President-elect Donald Trump held his first press conference Wednesday since winning the election and answered questions about his relationship with Russia, arrangements for the future of his business, and some of his plans for the first days of his administration. Trump vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare within the “same hour,” though he did not detail a specific plan. The event was marked by tense exchanges as Trump repeated his refusal to release his tax returns and denounced media outlets that published stories based on unverified allegations about his ties to the Kremlin.
King was a Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and civil rights leader who practiced peaceful, nonviolent civil disobedience to protest racial inequality. In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.
President Obama leads mourners in singing “Amazing Grace” as he delivers a eulogy for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney during funeral services in Charleston, S.C., June 26, 2015. Pinckney was one of nine victims of a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Ever since the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, presidents have been judged on the successes they notch during their first 100 days.
About a dozen Democratic lawmakers have announced their intention to skip Donald Trump’s inauguration next week as a protest of the president-elect’s plans for the country. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., told Yahoo News she decided she couldn’t celebrate Trump’s inauguration because of his comments during the campaign about temporarily barring Muslims from entering the country and his vow to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Lee was among a growing handful of Democratic lawmakers who objected last week to the certification of the Electoral College results on the House floor.
President-elect Donald Trump lashed back out at Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., on Saturday morning after the civil rights leader questioned the legitimacy of his upcoming presidency. “Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to…… mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help I can get!
The Justice Department’s scathing report on the Chicago Police Department’s excessive use of force and other issues offered few surprises for local activists who’ve long demanded action against police misconduct. Among the findings included in the 164-page report, released Friday, is evidence of improper training, insufficient oversight and systemic racism that has made black and Latino Chicagoans the victims of 10 times more police violence than the city’s white residents. The report reflected the findings of a 13-month investigation into Chicago police practices that was launched in the wake of citywide protests after the release of a video that showed a white Chicago police officer fatally shooting black teen Laquan McDonald 16 times.
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said the Russian government’s apparent interference with the U.S. election delegitimizes Donald Trump’s victory. The civil rights leader told “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd that he believes in forgiveness and working with others, but he said it would be exceptionally hard for him to forge a relationship with President-elect Trump.
Washington, D.C., is about to have a new president in town. On Friday, Jan. 20, President-elect Donald J. Trump will officially drop the "elect" as he swears in to become the next commander in chief. And America's most political town is getting ready for its first celebrity president and an endless stream of balls and galas to follow.
One year ago, many would have predicted that Rubio would be in Washington this week preparing to be sworn in as the nation’s 45th president. The Republican presidential primary had not yet begun, and many believed that Rubio would ultimately win the nomination and defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. In the broadest sense, the first three years were a steady ascent upward, until the immigration bill that Rubio championed in 2013 fell apart that summer.
A cancer survivor challenged House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on his campaign to repeal the Affordable Care Act — crediting President Obama’s signature health bill with saving his life.
The fashion choices of the first lady — a role that, during Donald Trump’s administration, will reportedly be shared by his wife, former model Melania Trump, and daughter, outgoing VP of the Trump Organization Ivanka Trump — have the power to set the tone for her tenure in the White House. Incoming first lady Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump attend the presidential debate in October.
Actor and activist George Takei hopes his own story of being sent to a Japanese internment camp as a child will motivate others to stand up for Muslim Americans in an era of Donald Trump. The Japanese-American actor, best known for his role in “Star Trek,” was 5 years old when he and his family were taken from their Los Angeles home at gunpoint to an internment camp. Actor and activist George Takei talks to Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga about being sent to a Japanese internment camp as a child, and why he’s standing up for Muslim Americans in the face of the Trump Administration (Screenshot via Yahoo News Now).
On Jan. 20, the United States will host its 58th inauguration ceremony to swear in the country’s 45th president: Donald Trump. Since George Washington’s first inaugural in 1789, the quadrennial tradition has changed cities and added a parade, a luncheon and a number of celebratory balls. Here are some important numbers to know as we approach the transition of power from President Obama to President-elect Trump.
