President-elect Donald Trump called Tuesday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.” The statement comes as the Obama administration prepares to release another 19 detainees fr…

A New York City train derailed at a downtown Brooklyn terminal during Wednesday's morning rush hour, injuring more than 100 commuters in the metropolitan area's second major rail accident since late September. Emergency crews swarmed Atlantic Terminal after the Long Island Rail Road train went off the tracks inside the busy transportation hub at 8:…

A British Victim In Syria: A young man's died while fighting with Kurdish forces A British chef who flew to Syria to fight ISIS was killed during a gun battle just before Christmas, Kurdish activists claim. Ryan Lock, from Chichester, died during an offensive by anti-Islamic State forces near Raqqa in northern Syria on December 21. The 20-year-old,…

Hundreds of quakes near the California - Mexico Border The California Institute of Technology is reporting approximately 100 earthquakes were detected near the California-Mexico border on New Year’s Eve. The quakes were centered about Brawley, CA, “which is about 125 miles east of San Diego and 20 miles north of the border.” According to ABC 7, the…

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The Obama administration is under intense pressure to release evidence confirming Russian interference in the presidential election before leaving office. The administration up until now has provided little documentation to back up its official October assessment that the Russian government was attempting to interfere in the U.S. election. See omny…

Congress is already setting the stage to cut off U.S. funding to the United Nations in the wake of a contested vote last week in which the Obama administration permitted an anti-Israel resolution to win overwhelming approval, according to congressional leaders, who told the Washington Free Beacon that the current administration is already plotting …

According to the New York post, President Obama’s ‘reign of error’ has left his party smaller, weaker and ricketier than it has been since at least the 1940s. It states that Obama has supervised the net loss of 959 such Democratic positions, down 23.5 percent, according to Ballotpedia, which generated most of the data cited here. This far outpaces …

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A police officer has been shot and a suspect is dead following a shooting in Saraland, Alabama. It happened just before 11 a.m. on Wednesday. The female officer, identified as Jackie Tucker, is a member of the Saraland Police Department. She shot while responding to a domestic call and is in critical condition, but stable. See omnystudio.com/listen…

Donald Trump today won the Electoral College vote to secure his election as the US’ 45th president, easily staving off a long-shot bid by opponents to turn Republican electors against him. The Electoral College affirmed Trump as the president about six weeks after his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton, pushing him past the 270-vote threshold fo…

The Electoral College formalized Donald Trump's election victory on Monday despite protests around the country to encourage GOP electors to abandon the Republican. The president-elect easily racked up the 270 electoral votes needed to send him to the White House. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Another round of unspeakably cold air, courtesy of the Polar Vortex, is ready for an assault on much of the central and eastern U.S. by midweek. It will bring "dangerously" cold temperatures and howling winds to millions of Americans. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af The US Report

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as secretary of state, the transition team announced Tuesday, setting up a heated Senate confirmation battle and signaling a desire to ease Washington's estrangement with Russia. Like Trump, Tillerson, 64, has no formal foreign policy experience, but has built close relat…

National Action movement is to become the first extreme right-wing group banned as a terrorist organisation. An order laid in Parliament on Monday to proscribe National Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 is due to come into effect on Friday morning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Extreme winter weather this weekend has spread from Minnesota to New York, causing treacherous driving conditions and the cancellation of over 1,500 flights. Authorities are calling for drivers to stay home instead of battling the slick roads. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af The US Report

The life expectancy of Americans decreased in 2015, compared to 2014 – the first drop in over two decades. The newly-released report also shows mortality rates were up for most of the 10 leading causes of death. The data released by the National Centre for Health Statistics on Thursday shows that life expectancy in the United States dropped last ye…

Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson and former Nato commander James Stavridis added to Trump Tower invitation list. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af The US Report

The temporary budget bill, scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday, would keep federal agencies functioning into next spring, giving the new Congress and the incoming Trump administration time to approve more than $1 trillion to fund federal agencies through the Sept. 30 end of the current government budget year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in…

President-elect Donald Trump named Dr Ben Carson as his nominee for housing and urban development secretary. Trump said Monday that Carson "has a brilliant mind and is passionate about strengthening communities and families within those communities. We have talked at length about my urban renewal agenda and our message of economic revival, very muc…

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday again threatened to punish companies that move their operations overseas even as he defended directly negotiating a $7 million incentive package to keep one factory here open. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af The US Report

Mecklenburg District Attorney Andrew Murray said Wednesday he found no legal wrongdoing in the shooting death of a Charlotte man by police, and denounced pervasive rumors spread by social media about the case. Murray laid out in painstaking detail the evidence gathered in the Sept. 20 fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, 43, by officer Brentley Vi…

