Donald Trump brings back Jobs, not jobs, in this timely comic strip

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to be the greatest jobs president in U.S. history. Trump has promised to bring back jobs. But in the twisted world of the Argyle Sweater comic strip, Trump is actually bringing back Jobs, as in the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs who succumbed to pancreatic cancer..

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Boris Johnson meets Donald Trump"s team in New York

Image copyright PA Image caption Officials said the meetings would focus on UK-US relations The foreign secretary has held “positive but frank” talks with some of Donald Trump"s key advisers during a visit to New York, officials have said.
Boris Johnson met Mr Trump"s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Steve Bannon, the US president-elect"s strategist.
It was the first formal face-to-face meeting between members of the incoming US administration and a UK minister.
Officials said they discussed US foreign policy towards Syria, China and Russia.
On Monday Mr Johnson will be in the capital, Washington DC, to meet key congressional leaders.
However, he will not meet his future opposite number Rex Tillerson.
Protocol says that cannot happen until the businessman is confirmed as secretary of state.
Mr Johnson"s visit comes hours after Mr Trump tweeted he is “very much” looking forward to meeting Theresa May in the spring.
He said that the prime minister, who has spoken to ..

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Boris Johnson in New York for talks with Donald Trump"s team

Image copyright PA The foreign secretary has flown to New York for talks with key members of Donald Trump"s team, the Foreign Office (FO) says.
Boris Johnson is expected to meet Mr Trump"s son-in-law Jared Kuchner and Steve Bannon, the US president-elect"s strategist.
It will be Mr Johnson"s first face-to-face meeting with Trump officials.
A FO spokesman said: “The discussions will be focused on UK-US relations and other foreign policy matters.”

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Trump "looks forward" to meeting Theresa May

Image copyright PA Image caption Mr Trump referred to Britain as "a long time US ally" in a tweet Donald Trump has confirmed he will hold his first meeting with Theresa May in the spring, saying he was “very much” looking forward to it.
The US President-elect tweeted that the Prime Minister would head to Washington to meet him after his inauguration.
He referred to Britain as “a long time US ally” and as “very special”.
The introduction was organised after meetings with the PM"s closest advisers over Christmas.
A date for the meeting has not yet been confirmed, but is expected to come within weeks of Mr Trump"s inauguration on 20 January.
The tweet was sent just after 02:00 GMT (21:00 in New York).
The PM and President-elect are understood to have spoken twice since his election victory in November and Mrs May"s joint chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, travelled to the US in December to meet with Mr Trump"s team.
Special relationship?The fi..

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Intelligence report says Putin ordered a campaign to help Trump

AMERICAN democracy has suffered a grave assault—yet political leaders from its two main parties cannot agree on how or even whether to investigate. In a move that is both astonishing and without precedent the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on December 6th issued a declassified version of a secret assessment earlier given to Barack Obam..

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Theresa May to visit Donald Trump "in the spring"

Image copyright PA Theresa May is to visit US President-elect Donald Trump in the spring, Downing Street has said.
In December the PM"s joint chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, travelled to the US to build links with the incoming president"s team.
A source said Mrs May “looks forward to visiting the new president in the spring”.
The meeting is expected to take place at the White House and could be as early as next month, it is understood.
The December trip by Mrs May"s closest aides was part of efforts to build a relationship with Mr Trump ahead of his inauguration on 20 January.
The president-elect first invited the prime minister to visit in a phone call shortly after his election victory in November.
It had been expected that she would visit Washington in the early months of 2017.
"Almost impossible"Transport Secretary Chris Grayling told Sky News that there was nothing out of the ordinary about what was happening.
“You would expect a meeting be..

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May to visit Trump "in the spring"

Image copyright PA Theresa May is to visit US President-elect Donald Trump in the spring, Downing Street has said.
In December the PM"s joint chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, travelled to the US to build links with the incoming president"s team.
A source said Mrs May “looks forward to visiting the new president in the spring”.
The meeting is expected to take place at the White House and could be as early as next month, it is understood.
The December trip by Mrs May"s closest aides was part of efforts to build a relationship with Mr Trump ahead of his inauguration on 20 January.
The president-elect first invited the prime minister to visit in a phone-call shortly after his election victory in November.
It had been expected that she would visit Washington in the early months of 2017.

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Donald Trump is poised to paint America’s judiciary red

PERHAPS the biggest decision Donald Trump faces in January is his choice of nominee for the Supreme Court. But the president-elect will have many more opportunities to make his mark on the judiciary. When Mr Trump takes office on January 20th, he will have over 100 vacant or soon-to-be vacant positions to fill in lower federal courts: 96 judgeships in distri..

