president-elect also praised his wife's role in the 2024 campaign during an interview with Time magazine.
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‘Fatal errors’ in Dutton’s nuclear plan
The Energy Minister has given a brutal assessment of Peter Dutton’s plan to take Australia’s power grid nuclear.
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Senate Democrats livid with exiting Sinema, Manchin: ‘Pathetic’
Senate Democrats were livid after Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.), two longtime members of their caucus, voted Wednesday to block President Biden’s nominee, Lauren McFerran, to serve another five-year term on the National Labor Relations Board. Senate Democrats blasted their votes to sink Biden’s nominee and hand Republicans a major victory as…
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‘Big Australia’ problem we can’t escape
Australia welcomed another massive cohort of migrants in the 2023-24 financial year, prompting a question that the country must address.
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Trump’s cabinet choices poll poorly with public as Xi Jinping snubs inauguration invite: Live
President-elect’s decision-making backed by just 44 percent of Americans in new survey, five weeks after he stormed to victory in election