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Kamala Harris is trying to figure out her next chapter — and it might start with a think tank. The former vice president, who lost to President Trump last fall, is weighing whether to launch an “institute for policy and ideas,” with longtime adviser Brian Nelson quietly reaching out to universities — including Stanford and Howard — about hosting the venture, according to multiple reports. Harris, 60, “jokes to friends that she is unemployed for the first time,” the New York Times reported. But time is ticking. Aside from public service pensions, former vice presidents don’t receive the same post-office...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has been communicating with Donald Trump in recent months through secret back channels, helping the president-elect hammer out a policy agenda before and since his decisive White House victory, The Post has learned. The 68-year-old Wall Street titan — who, like 78-year-old Trump, grew up in Queens in New York City — has acted as “a sounding board” for the incoming commander-in-chief’s economic manifesto, four sources close to Trump’s transition team *** The quietly cozy relationship between Trump and Dimon has flourished despite the banker’s cryptic and tight-lipped tendencies when it comes to politics. Trump...

Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees might seem alarming to Democrats, but their plans to dismantle government bureaucracy are far more difficult to execute than they claim. Bill O'Reilly tells NewsNation's "CUOMO" that Trump just wants people in his Cabinet that will do exactly as he tells them to do.

In an effort to prove she could handle an unscripted interview Vice-President Kamala Harris appeared on a Univision town hall this week. In the midst of Kamala's efforts to dodge a voter's concerns that she became the Democrats' nominee without getting any primary votes, the camera swiveled to an angle showing the teleprompter the candidate was reading. Harris/Walz Campaign Chairwoman Jennifer O'Malley Dillon explained "using a teleprompter doesn't mean the interview was scripted. As we all saw, neither the voter nor Kamala had a script in their hands. The teleprompter simply allows the candidate's brain-trust to suggest possible answers for...

This is the moment a chaotic brawl broke out at a Texas iHop after a family insulted a group of scantily clad women wearing daring outfits. The wild footage, which amassed 80,000 views within hours of being posted on WorldStarHipHop on Tuesday, begins with a blue baby booster seat flying through the air and hitting a family just as they were digging into their meal. The father, mother and two adult daughters quickly confronted the group of women who had thrown the furniture, which is when all hell breaks loose.

Wednesday on The View, the hosts gave a warm welcome to former Secretary of State under President Obama, John Kerry, giving him the chance to promote his new memoir, while lobbing softballs about the Mueller probe, the Iran Deal and his relationship with John McCain. New host Abby Huntsman didn’t even try to represent the conservative viewpoint she was hired to offer, eagerly asking Kerry if he was running for President in 2020: “Are you -- going to run for president? A lot of people think that you should. A lot of people think that you will,” she gushed. A...

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. It was, after all, Franklin D. Roosevelt's brilliant "brains trust" advisers whose policies are now increasingly recognized as having prolonged the Great Depression of the 1930s, while claiming credit for ending it. The Great Depression ended only when the Second World War put an end to many New Deal policies. FDR himself said that "Dr. New Deal" had been replaced by "Dr. Win-the-War." But those today who are for big spending...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States said Wednesday it would call on the Group of 20 nations to support their economies throughout the global economic crisis and endorse an IMF proposal to measure their efforts. Ahead of a G20 finance chiefs meeting in Britain this weekend, Washington laid out its approach to countering the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and making sure such a crisis does not happen again. President Barack Obama called for a two-pronged G20 effort to fix the global economy, using stimulus and regulatory reforms. "We've got two goals in the G20," Obama said at...

I have searched the Internet for an answer to a litarary/historical question I have about Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," and I have had no success. It struck me that FreeRepublic is the best Brain Trust I know of, so...