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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans appear to be uniting, but the same can't be said for Democrats. House Speaker Paul Ryan unanimously won the nomination of his Republican colleagues today for another term at the helm of the House. He told fellow Republicans that he has the support of President-elect Donald Trump -- and that it's the "dawn of a new, unified Republican government." Meanwhile, Democrats are delaying their own leadership elections set for Thursday until the end of the month, to give lawmakers more time to process disastrous election results.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican voice on national security matters says any attempt by the incoming Trump administration to reset relations with Russia would be "unacceptable." In a statement, Sen. John McCain of Arizona says the price of starting fresh with Moscow would be U.S. complicity in what he calls the "butchery of the Syrian people" being carried out by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad. President-elect Donald Trump and Putin spoke by telephone yesterday about future efforts to improve U.S.-Russian ties.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man has admitted in court to being a terrorist -- before being sentenced to ten years in prison for conspiring to join the Islamic State group in Syria. He's one of nine friends in Minnesota's large Somali community who are being sentenced this week for conspiring to join the militant group.
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Twenty-eight protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline have been arrested today near Mandan, North Dakota, during a day in which activists held demonstrations nationwide. A sheriff's spokesman says about 400 protesters put a pickup truck and tree branches on railroad tracks near a pipeline work staging area. The railroad says trains were delayed three hours. Officers in riot gear used pepper spray and in one instance a stun gun against protesters who refused to leave.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A local West Virginia official says she's been placed on leave after she posted a racist comment about first lady Michelle Obama on Facebook. The head of the Clay County Development Corp., Pamela Ramsey Taylor, made the post following Donald Trump's election as president, saying it would be "refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House," instead of what she called an "ape in heels." Clay Mayor Beverly Whaling responded: "Just made my day Pam." Taylor told a TV station (WCHS) last night that she was put on leave. Meanwhile, Whaling issued a written apology to news media outlets, saying that her comment wasn't intended to be racist.
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