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NBC News is reporting that Donald Trump is considering Mitt Romney for secretary of state:New: A source close to Donald Trump tells @MSNBC Mitt Romney is being considered for Secretary of State.Retweeted by NBCNews3:06 PM - 17 Nov 2016- Reply
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BREAKING: Donald Trump is considering Mitt Romney for position of Secretary of State, source tells @NBCNews.3:09 PM - 17 Nov 2016- Reply
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Here are a few other names that have been floated for secretary of state over the past couple of days:* Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City* Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina* John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush* Bob Corker, U.S. senator from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee* Newt Gingrich, former U.S. House of Representatives speaker* Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq -
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Who's on Trump's list?
Factbox: Short list of potential picks for Trump administration
ReutersNew candidates to serve in U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet emerged on Wednesday, including U.S. Senator Ted Cruz as a potential attorney general and North Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as secretary of state, as he works to fill administration positions ahead of his inauguration on Jan. 20. -
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Chinese "Trump" pheasant the pride of Zhejiang
Reuters"Little Red", a golden pheasant at a safari park in China, becomes an internet sensation after visitors notice his remarkable resemblance to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, especially their "glittering" hair. Mana Rabiee... -
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At a joint news conference with Germany's Merkel, Obama said of Donald Trump:"He ran an incredibly unconventional political campaign that resulted in the biggest political upset of...perhaps modern political history."The U.S. president went on to say that during his private meeting with the president-elect he told Trump that what may work in an election campaign may be different to what works to unite the country."He has indicated he understands that," Obama said of Trump.
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This entire press release is a subtweet of @realDonaldTrump, who wrongly said the paper had lost thousands of subs https://t.co/b9sfBzmdW312:15 PM - 17 Nov 2016
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The @nytimes Adds 41,000 New Subscriptions Since Election Day https://t.co/dIjSvZXoow https://t.co/JeeVedetrW
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- The Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper said today that he submitted his letter of resignation but would stay until the end of the Obama administration.
- Clapper declined to comment when asked if Russia shared hacked information from Democratic Party organizations with Americans.
- Clapper also said he had no reason to question if FBI Director Comey broke protocol in disclosing Clinton email review before election.
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JUST IN: Republican leaders want to fund federal government at current levels until March - U.S. House Appropriations Committee member.Incoming Trump administration wants temporary funding bill in order to have input into fiscal 2017 government spending - House Appropriations panel member
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UPDATE FROM OBAMA'S LAST TOUR ABROAD -In Berlin, President Obama told German ARD Television that 'if Trump can get the same number of people medical insurance and better than I could, then I would support that.'
U.S. President Barack Obama walks past the Brandenburg Gate during his visit to Berlin, Germany November 17, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque -
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JUST IN: South Carolina Lieutenant Governor McMaster says he and Governor Haley are being considered for cabinet positions in the Trump administration - local mediaJUST IN: @henrymcmaster says he, S.C. Gov. @nikkihaley being considered for @realDonaldTrump cabinet positions.… https://t.co/4wiys2O9Vk4:34 PM - 16 Nov 2016
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In a piece published today in The New Yorker, correspondent Ryan Lizza analyses Donald Trump's firs week as president-elect.
Donald Trump’s First, Alarming Week as President-Elect - The New Yorker
The New YorkerWhat we’ve learned so far about the least experienced President-elect in history is as troubling and ominous as his critics have feared. -
Icahn says stock rally after Trump election may be overdone
ReutersBillionaire activist investor Carl Icahn said the strong rally in U.S. stocks since Donald Trump captured the White House last week might be overdone, but that investors can expect the president-elect to be a consensus builder who can help fix Washington and improve the economy. -
JUST IN: Carl Icahn, asked if Steven Mnuchin should be U.S. Treasury secretary, calls him 'smart guy' who is not part of establishment.MORE: Icahn says 'no way' he would become Treasury secretary, says he's 80 years old and doesn't want to work for anyone.
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Implications of a Trump presidency: State securities regulatorsState securities regulators said they may have to rely more heavily on local laws to police banks and finance companies if President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress roll back federal reforms introduced after the financial crisis.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on his meeting with Donald Trump:I met with President-elect Trump today because it was important for me to be clear with him about the needs and concerns of NYC residents.2:43 PM - 16 Nov 2016
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I told the President-elect we're ultimate city of immigrants & attempts to mass deport our people flies in the face of what makes NYC great.2:44 PM - 16 Nov 2016- Reply
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I raised concerns that tax cuts for corporations/wealthy and repeal of Dodd-Frank would move us backward and risk another financial crash.2:43 PM - 16 Nov 2016- Reply
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I told the President-elect that the city has gotten safer since we stopped overusing stop-and-frisk and that we are not going back.2:44 PM - 16 Nov 2016- Reply
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I told the President-elect something a lot of people don’t know, and that is that there are 900 Muslim members of the NYPD protecting us all2:44 PM - 16 Nov 2016- Reply
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It was a candid meeting with plenty of give and take. But my job is to make clear that I am going to stand up for New York City's values.2:45 PM - 16 Nov 2016- Reply
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WHO HAS TRUMP BEEN TALKING TO ON THE PHONE?
