Uber, SpaceX/Tesla, and PepsiCo execs join Trump business council
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk, the chairman and chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla as well as Uber Technologies CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick and PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi have joined U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s advisory cou…
Syria’s Assad: Trump can be our natural ally
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian state television that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump could become a natural ally to Damascus if he shows he is sincere about fighting terrorism.
China says damage to ‘one China’ principle would impact peace
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) – China warned on Wednesday that any interference with or damage to the “one China” principle would have a serious impact on peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, as Taiwan said maintaining peace was in everyone’s interest….
Ex-CIA chief says Trump risks blame for an attack if he skips briefings
DUBAI (Reuters) – Former CIA director Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump risked being blamed after any potential attack on the United States if he refused to receive more regular intelligence briefings.
U.N. environment chief concerned at climate science skeptics among Trump picks
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Some elite U.S. politicians’ denial of the science backing up climate change is worrying, the United Nations environment chief said on Wednesday, adding that the fight against global warming would continue, even without the United S…
Exclusive: If Trump skews science, researchers must raise the alarm – Obama official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists must confront climate change deniers and speak up if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tries to sideline climate research, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is due to say on Wednesday.
Senate fight looms after Trump taps Exxon CEO as top U.S. diplomat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump named the head of Exxon Mobil Corp, Rex Tillerson, as his choice for U.S. secretary of state on Tuesday and won backing from some Republican foreign policy figures ahead of a possible Senate fight ove…
Google extends conservative outreach as Trump calls tech meeting
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google is racing to hire more conservatives for its lobbying and policy arm, trying to get a foothold in President-elect Donald Trump’s Washington after enjoying a uniquely close relationship with the administration of President Barack Obama.
Exclusive: Top U.S. spy agency has not embraced CIA assessment on Russia hacking – sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said on …
Democrats enlist experts to scour Tillerson’s business record
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democrats plan to enlist accountants and legal experts to pore through the business records of Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Democratic aides s…