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The Left"s Trump?

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Can Jeremy Corbyn reach out beyond Labour Party members? “Our job is to make Jeremy Corbyn the Left"s Donald Trump”, whispered a political adviser over cold sausage rolls at Labour"s annual Christmas party,
“Trump shows if we take the anti-establishment message and run with it, anything is possible”.
This most unlikely of strategies, to replicate the electoral tactics of a man Mr Corbyn has called divisive and wrong, is clear.
If you have lost trust in politicians, well, don"t go for fake anti-elitism. Go for the real thing. Corbyn.
The Labour leader"s office are convinced that the anti-elitist wave which delivered Jeremy Corbyn the leadership twice is the same that brought President Trump and Brexit.
Turbo-chargedHow do they ride that wave? Efforts will be made in the early part of the year to roll out radical retail policies on the economy and the cost of living, with an attempt at every turn to avoid the potentially..

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Questions over Trump man"s links to Russia

Image Caption: Senators John McCain (centre), Lindsey Graham and Amy Klobuchar are visiting Latvia Senator John McCain has questioned whether Donald Trump"s nominee to be Secretary of State is too closely linked to Russia.
The President-elect has named Rex Tillerson as his choice of top diplomat but his close links to Russian President Vladimir Putin h..

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President-elect Trump says Sprint will bring 5,000 jobs back to the U.S.

Love him or hate him, it can not be denied that President-elect Donald Trump is getting his hands dirty three weeks before he takes the Oath of Office. Just today, the man who said that he would be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” announced that Sprint would be bringing 5,000 job..

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Virginia’s governor race could be a referendum on Donald Trump’s politics

VIRGINIA, the one state in the old confederacy carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016, chooses a new governor next year. Ditto New Jersey, another blue state, where the departing Republican governor, Chris Christie, is an on-again, off-again—but these days, mostly off-again—adviser to Donald Trump, the president-elect.
Virginia and New Jersey are the only states..

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UN a club for people to have good time - Trump

Image Caption: Donald Trump has dismissed the council which is tasked with ensuring global peace and security Donald Trump has criticised the United Nations days after the world body voted to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
The US President-elect said on Twitter that the UN had “such great potential”, but had become “just a ..

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Trump: UN a club for people to "have a good time"

Image Caption: Donald Trump has dismissed the council which is tasked with ensuring global peace and security Donald Trump has criticised the United Nations days after the world body voted to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
The US president-elect said on Twitter that the UN had “such great potential”, but had become “just a ..

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Trump aide: "Use Brexit to steal UK trade"

Image Caption: Trade chief Wilbur Ross reportedly made the comments to Cypriot financiers Donald Trump"s new trade chief has urged Britain"s rivals to profit from Brexit and take business away from the UK, it has been reported.
Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary designate, said Britain faced a “period of confusion” following the EU vote, accor..

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Clinton Accuses Trump Of Inciting Violence

Video: Clinton: Trump Has Crossed The Line Twitter Facebook Google+ Whats App Mail White House candidate Hillary Clinton has accused Donald Trump of “casual inciting of violence” after his remark about gun rights.
At a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs Clinton said Mr Trump had “crossed the line” by saying there may be something gun rights supporters “can do” ..

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Clinton Attacks Trump Appearance With Farage

Video: Hillary Clinton Hits Back At Nigel Farage Twitter Facebook Google+ Whats App Mail Hillary Clinton has attacked Donald Trump for appearing with Nigel Farage, whom she described as “one of Britain"s most prominent right-wing leaders”.
Speaking in Reno, Nevada, the Democratic presidential candidate said the former UKIP leader, who appeared on stage..

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Trump says he will axe charitable foundation

Image Caption: Donald Trump denies impropriety at the foundation President-elect Donald Trump has said he will axe his charitable foundation to eliminate conflicts of interest before taking office next month.
The news comes amid an investigation into whether some of the charity foundation"s spending benefited Mr Trump"s presidential campaign.
Mr ..

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President-elect Trump: "Let it be an arms race"

Image Caption: Donald Trump has reportedly spoken of an "arms race" President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly spoken of an “arms race”, the day after he said he wanted America to increase its nuclear capability.
MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski said that in a phone call with her, Mr Trump said: “Let it be an arms race, because we will outmatch them a..

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Putin says Trump "felt the mood of society"

Image Caption: President Putin speaking during his annual end-of-year news conference Donald Trump won the American presidency because he “precisely felt the mood of society”, Vladimir Putin has said.
The Russian president added that “nobody believed that he would win except us”.
Speaking at his annual end-of-year news conference, he also suggested that t..

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