Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to join White House as senior ...
Jared Kushner is President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law but he's also one of his key confidants. Here's a closer look at the man who is expected to be a senior adviser to the president in Trump's White House. (Deirdra O'Regan/The Washington Post) Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump and one of his closest confidants, will join the White House as a senior adviser to the president, Trump announced Monday, while a lawyer assisting the family said that Kushner's wi..>> view originalHow Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba
(Michael Probst/AP) Yahoo was already a shell of its former self. Now part of the company is getting an obscure new name: Altaba. When Verizon agreed to buy the company for $4.8 billion in July, it planned to purchase just Yahoo's core Internet businesses, which include its email service, sports verticals and various apps. What's left of the embattled technology company would essentially be its ownership in the very valuable Chinese Internet giant Alibaba. When the deal closes, the remainin..>> view originalMeryl Streep called out Donald Trump at the Golden Globes. He ...
Meryl Streep gave a sweeping, serious speech at the Golden Globes when receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. She championed press freedoms, criticized Donald Trump and called for empathy in performances and "in real life." (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) It’s no secret that Hollywood skews liberal, and there were probably few Donald Trump fans in the audience at Sunday’s Golden Globes. And although the awards show kicked off with a few jokes at the president-el..>> view originalIn 1913, Women Marched on Washington. This Month, They March ...
The Women’s March on Washington is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of women and allies to DC on the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration. “This effort is not anti-Trump,” march co-founder Tamika Mallory told NPR. “This is pro-women. This is a continuation of a struggle women have been dealing with for a very long time.” Along with echoing the 1963 civil rights demonstration where Martin Luther King Jr. first declared, “I have a dream,” the Women’s March on Washington has historical ties..>> view originalDonald Trump says DC's dress shops are sold out of inauguration ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s claim about the state of Washington’s dress inventory isn’t entirely accurate. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images) President-elect Donald Trump, in a Monday interview with the New York Times, took issue with Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech in which the actress slammed Trump without actually naming him. But it was an offhand remark the president-in-waiting made after his Streep-bashing that caught our eye: Trump played hype man for his own inauguration, boasting ..>> view originalU.S.-Iran naval incident raises tension ahead of Trump inauguration
A U.S. destroyer steaming through the contentious Strait of Hormuz fired multiple warning shots at advancing Iranian attack boats on Monday, breaking the lull in relative calm between Washington and Tehran in the contested regional waters two weeks before the Trump administration is installed.Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis characterized the Iranian move against the USS Mahan, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, as an “unsafe and unprofessional action.”President-elect Donald Trump has made str..>> view originalLights Back on at the Washington Monument
Jeff Sessions' victims' rights support resonates
Civil rights groups, marijuana legalization supporters, and advocates for separation of church and state have fired off blistering critiques of Sen. Jeff Sessions in hopes of derailing his nomination as attorney general.But among those steadfastly defending the Republican lawmaker are victims’ advocates, who say Mr. Sessions has repeatedly ensured crime victims are treated fairly and with dignity in the criminal justice system and that he has backed critical funding for programs benefiting them...>> view originalObama to give farewell address in Chicago amid violence, racial ...
The weekend before President Obama’s planned farewell address was a good one by Chicago’s violent standards — only one person was killed by gunfire and eight others were wounded.As Mr. Obama returns home Tuesday to deliver his final speech as president, Chicago is in the grips of a soaring homicide rate and reeling from a horrific black-on-white torture hate crime that was captured on video. Over Christmas weekend, 12 Chicagoans were killed in a total of 27 shootings.Amid criticism that the pres..>> view originalHow to remove Trump from office
President-elect Donald Trump listens to questions from reporters. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Donald Trump is a one-man basket of deplorables. He is a braggart and a liar. He is a bully and a demagogue. He is an ignoramus and a deadbeat, a chiseler and either a sincere racist or an insincere one, and his love for himself is matched only by my loathing of him. He is about to be president of the United States. A constitutional coup may be in the offing. Since winning the election, Trump has not..>> view original
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