Sanders to Trump: use defense contracts as leverage for Carrier jobs
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders turned up the pressure on President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday about his pledge to try to stop an Indiana air conditioner manufacturer from moving 1,400 jobs to Mexico.
Clinton team to take part in U.S. state vote recount, Trump blasts effort
WASHINGTON/WEST PAlM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) – Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign will take part in a recount of Wisconsin votes in the U.S. presidential race, an effort Republican winner Donald Trump called “ridiculous” on Saturday.
Castro’s death an opportunity for Cuba: McConnell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday that Fidel Castro’s death was an opportunity for the Cuban government to “turn the page for the good of the Cuban people,” adding that freedom and democracy were overdu…
Obama says history will judge Castro’s impact on world
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama in a statement on Saturday offered his condolences to Fidel Castro’s family and added that history would judge Castro’s impact on Cuba and around the world.
Trump turns to Washington lawyer to navigate legal, ethics issues
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump on Friday chose Washington insider Donald McGahn to be his White House counsel, giving him the job of untangling potential conflicts of interest that the New York businessman’s p…
Wisconsin agrees to statewide recount in presidential race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wisconsin’s election board agreed on Friday to conduct a statewide recount of votes cast in the presidential race, as requested by a Green Party candidate seeking similar reviews in two other states where Donald Trump scored narr…
Green Party files for vote recount in Wisconsin: state election commission
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The organization behind the presidential campaign for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, along with one other group, on Friday filed a petition with the Wisconsin Elections Commission for a recount of votes in the Nov. 8 election,…
Mexicans very negative on Trump, but back talks with him: poll
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – An overwhelming majority of Mexicans hold a negative view of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, but most believe their own president should meet with him to defend the country’s interests, an opinion poll showed on Friday.
Blue-collar Democrats to party: It’s still the economy, stupid
The Democratic Party chairman in Youngstown, Ohio, wrote to Hillary Clinton’s advisers in May warning she needed to put a jobs-focused message at the heart of her White House campaign or else watch blue-collar voters in states like Ohio, Michigan and P…
Trump speaks with leaders of five nations, his team says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has recently spoken with the leaders of Greece, Hungary, Panama, Slovenia and Sweden, his transition team said in a statement on Friday.
