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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to be his agriculture secretary, rounding out his cabinet picks. For the first time since Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s, the cabinet will feature no Hispanics, if all of Trump’s nominees are confirmed. The following is a list of key cabinet and other nominations made by Trump, who takes office on Friday. Cabinet State: Rex Tillerson, 64 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump told Americans Thursday that he will “unify” the nation after a bruising election campaign, as he prepared for his inauguration the following day at the US Capitol. “We’re going to unify our country,” Trump told a crowd of thousands in front of the Lincoln Memorial after a pre-inauguration concert. “We’re going to do things that haven’t been done for our country for many, many decades,” he added. “It’s […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of 330 people, mostly drug offenders, a record number issued in a single day, on the eve of his departure from the White House. It is Obama’s second such measure this week, including his surprise decision to commute the sentence of transgender army private Chelsea Manning, imprisoned for 35 years for handing more than 700,000 classified US documents to WikiLeaks. Originally set […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump jetted into the US capital Thursday on the eve of the most consequential moment of his life — his inauguration as the nation’s 45th president and the setting of a four-year course of American political reform. The Republican billionaire’s arrival caps an extraordinary and improbable run for the White House that, once he takes the reins from President Barack Obama at noon […]
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by Yemeli ORTEGA Agence France Presse SASABE, Mexico (AFP) — Migrants trying to sneak into the United States from the parched Mexican desert have to contend with border guards’ drones overhead, poisonous snakes underfoot and human trafficking gangs at their backs. But these challenges are nothing compared to their bigger fear: that someday soon, US President-elect Donald Trump will build a wall to keep them out altogether. So before Trump takes office on Friday, they […]
https://youtu.be/5az27vleKmQ by Agence France Presse Hundreds of thousands of American forced out of their homes, the Stock Market tanking and the economy losing 700 thousand jobs a month. That was the bleak economy Barack Obama inherited as he took office in 2009. Jared Bernstein, Economist and Advisor to Obama administration from 2009 to 2011, said: “Our GDP was declining at a rate of 8 percent, which is huge. Technically you call that a nightmare, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama Wednesday defended his decision to commute the sentence of transgender army private Chelsea Manning, who was jailed for 35 years for handing classified US documents to WikiLeaks. Obama was addressing his final presidential news conference a day after he pardoned 64 people and commuted the sentences of 209 others — including Manning, who will now be released in May — in one of his last acts in […]
by Ivan Couronne WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump is poised to take office with the lowest approval ratings of any new president in recent history, but despite a chaotic transition Americans trust the billionaire on one crucial point: jobs. Since the real estate developer’s White House win in November, companies have lined up to announce new factories or jobs in the United States, including air conditioning manufacturer Carrier, Japan’s SoftBank, Ford, Fiat […]
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Former president George H.W. Bush was admitted to an intensive care unit Wednesday suffering from pneumonia, highlighting concerns about the health of a political dynasty’s patriarch just as a new US leader prepares to enter office. Bush, 92, was initially hospitalized Saturday for shortness of breath, but was moved to intensive care “to address an acute respiratory problem stemming from pneumonia,” Bush’s office said in a […]
(Reuters) — President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday (January 17) an unsubstantiated report that alleged Russia had gathered compromising material on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was a hoax. The Russian leader was responding to unverified claims in a dossier published last week that Russian intelligence operatives had compromising information on Trump, including that he had met with Moscow prostitutes on a visit to Moscow several years ago. Putin doubted that U.S. President-elect had met […]
GEORGIA, United States (Reuters) — According to local media, traffic was blocked as the 55,000-pound (25,000KG) truck’s rear cargo container fell in a sinkhole near a highway close to Gainesville, in Hall County, Georgia, on Tuesday (January 17). The truck was carrying 1,600 gallons (60,500 liters) of water, the Hall fire spokesman told local media. An active fuel leak was reported to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division that was called in the handle the situation […]
