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Trump considering Sarah Palin for cabinet position
Sarah Palin is being considered for Donald Trump’s cabinet. The former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee is a contender for Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, ABC reported. Last week Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway suggested Palin wouldn’t be joining the administration at the...
Donald Trump is already helping the working class
It’s not uncommon for a Republican to be pro-business. But President-elect Donald Trump showed Tuesday night he’s pro-worker, too, by saving 1,000 jobs at the Carrier plant in Indiana. His standing up for the blue-collar workers who helped get him elected is no small feat, even for the very accomplished billionaire,...
South Korean President Park Geun-hye offers to resign over corruption scandal
South Korea's embattled President Park Geun-hye has offered to step down and asked the parliament to iron out a procedure for her resignation if necessary. In a televised address on Tuesday (29 November) Park said that she would leave her fate in the hands of parliament. "I will leave to parliament everything about my...
Duterte says he ‘spanks’ female police officers when he is angry
Rodrigo Duterte said he sometimes playfully spanks the rear of his female security staff in Malacañang, the Philippines' presidential palace. Speaking at the alumni homecoming of San Beda College of Law on 26 November, he said: "I spank them on their bottoms in Malacañang if I'm ill-tempered. I get my...
Clinton camp splits from White House on Jill Stein recount push
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said on Saturday it would help with efforts to secure recounts in several states, even as the White House defended the declared results as “the will of the American people”. The campaign’s general counsel, Marc Elias, said in an online post that while it had found...
Donald Trump: US presidential election recount ‘scam by the Green Party’
US President-elect Donald Trump has called the Green Party's request for a recount as a "scam" and accused Jill Stein of trying to "fill her coffers". He also described the move by Hillary Clinton's Democrat campaign to take part in a recount of Wisconsin votes as "ridiculous". Marc Elias,...
François Fillon attacks ‘Paris elite’ before second-round primary
François Fillon, the former French prime minister promising to introduce “electric shock” economic reform, has rounded off his campaign for the right’s presidential nomination by lashing out at what he called the small-minded liberal Paris elite who warned he was a dangerous social reactionary. The...
Jill Stein to formally file for Wisconsin recount as fundraising effort nears $5m
Jill Stein, the green party’s candidate in the US presidential election, is due to formally file a motion for a recount in Wisconsin on Friday as her funding effort for counting the votes again in three states passed $4.9m. As more money flooded in for her effort – which aims to fund recounts in Michigan,...
François Fillon beats Alain Juppé in presidential candidacy debate
François Fillon, the socially conservative former French prime minister promising a pro-business “electric shock” for France, was seen as the winner of a TV debate against his more moderate rival, Alain Juppé, ahead of Sunday’s vote to nominate the French right’s presidential candidate. The...
Obama administration rushes to protect public lands before Trump takes office
Barack Obama’s administration is rushing through conservation safeguards for large areas of public land ahead of Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House, presenting a conundrum for the new president’s goal of opening up more places for oil and gas drilling. On Monday, the US Department of the Interior banned...
Jill Stein raises over $2m to request US election recounts in battleground states
Jill Stein, the Green party’s presidential candidate, is prepared to request recounts of the election result in several key battleground states, her campaign said on Wednesday. Stein launched an online fundraising page seeking donations toward a a multimillion-dollar fund she said was needed to request reviews of the...
Hillary Clinton urged to call for election vote recount in battleground states
A growing number of academics and activists are calling for US authorities to fully audit or recount the 2016 presidential election vote in key battleground states, in case the results could have been skewed by foreign hackers. The loose coalition, which is urging Hillary Clinton’s campaign to join its fight, is preparing...
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