Trump names Sean Spicer press secretary (FoxNews) President-elect Donald Trump named Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer as his press secretary, and appointed campaign aides Hope Hicks, Jason Miller and Dan Scavino to other posts on the White House communications team
SAINT CLAIR — A vandal severely damaged a few of the ceramic characters which were part of a Nativity set on the lawn of a church in the borough. “We never had anything like this happen before. It’s sad,” Bonnie Baker, the senior warden of the church, The Church of the Holy Apostles at the northeast corner of North Nichols and East Hancock streets, said Wednesday. The matter was reported to borough police, said Roland Price Jr., who is the borough secretary and a member of the church. He estimated the set cost $1,000. “We bought it about 15 years
Two men were ejected from a JetBlue flight Thursday for reportedly harassing Ivanka Trump and her three children. We know about the alleged harassment because one of the men tweeted it in real-time, and JetBlue confirmed the incident later in a statement. But despite the statement, and the fact that the husband of the man who spoke directly at Trump specifically used the word "harass," some headlines sanitized the story to the point where it´s basically a ho-hum nothing barely worthy of coverage at all. Here is what Twitter user and Hunter College professor Matthew Lasner tweeted Thursday morning about
President-elect Trump on Thursday named Sean Spicer, Hope Hicks, Jason Miller and Dan Scavino to senior roles on the White House communications team. Spicer will be White House press secretary, Hicks will be director of strategic communications, Miller will be White House communications director and Scavino will be the White House director of social media. "Sean, Hope, Jason and Dan have been key members of my team during the campaign and transition," Trump said. "I am excited they will be leading the team that will communicate my agenda that will Make America Great Again." As reported by the Washington Examiner last week,
President-elect Donald Trump made it very clear on Thursday that he will be draining that swamp of Washington, D.C. ´Someone incorrectly stated that the phrase "DRAIN THE SWAMP" was no longer being used by me,´ Trump wrote on Twitter. ´Actually, we will always be trying to DTS,´ the president-elect said, assigning an acronym to his popular campaign motto. That ´someone´ voluntarily exposed himself, with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sending out his own tweet shortly thereafter, complete with a video apology.
CARACAS - A Delaware Uniform Commercial Code filing by Citgo parent PDV Holding, Inc. on November 30 reveals that Venezuela has secretly mortgaged their Citgo refineries in the United States to Russia´s Rosneft in exchange for cash. Redd Intelligence uncovered the UCC filing and broke the news. CITGO - A Strategic Asset? PDV Holding Inc., owned by Venezuela state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), owns Citgo Holding Inc., which in turn, owns Citgo Petroleum Corporation, which has 3 refineries and pipelines throughout the United States. The lien means that should Citgo or PDVSA default, Russia´s state controlled oil company Rosneft could end
MOSCOW — Russia’s military today can overpower any potential foe but should strengthen its nuclear arsenal, President Vladimir Putin told an annual end-of-year meeting Thursday with defense chiefs. “We can say with certainty: We are stronger now than any potential aggressor,” he told the meeting. “Anyone!” His comments come at the end of a year when tensions between Russia and the West have remained on edge over the civil war in Syria. Tensions between Russia and the West have been souring ever since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and surreptitious support of separatists in eastern Ukraine. Relations dipped further after Russia last year
An early morning artillery barrage started the latest bloody scrap in eastern Ukraine Sunday as Russian-backed militants and government troops clashed near the town of Svitlodarsk. A spokesman for the Ukrainian military, Col. Andriy Lysenko, said that five soldiers were killed and 16 wounded during the day-long battle and that Russian-backed separatist forces had attempted to break through government lines. It was the largest single loss of life for Ukrainian troops in five months. A resident in a nearby separatist-controlled town, who asked not to be identified for personal security reasons, dismissed the idea that any separatist troops had attempted to attack
Russian hacking to influence the election has dominated the news. But CBS News has also noticed a hacking attack that could be a future means to the U.S. Last weekend, parts of the Ukrainian capitol Kiev went dark. It appears Russia has figured out how to crash a power grid with a click. Last December, a similar attack occurred when nearly a quarter of a million people lost power in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine when it was targeted by a suspected Russian attack. Vasyl Pemchuk is the electric control center manager, and said that when hackers took over their computers, all
