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• Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning

  17-01-2017 23:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama on Tuesday commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, who was convicted of stealing and disseminating 750,000 pages of documents and videos to WikiLeaks.
  
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• Interior nominee will review Obama limits on oil and gas drilling

  17-01-2017 23:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Interior Department pledged Tuesday to review Obama administration actions limiting oil and gas drilling in Alaska and said he does not believe climate change is a hoax.
  
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• Despite showman reputation, Trump inauguration shaping up as low-key

  17-01-2017 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump made his name with opulent hotels and a dramatic reality TV show, but his inauguration on Friday as the 45th U.S. president is shaping up as a more understated affair, with big names in entertainment staying away. Like those who came before him, Trump will take his oath on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building and lead a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, but there will be fewer official balls and less glitz and celebrity talent to welcome in t
  
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• Trump's U.N. nominee to blast world body over Israel: testimony

  17-01-2017 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations will blast the world body over its treatment of Israel at her Senate confirmation hearing, according to prepared testimony seen by Reuters on Tuesday. "Nowhere has the UN’s failure been more consistent and more outrageous than in its bias against our close ally Israel," Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said in the opening remarks for her appearance on Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Re
  
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• Obama cuts sentences of hundreds of drug offenders

  17-01-2017 23:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama reduced or eliminated the sentences for hundreds more non-violent drug offenders on Tuesday, likely his final acts of clemency while in office.
  
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• Interior nominee grilled on Trump's comments on sexual assault

  17-01-2017 23:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of interior nominee faced tough questions Tuesday about his and Trump's views on sexual assault during his Senate confirmation hearing.
  
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• Trump Interior nominee would review Obama's limits on oil drilling

  17-01-2017 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of the Interior, Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, said on Tuesday he would consider scrapping some of President Barack Obama’s environment initiatives if confirmed, including reviewing curbs on oil drilling on federal lands. "Yes," he said in response to a question from Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska during his confirmation hearing about whether he wou
  
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• U.N. nominee Haley to blast world body over Israel: testimony

  17-01-2017 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations will blast the world body over its treatment of Israel at her Senate confirmation hearing, according to prepared testimony seen by Reuters on Tuesday. "Nowhere has the UN’s failure been more consistent and more outrageous than in its bias against our close ally Israel," Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said in the opening remarks for her appearance on Wednesday befor
  
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• CBO: 18M could lose health care without replacement

  17-01-2017 22:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Repealing major Obamacare provisions without a replacement plan in place would quickly strip 18 million Americans of their insurance and cause premiums to skyrocket, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report released Tuesday.
  
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• President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Prison Sentence - NPR

  17-01-2017 22:46 via npr.org
  
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  In one of his last moves in office, President Obama has commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the Army private who leaked a massive trove of military secrets to WikiLeaks. The former intelligence analyst's prison sentence has been ...
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• Napolitano hospitalized due to cancer treatments

  17-01-2017 22:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Obama Cabinet secretary Janet Napolitano has been hospitalized after complications developed during her most recent cancer treatment.
  
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• Scaramucci's fund struggles to bring top returns to the masses

  17-01-2017 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of President-elect Donald Trump's top liaisons to Wall Street's business elite launched a mutual fund three years ago for mom-and-pop investors that lags most of its peers. Hedge fund impresario Anthony Scaramucci, 53, has secured a top White House job as an adviser and public liaison to government agencies and businesses.
  
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• Top Trump congressional liaison heads to K Street

  17-01-2017 22:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One of President-elect Donald Trump's top congressional liaisons is making the jump to K Street instead of joining the Trump administration.
  
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• Tactic or circumstance: Trump's nominees avoid talking future policy

  17-01-2017 22:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Willfully or skillfully, Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees are avoiding answering key questions on the details of how their agencies will run, sticking to big-picture ideas instead of getting into the nitty-gritty of policy.
  
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• Trump Commerce nominee Ross to divest assets worth up to $209 million

  17-01-2017 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wilbur Ross, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Commerce Secretary, has pledged to divest assets worth about $77 million to $209 million and resign his corporate board seats, but the billionaire investor intends to retain his interests in mortgage lending and transoceanic shipping.
  
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• Youth wrestled to ground after slapping French ex-PM Valls

  17-01-2017 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A youth slapped former prime minister Manuel Valls when he was on an election tour in France's Brittany region on Tuesday and was wrestled to the ground by a security guard, video showed. Valls, 54, was walking past a group of people in the town of Lamballe after coming out of its municipal offices. As Valls recoiled, a security guard seized the youth in a choke-hold, pushed him back against a fence and then forced him to the ground, a video aired by local newspaper Le Telegramme showed.
  
