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President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s visit to the Notre Dame Cathedral marks his return to the geopolitical stage just weeks before he\u2019s set to return to the White House
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President-elect Donald Trump has returned to the world stage for the first time <\/a>since his election victory last month, as he joined global leaders at the reopening of the Notre Dame<\/a> Cathedral in Paris.
Ahead of the ceremony, Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on Saturday.
\u201cThe world is going a little crazy right now,\u201d the president-elect told reporters as he shook hands with Macron. \u201cWe\u2019ll be talking about that.\u201d
The visit comes just six weeks before Trump returns to the White House in January.
On Friday, Trump threw his support behind Pete Hegseth<\/a>, his nominee for secretary of defense, blaming the \u201cfake news\u201d for the backlash<\/a> against the former Fox News host.
Vice President-elect JD Vance echoed his comments on X and during a visit to North Carolina, when asked about rumors that Senator Joni Ernst was being floated as an alternative nominee<\/a>.
Hegseth much of the week on Capitol hill trying to drum up support for his confirmation as allegations <\/a>concerning sexual harassment and alcohol continue to dog him on top of concerns about his views on women in combat.
Donald Trump\u2019s campaign pledged to be a champion for the working class. He ran campaign ads vowing to lift up the \u201chardest working citizens.\u201d The Republican National Convention even put the spotlight on \u201ceveryday Americans.\u201d
But his incoming administration reflects a government run by billionaires, stuffed with Wall Street fixtures, investment bankers, real estate developers and oil executives, all within reach of power to slash services that millions of poor and vulnerable Americans depend on.
Alex Woodward<\/strong> reports:
The incoming administration will be the wealthiest in history, with more than a dozen ultra-rich nominees for critical agencies and major diplomatic roles
President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s team is considering the possibility of withholding massive research grants from \u201cwoke\u201d schools they claim lack academic freedom.
Trump\u2019s nominee to head the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and economist at Stanford, reportedly wants to target so-called \u201ccancel culture\u201d at a number of top progressive universities, according to The Wall Street Journal<\/em>.
Those with knowledge of Bhattacharya\u2019s thinking told the newspaper that he\u2019s considering linking the doling out of billions in federal research grants to a measure of \u201cacademic freedom\u201d on campuses and punishing those that apparently don\u2019t adequately embrace perspectives championed by conservatives.
Read more here <\/a>
Those vying for a high-security clearance position in Trump\u2019s administration go through rounds of interviews with a team of MAGA loyalists who question the perspectives\u2019 allegiance to the incoming president, according to a recent New York Times<\/em> report.\u00a0<\/a>
Those questions include whether they supported the most recent three presidential elections, their opinion of January 6, 2021, and if the 2020 election was stolen, people who interviewed for jobs or were involved in the process told the Times<\/em>.
Perspectives who said they affirmed President Biden won the 2020 election or denounced violence at the Capitol on January 6 told the New York Times<\/em> they did not get the job.
Charlie Kirk, the right-wing social media influencer, is said to be among those conducting the so-called \u2018loyalty test\u2019.
Karoline Leavitt, the incoming White House Press Secretary, declined to confirm the truth of the loyalty test to the Times<\/em> but said, \u201cPresident Trump will continue to appoint highly qualified men and women who have the talent, experience, and necessary skill sets to make America great again.\u201d
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the transition between the Biden administration and Trump\u2019s incoming national security team has been \u201cprofessional\u201d, \u201csubstantive\u201d and \u201cgood.\u201d
\u201cIt has been professional, it has been substantive, and frankly, it has been good,\u201d Sullivan said at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday.
\u201cObviously, we don\u2019t see eye to eye on every issue, and that\u2019s no secret to anybody, but there is a deep conviction on the part of the incoming national security team that we are dealing with, including my successor, and on our part, directed from President Biden, that it is our job, on behalf of the American people, to make sure this is a smooth transition.\u201d
A federal appeals court has turned down TikTok\u2019s challenge of a quickly approaching forced sale or nationwide ban of the immensely popular app in the United States, but the company could soon ask the Supreme Court to step in.
Friday\u2019s decision from the Washington DC-based appellate court sided with the Department of Justice, which has argued that the federal government has the authority to restrict or ban the app on grounds that it allegedly poses a national security risk if its China-based parent company ByteDance exposes Americans\u2019 data or manipulates what they see.
TikTok argued that the ban infringes on its users\u2019 First Amendment protections, but the three-judge panel agreed that the government \u201chas offered persuasive evidence\u201d that a law passed by Congress to potentially ban the app is \u201cnarrowly tailored to protect national security.\u201d
Read more here<\/a>
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump praised the Prince of Wales for \u201cdoing a fantastic job\u201d after the pair shared a warm greeting in Paris on Saturday night.
Prince William stepped in for his father, King Charles, to join world leaders for the ceremonial reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral five years after it was devastated by fire.
His presence was at the request of the government, which hopes a meeting between the prince and Trump will help form a platform for a relationship between Britain and the US.
The pair first greeted at the ceremony inside Notre Dame, when Trump patted Prince William on the shoulder before the pair shook hands.
After the service, they then went to the residence of the British ambassador for a meeting, with the prince seen standing in the foyer as Trump arrived.
On greeting again, Trump turned to reporters and said \u201cWow, what a nice group\u201d. He then gestured to the prince and said: \u201cGood man, this one.\u201d
Prince William last met the 78-year-old in 2019 when the then-president made a state visit to the U.K.
President-elect Trump is expected to meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tonight at a reception dinner for the Notre Dame reopening ceremony.
The two will meet in a \u201cprivate pull aside\u201d at that the dinner, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, a source familiar with the plans told CNN. <\/a>
Meloni was elected this summer \u2013 the first far-right government elected<\/a> to leadership since the era of Mussolini.
Scottish actor Brian Cox has said he will \u201ctry to spend as much time here\u201d in the UK as he can following the results of the US presidential election.
The Succession<\/em> star, 78, has been outspoken about his views on President-elect Donald Trump and called him a \u201cmonster\u201d while he was a guest on Channel 4\u2019s live coverage of the US election last month.
Tom Murray <\/strong>reports:
\u2018We\u2019re in for a pretty rough old four years coming up,\u2019 \u2018Succession\u2019 star said
Elon Musk<\/a> spent over $250m on political donations to help Donald Trump<\/a> retake the White House this year, new federal filings<\/a> show.
Federal Election Commission documents published Thursday revealed that Musk handed over more than $230m to the America PAC \u2014 a political action committee that the Tesla billionaire created and which ultimately grew into a vital fundraising organ for the Trump campaign.
In the few weeks before Election Day, Musk made three separate $25m donations to America PAC, the filings show.
Read on:
The FEC filings reveal big payments to his America PAC, the mysterious RBG PAC and other Republican candidates
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