President-elect Donald Trump wants former senior military officer James Mattis to run the Pentagon. For Mattis to take the job, Congress would have to pass legislation to bypass a law stating that defense secretaries must not have been on active duty in the previous seven years.
Top strategists for Hillary Clinton’s campaign said their GOP counterparts legitimized racism.
At an Ohio event, the president-elect complained about his party’s leaders, prompted the crowd to boo their governor, mocked a small group of protesters and promised to heal a divided nation.
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The president-elect’s warning — delivered as he celebrated heating and air conditioning company Carrier’s decision not to close a furnace plant in Indiana and send jobs to Mexico -— set the stage for an unusual level of intervention by the White House into private enterprise.
He said he would save the plant’s jobs while in Indiana — in front of people who had a very strong interest in taking him literally. They did, and yet he was apparently surprised by that. Any studied politician would know that if you are in Indiana and you say Carrier won’t leave, you had better mean those exact words.
The sometimes controversial relationship between Goldman Sachs and Washington goes back decades, but recent years have seen the investment bank sidelined. Now it and the rest of Wall Street’s elite are poised for a comeback.
The widening investigations into the claims and possible coverups have rocked Britain’s most popular sport and its affiliated clubs, including their system of youth camps.
Brothers Michael and Robert, now 73 and 69, say their mother was wrongly convicted and sentenced, though they admit their father, Julius Rosenberg, was a spy.
Pictures of Kimi Reylander, 9, with her great-grandfather, Joel Watson. (Linda Davidson/Post)
Amanda Watson pleads with a TV station to take Kimi's picture off an internet story about gun safety. (Linda Davidson/Post)
Jaxon Fuller, 4, lines up his toys and tools a straight row. (Linda Davidson/Post)
A great-grandfather left out a gun. A grandmother didn’t see it. And a boy reached for it, pulled the trigger, and accidentally killed his 9-year-old sister. Now a family is trying to figure out how to recover.
Every country with a State Department presence has volunteer wardens, typically U.S. expats, to help American tourists who can’t get to an embassy after their trips have taken an unpredictable turn down an unimaginable road.
The Body Bearers cherish the ritual and honor of carrying fallen Marines to their graves at Arlington National Cemetery.
The school official sparked outrage with a Facebook post asking people to stop celebrating the death of Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who drove into a crowd and slashed at people with a knife.
