Ghana’s ‘Obama Mahama’ Faces Election Test
By JOE PARKINSON for the Wall Street Journal. TAMALE, Ghana—Four years ago, on the back of a growing economy and a slick U.S.-style political campaign, Ghanaians…
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Donald Trump’s Tariffs Proposal Faces Pushback From Republicans
By Sam Frizell for Time Magazine. In a major early hurdle to Donald Trump’s trade agenda, Republicans indicated on Monday they are not ready to support his…
Supreme Court Justice Removes Brazil’s Senate Leader Amid Graft Case
By SIMON ROMERO for The New York Times. RIO DE JANEIRO — A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday night removed the powerful head of the…
Trump could bring a different kind of diversity to the Supreme Court
By Ariane de Vogue Supreme Court Reporter for CNN. (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump is making one thing clear about the Supreme Court: He wants to do more…
Taiwan’s President: Phone Call With Trump ‘Doesn’t Mean A Policy Shift’
By WILLIAM DOBSON for National Public Radio. The revelation of a phone call between President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen last Friday startled leaders and…
Obama makes a push for transparency before handing over executive power to Trump
By W.J. Hennigan for the Los Angeles Times. President Obama is making a push for transparency in his last days in office before handing off the vast counter-terrorism apparatus he…
Four reasons why our economy will thrive under President Trump
By Gary Shapiro for Fox News. Voters who supported Hillary Clinton for president, including me, were shocked by the election results on Nov 8. But as…
Trump Has Shown Receptiveness To Obama’s Agenda. Does He Actually Mean It?
By Sam Stein for the Huffington Post. At numerous points during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump described the top ranks of U.S. military leadership as plagued by…
How Trump Could Easily Reverse Obama’s Opening To Cuba
By MICHELE KELEMEN for National Public Radio. When President Obama began opening up to Cuba two years ago, reversing U.S. policy that dated back more than a…
Democrats look to 2018 governors races for rebuild
By SCOTT BLAND, GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI and KEVIN ROBILLARD for Politico. Shell-shocked Democrats looking to recover from 2016 see the large slate of upcoming governors races as…
Park Geun-hye, Embattled South Korean President, Says She’s Willing to Resign
By CHOE SANG-HUN for The New York Times. SEOUL, South Korea — President Park Geun-hye of South Korea said Tuesday that she was willing to resign…
Security experts join Jill Stein’s ‘election changing’ recount campaign
By Jon Swaine for the Guardian. More election security experts have joined Jill Stein’s campaign to review the presidential vote in battleground states won by Donald Trump,…
Obama’s Sacred Duty: Visiting the Wounded at Walter Reed
By GARDINER HARRIS for The New York Times. BETHESDA, Md. — President Obama stood outside the room, rubbed sanitizer on his hands, set his face into a…
President-elect Trump lays out priorities for first 100 days in office
By CBS News. NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump is planning another day of transition talks. He released a short video on YouTube late Monday,…
Obama: Snowden has to face trial
By Laura Hautala for Cnet. President Barack Obama isn’t going to talk about whether he’ll pardon Edward Snowden. That’s because Snowden, the former NSA contractor who…
Trump Denies He Sought Business Favor From Argentina’s President
By JIM ZARROLI for National Public Radio. A spokesman for President-elect Donald Trump is denying a report that Trump asked Argentina’s president for help with a construction…
The presidential election of 2016 is over and done. Or is it?
By Richard Wolf for USA TODAY. Two weeks after Election Day — as Donald Trumpassembles his Cabinet — votes in many states are still being counted. And…
Hillary Clinton was the ObamaCare of presidential candidates — which is why she lost
By Elizabeth Ames for Fox News. Regardless of how we may have voted, most of us were shocked by the results of last week’s presidential election. Yet…
‘The house is burning down’: Ryan, set to challenge Pelosi, fears for Democratic Party
By Fox News. The Ohio congressman running to unseat Nancy Pelosi as House minority leader said Monday that the Democratic Party is playing with fire….
Trump the president vs. Trump the businessman: Can he juggle both?
By Don Lee and Jim Puzzanghera for the LA Times. The Trump Organization spent months trying to drive off the culinary union from its Las Vegas hotel,…