Muslim students at the University of Maryland are asking for prayer rooms to be built in every major campus building as part of a lengthy list of demands to staff. They also want bus shuttle services to local mosques to be laid on by the university and are asking for their names to be kept from President-elect Donald Trump if he creates a nationwide Muslim registry. Their requests were among dozens issued by ´marginalized´ students to the university´s president last month. In their request for prayer rooms, the students said it was difficult to access the current space provided and often resorted to
Valerie Fairman was found dead on Wednesday after what is believed to be a drug overdose. The mother of one was just 23 and starred on MTV´s hit show in 2010. Friends and family confirmed the reality star´s death on social media Thursday. Valerie leaves behind seven-year-old Nevaeh - Heaven spelled backwards - who was in the care of the late star´s adoptive mom. Dailymail.com also understands that the former reality star was engaged, to local musician Russ Bosi. MTV, the network behind Valerie´s show, also confirmed her passing in a statement: ´We are saddened by the news of Valerie Fairman´s passing. Our thoughts
Israeli officials warned that the US appeared increasingly unlikely to block an anti-Israel resolution proposed by Egypt at the United Nations Security Council. The resolution, which will be voted on Thursday at 3:00 p.m. local time, demands a full “cessation of all Israeli settlement activities”, which it calls “essential for salvaging the two-state solution.” President-elect Donald Trump called upon the US mission to the UN to veto the measure, calling it unfair to Israel. "As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of
Federal civil servants and government employee unions donated far more money to Democrats seeking public office than Republicans in 2016, campaign contribution records show. More than 82 percent of $4.3 million in donations from nine major federal unions went to Democrats, Center for Responsive Politics data shows, FedSmith.com reported Wednesday. Likewise, Democrats raked in 82 percent of $6.6 million in donations from employees of 11 federal agencies and Senate and House of Representatives staff. The American Federation of Government Employees — the biggest of the major civil service work unions — gave Democrats the largest amount, with nearly 1.8 million,
WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama´s administration on Thursday said it was dismantling a dormant national registry program which mostly targeted Arab and Muslim men visiting from countries with active terrorist groups. Obama first froze the National Security Entry-Exit Registration Systems in 2011 by removing from the program all countries listed as having active terror groups. But the program´s primary structure was left intact. "The Department of Homeland Security is removing outdated regulations pertaining to the National Security Entry-Exit Registration Systems program, with an immediate effective date," DHS spokesman Neema Hakim said, adding that since freezing the program "intervening years have shown
Had enough of white supremacists? Hope that they’ll adopt a lower public profile in 2017? Bad news. A&E has just announced they’ve been filming four Klu Klux Klan families for a new eight-episode reality TV series, Generation KKK. The subjects of the series include an “Imperial Wizard” trying to recruit his daughter into the KKK and an Iraq war veteran talking racism with his 4-year-old son. Unlike previous TV appearances, KKK members will not have their faces blurred or their names changed for the series.A&E’s Executive Vice President and General Manager Rob Sharenow is very enthusiastic about his new show.
TURKISH soldiers have entered the centre of strategically-vital al-Bab in northern Syria in a major blow to fanatical Islamic State as Ankara claimed to have killed more than 1,000 terrorists. Al-Bab had been surrounded by Turkish and Free Syrian Army forces in the last 24 hours and troops have now begun entering the centre of the city. More than 1,000 jihadis allied to ISIS - also known by the Arabic acronym Daesh - have been killed in the fighting and at least 16 Turkish troops also died while dozens have been injured. Turkey’s army said in a statement: “Once this area has
ISIS supporters posted a list of Christian Churches to target for attacks this Christmas season. The list appeared in a recent online post. Vocativ reported: A user going by the name of “Abu Marya al-Iraqi” posted an Arabic-language message calling “for bloody celebrations in the Christian New Year” and announced the group’s plans to utilize its network of lone wolf attackers to “turn the Christian New Year into a bloody horror movie.” The series of messages appeared in a pro-ISIS group on Telegram, which also provides manuals for the use and preparations of weapons and explosives for aspiring assailants. The information,
A far-right leader in Germany knew the suspect in the Christmas market attack was a Tunisian just two hours after the attack - despite police initially arresting a Pakistani man, it has emerged. Lutz Bachmann, who fronts the anti-immigrant PEGIDA group, tweeted on Monday night that he had ´internal police information´ about the nationality of the lorry driver who murdered 12 revellers in Berlin. At the time, police had announced the arrest of a Pakistani asylum seeker - it was only when he was released that Tunisian Anis Amri was publicly identified as the chief suspect.
