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Trump Picks Pam Bondi for Attorney General After Gaetz Withdraws

By Yuval Rosenberg

President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that he has picked former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his next nominee to serve as attorney general, replacing former Rep. Matt Gaetz...
Multiple CEOs Have Now Quit Trump's Manufacturing Council

By Michael Erman, Reuters

The chief executives of Intel Corp, Merck & Co Inc and Under Armour Inc resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday, following Trump's initially tepid...
Is Putin the $200 Billion Man?

By Catherine Clifford, CNBC

For a short time Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person alive. Amazon's stock price then slid and Bezos went back to the number two spot,...
Watch Trump's Epic Cringe Worthy Handshake with the French President

By Veronika Bondarenko , Business Insider

On Friday, before leaving France, where he was visiting as part of Bastille Day celebrations, US President Donald Trump enthusiastically shook French President Emmanuel Macron's hand for about 25...
Trump's New Fed Nominee Could Be a Seismic Shock to the System

By Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation

President Donald Trump on July 10 nominated Randal Quarles to be one of the seven governors of the Federal Reserve System , the central bank of the United States. Before I get to Quarles and his...

Trump’s Big Problem: He Doesn’t Understand the Rules of the DC Game

By Rob Garver

In his career as a businessman, the overwhelming body of evidence is that Donald Trump was an inveterate rule breaker. Ask the contractors who were never paid, the trail of former partners who have...
The Fight Over the 2020 Census Could Determine Which Party Controls Congress

By Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation

John H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resigned amid a funding fight over the 2020 Census . Since it comes at the same time that the president fired the director of the FBI ,...
Trump Promised a Lot for His First 100 Days. Here’s What He Has — and Mostly Hasn’t — Done

By Rob Garver

The idea of measuring the progress of a presidency by what happens in its first 100 days is utterly arbitrary and arguably “ridiculous.” But that raises the question: Why did Trump work so hard to...
The 45 Donors Who Gave $1 Million to Trump’s Record-Breaking Inauguration

By Janna Herron

While he may not have had record-breaking crowds at his inauguration, President Trump raked in far more cash than any president to spend on the festivities surrounding his swearing in to office...
Is Rex Tillerson Already Irrelevant – or Playing a Long Game?

By Ciro Scotti

Later this month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scheduled to host a high-profile meeting in Washington with representatives of 68 nations involved in the U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic...

Clinton Finally Catches a Break on Benghazi — from the Mis-speaker of the House

By Eric Pianin

Hillary Clinton may have finally caught a break in the ongoing scandal over her email and her conduct in the Benghazi tragedy — thanks to the presumptive new Speaker of the House. Clinton, who has...
Profiting from Pope Francis’s Visit: Souvenirs from Wacky to Tacky

By Laila Kearney, Reuters

Some are sun-powered, some are sudsy and others are simply soap. A smorgasbord of Pope Francis memorabilia peddled by shops around Philadelphia run from solar-activated pope dolls and soap bars with...
This Guy Ordered Wings from Domino’s, Got $1,300 Cash Instead

By Ashley Lutz, Business Insider

An honest Domino's customer who returned $1,300 he found in his food order has been rewarded by the company. Berkeley, California customer Mike Vegas learned from his delivery driver that his order...
From Bouncer to Pope—21 Fascinating Facts About Pope Francis

By Jacqueline Leo

Before the smoke turned white at the Vatican on March 13, 2013, people who knew Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, believed he would fundamentally change the Vatican and...
The Real Reason CNN Will Include Carly Fiorina in Its GOP Debate

By Ciro Scotti

Republicans are all about a Nose-to-the Grindstone America. Put your head down, work like a maniac on meth and get rewarded. So the irony for a GOP believer and achiever like Carly Forina was that...

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