Новости за 11.12.2016

For the third time since Monday, Vice President Joe Biden refused to rule out the possibility of a presidential run in 2020 in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper that aired Sunday.

Alec Baldwin took a week off from his role as Saturday Night Live's Donald Trump, and in his place was this week's host, professional wrestler John Cena, playing the president-elect as he sees himself.

Dual attacks on Saturday evening — one a car bomb and one a suicide bomb — near an Istanbul soccer stadium killed 38 people and injured 155 more. Most victims were police officers on hand to deal with crowds following a soccer game.

President-elect Donald Trump can expect forceful opposition from within his own party if he nominates former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton to be deputy secretary of state under Rex Tillerson, as Trump is believed to be planning. Speaking with ABC News on Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) leveled an unflinching critique at Bolton's hardline neoconservative polices.

Four senators from both sides of the aisle released a statement Sunday calling for a full investigation of the CIA's conclusion that Russia tried to manipulate the election to help President-elect Donald Trump win. The "recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American," said Sens. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

Rex Tillerson, the ExxonMobil CEO rumored to be President-elect Donald Trump's top pick for secretary of state, would excel in the position because he is much more than a businessman, Trump said in an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday.

Rex Tillerson, the ExxonMobil CEO rumored to be President-elect Donald Trump's top pick for secretary of state, would excel in the position because he is much more than a businessman, Trump said in an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday.

In an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace airing Sunday morning, President-elect Donald Trump called "ridiculous" the CIA's conclusion that Russia attempted to manipulate the election to help him win.

Saturday Night Live analyzed President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks in its cold open sketch featuring Beck Bennett as CNN's Jake Tapper speaking with Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway. "Are these bad picks?" Tapper asks after running through a few real-life nominations. "No, Jake, they are not bad," Conway answers. "They are alt-good."

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President-elect Donald Trump is expected to tap ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, with whom Trump met twice this week, for secretary of state. John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a hardline neoconservative, will be deputy secretary of state, a source told NBC News. Tillerson has been president of ExxonMobil for 12 years after spending his entire career at the company, during which time he developed what The Wall Street Journal calls "close ties" with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Читать дальше...

President-elect Donald Trump's rejection of the CIA's conclusion that Russia attempted to manipulate U.S. elections on his behalf has led to an unusually rocky relationship between the incoming administration and the intelligence establishment, which Trump's team has dismissed as "the same people that said Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction."

Louisiana State Treasurer John Kennedy won his state's runoff Senate election Saturday, cementing the Republican Party's 52-seat Senate majority. Democrats hoped challenger Foster Campbell would pull off an upset victory, with many donating to his campaign as one last potential bright spot after a disappointing election season that saw widespread GOP gains at the state and federal level.

Here are three of the week's top pieces of financial advice, gathered from around the web:

Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Quebec. This three-story house next to the Massif de Charlevoix ski area won a modern architecture award.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (Ballantine, $8).