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• Ryan slams brakes on vote to bring back earmarks

  16-11-2016 23:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Republicans appear to be ignoring President-elect Donald Trump's slogan for reforming Washington and are scheduled to vote Wednesday whether to overturn their own ban on earmarks -- billions of dollars for pet projects tucked into spending bills.
  
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• White nationalism, the 'new buzzword'

  16-11-2016 23:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist and senior counselor swept a new term out of the fringes and into the mainstream: white nationalism.
  
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• Corker says Trump won't tear up Iran nuclear deal

  16-11-2016 23:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker cast doubt Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump will reverse the Iran nuclear deal, saying such a decision would distract his fledgling administration in its first days.
  
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• Washington confused as Trump transition regroups

  16-11-2016 23:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump promised to shake up Washington. But for now, the drama consuming his transition effort is leaving the capital confused.
  
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• Newtown victim's daughter to Trump: Please denounce Alex Jones

  16-11-2016 23:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The daughter of slain Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung asked President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday to "cut ties" with Infowars founder Alex Jones, who has pushed conspiracy theories alleging that the Newtown murders were faked as part of a government hoax.
  
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• JPMorgan CEO Dimon may be headed to U.S. Treasury

  16-11-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon may still be in the running to become U.S. Treasury secretary, Fox Business Network reporters said on Wednesday, casting a cloud of uncertainty over the nation's largest bank. After Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo tweeted that Dimon "will get" the position, her colleague Charles Gasparino tweeted that Dimon does not want the job but would be willing to play an advisory role. Bartiromo later said that Steve Mnuchin, a
  
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• Biden offers Pence an olive branch

  16-11-2016 22:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Vice President Joe Biden offered an olive branch to Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday, meeting with Vice President-elect Mike Pence and offering his full support as the Indiana governor prepares to move to Washington.
  
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• Clinton to urge Americans 'not to give up' in first post-election speech

  16-11-2016 22:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, in her first public speech since last week's crushing presidential loss, will urge her supports to "remain engaged in progressive politics at every level," according to an aide.
  
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• Confusion over Trump's first talks with foreign leader

  16-11-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alistair Bell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One day before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s first meeting with a foreign leader, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japanese officials said they had not finalized when or where in New York it would take place, who would be invited, or in some cases whom to call for answers. Uncertainty over the talks shows the difficulties in turning Trump from a freewheeling businessman into a sitting president with a watertight schedule and a fully function
  
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• Canada opposition scorns PM move to negotiate trade with Trump

  16-11-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was attacked from both sides on Wednesday for telling U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that Canada is open to renegotiating the NAFTA trade agreement, with opposition parties mocking Trudeau for being naive and panicked. Trudeau, whose Liberals have a parliamentary majority, said last week that "if Americans want to talk about NAFTA, I'm more than happy to talk about it," a day after Canada's ambassador to the United States said Ottawa would be "happy" to
  
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• Trump, Pence have spoken with nearly 30 foreign leaders - statement

  16-11-2016 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence have spoken with nearly 30 foreign leaders since winning the Nov. 8 election, Trump's transition team said in a statement on Wednesday. Discussions with many of the leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, were already public knowledge. Leaders from Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan were missing from the list, as were any African heads of state or leaders from Southeast Asi
  
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• Ahead of Trump meeting, Abe told not to take campaign rhetoric literally

  16-11-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will seek reassurances from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on U.S.-Japan ties on Thursday and a senior adviser to Abe said he had been told that campaign remarks calling the alliance into question should not be taken literally. Abe is due to meet Trump in New York on Thursday and is expected to be the first foreign leader to meet the president- elect since his election last week. Trump's transition team has not resp
  
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• New York City mayor tells Trump about fear over his policies

  16-11-2016 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday he told Donald Trump during a private meeting that fear is gripping communities in America's largest city over the U.S. president-elect's vows to crack down on illegal immigrants. The Democratic mayor and the wealthy Republican New York real estate developer traded insults during the campaign, but met for about an hour inside Trump's skyscraper headquarters. Afterward, de Blasio said he expressed his concer
  
