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Photo via AP Kanye West is in New York City today, apparently looking for a new psychiatrist. Also, he stopped by Trump Tower. From the White House press pool: At 9:13, Kanye West entered Trump Tower, with an entourage, including a videographer (though no Kim). He hustled past the pool without comment. The entourage included…
A police officer arrested a man after watching him grope four women near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, according to court documents.View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland NEW YORK CITY — Police Officer Joseph Pecora watched as a 44-year-old man groped a woman near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree on a recent evening — but despite…
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who infamously forgot the Department of Energy’s name in 2011 while running for president, to head that department in his future administration. According to CBS News, “two sources directly involved in the transition and selection process” said Perry had met with the president-elect at Trump Tower on…
storytext President-elect Donald Trump still has not held a news conference, a break from tradition that is keeping reporters and the public in the dark about the transition to his administration. Going back at least to 1976, when Jimmy Carter was elected, no president-elect has waited so long after the election was decided to speak…
storytext Donald Trump has decided to postpone his first press conference as President-elect until January, two transition sources confirmed to CNN. The press conference, previously scheduled for Thursday, had been advertised as an opportunity for him to address his plan for dealing with potential conflicts of interest stemming from his businesses. It was to be…
The Latest: UN official urges accountability in Aleppo BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local): 4:20 p.m. The U.N. special adviser for Syria says the past 24 hours have been the most dramatic so far in “the bloody, bitter, horrific battle of Aleppo,” and warned that those responsible would be…
A top aide to Donald Trump says a Wall Street Journal editor was “sexist” for mocking the president-elect’s meeting with Carly Fiorina Monday. Bret Stephens, the Journal’s deputy editorial page editor, weighed in online after Trump huddled with the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and GOP White House hopeful. He called me ugly. He won. I kissed up….
The heads of Donald Trump’s transition teams for Nasa, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy, as well as his nominees to lead the EPA and the Department of the Interior, all question the science of human-caused climate change, in a signal of the president-elect’s determination to embark…
The Washington Post late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: The key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains completely secret. These…
Former Uber security professionals told Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting that the ride-hailing company continued to allow broad access to users’ information after it assured the public it had strict policies prohibiting access. For anyone who’s snagged a ride with Uber, Ward Spangenberg has a warning: Your personal information is not safe. Internal…