Trump team rejects effort to push vote recount
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s transition team on Monday pushed back against an emerging effort to recount votes from the Nov. 8 presidential election, calling it “nonsense,” but not offering any evidence to back the president-elect’s weekend tw…
Trump to meet with Petraeus, Corker, Romney this week: transition team
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump this week will meet with retired U.S. General David Petraeus and U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, as well as hold a second meeting with 2012 Republican presidential nominee…
Supreme Court rejects financier Stanford’s Ponzi scheme appeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford’s bid to overturn his conviction and 110-year prison sentence for running what prosecutors called a $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme that bilked investors in 113…
Trump considers retired General Petraeus as top diplomat: Bloomberg
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump will meet with retired U.S. General David Petraeus on Monday as the president-elect considers him to serve as U.S. secretary of state, Bloomberg reported, citing a senior official with Trump’s transition team.
Trump vows to end U.S.-Cuba ‘deal’ unless Havana makes better one
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in a tweet on Monday he would end the United States’ “deal” with Cuba unless a better one was made, reflecting his campaign pledge to reverse President Barack Obama’s moves to open relations…
Unions, gig-economy firms gear up for New York benefits battle
(Reuters) – Faced with a barrage of lawsuits from workers demanding benefits and recognition as employees, some companies in the fast-growing ‘gig economy’ are looking to settle the issues through legislation.
Uber drivers in U.S. cities to join planned worker protests
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Drivers for ride service company Uber will join planned nationwide protests on Tuesday, when activists and low-wage workers renew their call for better pay and the right to join a union in the wake of Donald Trump’s U.S. preside…
U.S. police shootings echo through criminology classrooms
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A new crop of ads on New York City subway cars reads “Justice now, but justice how?” The words evoke the tone of street protests over police killings of black men across the United States during the past three years.
Authorities say no plans to forcibly remove North Dakota protesters
(Reuters) – U.S. authorities said on Sunday they had no plans to forcibly remove activists protesting plans to run an oil pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, despite telling them to leave by early December….
Trump, without evidence, says illegal voting cost him U.S. popular vote
PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that he won the popular vote in the Nov. 8 election “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”, though he provided no evidence of widesp…