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• Top U.S. diplomat role an unlikely fit for 'tough guy' Giuliani

  16-11-2016 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Michelle Nichols and Nathan Layne NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is now the leading candidate to become President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of state, but even some Republicans say his tough-guy personality and global business ties may be at odds with international diplomacy. Giuliani, 72, has been one of Trump's most vocal and high-profile supporters, and according to sources close to him and Trump, he is eager to become the top U.S. diplomat and expects
  
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• Obama hails democracy — even when it's 'especially complicated' — in Athens

  16-11-2016 21:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama plans to issue a paean to democracy Wednesday following his tour of the Acropolis in Greece, a symbolic nod to the ancient birthplace of the system, which he insists will prevail amid challenges around the globe.
  
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• 'Candid' meeting between Trump and NYC's de Blasio

  16-11-2016 21:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio met Wednesday with President-elect Donald Trump for the first time since the presidential election, a meeting the New York City mayor called "respectful" and "candid."
  
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• Trump's America

  16-11-2016 21:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Almost everyone thought he would lose. Clinton did. Her vaunted political operatives did. The pollsters did. The #NeverTrump Republicans did. For all his bluster and bold predictions of victory, Trump himself had been worrying all day. He kept pressing aides for information, but they were worried, too-. Even his internal models showed him falling short of the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
  
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• Exclusive: Central America to seek Mexico's support after Trump win

  16-11-2016 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sofia Menchu and Nelson Renteria GUATEMALA CITY/SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have agreed to join forces and seek support from Mexico to forge a joint strategy in response to Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidency, El Salvador's foreign minister told Reuters on Wednesday. Trump's election upset has sent shockwaves through Mexico and Central America, which rely heavily on U.S. remittances and bilateral trade.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani fought federal government to defend undocumented immigrants as NYC mayor

  16-11-2016 20:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani has a long record of defending and advocating for undocumented immigrants as mayor of New York City, a CNN KFile review of his public statements as mayor reveals.
  
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• Giuliani fought federal government to defend undocumented immigrants as NYC mayor

  16-11-2016 20:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani has a long record of defending and advocating for undocumented immigrants as mayor of New York City, a CNN KFile review of his public statements as mayor reveals.
  
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• White House releases star-studded list of Medal of Freedom recipients

  16-11-2016 20:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The White House announced Wednesday a list packed with notable recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including Bruce Springsteen, Bill Gates, Tom Hanks and Michael Jordan.
  
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• Kushner vs. Christie: The nasty Trump transition fight that goes back a decade

  16-11-2016 20:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The first time Chris Christie squared off with a Kushner, the scene was a federal court and the outcome -- along with all the tabloid drama -- helped vault the future governor of New Jersey into the Republican elite.
  
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• Draining the swamp? GOP-led House looks to bring back earmarks

  16-11-2016 20:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Republicans appear to be ignoring President-elect Donald Trump's slogan for reforming Washington and are scheduled to vote Wednesday whether to overturn their own ban on earmarks -- billions of dollars for pet projects tucked into spending bills.
  
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• U.S. transgender people rush to legally change gender in wake of Trump's win

  16-11-2016 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Transgender people in the United States are rushing to legally change their name and gender with the help of volunteer lawyers due to concerns the community's civil rights could be threatened under the administration of president-elect Donald Trump. In a race against the clock, transgender people have been connecting on Twitter using the hashtag #TransLawHelp with lawyers offering to help them make the changes free of charge before Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2017. Last week's victory for Tru
  
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• U.S. panel urges ban on China state firms buying U.S. companies

  16-11-2016 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Denny Thomas and David Lawder WASHINGTON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers should take action to ban China's state-owned firms from acquiring U.S. companies, a congressional panel charged with monitoring security and trade links between Washington and Beijing said on Wednesday. In its annual report to Congress, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said the Chinese Communist Party has used state-backed enterprises as the primary economic tool to advance and achieve its nat
  