Among other things, Trump dismissed a salacious, unverified dossier published by BuzzFeed earlier this week as “phony allegations.” The memo contains details the U.S. intelligence community has not been able to verify, was reportedly drafted by a former British spy, Christopher Steele, on behalf of first Republicans who opposed Trump as their nominee and then Democratic rivals as Trump transitioned from the primaries to the general election. U.S. intelligence services reportedly informed Trump about the dossier, which alleges that Russian operatives secretly filmed him at a Moscow hotel and have compromising information about him. The Kremlin denied possessing such information, which Trump pointed out in his tweets Friday.
Senators have their doubts about Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state.
President Barack Obama surprised Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday, awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. “This also gives the Internet one last chance to talk about our bromance,” the president joked, before presenting Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
A Washington Post editor was bombarded with attacks, many of them racist, after conservatives online falsely accused her of photographing the notes of Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump’s secretary of state nominee. On Tuesday evening, video from Tillerson’s Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearing began to circulate on Twitter and conservative corners of the Internet.
Defense secretary nominee James Mattis on Thursday ranked Russia and the national debt as top threats to U.S. national security and said that President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran was “imperfect” but must be enforced. “It’s not a deal I would have signed,” the retired Marine general said in a wide-ranging Senate Armed Services Committee hearing focused on his virtually certain confirmation. During a three-hour appearance before lawmakers who rarely challenged him, Mattis repeatedly criticized Russia, promised that President-elect Donald Trump would enforce NATO’s automatic mutual-defense agreement, and said he had no plans to roll back the role of women or LGBTQ Americans in the military.
In a Thursday morning confirmation hearing, Democratic senators pressed Ben Carson on President-elect Donald Trump’s potential conflicts of interest with the agency he is seeking to lead. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, both asked Carson to guarantee that no Housing and Urban Development grants would go to businesses associated with the president-elect or his family. “If there happens to be an extraordinarily good program that’s working for millions of people, and it turns out that someone that you’re targeting is going to gain $10 from it, am I going to say, ‘No, the rest of you Americans can’t have it?’” Carson asked.
Donald Trump ripped Rosie O’Donnell during the first Republican presidential debate in 2015, saying that she was the only woman about whom he had ever made disparaging comments.
Protesters who were arrested for disrupting the Senate hearing on former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson’s nomination for secretary of state Wednesday said they have no regrets about the demonstrations. During the hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the protesters held up signs reading “RejectRexx” (a pun on his name and Exxon) and shouted their opposition to appointing a longtime oilman with deep ties to Russia as the country’s top diplomat. James Burch, 31, of San Francisco, stood up and shouted, “Senators, your duty is clear.
Donald Trump’s top aides continued to clash with CNN on Wednesday night, hours after the president-elect lashed out at one of the cable network’s reporters during his news conference during his news conference at Trump Tower. Trump took exception to CNN’s report that U.S. intelligence officials had briefed him on claims that Russia had collected compromising information on him. In a fiery, 25-minute exchange with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Kellyanne Conway — Trump’s senior adviser — denied that intelligence officials presented Trump with such information.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in New York on Jan. 11, 2017. The man behind the sensational story concerning information the Russian government had supposedly collected about Donald Trump is a former British intelligence operative and was a longtime intelligence source for the U.S. government who had assisted the FBI during an investigation into corruption by FIFA, the world soccer association, according to sources familiar with the matter. The operative — identified today by the Wall Street Journal as Christopher Steele, a former Russian operations officer for Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency — had worked as a consultant for the FBI’s Eurasian organized crime section, helping to develop information about ties between suspected Russian gangsters and FIFA, said one of the sources, who is directly familiar with Steele’s work.
Senators pressed Rex Tillerson Wednesday over his ties to Russia and to Exxon. But their greater concern seemed to be over whether President-elect Donald Trump would actually undermine the former ExxonMobil CEO he nominated to be his secretary of state.
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect is calling upon President-elect Donald Trump to apologize for comparing the United States to Nazi Germany. Steven Goldstein, the executive director of the center, released a scathing statement on Wednesday saying the celebrity businessman’s comment was an insult to Americans and victims of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. “It is a despicable insult to Holocaust survivors around the world and to the nation he is about to lead, that Donald Trump compares America to Nazi Germany,” Goldstein said.