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December 23, 2016 12:01 a.m.
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday continued his pressure on the defense sector by suggesting he could use a Boeing Co. plane as a substitute for the Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 combat jet.
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December 22, 2016 02:53 p.m.
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped communications aides Sean Spicer, Hope Hicks, Jason Miller and Dan Scavino for key slots in his administration.
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December 22, 2016 08:57 a.m.
President-elect Donald Trump said a draft United Nations Security Council resolution against settlement construction in the West Bank “should be vetoed,” calling it ”extremely unfair to all Israelis.”
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December 21, 2016 07:42 p.m.
Donald Trump selected billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Peter Navarro, a critic of trade with China, for his economic team, both of whom could jolt Washington’s approach to trade and regulation.
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December 21, 2016 06:56 p.m.
President-elect Donald Trump met on Wednesday with the chief executives of Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., the nation’s two largest defense contractors, two weeks after he started publicly berating the cost of some of their military projects.
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December 20, 2016 12:32 p.m.
The Berlin attack and Ankara assassination underscore the global tinderbox President-elect Donald Trump is set to inherit, and his response suggests his White House will take a sharply different approach to unexpected crises.
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December 19, 2016 12:01 a.m.
Vincent Viola, co-founder of high-frequency trading firm Virtu Financial Inc., will be nominated by president-elect Donald Trump as Secretary of the Army.
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December 18, 2016 07:40 p.m.
Donald Trump appeared poised to sew up his victory Monday despite opposition groups’ efforts to block his path by persuading members of the Electoral College to snub him.
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December 18, 2016 07:25 p.m.
Fresh signs emerged Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump could embrace the intelligence community’s view that the Russians were behind a computer-hacking operation aimed at influencing the election.
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December 18, 2016 06:18 p.m.
President-elect donated $10,000 to a prominent Jewish West Bank settlement in 2003, according to the Jerusalem Post, taking a position that many Republican and Democratic presidents have refused to endorse.
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December 18, 2016 01:43 p.m.
The political fallout over China’s seizure of an American underwater drone continued Sunday, even after both countries said China would return the device.
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December 16, 2016 12:37 p.m.
President-elect Donald Trump has begun changing his rhetoric at his rallies since the election, tamping down boos for former adversaries and quieting calls to “lock up” Hillary Clinton, as he looks to resolve tensions in his new administration.
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December 15, 2016 08:54 p.m.
David Friedman, a longtime friend of the president-elect, is known for making provocative statements about issues in the Mideast.
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December 14, 2016 07:37 p.m.
President-elect Donald Trump has assembled a dozen picks for his cabinet, but there are signs some choices haven’t been rigorously vetted and might face tough questions during Senate confirmation hearings.
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December 13, 2016 07:51 p.m.
Rex Tillerson was propelled to the top of Exxon Mobil partly by negotiating a deal with Vladimir Putin, part of a relationship that is both Mr. Tillerson’s biggest claim to the secretary of state nomination and potentially the biggest concern about him.
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December 13, 2016 06:18 p.m.
President-elect Donald Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, “plus executives,” will run his business operations during his time in the White House, Mr. Trump said in a series of Twitter posts late Monday evening that offer new details about how his business conglomerate will be run.
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December 12, 2016 05:33 p.m.
President-elect Donald Trump named Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn as director of the White House National Economic Council.
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December 12, 2016 12:50 p.m.
President-elect Donald Trump took aim at the Pentagon’s costliest program on Monday, saying on Twitter the “program and cost” of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter “is out of control.”
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December 9, 2016 10:50 a.m.
President-elect Donald Trump could continue working on the NBC show “The New Celebrity Apprentice” while he is in the White House next year, a top aide said, saying it is something he could do in his leisure time.
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December 7, 2016 08:16 p.m.
Donald Trump on Wednesday turned to a third retired military officer to help him run the country, a move that represents an unusual level of military influence in the executive branch.