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• Despite Trump, U.S. lawmakers want response to Russia

  16-11-2016 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior Democratic and Republican U.S. lawmakers want Washington to respond to Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. election and actions in Ukraine and Syria, despite Republican President-elect Donald Trump's calls to improve relations. Senator Ben Cardin said on Wednesday he was working on what he described as "comprehensive" legislation to respond to Russian actions contrary to U.S. interests in Europe and Syria, as well as cyber attacks blamed o
  
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• Trump touts foreign contacts, says transition going 'so smoothly'

  16-11-2016 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday denounced reports of disorganization in the team overseeing his transition to the White House in January, singling out the New York Times for saying world leaders have had trouble getting in touch with him. Trump took to Twitter to list several world leaders he had spoken with since his upset victory in the Nov. 8 presidential election. The Times, a frequent target of Trump's Twitter blasts, said on Tuesday that U.S
  
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• Before Trump chooses his cabinet, a look at pop culture's best candidates

  16-11-2016 19:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The big news of the week has been President-elect Donald Trump's transition team. The new administration has to fill thousands of jobs, which is no small feat. While the President-elect is looking to allies and advisers to make top picks for his cabinet, we decided to look to pop culture to put together the best fictional cabinet books, TV and movies have to offer.
  
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• Schumer, McConnell elected to top spots in Senate

  16-11-2016 19:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader Wednesday while Democrats tapped Chuck Schumer as their leader as both sides prepare for critical battles with the incoming Trump administration.
  
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• Climate change worries escalate as Trump elevates top deniers

  16-11-2016 19:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As the shape of President-elect Donald Trump's new administration comes into focus, environmental activists and organizations who had found an ally in the Obama White House are preparing for a fight to protect their gains of the past eight years.
  
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• U.S. state securities regulators gird for action during Trump era

  16-11-2016 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - State securities regulators say they will try to fill any void in policing banks and finance companies that break the rules if President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled congress roll back reforms introduced after the financial crisis. Trump has pledged to dismantle Dodd-Frank, a sweeping Democrat-led reform of Wall Street designed to protect Main Street investors. On the campaign trail, Trump characterized Dodd-Frank, which became law in 2010, as sprawl
  
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• Crossing the border as a Trump presidency looms

  16-11-2016 18:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As the sun sets near the Rio Grande on an evening just days after the US presidential election, the air is still and calm. But some see this remote stretch of land as the center of a storm that's brewing. Officials say a new wave of undocumented immigrants, mostly from Central America, are arriving on America's doorstep. And many of them are crossing here, along the US-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas.
  
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• Rapper imagines Trump's America in album, says his 'nightmare' came true

  16-11-2016 18:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  KXNG Crooked says he doesn't want to be the Nostradamus of hip-hop.
  
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• 'Sanctuary campus' protests target Trump immigration policies

  16-11-2016 18:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The next battleground over immigration might not be anywhere near the border.
  
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• You called, we listened: What 1,500 voicemails reveal about the American voter

  16-11-2016 18:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Devastated. Ecstatic. Afraid. Hopeful.
  
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• Trump infrastructure plan adds little to global copper backdrop

  16-11-2016 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters) - Investors who sent copper to a 17-month peak on hopes for a splurge of U.S. infrastructure spending by Donald Trump may end up underwhelmed given that the plans, even if successful, would add only modestly to world demand. China dominates the global copper market, accounting for half of all demand, and an uptick in consumption there following further stimulus is much more relevant to the market. "The infrastructure ambitions of Trump I think are meaningless in t
  
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• No better U.S. ambassador for Prague than Trump's ex-wife, says Czech president

  16-11-2016 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Czech President Milos Zeman has thrown his support behind a bid by Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, to become the next ambassador to the country of her birth. "They could not send a better U.S. ambassador to Prague," Zeman told her in a telephone call on Wednesday, the president's office said in a statement. Ivana Trump told the New York Post last week she would suggest to her ex-husband that she become ambassador to the Czech Republic.
  