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• Senate Democrat leader attacks Price on ethics charge

  17-01-2017 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services may have broken the law by making a stock purchase just before he introduced legislation that would have benefited the firm, the Senate's leading Democrat charged on Tuesday. A confirmation hearing for Tom Price, a Republican congressman and orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, was scheduled for Wednesday before the Senate health committee. If confirmed, he would be a
  
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• Senate Democrats ask Trump attorney general pick to recuse himself from Russia probes

  17-01-2017 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine Democratic senators asked President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. attorney general, Senator Jeff Sessions, on Tuesday to recuse himself from any FBI or Justice Department investigation into Russia's efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. The request was signed by every Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the panel responsible for confirming Sessions' appointment. It comes amid growing concern in the U.S. Congress abo
  
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• Obama UN rep rips Russia, rejects attack on intel agencies

  17-01-2017 21:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power on Tuesday rapped President-elect Donald Trump for his defense of Moscow and delivered a stark warning about Russian efforts to undermine the international order.
  
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• Education advocates: DeVos lacks public school experience

  17-01-2017 21:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ahead of Betsy DeVos' hearing to become education secretary, her experience with public schools is being called into question.
  
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• Weather forecast for Trump's inauguration looks gloomy

  17-01-2017 21:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It might literally rain on Donald Trump's parade.
  
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• Repealing Obamacare without replacement would strip 18 million of insurance: CBO

  17-01-2017 21:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Repealing major Obamacare provisions without a replacement plan in place would quickly strip 18 million Americans of their insurance and cause premiums to skyrocket, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report released Tuesday.
  
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• Movers begin unloading Obamas' belongings into new home

  17-01-2017 21:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama's stay at the White House doesn't officially end until Friday, but he's already getting a head start on moving into his new home.
  
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• Movers begin loading Obamas' belongings into new home

  17-01-2017 21:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama's stay at the White House doesn't officially end until Friday, but he's already getting a head start on moving into his new home.
  
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• White House: No Snowden clemency request

  17-01-2017 21:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  More than a million supporters of Edward Snowden have petitioned President Barack Obama to pardon him, but the former National Security Agency contractor hasn't submitted the required documents for clemency, according to the White House.
  
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• Schumer to Trump: Don't fire U.S. consumer agency's head

  17-01-2017 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the most powerful Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday pressed President-elect Donald Trump to keep the consumer financial watchdog agency's current director, as rumors about a possible termination and replacement swirled. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer told reporters that Trump will break his campaign promise of "standing up for workers and consumers against the rigged system" if he fires the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) director, Richard Cordray, after
  
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• Bob Woodward: The CNN story was 'exactly right'

  17-01-2017 20:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Legendary journalist Bob Woodward said that CNN's reporting on a summary of classified information presented to Donald Trump was "exactly right" and it "clearly is news" that intelligence chiefs presented the information to the President-elect.
  
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• Pershing Square, nine others hit with SEC 'pay to play' violations

  17-01-2017 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Billionaire investor Bill Ackman's hedge fund paid $75,000 to settle civil "pay-to-play" charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission after running afoul of campaign contribution and money management rules. Pershing Square Capital Management, which invests roughly $11.6 billion for a number of state pension funds and wealthy investors, was one of 10 firms that settled charges with the SEC after having allegedly received compensation from pension funds within two years of making political
  
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• Obama appoints former White House staffers to posts

  17-01-2017 20:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama, on his final Tuesday in office, appointed soon-to-be former staffers and supporters to administration posts, including Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
  
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• Gambian President Jammeh declares state of emergency

  17-01-2017 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gambian President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after refusing to hand power to opposition leader Adama Barrow, who won an election last month. State television said the emergency would prevent a power vacuum while the supreme court rules on Jammeh's petition challenging the election result. Regional leaders have threatened to intervene militarily if Jammeh does not step down and on Tuesday a senior Nigerian army source said Nigeria and other West African states were prep
  
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• Obama marks final press briefing of his White House

  17-01-2017 19:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama bid a public farewell to his press secretary Tuesday, dropping into Josh Earnest's final daily briefing to lavish praise upon his spokesman.
  
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• Here's Trump's inaugural lunch menu

  17-01-2017 19:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The 2017 Inaugural Luncheon Menu
  
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• Trump Commerce nominee Ross to divest assets worth up to $187 million

  17-01-2017 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wilbur Ross, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Commerce Secretary, has pledged to divest assets worth about $62 million to $187 million and resign his corporate board seats, but the billionaire investor intends to retain his interests in mortgage lending and transoceanic shipping. In an ethics agreement made public on Tuesday, Ross said he would divest financial interests in some 80 entities, including specific stocks, bonds and investment partnerships.
  
