A top Senate Republican accused Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of breaking an agreement to confirm Rep. Mike Pompeo as CIA director once President-elect Donald Trump is sworn-in Friday.
The Missouri State University Chorale performed an original work, "Now We Belong," written by Minnesota poet Michael Dennis Browne and composed by John Wykoff.
After about two years' worth of campaigning, a wild election and a tumultuous transition period, this Friday Donald Trump will become the 45th President of the United States.
No matter how bruising the race for the White House may have been, the winners and losers show immense grace when it comes to transitions in the American presidency. Nothing hits home that point more strongly than these letters outgoing presidents have left for the incoming occupants of the White House.
President Barack Obama tweeted the American people in his final hours of head of state promising to continue his work with them, and unveiling a new website.
As the Senate squabbles over whether to confirm Rep. Mike Pompeo on Friday as CIA director, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer is urging the Trump administration to keep John Brennan in the top intelligence job until Monday.
In President Barack Obama's last major military attack against al Qaeda, more than 100 members of the group were killed in a US airstrike in western Syria on Thursday, according to a defense official.
Even as the inauguration ceremony for incoming president, Donald J. Trump, is in full swing, whoever is tweeting from the White House account sent out one last powerful image.
A pastor with a long history of inflammatory remarks about Muslims, Mormons, Catholics and gays is scheduled to preach at a private service for President-elect Trump and his family on Friday, shortly before Trump takes the oath of office.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Donald Trump's Cabinet picks the morning of the next president's inauguration, saying it is to soon to know if all of the nominees will be confirmed.
President Obama departed the Oval Office for the final time Friday, slipping a letter for Donald Trump into the top drawer of his desk and striding toward the Residence.
As Donald Trump prepared to be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States in Washington D.C., more than 6,000 miles away in the Iranian capital, Tehran, hardliners were gathering for their usual fiery Friday prayers.
Donald Trump will enter the White House this week accompanied by a throng of advisers with equal authority and, often, warring worldviews. It's a structure old hands in Washington warn is bound to lead to chaos in the West Wing.
Some members in the federal workforce are voicing concerns about the incoming Trump administration's readiness to assume control of the federal bureaucracy on Friday, citing unread transition memos, vacant administration posts and a host of appointees with scant government experience.
Donald Trump is set to become one of the most powerful people in the world Friday, but his administration's view of America's role in global affairs is far from unified.
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