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• U.S. ethics office tweets sarcasm at Trump on business conflicts

  30-11-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andy Sullivan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump faced criticism from an unusual source on Wednesday when a buttoned-down U.S. government ethics office issued an apparently sarcastic stream of Twitter messages applauding him for selling off his assets. Trump, in fact, has not said whether he will sell the hotels, golf courses and other businesses that make up his global Trump Organization, as the U.S. Office of Government Ethics subsequently acknowledged. "
  
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• Trump says will back away from business to focus on White House

  30-11-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to step back from running his global business empire to avoid conflicts of interest, as concern over his dual role mounts ahead of the Republican's inauguration on Jan. 20. After Trump won the Nov. 8 election, his company, the Trump Organization, had said it was looking at new business structures with the goal of transferring control to Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump - thre
  
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• Just one Trump transition aide for U.S. spy agencies: officials

  30-11-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Landay and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Only one member of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is dealing with the CIA and the 16 other offices and agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, four U.S. officials said Wednesday. Geoffrey Kahn, a former House intelligence committee staffer, is the only person named so far to Trump's intelligence community "landing team," they said.
  
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• Electoral College voter: I'm getting death threats

  30-11-2016 22:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A college student from Michigan said Wednesday that he has received death threats after being chosen to cast an Electoral College vote for his state in December.
  
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• Carrier victory bolsters Trump's economic chops

  30-11-2016 22:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump staked his credibility as a negotiator -- the underpinning of his grand entrance to politics -- on a very specific claim.
  
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• News Analysis: Why the Trump Team’s Economic Promises Will Be Hard to Execute

  30-11-2016 22:24 via nytimes.com
  The men chosen to lead the Treasury and Commerce Departments vow to cut taxes, increase growth and hold the line on deficits, testing the limits of economic math.
  
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• Supreme Court Weighs Jailed Immigrants’ Right to Periodic Hearings

  30-11-2016 22:02 via nytimes.com
  The number of these detainees is likely to swell if President-elect Donald J. Trump follows through on his pledge to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants.
  
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• Republicans aim to coax Trump toward House trade tax plan

  30-11-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress hope to convince President-elect Donald Trump to support an untested strategy of using the tax code to promote exports while slashing corporate taxes, framing it as a way to fulfill his campaign promises to restore blue-collar jobs. The plan would be one way to help Republican lawmakers reconcile their long-standing goal of tax cuts with the often populist campaign rhetoric of Trump, who has attacked the North American Free
  
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• Goldman's Cohn eyed for top Trump budget post: transition official

  30-11-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Olivia Oran NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump is considering Goldman Sachs Group Inc President and Chief Operating Officer Gary Cohn to head the White House budget office or to fill other positions, a Trump transition official said on Wednesday. Cohn, 56, a former Goldman commodities trader who joined the firm in 1990, has been widely considered to be the heir apparent to Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein. Dow Jones reported earlier on Wednesday that Co
  
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• Mike Pence and ‘Conversion Therapy’: A History

  30-11-2016 21:30 via nytimes.com
  The vice president-elect has denied that he supports discredited methods meant to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
  
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• Democrats urge hearings on Trump, conflict-of-interest rules

  30-11-2016 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sixteen U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged hearings be held in Congress on federal conflict-of-interest rules and Republican President-elect Donald Trump's business empire, though Republicans were unlikely to agree to it. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Democrats asked its Republican chairman, Bob Goodlatte, who controls its agenda, "to examine federal conflicts of interest and ethics provisions that may apply to the President of the United States." The Democrats' letter t
  
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• Supreme Court wrestles with status of detained immigrants

  30-11-2016 20:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A divided Supreme Court Wednesday grappled with whether it is unlawful to subject thousands of immigrants fighting deportation to long-term detention without individualized bond hearings.
  
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• Trump says will step away from business, focus on White House

  30-11-2016 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to step back from running his global business empire to avoid conflicts of interest, as concern over his dual role mounts ahead of the Republican's inauguration on Jan. 20. Trump said on Wednesday he is not required by law to alter his relationship with his business, but added: "I feel it is visually important, as president, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various busines
  
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• Trump to keep Manhattan federal prosecutor Bharara in post

  30-11-2016 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Melissa Fares and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Preet Bharara, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan known for pursuing a series of cases targeting public corruption and crime on Wall Street, said on Wednesday he agreed to remain in his post under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Bharara, who was appointed to his position by Democratic President Barack Obama in 2009, told reporters following a meeting at Trump Tower that Trump had asked him to stay on during his administration and he
  
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• China to Trump: Good luck bringing manufacturing jobs to US

  30-11-2016 20:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  China appears to be sending a message to President-elect Donald Trump: Good luck competing against us on manufacturing.
  
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• A Snapshot Captures the Awkward Courtship Between Trump and Romney

  30-11-2016 19:57 via nytimes.com
  Rain was falling outside. Young garlic soup and frog legs were on the menu. In other words, It was the perfect occasion for a photo op.
  
