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Some people are very worried about the coming Trump administration. Jeff Bezos is not one of them. Or, more accurately, the world's second-richest man says he's not worried about Trump 2.0, even though Trump has singled him out in the past. And Bezos says he could be a Trump ally because he wants to help the next president cut red tape. "I'm actually very optimistic this time around," he said at The New York Times's DealBook conference on Wednesday. "I'm very hopeful. He seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. And my point of view [is], if...

The campaign manager for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor isn’t backing down from their new campaign-trail flyer lauding Cantor for fighting against President Barack Obama’s amnesty bill. “He stopped the bill when it came out of the Senate,” Ray Allen, Cantor’s campaign manager, told The Daily Caller. The defender-against-amnesty claim appeared in flyers sent to GOP primary voters near Richmond, Va., two weeks before the vote on June 10. “Conservative Republican Eric Cantor is stopping the Obama [and Sen. Harry] Reid plan to give illegal aliens amnesty,” says one of the flyers. But his critics, including primary challenger and economist...

Saddam Husseins power base is comin under extreme pressure, with members of his inner circle defecting to the opposition or making discreet offers of peace in hope of being spared retribution if the Iraqi leader is toppled, according to Iraqi exiles.Ayad al-Awi, the head of the opposition Iraqi National Accord, said his group in recent weeks had recieved senior defectors from the Iraqi security services, which form the regiemes nerve centre.At the same time Kurdish groups said they had recieved secret approaches from military commanders offering to turn their weapons on Saddam when the war began.They said members of the...