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Jill Stein, the Green party’s presidential candidate, is preparing to request recounts of the election result in several key battleground states. Stein launched an online fundraising page seeking donations toward a multimillion-dollar fund she said was needed to request reviews of the results in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The drive has already raised more than…
storytext Protecting President-elect Donald Trump and his family is costing New York City more than $1 million a day, according to three city officials. And those costs won’t necessarily drop significantly once he moves to the White House. That’s because Melania Trump and their 10-year old son Barron expect to stay at their home at…
A think tank funded by Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education pick recently advocated for putting kids back in the workforce. The Acton Institute, a conservative nonprofit that is said to have received thousands of dollars in donations from Betsy DeVos and her family, posted an essay to its blog this month that called child labor “a gift our…
A quote from Ivanka Trump surfaced Thanksgiving morning, showing her reaction to her father commenting on her appearance on a 2006 talk show. Donald TrumpDonald TrumpSecret Service in talks to rent space in Trump Tower: report Report: Russian propaganda efforts propelled fake election news See Trump’s Thanksgiving menu at the Mar-a-Lago MORE, now the president-elect,…
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday afternoon that Ben Carson had accepted Donald TrumpDonald TrumpU.S. sees rise in apprehensions along southern border Stop blaming Facebook for Trump’s election win The Electoral College has to go — here’s how we do it MORE‘s offer to be the next secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Carson was…
WASHINGTON Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a former presidential rival, on Wednesday accepted an offer from President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a Carson spokesman. As recently as last week, Carson had told The Washington Post he was not interested in a Cabinet…
President-elect Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos this month Drew Angerer / Getty Images ID: 10043484 Donald Trump has appointed Republican megadonor Betsy DeVos as his education secretary, in a move that is likely to appease mainstream Republicans but will also upset some of his most passionate supporters, who are deeply opposed to the Common Core…
storytext The U.S. President-elect and his family want a Trump Tower in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The question is whether Donald Trump and his children are using their newly found political power to push the deal across the finish line. It would raise questions of yet another conflict of interest between Trump’s business empire and the…
Donald Trump’s nominee for US attorney general has been accused of bringing criminal prosecutions against a pair of black officials in Alabama as retaliation for their roles in derailing his nomination to be a judge. The officials faced federal corruption charges in the southern district of Alabama, where Jeff Sessions was the top federal prosecutor,…
President-elect Donald Trump, in Washington, has continued to criticize the media in the days since the election. Credit Photograph by Zach Gibson / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ The fantasy of the normalization of Donald Trump—the idea that a demagogic candidate would somehow be transformed into a statesman of poise and deliberation after his Election Day…