WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Paul Ryan is defending President-elect Donald Trump’s phone conversation with the Taiwanese president, calling it “much ado about nothing.” The Taiwanese president called Trump last Friday. Ryan told reporters Tuesday that it is “prudent” for Trump to accept congratulatory phone calls. Ryan says he himself spoke to President Tsai Ing-wen…
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump have filed a federal lawsuit trying to stop Wisconsin’s ongoing presidential election recount. The lawsuit and request for a temporary restraining order was filed late Thursday in federal court in Madison. It was filed by the Great America PAC, the Stop Hillary PAC and Wisconsin voter…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Observers representing Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald Trump and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein are spread out throughout Wisconsin to watch as ballots are recounted. Trump’s Wisconsin campaign director Pete Meachum was in Madison on Thursday for the start of the recount. Meachum says the campaign had people in every…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe says Donald Trump should provide proof to back up his claim that there was widespread voter fraud in Virginia on Election Day. The president-elect is claiming, without evidence, that millions of people voted illegally in the election he won. Trump alleged that three states, including Virginia, saw “serious…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the first woman tapped for a top-level administration post during his White House transition so far. It will be a Cabinet-level position, and Haley has accepted, Trump said in a statement Wednesday. Jason Miller, a…
LOS EBANOS, Texas (AP) — All along the winding Rio Grande, the people who live in this bustling, fertile region where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico never quite understood how Donald Trump’s great wall could ever be much more than campaign rhetoric. Erecting a concrete barrier across the entire 1,954-mile frontier with…
NEW YORK (AP) – President-elect Donald Trump is planning to meet on Monday with Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and former Texas governor and GOP presidential rival Rick Perry. That’s according to top aide Kellyanne Conway. She told Fox News on Monday that Perry is a possible contender to lead the Defense or Energy departments and…
BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Vice President-elect Mike Pence says Mitt Romney is “under active consideration” by President-elect Donald Trump to be nominated as Trump’s secretary of state, “along with some other very distinguished Americans.” In an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” Pence says Romney’s recent meeting with Trump was a “warm and substantive” exchange. He…
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says he agreed to settle lawsuits over Trump University “for a small fraction of the potential award because as president I have to focus on our country.” Trump made the comment on Twitter Saturday. He also tweeted that “the ONLY bad thing about winning the presidency is that…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Members of the NAACP of St. Louis County plan to meet with Ladue School District leaders after white high school students chanting Donald Trump’s name on a school bus suggested that blacks should move to the back of the bus. NAACP member John Gaskin III on Tuesday called the incident “deeply…