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MORE: Obama says he will tell allies Trump is committed to NATO -
MORE: Obama says new voices and ideas should emerge in the Democratic Party
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MORE: "We should spend some time thinking about how we (the Democratic Party) should organize politically" - Obama
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MORE: When asked about Stephen Bannon's appointment to top White House position, Obama says it would not be appropriate to comment on every Trump staff appointment -
Obama says he thinks Trump is sincere in wanting to be a successful president and he thinks Trump will try to make sure that he delivers for all Americans.
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MORE: Obama says he thinks Trump will want to unify minorities and women
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MORE: Obama says Trump is coming into office with fewer set policy prescriptions than predecessors
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Obama says he 'absolutely' has concerns about Trump's presidency
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MORE: Obama says there are going to be certain elements of Trump's temperament that will not serve him well
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Obama says would urge Trump to think long and hard before endangering status of young undocumented immigrants in deferred action program.
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U.S. internet firms ask Trump to support encryption, ease regulations
ReutersU.S. internet companies including Facebook Inc and Amazon Inc have sent President-elect Donald Trump a detailed list of their policy priorities, which includes promoting strong encryption, immigration reform and maintaining liability protections from content that users share on their platforms. -
SEC Chair White to time her exit from agency with Obama's
ReutersU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White plans to step down around the same time President Barack Obama exits the Oval Office, the agency said on Monday. -
Trump campaign "Make America Great Again" hats wait for House Republicans on their seats as they arrive to a caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
House Speaker Paul Ryan smiles as he arrives for a caucus meeting with fellow House Republicans at the Capitol. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst -
LIVE: President Obama says he told Trump that his team is ready to accelerate the transition -
Vice president-elect Mike Pence arrives at Trump Tower in New York. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri -
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Turkey eyes reset with U.S. under Trump, but honeymoon may be brief
ReutersIn 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. -
North Korea doesn't care who's presidentNorth Korea does not care who is president of the United States, a senior Pyongyang-based diplomat said during a visit to the United Nations following the election of Donald Trump..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 state.
We do not care about whoever becomes the president of the United States," Kim said. "The fundamental issue here is whether or not the United States has the political will to withdraw its hostile policy toward the DPRK (North Korea).
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JUST IN: House Republicans nominate Paul Ryan to remain as speaker - statement
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MORE: U.S. House Republicans re-elect McCarthy as majority leader - statement
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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. -
JUST IN: Republican Representative Tom Price being considered for secretary of health and human services in Trump Cabinet - Politico
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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. -
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. -
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. -
Trump team looking at creation of infrastructure bank to fund investments: Trump adviser Mnuchin -
Pedestrians cross the street behind a billboard showing a pictures of US president-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Danilovgrad, Montenegro, November 16. 2016. REUTERS/Stevo Vasiljevic
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SLIDESHOW: SENATORS ARRIVE FOR PARTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS
John McCain and Marco Rubio. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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U.S. Senator-elect Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) arrives for Senate Democratic party leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, November 16, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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SLIDESHOW: Trump's inner circle
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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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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 -
UPDATE: Vice President Biden says meeting with Vice President-elect Pence went very well
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MORE: Vice President Biden says no administration is ready on Day One, that it is a whole new world and that he is available to Vice President-elect Pence
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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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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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WATCH: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on meeting with Trump
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MORE: Mexican president, Indian prime minister and Saudi king among leaders Trump and Pence have spoken with - statement
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UPDATE: Trump and Pence have spoken with 29 foreign leaders - transition team statement
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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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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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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. -
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. -
Defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says all she wanted to do was to ''curl up with a good book or our dogs'' after her election loss to Donald Trump. -
MORE: McMaster says he is being considered for attorney general and Haley for several posts, including secretary of state - local media
UAE's Israel deal met with Arab dismay but quiet welcome in Gulf
JERUSALEM From cries of "betrayal" to fears about "falling dominoes", the deal making the United Arab Emirates the third Arab state to forge ties with Israel stirred anger and dismay around the Middle East, but a cautious welcome from the UAE's Gulf allies.