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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a new interview that he may be willing to consider a Supreme Court nominee during the final year of President Trump's first term. “We’ll see if there is a vacancy in 2020,” McConnell said after Brett Kavanaugh was officially confirmed as the newest Supreme Court justice, according to The Associated Press.

President Donald Trump plans to name Larry Kudlow as his top economic advisor, sources told CNBC. Trump could announce his decision to choose Kudlow as his National Economic Council director as soon as Thursday. The president offered the economist and senior CNBC contributor the job on Tuesday night, and Kudlow accepted, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. Kudlow, 70, would replace Gary Cohn, who resigned last week after losing his fight against tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Kudlow advocates for free trade and generally opposes tariffs. When Cohn left, Kudlow expressed his disappointment with the move. On...

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North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Friday, the Pentagon confirmed. It was not immediately known if the missile, which was expected to land in the Sea of Japan, was an intercontinental ballistic missile or another type of rocket. “I can confirm that we detected a launch of a ballistic missile from North Korea," Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said. "We are assessing and will have more information soon." The launch, which occurred shortly before 11 a.m. Eastern time, had been expected by U.S. analysts who initially believed the launch date would be Thursday -- the 64th anniversary of the...

Three Republicans joined Senate Democrats on Wednesday to reject an effort to overturn an Obama administration rule limiting methane emissions from oil and natural gas drilling. Only 49 senators voted to move forward with debate on legislation to undo the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule, short of the 51 votes needed.   Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Susan Collins (Maine) and John McCain (Ariz.) joined all 48 members of the Democratic caucus in rejecting the resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). 

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Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, former First Lady Barbara Bush, have both been hospitalized, his spokesman said Wednesday. President Bush, 92, was admitted to intensive care at Houston Methodist Hospital to address "an acute respiratory problem stemming from pneumonia. Doctors performed a procedure to protect and clear his airway that required sedation," his spokesman, Jim McGrath, said in a statement. Barbara Bush also was admitted to the hospital Wednesday morning as a precaution after "experiencing fatigue and coughing," McGrath said in the same statement.

The US government has given half a billion dollars to the UN’s Green Climate Fund, just three days before Donald Trump takes office. Barack Obama’s outgoing administration announced the contribution of $500m (£406m; €468m) on Tuesday, bringing the total funds to date to $1bn. Mr Obama pledged in 2014 to give $3bn to help tackle the effects of climate change in the poorest countries. Mr Trump has previously called global warming a hoax. The president-elect has also threatened to pull the US out of the Paris accord – a global agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions – and America’s commitment...

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I HAVE FIVE KEY MESSAGES I WANT TO GO THROUGH BRIEFLY AND THEN TAKE QUESTIONS. FIRST, PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP IS A UNIQUE, HISTORIC FIGURE WORTHY OF STUDY IN HIS OWN RIGHT. SECOND, THE TRUMPISM IS A BOLD AND PROFOUNDLY DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING THAT NEEDS CODIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ACTION. THIRD, THE COMBINATION OF INERTIA AND RELENTLESS HOSTILITY OF THE LEFT WILL CHALLENGE THE VERY SURVIVAL OF TRUMPISM. FOURTH, MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WILL HAVE TO WORK FOR TRUMPISM TO SUCCEED. FOR US TO BE ABLE TO DEVELOP THE IDEAS, WHEN THE ARGUMENTS AT CITY COUNCIL AND COUNTY COMMISSION, SCHOOL BOARDS ACROSS...

Exxon Mobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson has been picked as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for the post of secretary of state, NBC News reported Monday, capping weeks of speculation that included a close political ally and a sharp critic.

Dow Chemical Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris will be heading the national Manufacturing Council, Republican President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday.  The news was announced at Trump's Friday night rally in the Grand Rapids area, which is part of his nationwide post-election thank you tour.  Liveris, who was born in Australia and has worked with Dow for 40 years, said during brief comments at the rally that the Midland-based company is committed to investing more in Michigan.  He said he was "tingling with pride" at the appointment and told the crowd he was excited to help promote manufacturing in Michigan and the rest of...

The U.S. Geological Survey says it has found the largest continuous oil and gas deposit ever discovered in the United States. On Tuesday, the USGS announced that a swath of West Texas known as the Wolfcamp shale contains 20 billion barrels of oil and 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That is nearly three times more petroleum than the agency found in North Dakota's Bakken shale in 2013. As NPR's Jeff Brady reported, the amount of oil in the Wolfcamp shale formation is nearly three times the amount of petroleum products used by the entire country in a year....

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TAMPA, FL (WFLA) — Florida is known to be a battleground state for presidential elections, and Hillsborough County may be the determining factor. Hillsborough County’s majority vote has predicted the winner of the presidential election 19 out of the last 20 elections, according to political analysts. The county’s balance of registered democrats, republicans, and independents makes the county one to watch; likely why both the Trump and Clinton campaigns have made multiple stops to Tampa Bay in the past few weeks – with more visits this week.

Hillary Clinton's campaign has called off its planned election night firework display, it emerged Monday, the day before America goes to the polls. Staffers were going to put on a two-minute show over the Hudson River after the results come in on Tuesday, but the proposal has been canned, TMZ reported on Monday. The campaign called the Coast Guard last week to tell them the event was off, three days after the New York Post reported it was planning the bash - although the cancellation was secret until Monday. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3914082/Clinton-campaign-CANCELS-New-York-election-night-fireworks-display.html#ixzz4PM7M6A9Z Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook