In yet another controversial pick, according to Reuters, Trump has chose Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head up the Environmental Protection Agency.
BREAKING: Trump to appoint Oklahoma Attorney General Pruitt as EPA head - transition team. https://t.co/P7Fz6s4ano
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) December 7, 2016
Having dropped out of the primary race almost exactly a year ago, prominent foreign policy hawk, Republic Senator Lindsey Graham told CNN during an interview today that he plans to launch two separate probes (from both of his subcommittees) into Russia's "hacking" and demand that President-elect Trump "take a much tougher tone towards Russia... or they will break up our alliances."
In what may be an unexpected development, following yesterday's news that Renzi would hold off resigning for the immediate future as per the president's requst, moments ago the Italian prime minister tweeted that he would formally resign at 7pm local time, well ahead of expectations, following passage of the budget bill.
Legge di bilancio approvata. Alle 19 le dimissioni formali. Grazie a tutti e viva l'Italiahttps://t.co/PLsLxcrPGS
— Matteo Renzi (@matteorenzi) December 7, 2016
One year after Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders first hinted, on Twitter, that one of the main targets of their campaigns would be pharma and biotech companies in general, and high drug prices in particular, today as part of his extensive interview with Time, the President-elect, and the magazine's winner of the "Person of the Year" award for 2016 hinted that he, too, would focus on high drug prices.
The British Prime Minister has accused Iran of ‘aggressive actions’ in the Middle East including stirring up trouble in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Theresa May says she is “clear-eyed” about the “threat” posed by the country and has pledged to work with Gulf States to counteract its influence. Addressing the Gulf Cooperation Council, the conservative leader said that Britain wanted to “make a more permanent and more enduring commitment to the long-term security of the Gulf” and would invest more than 3 billion pounds in defence spending in the region over the next decade.