Decision to brief Trump on allegations brought a secret and ...
As the nation’s top spies prepared to brief President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump on Russian interference in the 2016 election, they faced an excruciatingly delicate question: Should they mention the salacious allegations that had been circulating in Washington for months that Moscow had compromising information on the incoming president? Ultimately, they concluded they had no choice. A 35-page dossier packed with details of supposed compromising personal information, alleged financi..>> view originalShaking hands is 'barbaric': Donald Trump, the germaphobe in chief
President-elect Donald Trump listens to a question during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President-elect Donald Trump, during a news conference in New York City on Wednesday, vehemently denied the salacious and unverified allegations put forth in a 35-page dossier published by BuzzFeed News. Behind a podium in the lobby of Trump Tower, the president-elect professed an awareness that the hotel rooms he visits overseas..>> view originalTrailer showing white actor portraying Michael Jackson makes his ...
Joseph Fiennes, left, and Michael Jackson. (AP) The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite began trending around this time last year, after the Academy Award nominations were announced and its list of 20 acting nominees didn’t include a single person of color. So the fire was already burning when news broke that Joseph Fiennes, a white man who was once cast as William Shakespeare, would portray Michael Jackson in a 30-minute British comedy from a series called “Urban Myths.” His episode explores a fictional..>> view originalObamacare is one step closer to repeal after Senate advances ...
(Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) The Senate voted 51 to 48 early Thursday to approve a budget resolution instructing House and Senate committees to begin work on legislation to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act. The House is expected to take up the legislation Friday. Senate Democrats made a late-night show of resistance against gutting the Affordable Care Act by forcing Republicans to take politically charged votes against protecting Medicare, Medicaid and other health-..>> view originalMeet the pro-Russian, anti-Muslim European leader who was just ...
PRAGUE — He is against Western sanctions on Russia and recently got a phone call from President-elect Donald Trump with an invitation to the White House in April. He has said there is no such thing as a “moderate Muslim,” hates “political correctness” and does not rule out the possibility that the U.S. Embassy in Prague secretly organized a protest against him. His name is Milos Zeman, the 72-year-old president of the Czech Republic. Formerly a member of the ruling Social Democratic Party, tod..>> view originalRex Tillerson: U.S. response to Russia Crimea seizure was 'weak'
Former ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, took a tough line on Russian hacking, praised Mexican immigrants and acknowledged the problem posed by global climate change — drawing repeated accolades from Democrats during his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, but setting up some potentially awkward moments with his future boss.Mr. Tillerson, who spent seven hours testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, faced some uncom..>> view originalTrump outlines plan to shift assets, give up management of his ...
President-elect Donald Trump will retain ownership of his company while shifting assets into a trust managed by his sons, a step that Trump and his advisers said will eliminate potential conflicts of interest between his public duties and private business. The move, announced Wednesday in Trump’s first news conference since July, followed weeks of criticism from ethics experts and congressional Democrats who have said his financial entanglements could improperly steer his presidential decision-..>> view originalSix Volkswagen executives indicted in emissions-cheating scandal
Volkswagen AG confirmed on Jan. 10 it has negotiated a $4.3 billion draft settlement with U.S. regulators to resolve its diesel emissions troubles and plans to plead guilty to criminal misconduct. (Reuters) Federal prosecutors indicted six executives at German automaker Volkswagen on Wednesday in connection with the company’s diesel emissions scandal. Five of the six executives are thought to be residing in Germany, according to the Department of Justice. Attorney General Loretta Lynch sa..>> view originalMichelle Obama was Jimmy Fallon's only guest and, no, they did not ...
(Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post) Michelle Obama’s goodbye fete Wednesday on “The Tonight Show” was way more upbeat than President Obama’s emotional farewell address to the nation. She was Jimmy Fallon’s sole guest and the late night host dedicated his entire show to her. When she walked out onto the “Tonight Show” set, Fallon — who began hosting the show soon after the Obamas took office — said he felt emotional while watching the president’s final speech. “I lost it at home,” he sai..>> view originalA super-cool science story about a really cold thing
(Benjamin C. Tankersley for The Washington Post) “Absolute zero” isn't just cold — it's still. It is the point at which the motion of the atoms that make up an object stops completely, when the object has no energy left to give. The rules of physics say it's impossible to cool an object to absolute zero, to remove all thermal energy until its atoms come to a standstill. But researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are getting really close. In a paper published Wednes..>> view original
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