Not only is Mexico going to pay for a "big, beautiful" border wall (says Donald Trump), but a Mexican company already is offering to help build it.
According to a report by Reuters news agency, one of Mexico's biggest construction firms has said it would provide cement and construction ...
Skyscanner, the Scotland-based flight search company, has been acquired by Chinese online travel giant Ctrip for £1.4 billion, or approximately $1.74 billion. Read More
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President-elect Donald Trump picked two women — one an Indian-American — for Cabinet-level appointments Wednesday, answering critics who complained about the preponderance of white men in the running for prominent roles in the administration.
Mr. Trump announced he would nominate South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for U.S. ambassador to the ...
The "Never Trump" movement has gone to ground, digging in for a long political winter while the man they vehemently opposed takes control of what was once their Republican Party.
Even as Mitt Romney ponders a job in Donald Trump's administration and the Bush family made congratulatory calls to the ...
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A Dallas woman accused of killing a Wichita mother and taking her baby was in the country illegally when she was released from a Kansas jail this summer before immigration officials had a chance to request she be held, law enforcement authorities said Wednesday.
The U.S. ...
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Some Donald Trump supporters are warning that naming Mitt Romney as secretary of state will antagonize much of the president-elect's base.
The base thinks Mr. Romney represents an interventionist foreign policy that Mr. Trump rejected repeatedly during the campaign.
Mr. Romney "would be a terrible choice," said former Texas Republican ...
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There's no end to the bottles, packs and pills of various nutritional supplements out there, but vitamin startup Care/of plans to stand out by tailoring to your specific needs the vitamins you pop. The startup joins a growing number of others in tech hoping to cash in on the lucrative vitamin industry. Elysium offers pills they say will boost longevity; Ritual makes vitamins for… Read More 
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The Thanksgiving table rules the day, as do thoughts of glorious leftovers and comfort food in general. Let us retreat 33 years in the past and consider "President Reagan's Favorite Macaroni and Cheese," a simple little recipe shared by "Mrs. Ronald Reagan, Washington, D.C., Wife of the President" in a ...
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ORLANDO, Fla. | When 25 Republican governors and five Republican governors-elect showed up for their association's annual meeting last week, it should have been one of the proudest moments in the party's history.
After public belittlement by some in his own party, Donald Trump pulled off a decisive win. Instead ...
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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A group of Republican lawmakers and others are going to court to block a government ethics overhaul just approved by voters this month.
Their lawsuit filed in state court Wednesday challenges the constitutionality of the ballot measure that took effect last week.
Foes of the measure ...
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Facebook may have laid some of the early groundwork for a potential entry into China, but the U.S. social network's chances of making a dent in the world's most populous country are remote. Read More 
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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. (AP) - Various state and local officials in Vermont are calling for establishing sanctuaries for immigrants living the country unlawfully that could help protect them from deportation once Republican Donald Trump assumes the presidency.
Winooski adopted a resolution on Monday pledging not to enforce federal immigration ...
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Sony makes no bones about going after Bose. In fact, when the company first showed off its product in the lead up to IFA this summer, it said as much, acknowledging that the QuietComfort line is largely considered the gold standard for noise-cancelling travel headphones. It's a bit like getting the old board together and deciding you're going to make a better soft drink than… Read More 
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President-elect Donald Trump tapped one of the nation's top charter school advocates, Republican philanthropist Betsy DeVos, to lead the Department of Education on Wednesday.
DeVos is the chairman of the American Federation for Children, the nation's largest school choice advocacy group. The federation has worked at the state and local level to advance the expansion of charter schools and other education reforms. She and her husband, entrepreneur Dick DeVos, created the West Michigan Aviation Academy, a charter high school in Grand Rapids, in 2011.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government is resuming deportation flights to Haiti following a brief suspension after Hurricane Matthew.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says in a statement Wednesday that more than 200 Haitian nationals have been deported in recent weeks.
Johnson says that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "plans ...
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Homeland Security is holding some 41,000 illegal immigrants in detention right now, the department said Wednesday, as agents struggle to get control of a new surge across the border — including a wave of Haitian migrants that is testing the limits of immigration policy.
Usually the government only contracts for ...
The SaaS Co., a startup that helps Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies with B2B sales, has raised €800,000 in seed funding, money it plans to use to further develop its AI-driven sales assistant. Backing the round are various unnamed angel investors, along with the European Union via a €300,000 grant. Read More 
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump's promise to deport millions of immigrants in the country illegally and his selection of tough-on-crime Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general could mean big money for the private prison industry.
Some analysts believe the prison population could climb under the Trump administration, ...
Cashboard, an online wealth management startup based in Berlin, has closed €3 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Digital Space Ventures, with participation from existing investors Redalpine Capital, Earlybird, and 500 Startups. Other previous backers include Makers, and ProSiebenSat.1. Read More 
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Little blue pills in the Blue House?
South Korea President Park Geun-hye's office on Wednesday confirmed revelations by an opposition lawmaker that it purchased about 360 erectile dysfunction Viagra pills and the generic version of the drug in December.
While the report has created a ...
French startup Agricool has raised $4.3 million (€4 million) from newly-launched VC firm Daphni as well as Parrot founder Henri Seydoux and Captain Train (acquired by Trainline) co-founder Jean-Daniel Guyot. Agricool's product is quite unusual as the company wants to grow strawberries and later other fruits and vegetables inside shipping containers. With many people moving to… Read More 
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