Preparations for a new strategy for engagement with Taiwan began even before Donald Trump became the GOP nominee, according to those involved in arranging the historic conversation.
The unconventional choice of the retired neurosurgeon underscores Trump’s willingness to forgo traditional policy expertise in some Cabinet positions to surround himself with allies. Carson is the president-elect's first African American pick for a Cabinet-level post.
While GOP campaign managers mulled over Trump’s appeal to evangelicals at a conference last week, Trump’s pollster jumped in with an important window into the winner’s thinking.
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Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, of Salisbury, N.C., told police that he traveled to Comet Ping Pong to investigate “pizzagate,” a false conspiracy theory related to Hillary Clinton that spread online during her campaign and resulted in death threats against the restaurant's owner and staff.
Reports and tweets have pointed to Donald Trump's pick for national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, having fomented the rumors that apparently spurred the man who brought a gun to Comet Ping Pong. Except Flynn doesn't appear to have tweeted something about the pizzeria — not specifically.
The 61-page document details eight years of legal opinions, executive orders and military directives. Officials say that it does not target the incoming administration, but that Obama hopes others will build on the report and carry forward the transparency it represents.
The concession comes almost a month after North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper declared victory over the Republican governor in the closest race in the state's modern history.
Justin Ross Harris was supposed to drop off his 22-month-old son, Cooper, at day care, but instead left the child in an SUV for nearly seven hours in June 2014.
The court will determine whether Parliament gets a say in Britain’s plans to leave the European Union, which could complicate Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to set the exit in motion by the end of March.
The rejection of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's constitutional reforms emboldened anti-immigrant, anti-euro populists on the left and right who have steadily built power as an alternative to Italy’s old guard political leadership.
In a victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and thousands of others who have protested the project, the Army has denied an easement necessary for the pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota. But uncertainty remains over how President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to support pipelines such as this one, will respond.
Crime victims Kristin Van Goor, left, and Kimberly Potter-Cooper. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)
Second-Chance City
A young man is linked to five armed robberies. Can he be rehabilitated?
But officials suspended search efforts when the Oakland warehouse was deemed too unsafe and unstable for fire crews.
This request from Roof, 22, comes less than a week after a judge approved his request to represent himself in the federal hate-crimes trial stemming from the church massacre.