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• Trump considering Palin to lead Veterans Affairs: ABC

  30-11-2016 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump is considering former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for secretary of Veterans Affairs, ABC News reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified sources. Palin was an early Trump supporter and the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in 2008. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by James Dalgleish)
  
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• The US economy in GIFs from Steve Mnuchin's movies

  30-11-2016 19:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump announced Steve Mnuchin as his pick for Treasury secretary Tuesday. Mnuchin is not only a former hedge fund manager and banker -- he's also credited as the producer on more than 30 movies.
  
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• 10 requests from liberals to Obama before he leaves office

  30-11-2016 19:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to undo President Barack Obama's legacy once he takes office on January 20, 2017. However, with just over a month left before Obama leaves the White House, liberals are putting in some last minute requests for the outgoing commander-in-chief.
  
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• Pelosi re-elected as House Democratic leader

  30-11-2016 19:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who has run the House Democratic caucus for the last 14 years, is expected to remain the top elected leader, but she's fending off a challenge from Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, who says Democrats failed to connect to people who backed Donald Trump and it's time to shakeup the leadership.
  
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• Trump's Treasury pick targets taxes, trade reforms: media

  30-11-2016 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, said on Wednesday the administration would make tax reform and trade pact overhauls top priorities as they seek a sustained pace of 3 percent to 4 percent economic growth. Mnuchin also signaled a desire to remove U.S. mortgage-finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government ownership, a move that could have wide-ranging ramifications for how Americans pay for their homes.
  
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• Trump's curious Goldman Sachs connections

  30-11-2016 18:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  During the campaign, Donald Trump held up Goldman Sachs as a villain and symbol of the corrupt establishment.
  
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• Trump says he will remove himself 'completely' from businesses

  30-11-2016 17:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump promised Wednesday to 'remove' himself from his businesses and said he will announce details in two weeks about how he'll avoid conflicts of interest when he is president.
  
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• Warren: Trump's treasury pick 'the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis'

  30-11-2016 16:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren issued a withering statement Tuesday condemning Steven Mnuchin's selection as President-elect Donald Trump's treasury secretary.
  
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• Trump picks movie producer for Treasury

  30-11-2016 15:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Trump will have about 4,000 government positions to fill, including some of the most important posts in the US government.
  
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• Trump says he will leave business to focus on running country

  30-11-2016 15:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Doina Chiacu NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to step back from running his business empire to avoid conflicts of interest, while turning to Wall Street for nominees for two key economic leadership posts who promised tax reform and a tougher approach to China. Trump sent out a series of early morning tweets saying he will hold a news conference in New York on Dec. 15 with his children on how he will separate himself "in tot
  
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• The 21 days of President-elect Trump

  30-11-2016 15:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Three weeks have passed since President-elect Donald Trump delivered a gracious, sober and almost totally unexpected victory speech at his election night rally in New York City.
  
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• 21 days of President-elect Trump

  30-11-2016 15:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Three weeks have passed since President-elect Donald Trump delivered a gracious, sober and almost totally unexpected victory speech at his election night rally in New York City.
  
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• Pence politics loom in Trump Administration

  30-11-2016 15:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's incoming administration is increasingly becoming Mike Pence's dream team.
  
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• Democrats vote Wednesday on Pelosi

  30-11-2016 15:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who has run the House Democratic caucus for the last 14 years, is expected to remain the top elected leader, but she's fending off a challenge from Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, who says Democrats failed to connect to people who backed Donald Trump and it's time to shakeup the leadership.
  
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• Trump's Treasury pick targets taxes, trade reforms: CNBC

  30-11-2016 14:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said on Wednesday the administration would target tax reform and trade pact overhauls as top priorities as they seek to achieve 3 percent to 4 percent economic growth. Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, Trump's nominee for commerce secretary, outlined their agenda, including what Mnuchin called the largest tax overhaul since the Ronald Reagan administration, in an interview on CNBC.
  
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• Putin: Trump agrees US-Russia relations 'must be straightened out'

  30-11-2016 14:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he had recently spoken to President-elect Donald Trump and that their "opinions coincided" that the relationship between the two nations had to be "straightened out."
  
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• Trump vows to 'remove' himself from business

  30-11-2016 13:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump promised Wednesday to 'remove' himself from his businesses and said he will announce details in two weeks about how he'll avoid conflicts of interest when he is president.
  
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• Bank of England sees global financial risks after Trump victory

  30-11-2016 13:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election has increased the threats to the world economy from higher interest rates and less trade, the Bank of England said on Wednesday. The BoE also pointed to potential dangers from rapid Chinese credit growth or a disorganized British departure from the European Union in a half-yearly assessment of risks to Britain's financial system. BoE Governor Mark Carney highlighted a big rise in U.S. market interest rates since Trump's victory, which the
  
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• The 3 women of color Trump has appointed, so far

  30-11-2016 13:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As Donald Trump's Cabinet begins to take shape, the President-elect has selected three women of color so far to serve in top positions in his administration, including South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who was a sharp critic of Trump during the 2016 Republican primary campaign.
  
