Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Like what you read below? Sign up for HUFFPOST HILL and get a cheeky dose of political news every evening! Donald Trump’s inauguration was sparsely attended and marred by rain, but we hear the dress shops were absolutely swamped. In an alternate universe, we would all be…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed the first member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, voting overwhelmingly to approve retired Marine General James Mattis as Secretary of Defense. As voting continued, the vote was 70-0 to confirm Mattis . Also on HuffPost Close SUBSCRIBE…

It was not the election of Donald Trump that prompted Andy Shallal to come up with the idea of an inauguration eve "Peace Ball." The activist, sometime political candidate, and founder of Washington DC's popular Busboys and Poets group of restaurants/bookstores/performance spaces was concerned with…

I won't mince words: President Donald Trump's inauguration means it is more important than ever that Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights redouble its commitment to the full scope of our humanitarian and social justice mission. We must push forward even more vocally in 2017 not just because several of…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve retired Marine General John Kelly as Secretary of Homeland Security on Friday, making him the second confirmed member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet just hours after Trump took the oath of office. Eighty-eight senators…

The Women’s March on Washington emerged as a response to the election of President Donald Trump. But it is also a movement for human rights. According to organizers, the goal of this powerful demonstration is to “affirm our shared humanity and pronounce our bold message of resistance and…

WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump officially became the 45 th president Friday, painting a portrait of an “American carnage” in an address as gloomy as the gray chill that hung over his inaugural. With a light rain falling, Trump followed his oath of office with promises to rescue the country from its woes…

Carlos Barria/Reuters Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States. WASHINGTON ― With a new president comes a new presidential website . Gone are sections like “Civil Rights” and “Reducing Gun Violence” and in are pages like “America First Energy Plan” and “America First Foreign Policy.”…

A group that worked to legalize marijuana in Washington, D.C., handed out thousands of joints in the city on Inauguration Day to support the reform of federal cannabis law. Members of the group DCMJ began their giveaway, called #Trump420, early Friday at Dupont Circle, a historic downtown…

Britain’s police watchdog is to hold an investigation after officers were filmed firing a stun-gun at their own local black race relations adviser who they apparently mistook for a wanted suspect, the force involved said on Friday. Judah Adunbi, 63, who is a founder member of an Independent Advisory…

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Think that photo of Donald Trump supposedly writing his inaugural speech looks a little fake? Trevor Noah says you can expect a lot of that over the next four years. “It’s not a lie. It’s an ad,” he explained on Thursday’s “The Daily Show.” “America: You have to get used to the fact that you elected…

Celebrations Begin for Donald Trump’s Inauguration Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump arrived in Washington the day before his inauguration as the nation’s 45th president in a swirl of cinematic pageantry but facing serious questions about whether his chaotic transition has…

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Where once Thy churches prayed and sang Thy foes profanely rage... - The Sacred Harp In the year 390 the populace of Thessalonica rose up in revolt against the local Roman authorities to protest the arrest of a popular charioteer. The Roman emperor Theodosius, known for his…

George: Suspend disbelief. Truly profound. On that note, what key lessons and vantage points have helped you successfully carry out this role? Kim: I think there are a few things that I've learned. Success is fleeting, and failure is not permanent. Being conscious of the fact that all the great…

Dear Mr. President, As you leave office, I must say this: Thank you... For helping me believe progress is possible. For helping our children understand their potential. For asserting that health care is a right, not a privilege. For relationship goals. For your sense of humor. For being the kind of…

It’s Inauguration Day. It’s happening: By noon Eastern time on Friday, Donald Trump will be president. He arrived in Washington with flair Thursday, speaking to tens of thousands of people at a concert at the Lincoln Memorial and praising his incoming Cabinet during a stop at his downtown hotel.…

Billionaire New York Jets owner Robert “Woody” Johnson will be America’s next ambassador to Britain. President-elect Donald Trump made the announcement at an inauguration luncheon, his transition team confirmed — after the press had been ushered out. Johnson, 69, is a longtime Trump friend and was…

