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• Panetta advice to Trump: 'Do what is rational'

  15-11-2016 23:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta offered candid advice to President-elect Donald Trump Tuesday, encouraging him to "do what is rational, not what is irrational."
  
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• Trump receives first President's Daily Brief

  15-11-2016 23:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday received the President's Daily Brief, the same daily intelligence briefing that President Barack Obama receives.
  
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• Business or Politics? Examining Donald Trump’s Record for Clues to Cuba Policy

  15-11-2016 23:29 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Trump has threatened to roll back President Obama’s sweeping détente, but some analysts say the president-elect’s instincts as a real estate mogul and hotel developer would ultimately prevail.
  
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• U.N. envoy urges Trump to back Syria 'devolution' to beat Islamic State

  15-11-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Syria envoy said on Tuesday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was right to seek to work with Russia to beat Islamic State in Syria, but he urged Trump to help push for political reforms to stop the militant group gaining recruits. Speaking on the BBC's Hardtalk programme, Staffan de Mistura said it was crucial to fight IS, also known as Daesh, but that a long-term victory required "a completely new approach" to a political solution.
  
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• Pelosi could be in trouble as House Democrats delay vote

  15-11-2016 23:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Democrats decided Tuesday to delay their leadership elections until after Thanksgiving -- a move that will give reeling Democrats time to nurse their wounds, and could spell trouble for longtime leader Nancy Pelosi.
  
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• Where Everybody Knows Your Name and Accepts Your Politics

  15-11-2016 23:08 via nytimes.com
  Welcome to Neary’s, a safe space for Republicans and Trump voters in a heavily Democratic city. In 2017, the bar will celebrate 50 years in New York.
  
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• A $2 billion election, by the numbers

  15-11-2016 23:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Before Election Day came, people had seen fit to donate just shy of $2 billion to candidates and political organizations trying to elect the next president of the United States.
  
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• Republicans to U.S. securities regulator: Leave new rules to Trump

  15-11-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican lawmakers told the top U.S. securities regulator on Tuesday they are concerned her agency will rush out new rules in the final weeks that President Barack Obama, a Democrat, holds the Oval Office. "I would strongly urge you to respect the results of last week’s election and resist the temptation to finalize any regulations, including Dodd-Frank ... regulations," added Hensarling during a hearing on the Securities and Exchange Commission. SEC Chair Mary Jo White was the hearing's
  
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• Aide: Carson declined cabinet position offer from Trump

  15-11-2016 22:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ben Carson declined an offer from President-elect Donald Trump to join his cabinet as Secretary of Health and Human Services, a close Carson adviser told CNN on Tuesday.
  
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• Trump eyeing Mnuchin and Ross for economy jobs: Icahn

  15-11-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jennifer Ablan and David Lawder NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Longtime Donald Trump supporter and activist investor Carl Icahn confirmed on Tuesday that the president-elect is looking at Wall Street veteran Steven Mnuchin as his choice for treasury secretary and billionaire Wilbur Ross for commerce secretary. Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross are being considered for Treasury and Commerce. Both would be great choices," Icahn wrote on Twitter.
  
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• Trump receives first Presidential Daily Brief

  15-11-2016 22:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday received the Presidential Daily Brief, the same daily intelligence briefing that President Barack Obama receives.
  
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• Exclusive: Billionaire green activist Steyer vows to battle Trump, says money not an issue

  15-11-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who has spent more than $140 million on fighting climate change, said on Tuesday he will spend whatever it takes to fight President-elect Donald Trump's pro-drilling and anti-regulation agenda. The former hedge fund manager from California is putting together a strategy that will "engage voters and citizens to fight back" once Trump takes the White House in January, he told Reuters in an interview. Instead, he
  
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• GOP governors 'giddy' in wake of Trump's win

  15-11-2016 22:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican governors said they were "giddy" Tuesday over the prospect of more control of federal education, health care and transportation dollars under a Donald Trump administration.
  
