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WORLD / Politics
Jan 6, 2017
Texas readies 'bathroom bill' critics say targets LGBT rights at cost of economy
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is expected on Thursday to introduce legislation to limit public restroom access for transgender people, despite warnings from a business group that the measure would hurt the Texas economy because it was discriminatory.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 4, 2017
Senator gets ball rolling on killing Obamacare, Ryan returned as Trump-era Congress kicks off, trips
Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi introduced on Tuesday a resolution allowing for the repeal of President Barack Obama's signature health insurance program, which provides coverage to millions of Americans, Enzi's office said in a statement.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2017
Democrats: Stop the fear and loathing of 2017
Democrats need to stop wallowing in misery and start planning on how to take America back.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 17, 2016
Trump builds team of bosses and big egos to shake up Washington
With more than 20 nominees now selected, Donald Trump's Cabinet appears much like the president-elect himself: mostly older, white males, many of them wealthy, who see themselves as risk-takers and deal-makers and prize action over deliberation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 14, 2016
U.S. Democrats enlist experts to scour Tillerson's business record
U.S. Senate Democrats plan to enlist accountants and legal experts to pore through the business records of Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state, Democratic aides said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 13, 2016
Trump selects Tillerson for State, dismissing Russia ties
President-elect Donald Trump planed on Tuesday to nominate Exxon Mobil Corp. chief Rex Tillerson for U.S. secretary of state, setting off a confirmation fight that puts the oilman's ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin — and Trump's own — in the spotlight.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 13, 2016
Top U.S. spy agency has not embraced CIA assessment on Russia hacking, sources say
The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyberattacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 12, 2016
Rick Perry a leading candidate for U.S. energy post: source
Rick Perry, who proposed eliminating the U.S. Energy Department during his unsuccessful bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has emerged as a leading candidate to head the agency under President-elect Donald Trump, a transition official said on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 10, 2016
Trump team memo on climate change alarms Energy Department staff
President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team sent the agency a memo this week asking for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society memberships of lab workers, alarming employees and advisers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Dec 10, 2016
Trump packing trade team with veterans of steel wars with China
President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel industry's battles with China, signaling a potentially more aggressive approach to U.S. complaints of unfair Chinese subsidies for its exports and barriers to imports.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 10, 2016
Valentine denies official talk of being offered Japan ambassador post by Trump
Ex-Chiba Lotte Marines manager Bobby Valentine says he has not been in contact with the Trump team amid reports he is under consideration to become the ambassador to Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 10, 2016
Obama orders review of 2016 election cyberattacks
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyberattacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report before he leaves office on Jan. 20, the White House said Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 7, 2016
Trump lays out U.S. military policy shifting from regime change to defeating Islamic State
President-elect Donald Trump laid out a U.S. military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State militancy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 7, 2016
Former Sen. Bob Dole set up contacts between Trump campaign and Taiwanese leadership
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, acting as a paid lobbyist for Taiwan's government, connected Donald Trump's staff with Taiwanese officials in advance of an unprecedented phone call between the U.S. president-elect and Taiwan's president.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 3, 2016
Trump reportedly invites Philippines' Duterte to visit next year
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump invited Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte to the White House next year during a "very engaging, animated" phone conversation, a Duterte aide said on Friday, amid rocky relations between their two countries.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 30, 2016
American residents of Japan: dealing with Trump from a distance
Americans on both sides of the political divide interpret the presidential election through the prism of their lives in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 29, 2016
Trump looks to Obamacare critic, Indiana expert to overhaul health care
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen a vociferous Obamacare critic and an Indiana policy expert to help him overhaul the U.S. health care system, a transition official told Reuters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 23, 2016
Will Trump's foreign policies hurt or help his business empire?
Any moves by Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the United States or bring back waterboarding to interrogate suspects could have repercussions for some of his sprawling foreign business interests — from his golf course in Scotland to luxury resorts in Indonesia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Nov 23, 2016
Trump's NAFTA revamp would require concessions, borrowed elements from TPP
President-elect Donald Trump's plan to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement to make it "a lot better" for U.S. workers would not be a one-way street for his administration, as Canada and Mexico prepare their own list of demands that could require difficult U.S. concessions.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2016
Trump's grandfather asked to return to Germany, archived letter shows
German archivists have found a letter written by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's grandfather, asking to be allowed to return to his German homeland after his wife failed to adapt to life in America.

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