The Obama administration has written 275 briefing papers for the incoming administration, but doesn’t know whether the Trump team has read them.
President-elect Donald J. Trump will take office with less popular support than any new president in modern times, an array of polls show.
The president-elect credits his running mate, but also jabs at Republicans and critics alike, and talks about ‘merit-based’ immigration.
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At his final news conference in the White House, President Obama was asked about his plans for the future and his decision to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning.
The president relished exchanging ideas with artists, actors, musicians and writers, and he seemed to want to share those ideas with the American people and the world.
Cameron Harris, a recent college graduate, pulled six million people into his bogus story about the discovery of fraudulent ballots for Hillary Clinton.
Current and former Rockettes find themselves in a new spotlight as they take sides over the inauguration, breaking with the solidarity that defines the troupe.
Our reporter is driving to the inauguration with two Trump supporters from Massachusetts, and their Trump cutout. At one stop, they get some free speech with their fries.
Navient, the nation’s largest servicer of student loans, made serious mistakes at every step of the collection process, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau charges.
Power brokers are in the Swiss Alps to discuss how to make globalization more lucrative, but there is no appetite for redistributing wealth or empowering workers.
A justice rejected a request to issue a warrant for Jay Y. Lee, but the de facto Samsung chief can still be indicted if a special prosecutor decides to pursue bribery allegations.
Björn Höcke, a star in the Alternative for Germany party, has found growing success challenging national regret over the Holocaust and the country’s Nazi crimes.
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