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• McCain to Trump: Don't try to reset relations with Putin

  15-11-2016 22:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A Republican hawk, John McCain, is warning a Republican President-elect, Donald Trump, about growing too close to Vladimir Putin before Trump's presidency even begins.
  
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• Billionaire green activist Steyer vows to battle Trump, says money not an issue

  15-11-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who has spent more than $140 million on fighting climate change, said on Tuesday he will spend whatever it takes to fight President-elect Donald Trump's pro-drilling and anti-regulation agenda. The former hedge fund manager from California is putting together a strategy that will "engage voters and citizens to fight back" once Trump takes the White House in January, he told Reuters in an interview. Instead, he
  
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• Son-in-law Kushner poised to wield clout in Trump presidency

  15-11-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After winning a primary election that effectively clinched the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump paused to laud a boyish-looking 35-year-old who ultimately proved to be an indispensable figure on the path to the White House. "Honestly, Jared is a very successful real estate person. Kushner, the slender, clean-cut New Jersey real estate scion who married Trump's daughter Ivanka in 2009, helped guide the Republican Trump to victory last week over Democrat Hillary Clinton and is pois
  
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• Bannon role in Trump administration sets off critical firestorm

  15-11-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White supremacists and neo-Nazis have rarely, if ever, in recent history been so enthusiastic about a presidential appointment as Donald Trump's choice of Steve Bannon to be his chief White House strategist. Before he took over as chief executive of Trump's campaign in August and led it to victory last week, Bannon headed Breitbart News, a website and voice for the alt-right movement, a loose right-wing confederation that includes hardcore nationalists, neo-N
  
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• Giuliani sketches foreign policy vision; business ties could complicate bid

  15-11-2016 21:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani spoke Monday about his foreign policy vision at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, amid the former New York City mayor expressing a preference to become secretary of state in Donald Trump's incoming administration.
  
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• Ukraine's Poroshenko, Trump agree to meeting: Kiev

  15-11-2016 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KIEV (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko agreed during a telephone call to hold a bilateral meeting, Poroshenko's office said on Tuesday. It said Poroshenko also stressed the need for resolute U.S. support of Ukraine in countering what it called Russian aggression. It did not specify when a meeting could take place. Ukrainian authorities are laying the groundwork for Poroshenko to visit Washington early next year, hoping to shore up U.S. support
  
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• France's Fillon gains on Juppe for presidency nomination: poll

  15-11-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French former prime minister Francois Fillon has gained ground among conservative Les Republicains supporters and is poised to beat hitherto favorite Alain Juppe to the party's presidential nomination, according to a poll published on Tuesday. Juppe, the mayor of Bordeaux, remains in pole position for the first-round primary vote on Nov 20, although his support has fallen seven percentage points to 33 percent, according to the Opinionway poll for Atlantico.
  
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• Transition team asks about security clearance for Trump kids

  15-11-2016 21:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's transition team asked the government about the possibility of getting Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka Trump, along with Jared Kushner, his right-hand man and Ivanka Trump's husband, permission to receive top security clearance, according to a transition source.
  
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• Trump ending lawsuit over flights above Florida estate: official

  15-11-2016 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For more than two decades, Trump has waged an intermittent legal battle against Palm Beach County, claiming vibrations from airplanes flying over his exclusive home caused millions of dollars in damage. "We did hear from one of his lawyers that he would not be pursuing this," Denise Nieman, the county attorney, said in a phone interview on Tuesday. A lawyer for Trump did not respond to a request for comment.
  
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• Sen. Barbara Boxer to introduce bill to end Electoral College

  15-11-2016 21:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Retiring Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, who was an outspoken supporter of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, is set to introduce a Senate bill that aims to end the Electoral College.
  