As a strong storm system approached some of the largest wildfires burning in the South, the rain signalled new hope for firefighters working to extinguish the blazes. Experts predicted that the Tuesday rains from one storm system would not be enough to end the relentless drought that’s spread across several states and provided fuel for the fires. S…

Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton joins Green Party's push for a recount in three pivotal US states. President-elect Donald Trump, who called the presidential elections "rigged" for most of his campaign, branded the recount effort aimed at revisiting the vote in three pivotal battleground states a "scam". See omnystudio.com/listener for priv…

Thanksgiving Day traditionally kicks off the 'holiday season' in the United States. The day was set in stone by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 and approved by Congress in 1941. FDR changed it from Abraham Lincoln's designation as the last Thursday in November (because there are sometimes five Thursdays in the month). See omnystudio.com/lis…

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday selected two prominent Republican women for Cabinet-level positions, adding diversity to an inner circle that was already coming under fire for being composed mostly of white men. In a potentially controversial choice, Trump intends to nominate billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos for education secretary,…

Donald Trump made a lot of promises on the campaign trail that have left many Democrats afraid of what him being in office entails for America's future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af The US Report

There are claim that the Trump transition is dragging its feet. Politico stated that “Trump was caught flat-footed by winning,” offering as evidence that “his transition team has been slow to engage with the outgoing administration.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af The US Report

Donald Trump met with Mitt Romney, once a fierce critic of the president-elect who is now being floated as a potential pick for secretary of state, on Saturday afternoon, setting aside the friction between the two men and signaling a willingness by Trump to entertain different points of view on foreign policy. Romney appeared to warmly shake hands …

Mike Pence, who usurped leadership of the transition team from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday, would “move to get rid of lobbyists in key roles,” according to Fox News. A source told Fox that the purge “makes good on [Trump’s] vision of how he wants his government constructed.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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So far, the president-elect has only made two appointments, the first being Reince Priebus as White House Chief of Staff. This is the highest ranking employee in the White House, and this person essentially serves as the assistant to the president. The current Chief of Staff is Denis McDonough, and Priebus will replace him in January 2017. Priebus …

In a wide-ranging interview, his first televised sit-down since his election win last week, Trump softened on his stance to secure the border with a much-ballyhooed wall, but he renewed his campaign pledge to kick out undocumented immigrants — starting with those who have committed crimes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Donald Trump won the key swing states of Florida, North Carolina and Ohio early this morning, as he marched towards the White House. The Republican surpassed expectations and confounded pollsters in Florida, where Hillary Clinton had been expected to win following a surge in the Hispanic vote. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The US presidential campaign neared its end last night in the same angry tone it began, with Republican Donald Trump calling Democrat Hillary Clinton a "phony" and Clinton accusing him of splitting the country. Clinton and Trump raced through several battleground states in a last-ditch attempt to encourage their supporters to show up and vote on Tu…

The FBI has determined that a new batch of emails linked to Hillary Clinton’s private email server “have not changed our conclusion” that she committed no criminal wrongdoing, FBI director James Comey told congressional leaders in a letter on Sunday. The Democratic nominee’s opponent, Donald Trump, reacted with anger at the news, and cast doubt on …

In a grim preview of the discontent that may cloud at least the outset of the next president’s term, Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are viewed unfavorably by a majority of voters to bring the country back together after this bitter election season. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Polls are tightening as the race to become the 45th President of the United States enters its last week, with Donald Trump attempting to capitalise on Hillary Clinton's latest email scandal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af The US Report

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump held a non-stop series of rallies this week, with polls showing the race tightening slightly in the home stretch even as Clinton maintained a clear lead. The big late-October surprise came when the FBI announced Friday — just a week and a half before the election — that it was opening a new inquiry into the e-mails …

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the Administration will neither defend nor criticize Comey's decision to inform Congress about the new Hillary Clinton-related emails. He added that the White House has no recommendations for Comey over what information to give to the public, regarding the Clinton-related email probe. See omnystudio.com/liste…

The FBI has announced it is investigating new emails sent by Hillary Clinton on a private server during her time as Secretary of State, sending her campaign into panic mode just 11 days before the presidential election. The emails were found during an investigation into illicit text messages between Anthony Weiner, a former congressman, and a 15-ye…

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Donald Trump’s campaign manager has admitted “we are behind,” but the candidate himself is not making any such concession. Instead Trump this morning is grabbing hold of a “phony polls” conspiracy theory floated on Zero Hedge, a financial analysis site that also specializes in screwball politics headlines. The Drudge Report has a prominent link thi…