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A police officer arrested a man after watching him grope four women near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, according to court documents.View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland NEW YORK CITY — Police Officer Joseph Pecora watched as a 44-year-old man groped a woman near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree on a recent evening — but despite…
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who infamously forgot the Department of Energy’s name in 2011 while running for president, to head that department in his future administration. According to CBS News, “two sources directly involved in the transition and selection process” said Perry had met with the president-elect at Trump Tower on…
storytext President-elect Donald Trump still has not held a news conference, a break from tradition that is keeping reporters and the public in the dark about the transition to his administration. Going back at least to 1976, when Jimmy Carter was elected, no president-elect has waited so long after the election was decided to speak…
storytext Donald Trump has decided to postpone his first press conference as President-elect until January, two transition sources confirmed to CNN. The press conference, previously scheduled for Thursday, had been advertised as an opportunity for him to address his plan for dealing with potential conflicts of interest stemming from his businesses. It was to be…
A top aide to Donald Trump says a Wall Street Journal editor was “sexist” for mocking the president-elect’s meeting with Carly Fiorina Monday. Bret Stephens, the Journal’s deputy editorial page editor, weighed in online after Trump huddled with the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and GOP White House hopeful. He called me ugly. He won. I kissed up….
The heads of Donald Trump’s transition teams for Nasa, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy, as well as his nominees to lead the EPA and the Department of the Interior, all question the science of human-caused climate change, in a signal of the president-elect’s determination to embark…
The Washington Post late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: The key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains completely secret. These…
Trump shows he has nothing in his pockets. Photo: Getty A remarkable thing occurred today. It was a Sunday morning, and instead of critiquing last night’s Saturday Night Live, Donald Trump decided to talk about all the things he’s going to change. He talked about lots and lots of things—including climate change. It has been…
Late on Wednesday night, the federal judge in Michigan whose emergency order set a statewide recount into motion earlier this week lifted that order, in deference to the state court of appeals, effectively ending the recount and confirming Donald Trump’s victory there over Hillary Clinton. The Green Party has petitioned for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan,…
Photographed by Matthew Frost I first met Michelle Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll in 2011, when I was 15. I was obviously nervous but was immediately put at ease when she gave me and my mom a big hug and we all instantly bonded over our height. “Oh, we like tall girls…