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• Trump leans toward loyalists as he mulls Cabinet picks

  15-11-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump jettisoned a respected national security expert from his transition team on Tuesday in a sign that he may be settling on loyalists such as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and conservative hard-liners like former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to staff his administration. Mike Rogers, a former U.S. congressman from Michigan who had been mentioned as a possible pick for CIA director, was pushed out in part because Trump's advisers believed he did not pursue Democ
  
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• Georgia congressman being eyed for top Trump health post: Politico

  15-11-2016 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Representative Tom Price of Georgia is under consideration to be secretary of health and human services during a Trump administration, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. Price, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, had endorsed Donald Trump's candidacy in May. The congressman has been a leading voice among Republicans pushing to repeal President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law. (Reporting by Timothy Ahmann; Editing by Eric Walsh)
  
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• Political Divide Splits Relationships — and Thanksgiving, Too

  15-11-2016 21:01 via nytimes.com
  Families around the country are facing, or even skipping, uncomfortable holidays as the election’s repercussions enter people’s lives.
  
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• John Kerry’s Antarctica Visit Highlights a Continent, and Climate Policies, Under Threat

  15-11-2016 21:01 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Kerry’s visit capped nearly four years of diplomatic focus on conservation issues. Now the prospect looms that Donald J. Trump will rip up those efforts.
  
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• New Yorkers build walls of sticky notes in defiance of Trump

  15-11-2016 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - This is not the kind of wall Donald Trump was talking about. In the liberal stronghold of New York City, residents distraught over the incoming Republican administration were finding solace a week after the U.S. presidential election by placing handwritten, anonymous notes on the walls of a busy subway station. On Tuesday, many notes offered support to immigrants or mocked Trump's promise to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border and have Mexico p
  
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• Thousands donate to Planned Parenthood in name of anti-abortion U.S. vice president-elect

  15-11-2016 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of people have made donations to Planned Parenthood in the name of Vice President-elect Mike Pence, an abortion opponent, so that he will receive official acknowledgements from the women's health care provider, the group said on Tuesday. The idea of making donations in Pence's name arose and spread on social media as a protest after Republican Donald Trump won his bid for the U.S. presidency in a surprise victory last week. Both
  
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• Business ties complicate Giuliani bid for State

  15-11-2016 20:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani spoke Monday about his foreign policy vision at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, amid the former New York City mayor expressing a preference to become secretary of state in Donald Trump's incoming administration.
  
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• Trump now praises Electoral College, says he could have won popular vote

  15-11-2016 20:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is now praising the Electoral College after previously criticizing the system -- and even says he could have won the popular vote if he campaigned differently.
  
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• George W. Bush laments role of 'anger' in politics

  15-11-2016 20:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former President George W. Bush lamented the role of "anger" in politics after the grievance-fueled victory of Donald Trump, expressing a worry that the emotional response could unfortunately "drive policy."
  
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• House Republicans nominate Ryan to be re-elected as speaker

  15-11-2016 20:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Paul Ryan was re-elected by the House Republican conference Tuesday to serve a second term as speaker of the House.
  
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• North Korea does not care who is president of United States

  15-11-2016 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea does not care who is president of the United States, a senior Pyongyang-based diplomat said during a visit to the United Nations on Tuesday following the election of Donald Trump to succeed President Barack Obama. Kim Yong Ho, director of human rights and humanitarian issues, spoke to reporters after a U.N. General Assembly committee approved a draft resolution condemning "widespread and gross violations of human rights" in the Asian sta
  
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• Nancy Pelosi could be in trouble as House Democrats delay vote

  15-11-2016 19:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Democrats decided Tuesday to delay their leadership elections until after Thanksgiving -- a move that will give reeling Democrats time to nurse their wounds, and could spell trouble for longtime leader Nancy Pelosi.
  
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• Trump looks to Bush-era for new head of U.S. environmental agency

  15-11-2016 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump’s short-list of contenders to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency includes two current energy industry lobbyists who held leading roles there under Republican President George W. Bush, according to two sources with knowledge of the list. The potential choices dovetail with Trump’s vow to slash U.S. environmental regulation and resist regulatory efforts to combat global climate change, positions Trump s
  
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• Obama: Trump tapped into a 'troubling' strain

  15-11-2016 19:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama was girding for more questions about his successor Tuesday as his final presidential overseas trip began in Greece.
  