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• After Trump victory, Obama and Merkel stress benefits of EU-U.S. trade deal

  16-11-2016 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  German and U.S. employers, workers, consumers and farmers would "without doubt" benefit from a free trade deal being negotiated between the European Union and the United States, U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
  
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• Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approve recreational use of marijuana, Arizona rejects

  16-11-2016 17:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada have decided that marijuana should be legal to use recreationally, CNN projects. Arizona has rejected the proposition.
  
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• Howard Dean: This election may be young people's Kent State or Edmund Pettus Bridge

  16-11-2016 17:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean says he views this election as call to action for young people similar to the Kent State shootings and the 1965 Bloody Sunday confrontation between civil rights demonstrators and Alabama State troopers and local police.
  
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• Le Pen says 'world peace' would gain from a Trump-Putin-Le Pen trio

  16-11-2016 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday that her election as president next year would form a trio of world leaders with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin that "would be good for world peace." Inaugurating her campaign headquarters for France's 2017 election, just less than two km (one mile) away from the Elysee presidential palace, Le Pen said the premises were "a stopover on the way to (her) final destination down the road." Anti-Europe and ant
  
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• McConnell, Schumer elected to top spots in Senate

  16-11-2016 17:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader Wednesday while Democrats tapped Chuck Schumer as their leader as both sides prepare for critical battles with the incoming Trump administration.
  
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• Jan Brewer: Allegiance of some anti-Trump protesters is to Mexico, not US

  16-11-2016 16:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who has been mentioned as a potential pick for Donald Trump's cabinet, blasted anti-Trump protesters Tuesday, saying that those who fly the Mexican flag are loyal to Mexico, not the United States.
  
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• Japan's Abe set to meet Trump and safeguard US alliance

  16-11-2016 16:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be the first world leader to meet with Trump on Thursday.
  
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• Euro crisis over? 2017 politics could be markets' biggest test yet

  16-11-2016 16:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elections in France, Germany and The Netherlands next year, as well next month's Italian constitutional referendum, are flashpoints that could ignite brewing political discontent across the continent. "Many of our clients are most worried about Europe," said Mark Haefele, global chief investment officer at UBS Wealth Management, who sets the investment policy that guides more than $2 trillion in invested assets. "The big concern would be a break up of the European Union if you have these more ri
  
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• Rep. Tim Ryan outlines vision: 'What's America 2.0 look like?'

  16-11-2016 16:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan -- whose name has been floated as a potential opponent to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's re-election bid -- said Wednesday that he hasn't decided yet whether to mount a Democratic leadership challenge but that he believes Democrats need a shake-up.
  
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• Trump touts foreign contacts on Twitter, lashes media report

  16-11-2016 15:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump listed several countries whose leaders he had spoken with since winning the U.S. presidential election and used his Twitter account to attack a media report that he has been hard to reach. The Republican real estate magnate, who often used Twitter during his presidential campaign to lash out at critics, pounced on a New York Times report that American allies were "scrambling to figure out how and when to contact Mr Trump." "I have received and taken calls from many f
  
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• Trump's denies inquiry about security clearance for kids

  16-11-2016 15:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump denied Wednesday he was attempting to get "top level security clearance" for his adult children, despite multiple reports that such a request had been made by his transition team.
  
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• Tens of thousands protest Trump’s election victory

  16-11-2016 15:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Anti-Trump protests continued for a seventh straight day in large cities throughout the country.In Washington, D.C., more than 1,000 students staged a walkout and protested outside of Trump International Hotel, holding signs that read "Boycott Bigotry" and "Stronger Together."
  
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• Obama hails democracy -- even when it's 'especially complicated' -- in Athens

  16-11-2016 14:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama plans to issue a paean to democracy Wednesday following his tour of the Acropolis in Greece, a symbolic nod to the ancient birthplace of the system, which he insists will prevail amid challenges around the globe.
  
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