Thu Jan 12, 2017 AT 12:30 PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump may have tangled with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during the election campaign, but in keeping with Trump’s desire for companies to hire more Americans, Bloomberg reports that Amazon.com Inc. has revealed plans to hire more than 100,000 people in the U.S. in the next 18 months.
- AP: Republican-Led Senate Takes First Step to Repeal ‘Obamacare’
- WSJ: Billionaire George Soros Lost Nearly $1 Billion in Weeks After Trump Election
- WashTimes: Rudy Giuliani to Facilitate Cybersecurity Talks With Trump Administration, Private Sector
- Daily Caller: Oppo Firm Behind Trump Dossier is Also a Hired Gun for Planned Parenthood
- Guardian: ‘No Access’: Rex Tillerson Sets Collision Course With Beijing in South China Sea
Wed Jan 11, 2017 AT 11:36 AM EST
Incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus attacked as “offensive crap” and “garbage” a newly reported document alleging that Russians might have had compromising information on President-elect Donald Trump. “[It’s] offensive crap that we shouldn’t even be talking about,” Priebus said Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” program, reports The Washington Times.
- The Hill: Trump’s Press Conference: 5 Things to Watch For
- Independent: Donald Trump Stories in Explosive Document Were Invented by 4chan, Users Claim
- WashExaminer: Tillerson Testimony: Says Obama Gave ‘Green Light’ to Moscow
- Politico: Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire
- NBC: Army Leaker Chelsea Manning on Obama’s ‘Short List’ for Commutation
Tue Jan 10, 2017 AT 11:41 AM EST
As his confirmation hearings open Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, faces major efforts to discredit him as being a racist; they are as diverse as NAACP protests and an unprecedented, historic move planned by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), to testify against his colleague. And yet, as Townhall reports, the day before Sessions’ first confirmation hearing, a group of black religious leaders from the Frederick Douglass Foundation and Family Research Council’s Watchmen on the Wall arrived on Capitol Hill to proclaim support for him.
- Politico: Giuliani: Dems Opposing Sessions Are ‘Intellectually Dishonest’
- WashExaminer: How Protesters Plan to Wreck Donald Trump’s Inauguration
- Politico: McCain, Graham to Unveil Bipartisan Russia Sanctions Bill
- Daily Caller: FBI Warned Clinton Emails Were Vulnerable To ‘Foreign Government Espionage’ In 2015
- WashPost: A Convicted Killer Became the First US Inmate to Get State-Funded Gender-Reassignment Surgery
