After a dinner meeting with Donald Trump at Jean-Georges restaurant in New York, Mitt Romney delivered a glowing review of the president-elect's leadership during the transition.
Mr. Romney, who was invited to the dinner purportedly for a follow-up interview for the job of secretary of state, described it as a ...
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the powerful five-year-old agency that President Obama hopes will be regulating businesses on behalf of consumers long after he leaves office, could be gutted and its director removed soon after President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated in January.
Despite a federal-court case over the independence of ...
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On Thursday, Adidas will open a new flagship retail location on the outskirts of Times Square. It's the largest of German shoe giant's stores – and the first in a string of upscale brick and mortar shops soon to include a sizable location opening up soon in London. The company is currently giving some private tours of the space, and it's all pretty nuts –… Read More 
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It seems like old times. President-elected Donald Trump is preparing to go back on the road for a spell to thank the voters who handed him a robust win on election night. This is no victory lap brimming with self-congratulation, however. A grateful Mr. Trump wants to reach out to ...
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Once upon a time in 2014, Tumblr announced that it was adding SSL, the standard protocol for establishing a secure connection on the web, as an option on all blogs. Two and a half years later, it's finally the default! For new blogs, anyway. Read More 
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Former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Terner Mnuchin is the likely choice for Treasury Secretary, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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Just when they thought it was safe to go outside again, the political press is breaking out the smelling salts again.
They're back to having the vapors and breaking out in warts over the orange-haired vulgarian holding court at his fabulous and opulent New Jersey golf course. Trump National ...
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Members of the porn site xHamster should be changing their passwords today after a set of nearly 380,000 usernames, emails and poorly-hashed passwords appeared online. The subscription-only breach notification site LeakBase has published the set of login credentials, which Motherboard reports were being traded online. It's not clear exactly where the database originated, but it… Read More 
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The White House announced on Tuesday that they would be sending two senior administration officials to attend the memorial service for deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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Revenge is sweet, but irony is sweeter. Apparently, the hacker who infiltrated San Francisco's Muni transportation system late last week fell victim to his own horrible personal cyber hygiene. According to security reporter Brian Krebs, a separate individual infiltrated the Muni hacker's own email using nothing more than the ransom note provided by the hacker himself. And he pulled… Read More 
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans are hoping to move quickly to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, but Democrats say they have concerns about Sen. Jeff Sessions' views on civil liberties, voting rights and immigration and are asking for time to review his decades of work as a ...
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2016 has been a very good year to bury very bad news. And political distractions perhaps explain why a bill that has been described as the most extreme surveillance legislation every passed in a democracy has today passed into law in the UK never having faced substantial opposition. Read More 
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A German intelligence officer was recently arrested over a suspected terrorist plot to bomb the domestic spy agency's headquarters in Cologne.
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Sen. Bob Corker emerged from an interview Tuesday with Donald Trump and said he believed the president-elect had narrowed the list of candidates for secretary of state to "a very small group."
The selection process for who will run the State Department in the Trump administration has been grueling, including ...
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Intel is following up on news early Tuesday about its partnership with Mobileye and Delphi on self-driving tech with more autonomous vehicle news: it's creating a whole group dedicated to pursuit of self-driving solution development, called – you'll never guess – the Automated Driving Group (ADG for short). The new Intel ADG will be headed up by Intel vet Doug Davis,… Read More 
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