_jure via Getty Images We are standing at the brink: at the edge of a huge change with a high probability of disaster. Take heart, brothers and sisters! For though they have tanks and guns and we are not made of steel we have one power they don't: being in the right. Plus, we know what arugula is.…

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Rick Eglinton via Getty Images Everett accuses Purdue Pharma of ignoring the devastating illegal sales of its drugs. In the first-ever lawsuit of its kind, a city in Washington has sued a pharmaceutical company for “enabling” the devastating OxyContin black market. The lawsuit by Everett, a city of…

Chicago Tribune via Getty Images Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrives for sentencing in Chicago on April 27, 2016. He's serving a 15-month sentence. Imprisoned former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) is suing one of the victims he sexually abused decades earlier in an effort to recoup…

Mexico City — Joaquin Guzman Loera, the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo, who twice slipped out of high-security Mexican prisons and into criminal legend, was being extradited to the United States on Thursday night, officials said, drawing to a close a decades-long saga to successfully…

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump is preparing to sign executive actions on his first day in the White House on Friday to take the opening steps to crack down on immigration, build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and roll back outgoing President Barack Obama’s policies. Trump, a Republican…

Paul Manafort, Donald J. Trump’s former campaign chairman, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. Sam Hodgson for The New York Times WASHINGTON — American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a…

WASHINGTON ― In his final speech as president, Barack Obama issued an impassioned call to action and urged Americans to be wary of several “challenges to our democracy” in the coming years. Speaking to thousands of people in his hometown of Chicago last week, Obama reiterated a central theme of his…

Hillary Ripley, a longtime investor-relations professional, hosted a gathering on Tuesday for those planning to attend the women’s march in Washington this weekend. Sasha Maslov for The New York Times Hillary Ripley was on a stair climber at her Brooklyn gym when her 16-year-old daughter texted. A…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Donald Trump in Nevada. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri President-elect Donald Trump will receive the nuclear briefing on Friday morning, hours before he's inaugurated as the 45th president. Trump will be given the infamous nuclear codes, and he'll be instructed in how to…

CHICAGO—Imprisoned former House Speaker Dennis Hastert wants one of his sexual-abuse victims to return the $1.7 million in hush money the Illinois Republican paid him over several years, according to a court filing this week in a civil case. The document is a counter claim to the victim’s…

Drew Angerer via Getty Images It's been fascinating to watch all the brouhaha in Black America as, one by one, Donald Trump grants an audience to certain leading Blacks, but has yet to meet with Black leaders. It was shameful and disgraceful to watch Trump pose for photos with Martin Luther King,…

Australian authorities said Friday that a man intentionally plowed his car into pedestrians in a mall in Melbourne during lunch hour, killing at least three and injuring at least 20, but said terrorism was not a factor. The 26-year-old driver of the maroon-colored car was described by witnesses as…

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has earned a reputation in right-wing circles for his tough talk, but a new complaint claims that he’s so thin-skinned he had a fellow flight passenger detained and questioned for merely shaking his head. His office then took to social media this week to taunt…

Photo Credit: Eve Rinaldi Aussie star Richard Roxburgh welcomed me to his dressing room at the Barrymore Theatre on a Thursday before his nightly performance in The Present , in which he shares the stage with his longtime friend Cate Blanchett, whose husband Andrew Upton wrote the play, adapting it…

BEIRUT — Islamic State group militants destroyed a landmark ancient Roman monument and parts of the theater in Syria's historic town of Palmyra, the government and opposition monitoring groups said Friday. Maamoun Abdulkarim, the head of Syria's antiquities department, said the militants destroyed…

HBO With 30 years in the business, Conleth Hill’s career, well, “Varys,” but how much it changes may be surprising. The actor told The Huffington Post that with the exception of “ Game of Thrones ,” he generally doesn’t play the same character multiple times. He switches things up. In fact, Hill…