The Bush Sisters Wrote the Obama Girls A Letter  —  Bush is the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps  —  Malia and Sasha, eight years ago on a cold November day, we greeted you on the steps of the White House.  We saw both the light and wariness in your eyes as you gazed at your new home.

Why did Obama dawdle on Russia's hacking?  —  “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” mutters Marcellus as ghosts and mad spirits haunt Elsinore castle in the first act of Shakespeare's “Hamlet.”  —  After this past week of salacious leaks about foreign espionage plots and indignant denials …

Ryan: GOP will repeal, replace Obamacare at same time  —  (CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday Republicans plan to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law at the same time they approve a GOP replacement plan.  —  “We want to do this at the same time, and in some cases in the same bill …

Chaffetz threatens to subpoena federal ethics watchdog over Trump criticism  —  House Republicans have found a subject for their opening review of conflicts of interest under Donald Trump: the federal official in charge of investigating conflicts of interest.

OBAMA MAKING CHANGES TO CUBAN IMMIGRATION POLICY  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident, a senior administration official said Thursday.

Davos Wonders If It's Part of the Problem  —  Did the global elite's devotion to borderless capitalism sow the seeds of a populist backlash?  —  by  —  Kenneth Rogoff can pinpoint the moment he started to grow concerned Donald Trump would be the next U.S. president: It was when Rogoff's fellow attendees …

C-Span Online Broadcast Interrupted by Russian Network  —  At 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Representative Maxine Waters was on the floor of the House of Representatives, arguing for the importance of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  —  “At this time,” Ms. Waters, Democrat of California …

Approval of Trump Transition Still Low as Inauguration Nears  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — In Gallup polling conducted two weeks before Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump continues to garner historically low approval for his transition performance, with 51% of Americans disapproving …

President Obama Surprises Vice President Biden With Presidential Medal of Freedom  —  President Obama surprised Vice President Joe Biden with the nation's highest civilian honor - the Presidential Medal of Freedom - at a tribute event at the White House this afternoon.

'It's Game of Thrones, the Apprentice, and Survivor all mixed into one'  —  Behind closed doors, Chris Christie — unceremoniously sent packing from Donald Trump's transition headquarters in Washington two months ago — is telegraphing a message to his confidants: I'll be back.

'It's not partisan chowder': Legal Sea Foods dropped from inauguration menu  —  WASHINGTON — Ever since Ronald Reagan rode into this town, there's been a certain tradition here regarding seafood.  When new presidents move into the White House, the festivities include a steaming hot cup of New England clam chowder.

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With a single tweet on Thursday, President-elect Donald J. Trump pulled L. L. Bean, the Maine retailer known for its boots, jackets and preppy New England aesthetic, back into a political crossfire.  —  The company was already facing a boycott from liberal customers after reports that Linda Bean …

Robert Reich speechless after Jeffrey Lord claims Trump free to flout ethics because he won  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Robert Reich doesn't understand why Donald Trump isn't going out of his way to reassure Americans that there are no conflicts of interest in his businesses and political dealings.

His Way!  Inside Paul Anka's Top-Secret Performance Plan For Trump Inauguration  —  The music legend is re-writing the lyrics to an entire song.  —  President Donald Trump did it his way — and Paul Anka will let him know it!  —  A source close to the “(You're) Having My Baby” crooner …

GOP governors fight their own party on Obamacare  —  Republican governors who reaped the benefits of Obamacare now find themselves in an untenable position — fighting GOP lawmakers in Washington to protect their states' health coverage.  —  This rift between state and federal GOP officials …

Freshman Democrat Kamala Harris grills CIA director nominee on climate change  —  Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., grilled CIA director Mike Pompeo on whether climate change was a leading national security threat during his Senate confirmation hearings Thursday.

FBI director briefed Trump on dossier: reports  —  FBI Director James Comey briefed President-elect Donald Trump  —  on a two-page summary of an unverified dossier claiming Russia had compromising information on the real estate mogul, CNN reported Thursday.

Trolls decided I was taking pictures of Rex Tillerson's notes.  I wasn't even there.  —  What it's like to be at the center of a fake-news conspiracy theory.  —  There's a joke among Asian Americans that people think we all look the same.  That joke became my own personal Pizzagate late Wednesday …

Trump's Cabinet nominees keep contradicting him  —  Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees, in their first round of confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill, have one after another contradicted the president-elect on key issues, promising to trim back or disregard some of the signature promises on which he campaigned.

FACT SHEET: President Obama Designates National Monuments Honoring Civil Rights History  —  In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, today, President Obama is designating three new national monuments honoring our country's civil rights history and taking new steps to promote diversity in our national parks and other public lands.

Girl's ‘suicide video’ sparks outrage online  —  POLK COUNTY, Ga. - Days after a 12-year-old girl broadcast her suicide live on a social media site; Polk County Police Chief Kenny Dodd said he can't stop people from sharing the video online.  —  In the video, Katelyn Nicole Davis claimed …

LePage after surgery: 'There's 50 less pounds of me to hate'  —  PORTLAND, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage says he had weight loss surgery and jokes now “there's 50 less pounds of me to hate.”  —  The fiery Republican revealed the bariatric surgery on Wednesday on Portland-based WLOB-FM.