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• Gambia's Jammeh says state of emergency will prevent power vacuum

  17-01-2017 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh said a state of emergency announced on Tuesday would prevent a power vacuum while the supreme court decides on his petition challenging opposition leader Adama Barrow's victory in a Dec. 1 election. The statement read on state television suggests the veteran leader will stay in power beyond Thursday, when Barrow is due to be sworn in as president. Regional leaders threaten military intervention if Jammeh does not step down. (Writing by Matthew Mp
  
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• Obama to travel to Palm Springs after inauguration - CNN

  17-01-2017 18:45 via cnn.com
  
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  Obama will fly aboard the presidential aircraft to the Coachella Valley oasis, where he's taken frequent golf trips as president, two sources familiar with his plans told CNN earlier Tuesday. Another source familiar with the trip confirmed Obama and ...
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• Putin says he doubts Trump met with Moscow prostitutes

  17-01-2017 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Denis Dyomkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he doubted U.S. President-elect Donald Trump had met with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room several years ago, referring to an unverified dossier published last week that Trump has dismissed as "fake news". "Trump arrived and straight away rushed to meet with Moscow prostitutes. "I find it difficult to believe that he ran to a hotel to meet with our girls of reduced social responsibility," Putin said at a news
  
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• Schumer leaves door open for Senate Democrats to skip inauguration

  17-01-2017 18:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday it was up to each individual senator to decide whether to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration this week -- leaving the door open to potentially more Democratic protest.
  
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• Pentagon readies aggressive ISIS proposals for Trump

  17-01-2017 18:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Defense Department is prepared to provide the new administration with military options to accelerate the war against ISIS in Syria that could send additional US troops into direct combat, CNN has learned.
  
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• Schumer: Tom Price may have broken the law in stock transaction

  17-01-2017 18:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that Donald Trump's pick to quarterback the replacement of Obamacare, Tom Price, might have broken the law with a questionable stock purchase.
  
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• Upbeat Boeing CEO says meeting with Trump 'very productive'

  17-01-2017 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg said he had a "very productive" meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday and was encouraged by progress in talks on the Air Force One replacement fleet and on fighter planes.
  
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• Youth wrestled to ground after trying to slap French ex-PM Valls

  17-01-2017 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A youth reached out apparently to slap former prime minister Manuel Valls when he was on an election tour in France's Brittany region on Tuesday and was wrestled to the ground by a security guard, a video by local media showed. Valls, 54, who was walking past a group of people in the town of Lamballe after coming out of the municipal offices, appeared to first shake hands with the youth who said something and then appeared to try to slap the former prime minister. As Valls recoiled, a security g
  
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• Gambia's President Jammeh declares state of emergency

  17-01-2017 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, state television said, after refusing to hand power to opposition leader Adama Barrow who won an election on Dec. 1. The precise terms of the state of emergency and its implications for Thursday's inauguration of the president-elect were not immediately known. (Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
  
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• Trump tweets about John Lewis again, says he's boycotted prior inaugurations

  17-01-2017 17:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump said Rep. John Lewis is "wrong" to suggest that the President-elect's inauguration is the first he will boycott such an event, citing the Georgia congressman also protested the first inauguration of George W. Bush.
  
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• French financier de Castries backs presidential hopeful Fillon

  17-01-2017 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - French presidential candidate Francois Fillon got the backing of prominent French businessman and HSBC board member Henri de Castries on Tuesday, with his long-term friend confirming a move into politics. It is not very common for corporate leaders to publicly back French presidential candidates and it is even more rare for them to get involved in campaigning or join government. "Francois Fillon has the best answers for the challenges we face: security, solid
  
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• Trump Interior pick to clarify stance on federal land development

  17-01-2017 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee will grill President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of the Interior, Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, during a confirmation hearing on Tuesday that was likely to focus on how he would balance development and conservation on America's vast public lands. The former Navy SEAL commander, an avid hunter and angler, emerged as a surprise pick to head the department, in part because he has embraced federal steward
  
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• Factbox: Trump meets with Boeing chief, others

  17-01-2017 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump continued to hold meetings in New York on Tuesday, before taking over the White House from President Barack Obama on Friday.
  
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• Donald Trump tweets at wrong Ivanka -- and she hits back

  17-01-2017 17:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump tweeted at the wrong Ivanka on Monday night, and the British woman on the receiving end of his praise has hit back.
  
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• Putin dismisses Trump dossier as 'rubbish'

  17-01-2017 17:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a damning dossier on US President-elect Donald Trump was "false" and dismissed allegations that his country's security services had been monitoring him as "rubbish."
  
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• Paul LePage: John Lewis should thank Republican presidents for ending slavery, fighting Jim Crow

  17-01-2017 17:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Paul LePage, the Republican governor of Maine, said Tuesday that civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis should "look at history" and say "thank you" to 19th century Republican presidents for fighting for the rights of African-Americans.
  
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• GOP senator: Intelligence community is not working against Trump

  17-01-2017 17:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican Sen. James Lankford said in a radio interview Monday that the US intelligence community is not working against President-elect Donald Trump, despite his suggestions to the contrary.
  
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