President-elect Donald Trump has picked Republican Senator Jeff Sessions as his attorney general and made other selections to fill key positions in his administration. The Trump transition team confirmed the selection of Sessions on Friday. Sessions strongly backed and advised Trump since the beginning of his presidential campaign. Trump has also nominated Congressman Mike Pompeo […]
Russian government officials were in contact with members of Donald Trump’s campaign prior to Tuesday’s election, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday. “Obviously, we know most of the people from his entourage,” Ryabkov told the Interfax news agency. “Those people have always been in the limelight in the United States and have occupied high-ranking […]
“Honest” and “trustworthy” are not words most Americans would use to describe the two presidential candidates — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. In a Gallup poll conducted this week, only 32 percent of Americans would describe Clinton that way, while 36 percent would use that description for Trump. Those numbers changed little from […]
National polls in the U.S. show Democrat Hillary Clinton with a narrow edge over Republican Donald Trump in the last week of the presidential campaign, but the reopened investigation into Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state has added an uncertain element to their last dash for the White House. Several national surveys […]