Washington, D.C. (CNN) — President Barack Obama plans to transfer additional detainees from Guantanamo Bay, the White House said Tuesday, hours after President-elect Donald Trump warned against moving any more prisoners from the naval facility. “I would expect, at this ...
(NBC News) — President-elect Donald Trump gave Vladimir Putin two thumbs up Friday for not immediately retaliating after the U.S. expelled 35 Russian diplomats and imposed other sanctions for allegedly interfering with the presidential election. Trump tweeted his approval after ...
(NBC News) — President-elect Donald Trump, asked about possible sanctions against Russia in the wake of alleged cyber-attacks during the presidential campaign, replied “I think we ought to get on with our lives.” “I think that computers have complicated lives ...
Beijing, China (CNN) — What do you get when you cross the year of the rooster with the year of Trump? A “yuge” statue. A giant rooster sculpture, sporting the President-elect’s signature hairdo and hand gestures, has been erected outside ...
In the final stretch of his term President Barack Obama is implementing new environmental protections that stand to thwart Donald Trump’s agenda on oil and gas extraction in ways that may prove difficult for the president-elect to roll back. The ...
(CNN) — Donald Trump has surpassed the necessary 270 votes in the Electoral College, the next step in the official process to become President. He was put over the top by electors in Texas. Thirty-six of the state’s 38 went ...
(CNN) — The real voting for the White House is now underway. At 10 a.m. Monday, members of the Electoral College began casting their ballots in state capitals across the nation to make Donald Trump’s victory official. By 1 p.m., ...
Wash(NBC News) — President Barack Obama on Friday defended his early response to suspicions that the Russian government attempted to influence the 2016 election and appeared to threaten retaliation against those plotting cyberattacks against America. “Our goal continues to be ...
(NBC News) — The Kremlin on Thursday disputed an exclusive NBC News report that U.S. intelligence has documented Vladimir Putin’s personal involvement in a Russian intelligence operation to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the ...
(NBC News/Kristen Welker) — President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Montana, for secretary of the interior, a top transition source told NBC News on Tuesday. Zinke, 55, a member of the House Natural Resources Committee who’s described as ...