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• Trump getting first Presidential Daily Briefing Tuesday

  15-11-2016 19:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is getting his first Presidential Daily Briefing Tuesday at Trump Tower, a transition official told CNN.
  
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• Icahn: Mnuchin and Ross 'would be great choices' for Trump

  15-11-2016 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn tweeted on Tuesday that Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, who are being considered as President-elect Donald Trump's treasury secretary and commerce secretary, "would be great choices" and "two of the smartest people I know." Icahn, a supporter of Trump who was often praised by the Republican during the presidential campaign for his business acumen, said in the tweet that he had spoken with Trump. Reuters had previously reported that Mnuchin, a formerGoldman
  
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• Ex-NASA engineer who downloaded child pornography sentenced to probation

  15-11-2016 18:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A former system engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory was sentenced Monday to probation for using his government-issued computer to download child pornography videos which he organized by victim hair color and featured sex act, according to prosecutors.
  
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• Republican Ben Carson opts against job in Trump Cabinet

  15-11-2016 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a former 2016 Republican presidential candidate who is an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, has opted against accepting a Cabinet position in the Trump administration, his spokesman said on Tuesday. Carson, a popular writer and speaker in conservative circles, has been a close adviser to Trump and is a vice chairman of Trump's transition team. Carson's business manager, Armstrong Williams, said Carson has made clear
  
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• 25 ways to be politically active ... beyond the safety pins

  15-11-2016 18:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Whether the election's left you feeling impotent or energized, now's the time to start getting more politically active. Keep the momentum going. Here are some ways you can elevate your activism.
  
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• From ballots to Bannon: What's happened in one week

  15-11-2016 18:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's hard to believe it's only been seven days since since the presidential election.
  
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• Expect Medicaid to Change, but Not Shrivel, Under Donald Trump

  15-11-2016 18:29 via nytimes.com
  The incoming administration is poised to give states more leeway in running their programs, but some influential figures may balk at a broad rollback of Medicaid’s reach.
  
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• Turkey eyes reset with U.S. under Trump, but honeymoon may be brief

  15-11-2016 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Nick Tattersall and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - In the hours after Donald Trump secured the U.S. presidency, supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan triumphantly took to social media, hailing the election of a man who had threatened to ban Muslims from entering the United States. At first glance, Trump seemed an unlikely hero for millions of Turks who support the Islamist-rooted AK Party founded by Erdogan in the predominantly Muslim nation. Anti-American sentiment in Turkey - a NA
  
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• U.S. to maintain commitment to allies in Asia, admiral says

  15-11-2016 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States will maintain its commitment to allies in the Asia Pacific region and military relations with partners will remain strong, Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, said on Tuesday, amid uncertainty over President-elect Donald Trump's foreign policy. "I have no doubt that we will continue our steadfast commitment to our allies and partners in the Indo-Asia Pacific," Harris said at an event held by the publication Defense One. Trump's campaign comments on Japa
  
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• U.N. envoy urges Trump to back Syria 'devolution' to beat IS

  15-11-2016 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Syria envoy said on Tuesday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was right to seek to work with Russia to beat Islamic State in Syria, but he urged Trump to help push for political reforms to stop the militant group gaining recruits. Speaking on the BBC's Hardtalk program, Staffan de Mistura said it was crucial to fight IS, also known as Daesh, but that a long-term victory required "a completely new approach" to a political solution.
  
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• Republican leaders to Obama administration: Stop enacting new regulations

  15-11-2016 18:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican leadership in Congress asked government agencies to not move forward on new regulations during the transition period, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday.
  
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• Giuliani sketches foreign policy vision amid secretary of state buzz

  15-11-2016 18:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani spoke Monday about his foreign policy vision at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, amid the former New York City mayor expressing a preference to become secretary of state in Donald Trump's incoming administration.
  
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• House Democrats delay leadership battle until after Thanksgiving

  15-11-2016 17:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Democrats decided Tuesday to delay their leadership elections until after Thanksgiving -- a move that will give reeling Democrats time to nurse their wounds, and could spell trouble for longtime leader Nancy Pelosi.
  
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