Trump took to Twitter to list several world leaders he had spoken with since winning the Nov. 8 election. And to vent his frustration at the media.
The president-elect said he had received and taken "calls from many foreign leaders despite what the failing @nytimes said. Russia, U.K., China, Saudi Arabia, Japan."
"Australia, New Zealand, and more. I am always available to them. @nytimes is just upset that they looked like fools in their coverage of me," Trump continued.
The New York Times, a frequent target of Trump's Twitter blasts, reported yesterday that U.S. allies were "scrambling to figure out how and when to contact Mr. Trump," and blindly dialing in to Trump Tower to try to reach him.
The newspaper said Trump, who has never held public office, was working without official State Department briefing materials in his dealings with foreign leaders.
The failing @nytimes story is so totally wrong on transition. It is going so smoothly. Also, I have spoken to many foreign leaders.7:12 AM - 16 Nov 2016- Reply
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- Trump has mostly stuck to normal practice with the order in which he has spoken to foreign leaders since his surprise victory over Hillary Clinton.
- But some of his contacts have stretched the limits of the usual protocol followed by the president-elect, leaving some U.S. allies rattled about Trump’s foreign policy instincts and priorities.
- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, an army general who seized power three years ago, appears to have been the first leader to speak to Trump after the election, ahead of closer allies like the leaders of Britain and Germany.
A phone call on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which the two men agreed to aim for "constructive cooperation," raised eyebrows among Democrats and traditionalist Republicans worried about a resurgent Moscow.
REUTERS/Ivan Sekretarev- Trump also met Britain's anti-EU Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage at Trump Tower last weekend, way ahead of any meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be the first foreign leader Trump meets with as president-elect on Thursday. The two will hold talks in New York and an adviser to Trump said the Republican would reaffirm the U.S-Japan alliance, despite campaign rhetoric that raised questions about it. Read more here.
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Twitter has suspended several accounts linked to the alt-right movement, a loosely organized group that embraces far-right ideologies including white nationalism, USA Today reported.The accounts suspended by Twitter, which has been criticized for not stopping abusive behavior on its platform, include that of Richard Spencer, who has said he wants blacks, Asians, Hispanics and Jews removed from the United States, the newspaper reported on Wednesday.The alt-right movement came to the fore during the U.S. presidential campaign, especially after Republican nominee Donald Trump added Steve Bannon to his campaign team.Bannon, who has since been named Trump's chief White House strategist, formerly headed Breitbart News, a website and voice for the alt-right movement."I am alive physically but digitally speaking there has been execution squads across the alt-right," Spencer, who has a verified Twitter account, said in a YouTube video entitled "Knight of the Long Knives" responding to the suspension.The move by the microblogging service, which did not immediately respond for requests for comment, followed its announcement on Tuesday that it would upgrade some features to better combat cyber-bullying.USA Today said the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization that tracks what it sees as hate groups and other extremists, had asked Twitter to remove more than 100 accounts of white supremacists who violated Twitter's terms of service.Others whose accounts have been suspended include Pax Dickinson, founder of alt-right site Wesearchr; an alt-right internet personality who goes by the fake name Ricky Vaughn; and blogger Paul Town, who describes himself as "the leading thoughtleader of alt-right," CNN reported.
A man hides his face behind a Pepe the Frog sign after Donald Trump spoke at an airport campaign rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Social media users appropriated the frog cartoon, an internet meme, into a symbol for the alt-right movement, prompting the Anti-Defamation League to declare Pepe a hate symbol. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri -
Keeping it in the familyDonald Trump's ex-wife Ivana told the New York Post last week she would suggest to her ex-husband that she become ambassador to the Czech Republic.The 67-year-old socialite, born in Zlin in what was then Czechoslovakia, told the paper the country was "where I'm from and my language and everybody knows me".It now seems like that suggestion didn't fall on deaf ears, at least not on some.Today, Czech President Milos Zeman expressed strong support of Ivana Trump's bid. "They could not send a better U.S. ambassador to Prague," Zeman told her in a telephone call, the president's office said in a statement.
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SLIDESHOW: Trump's inner circle
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SLIDESHOW: SENATORS ARRIVE FOR PARTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS
John McCain and Marco Rubio. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Ted Cruz. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Harry Reid. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Mitch McConnell. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Chuck Schumer. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Trump eyeing Mnuchin and Ross for economy jobs: Icahn
ReutersLongtime 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. -
U.S. Economic Confidence Surges After Election
Gallup.comAmericans' confidence in the U.S. economy soared after the election, mostly because Republicans became much less negative about the economy's outlook. -
Ford going ahead with moving small car production to Mexico: CEO
ReutersFord Motor Co (F.N) is moving ahead with plans to shift production of small cars to Mexico from Michigan, while "two very important products" will be built in its U.S. factories, Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields told Reuters on Tuesday. -
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Republican Ben Carson opts against job in Trump Cabinet
ReutersRetired 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.
Putin says Russia will follow up fast after Ukraine call with Biden
MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would send ideas to Washington within a week to follow up his talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on the Ukraine crisis.