President-elect Donald Trump probably will not often communicate with the nation via traditional press conferences. Nor will Trump likely field many questions from New York/Washington journalists. What we know as “the media” never imagined a Trump victory. It has become unhinged at the reality of a Trump presidency. No wonder the fading establishment media is now distrusted by a majority of the public, according to Gallup — and becoming irrelevant even among progressives.
Newt Gingrich on Thursday said he "goofed" by saying a day earlier that President-elect Trump had discarded his "drain the swamp" mentality. "I want to report that I made a big boo boo," the former speaker said in a video he posted online. "I talked this morning with President-elect Donald Trump. He reminded me he likes draining the swamp. I mischaracterized it the other day. He intends to drain the swamp. He even describes it as ´DTS.´" Trump issued a social media repudiation earlier on Thursday that appeared to be aimed squarely at Gingrich, who has been an ally to
DONALD Trump has called on the US to dramatically expand its nuclear arsenal amid growing fears of a Third World War. The President-elect, who has previously said he would be the "last person" to press the nuclear button, made the announcement on Twitter. He wrote: "The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes." The outspoken Republican gave no further details of his plans. He spoke hours after Vladimir Putin said Russia needs to bolster its military nuclear potential. Mr Putin said: "At present we are
A long time ago, back when we first started compiling this dumb list of the Least Influential People on an annual basis , I told my editor that we should include Donald Trump on it. He protested, arguing that Trump was such a shameless attention whore that he didn´t even deserve to be in the company of conventionally useless narcissists like Dennis Rodman. Eventually, we reached a compromise and created a "Hall Of Fame" category for the annually worthless, like Trump, Amanda Bynes, and Ted Nugent. Well now, you´ll NEVER guess who saw what we wrote: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/407598374255198208. This man is
Katie Couric, the scandal-plagued Yahoo News correspondent and former celebrity news anchor, will return to NBC’s “Today” show in January. Couric will guest-host alongside Matt Lauer, also a figure of some controversy, for one week beginning January 2.(Snip) Couric, who co-anchored the “Today” show from 1991 to 2006, will be filling in for co-host Savannah Guthrie, who is away on maternity leave. This will be the first time since leaving the show that Couric has returned as a co-anchor, rather than as a guest. Couric currently serves as global anchor for Yahoo News, where she reportedly earns $10 million a
A majority of Democratic and independent voters made clear that they don’t foresee Hillary Clinton in their 2020 vision of the presidential election, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Wednesday. Sixty-two percent of Democrats and independents surveyed said the twice-failed presidential candidate shouldn’t mount another campaign in 2020, and only 23 percent would be excited by her campaign if she did. The two people they would most like to see are two of the most prominent Democratic-aligned politicians unlikely to seek the White House in 2020: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Vice President Joe Biden. Forty-four percent and 43
Hillary Clinton is now considered one of the least influential people of the year. The former presidential candidate was one of 30 people named to GQ’s “Least Influential People Of 2016” list this week — right next to Anthony Weiner, Tim Kaine and Harambe, the gorilla that was shot after a kid fell into his enclosure at the Cincinnati zoo. The magazine touted the list as a “comprehensive, anger-fueled list of everyone who ruined our year.” “I hate putting her here, given that liberals turned on her like pit vipers the moment she conceded, and given that nearly three million more
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials only archived 86 text messages out of 3.1 million agency employees sent and received in 2015, according to a federal watchdog’s report made public Wednesday by House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith. The EPA Office of Inspector General (IG) released the report requested by the Texas Republican, which described enormous text message retention problems within the EPA. One unnamed senior official configured his phone to automatically delete texts after 30 days. The IG claimed EPA officials never “intentionally” violated the Federal Records Act and did not include the low number of archived texts
President-elect Donald Trump called for a veto of a UN resolution coming up for a vote today that urges an immediate halt to Israeli settlement construction, terming it ´extremely unfair.´ ´As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of terms by the United Nations,´ Trump said in a statement released by his transition. Trump said the resolution ´puts Israel in a very poor negotiating position and is extremely unfair to all Israelis.´ The resolution is strongly opposed by Israeli Prime