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• Trump announces December 15 news conference to discuss leaving business

  30-11-2016 13:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will be leaving his far-flung business "in total" to focus on running the country and will outline the plan in a Dec. 15 news conference with his family. Under pressure to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest, Trump announced his plans in a series of tweets but did not explain exactly what he would be doing with his assets. "I will be holding a major news conference in New York City with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact th
  
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• Trump keeps DC swampy

  30-11-2016 13:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is turning to a reliable stable of Republican and business world power brokers to fill out his administration, signaling he's looking to push his agenda using the political apparatus he famously pledged to dismantle.
  
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• CNN's 'Unprecedented': The strange evolution of the relationship of Pence and Trump

  30-11-2016 12:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Despite Vice President-elect Mike Pence's influential post shaping Donald Trump's incoming administration, political observers don't have to reach that far back to see moments where the Republican ticket's two members were less in sync, including the Indiana governor's 2016 campaign debut.
  
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• Vic Mensa gets political: The people elected Hillary Clinton, 'but this isn't a real democracy'

  30-11-2016 12:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's victory based on the Electoral College -- and not the popular vote -- underscores that the American government is "not a government of the people," rapper and activist Vic Mensa told CNN in a wide-ranging interview earlier this month.
  
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• Mike Pence's key role in building Team Trump

  30-11-2016 12:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's incoming administration is increasingly becoming Mike Pence's dream team.
  
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• France says U.S. must comply fast with WTO Boeing ruling

  30-11-2016 10:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France said on Wednesday that the United States must comply with a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling this week against U.S. tax breaks for Boeing , and that failure to do so would give the EU legal basis for retaliatory measures. The WTO said this week that a tax break from Washington state to help Boeing develop its new 777X jetliner was a prohibited subsidy, in a setback for the U.S. planemaker as it eyes victory in a parallel case against Airbus .
  
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• CIA's Brennan says tearing up Iran deal would be 'folly'

  30-11-2016 08:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan has said it would be the "height of folly" for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to tear up Washington's deal with Tehran because it would make it more likely that Iran and others would acquire nuclear weapons. "It could lead to a weapons program inside of Iran that could lead other states in the region to embark on their own programs," Brennan said in an interview with the BBC aired on Wednesday. "So I think it would be the height of folly if the next administ
  
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• Judge lets Wisconsin officials decide how to perform presidential vote recount

  30-11-2016 07:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Local officials in Wisconsin will decide for themselves how to carry out a presidential election recount after a state judge on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit by former Green Party candidate Jill Stein to have the ballots counted by hand. A recount of Wisconsin's 25 million votes is set to begin on Thursday, after Stein's campaign requested the audit and paid the state's $3.5-million filing fee, state election officials say. Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn ruled that Wisconsin's 72 cou
  
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• Romney, potential U.S. secretary of state, hails Trump after dinner

  30-11-2016 05:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney made an impassioned statement in support of President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday to try to erase doubts about him among Trump's supporters and remain in contention for U.S. secretary of state. Romney, a fierce critic of Trump during the Republican presidential primary battle, stopped short of an outright apology but his intention to wipe the slate clean was clear. The former Massachusetts governor, who was the Republican presidentia
  
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• Trump picks loyalists for economic posts, Obamacare critic for cabinet

  30-11-2016 05:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump chose a former Goldman Sachs banker and a billionaire investor on Tuesday to steer economic policy in his administration and a fierce Obamacare critic to dismantle President Barack Obama's signature healthcare program. Republican Trump is expected to name Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier, as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a source said, putting a Wall Street veteran in the top U.S.
  
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• Trump claims to deliver on Carrier promise

  30-11-2016 05:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump and Carrier have reached a deal that will keep nearly 1,000 factory jobs in Indiana, the company said on Tuesday.
  
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• Inside Trump and Romney's Jean Georges dinner

  30-11-2016 04:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  If it was New Year's Eve, they could have spent $888 per head on a tasting menu. But instead, President-elect Donald Trump met potential secretary of state nominee Mitt Romney Tuesday at Jean Georges, a three-Michelin star New York City restaurant inside his Trump International Hotel.
  
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• Trump Taps Hollywood’s Mnuchin for Treasury and Dines With Romney

  30-11-2016 03:00 via nytimes.com
  Steven Mnuchin, a longtime Trump acquaintance, is a former Goldman Sachs partner who has worked in hedge funds and Hollywood finance and has no government experience.
  
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• Carrier says it has struck a deal with Trump to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in Indiana

  30-11-2016 02:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump and Carrier have reached a deal that will keep nearly 1,000 factory jobs in Indiana, the company said on Tuesday.
  
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• After Democrats’ Losses, Nancy Pelosi Becomes a Symbol of What Went Wrong

  30-11-2016 02:24 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Pelosi, who is expected to win re-election as House minority leader, has become a stand-in for complaints that Democrats have failed to court working-class voters.
  
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