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Friday’s highly anticipated inauguration did not focus solely on President Donald Trump; it also focused on first lady Melania Trump, or more specifically on what she wore. Her ensemble echoed fashion icon Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of the nation's 35th president, John F. Kennedy. Trump wore a sky blue cashmere mock turtleneck dress and matching bolero jacket by the designer Ralph Lauren, apparently channeling Kennedy Onassis.  She accessorized with matching shoes and gloves.

The clean lines of the home's Neo-Georgian style defy the more ornate architecture of the Beaux Arts buildings that preceded it.

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President Donald Trump plans to name Ajit Pai as head of the Federal Communications Commission, according to a report from Politico's Alex Byers and Tony Romm.

Pai has served as a GOP commissioner at the FCC since 2012. He was widely expected to at least be named interim chairman after outgoing boss Tom Wheeler announced he would depart the agency on Inauguration Day.

Politico's report, however, says Pai will be named Wheeler's official replacement. A... Читать дальше...

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court says lending companies operated by Native American tribes are subject to investigation by a government regulator. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday rejected a claim by three tribes that their lending companies were protected by tribal sovereignty from investigation by the Consumer

Dropkick Murphys rule Billboard's Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts for the first time, as 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory...

He signed Cabinet nominations in the President's Room.

Minutes after Trump's inauguration, administration lays out foreign policy plan.

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Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Tucked in a quiet corner of a road locker room, he's the foil for his sharpshooting superstar brother.

The 45th president’s inauguration was full of jarring contrasts that capture a deeply divided country.

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OOTMARSUM - Het winkelbestand in Ootmarsum heeft er een nieuwe aanwinst bij: chocolaterie en patisserie De Gouden Kruimel. Het nostalgische winkeltje aan het Kerkplein gaat dit weekeinde officieel open.

Just after 8:30 a.m. the group blocked the trains at 16th and Mississippi streets and no train tracks were operating in the area, according to Caltrain. Later in the morning, police issued two dispersal orders and the protesters collapsed on the ground as Caltrain workers broke their chains. Eleven people were arrested by the Transit Police Bureau. San Francisco Police Department officers, who were assisting the San Mateo County Sheriff’s department to make the arrests, shoved anyone not part... Читать дальше...

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The reality show “Shark Tank” has been helping entrepreneurs live the American dream since its 2009 debut.

Now in its eighth season, the self-made sharks have invested more than $66 million — as of season six — of their own funds to help entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground.

Each week, sharks Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Kevin O’Leary convene to receive pitches from the entrepreneurs in need of cash to get their companies off the ground. Читать дальше...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha real estate agent was so enraged that a convenience store clerk wouldn't help him after the store had closed for the night that he circled in the parking lot in his pickup truck and…

Moyes' comments will do nothing to ease the Premier League relegation fears of Sunderland supporters.

WASHINGTON ― Forgive me, but I love presidential inaugurations.

Covering politics and adoring America ― especially our Constitution ― I relish the pageantry of the law-based transition of power, even if I know that we are still not a perfect union.

Mexico's government has deported 91 Cubans about a week after the United States ended a so-called "wet foot, dry foot" policy that granted residency to almost every Cuban who reached U.S. soil, Mexican officials said on Friday. The repeal of the longstanding policy last Thursday by former U.S. President Barack Obama left hundreds of Cubans who were seeking a new life stranded in Mexico and Central America countries. The 71 men and 20 women were flown to the Caribbean island by Mexican federal police jet from the southern city of Tapachula... Читать дальше...

A wax statue of Trump unveiled in Times Square proved just as polarizing as the real deal being inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

Barack Obama said goodbye to the White House one last time Friday morning, from a lofty perch aboard the Executive One helicopter moments after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump promised to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would guarantee to overturn Roe v. Wade, eliminating legal abortion nationwide. Before the election, Trump also sent a letter to the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-choice activist group, outlining his policy commitments on reproductive rights, which included not only the nomination of Justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, but also the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the implementation of a federal 20-week abortion ban... Читать дальше...

We’ll soon know more about President Donald Trump’s criminal-justice agenda. But a law-enforcement policy statement posted Friday on the newly Trump-controlled White House webpage offered a preview of his administration’s priorities and how they could break from those of Barack Obama. Titled: “Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community,” it’s a relatively short overview that echoes […]

Week One: November 9, 2016 Dripping with tears and sweat, I’ve hauled myself out of the think-piece sinkhole into which I’d collapsed. My initial impulse had been to call on the Internet to explain the world to me. Now, to register my dissatisfaction with the election coverage, I’m going on a media detox.