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Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman picked to be White House chief of staff, once reportedly tried to talk President-elect Donald Trump out of seeing his campaign through to Election Day. Citing "a person briefed on the conversation," New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman reported Thursday that Priebus told Trump he should drop out of the race after the Access Hollywood tape of Trump making lewd comments about women was leaked in early October.

Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman picked by President-elect Donald Trump to be White House chief of staff, once reportedly tried to talk Trump out of seeing his campaign through to Election Day. Citing "a person briefed on the conversation," New York's Gabriel Sherman reported Thursday that Priebus told Trump he should drop out of the race after the Access Hollywood tape of Trump making lewd comments about women was leaked in early October.

Former Ohio senator, astronaut, and aviator John Glenn died Thursday at the age of 95, The Columbus Dispatch reports. Glenn was hospitalized a week ago at the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University, although his specific condition was unknown and was not necessarily cancer.

Only 51 percent of 30-year-old Americans make more money than their parents did at the same age, economists and sociologists from Stanford, Harvard, and the University of California have learned. The results of their study reflect a shocking decline from four decades prior, when 92 percent of American 30-year-olds in 1970 earned more than their parents did at a similar age.

While at an amber market in Myanmar, Chinese paleontologist Lida Xing stumbled upon an extraordinary clue about the appearance of dinosaurs. Enclosed in a chunk of amber for sale, Xing spotted what turned out to be the perfectly preserved tail of a dinosaur that roamed the Earth some 99 million years ago. Her discovery marked the first time a mummified dinosaur skeleton has ever been found, and a paper on it was just published in the journal Current Biology.

The reality TV producer best known for his work on The Apprentice will play a role in orchestrating Donald Trump's Inauguration Day festivities, The New York Times reports. Mark Burnett, who is also the executive producer of The Voice, Survivor, and Shark Tank, is reportedly huddling with Trump to plan the events of Jan. 20, 2017:

Donald Trump and his allies spent the bulk of the presidential campaign criticizing the "donor class," but at least six of Trump's top appointees so far have been direct or indirect contributors to his campaign, Adam Smith of the nonprofit political advocacy group Every Voice pointed out on Twitter:

The world's giraffe population might be nearing its last legs. A new Red List — a log of species facing the threat of extinction — released by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) revealed the world's tallest animal is now "vulnerable" to extinction, Time reported Thursday. Per NPR, that means the giraffe is "facing a high risk of extinction in the wild in the medium-term future."

Mexican politicians spent their annual Christmas party taking out their pent-up rage against Donald Trump. While attendees at white tablecloth-draped tables looked on, legislators from the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution took swings at a piñata modeled after America's president-elect.

The U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State admitted Thursday that it carried out an airstrike on the main hospital in Mosul, Iraq, NPR reports. The attack was carried out at the request of the Iraqi military, which is backed by the coalition, and was intended to target the ISIS fighters defending their last major holdout in Iraq.

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for labor secretary is reportedly Andy Puzder, CEO of the company that owns burger joints Hardee's and Carl's Jr. Puzder has been an advocate for rolling back regulations in the restaurant industry, and he has expressed opposition to the Affordable Care Act and raising the federal minimum wage. He has also shown an interest in "employee-free" restaurants, because machines, unlike people, "always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late... Читать дальше...

The ideological uniformity of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominations to date is, perhaps, in the eye of the beholder: Those more sympathetic to the new president may be more likely to see a healthy "team of rivals" coming together, while critics see a dangerous mélange of yes-men and sycophants.

It looks as if 2017 is off to a very, very bright start. Bright green, anyway. The experts at the Pantone Color Institute have announced that "Greenery" is the 2017 color of the year and they are very excited about it:

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in an interview with Politico published Thursday that his party's thorough election rout is not due to anything the Democrats themselves did wrong. Rather, he said, the loss should be blamed on campaign finance law, the Koch brothers, and especially FBI Director James Comey.

For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy from birth in the U.S. declined last year, a report released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics revealed. Life expectancy in the U.S. typically grows incrementally longer each year — or at least stays the same — but 2015 was an exception. While the decline was by only about a month — from an average lifespan of 78.9 years in 2014 to 78.8 years in 2015 — The Washington Post noted it's still a "troubling development... Читать дальше...

President-elect Donald Trump's chief of staff, Reince Priebus, cracked a joke at a Manhattan fundraiser Wednesday night that might not go over too well with advocates for civil rights and women's rights, Politico reports. Trump will be such a good president that his face will one day go on the $20 bill, Priebus suggested to the audience.

Canadian Minister of Finance Bill Morneau announced Thursday that the nation will put civil rights icon Viola Desmond on its new $10. Desmond is the first Canadian woman to be featured on the nation's bank notes.

During an on-the-record interview with Time magazine last week, President-elect Donald Trump's mind flitted to his plans to keep jobs in the U.S. "Hey, Reince, I want to get a list of companies that have announced they're leaving," Trump said to incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, mid-interview with Time for his Person of the Year feature, which was published Wednesday.

Former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage was the original Mr. Brexit — both an inspiration to, and an admirer of, President-elect Donald Trump. But now he's getting nervous: "I suspect we will leave the Union," Farage told Bloomberg BusinessWeek. "But what terms we'll leave on, I'm getting increasingly nervous about. Nervous that we'll sell out. Nervous that we'll get half a Brexit."

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly exploring how to turn his business over to his adult sons, Eric and Donald Jr., but plans to keep a stake in the real estate empire and will not heed calls to divest, The New York Times reports. People who were briefed on the discussions said that Ivanka Trump would also leave the Trump Organization, likely to assume a role in Washington, and that Ivanka and her father are exploring a "legal structure" to separate them from the company.

At a "Women Rule" forum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Kellyanne Conway said that she "will do whatever the president-elect and vice president-elect... believe is my best and highest use for them," but it probably won't involve a full-time job in the White House. She suggested she will play a "Kellyanne role" in Donald Trump's administration, but noted "my children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea for mom going inside [the White House]." Her kids "have to come first... Читать дальше...

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) is reportedly on an increasingly short list of candidates being considered by Donald Trump for secretary of state. But when pressed Wednesday night by Yahoo News' Bianna Golodryga about Trump's friendliness towards Russia, considering the human rights abuses committed by the nation, Rohrabacher scoffed, "Oh, baloney! Where do you come from?"

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President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a fossil fuel industry ally, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Trump's transition team confirmed in a statement Thursday. Pruitt, a Republican, has helped craft his state's legal challenge of President Obama's policies aiming to fight climate change, including regulations pushing power plants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions scientists blame for warming the planet. Trump said Pruitt was the... Читать дальше...

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President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a fossil fuel industry ally, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Trump's transition team confirmed in a statement Thursday. Pruitt, a Republican, has helped craft his state's legal challenge of President Obama's policies aiming to fight climate change, including regulations pushing power plants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions scientists blame for warming the planet. Trump said Pruitt was the... Читать дальше...

President-elect Donald Trump filled four top White House positions on Wednesday, provoking particular outcry on the left over his appointment of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a climate change skeptic, to head the Environmental Protection Agency. "The EPA is gonna be run by the man who maybe hates the EPA the most in America," The Atlantic's Vann R. Newkirk II wrote. The Sierra Club said putting Pruitt in charge of the EPA was like "putting an arsonist in charge of fighting fires."