Mike Pence

The US Senate and Congress intelligence committees will proceed to investigate allegations of Russian hacking into the recent US elections in two separate inquiries, including claims that the Donald Trump campaign had contacted the Kremlin. In a closed session, Tuesday, the Senate committee approved a formal plan to explore the allegations following the panel’s previously announced inquiry.

Mike Pompeo was sworn in on the night of Jan. 23 as director of the CIA at a crucial time for U.S. national security as intelligence - traditionally a nonpartisan issue - has been thrust into the political arena.

US real estate developer Jeffory D Blackard told BIRN that he arranged productive meetings for Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic during her week-long visit to Washington earlier this month.

President-elect Donald Trump's era began on Jan. 20 after a swearing-in ceremony as the 45th president of the United States, beginning a four-year term that promises to shake up Washington and the world.

The 45thPresident of the USA Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will be sworn in in Washington on Friday.

The ceremony will take place at noon local time and will be followed by the traditional parade and a ball in the White House in the evening.

As the Turkish Parliament continues its second round of voting on a constitutional amendment package shifting the country from a parliamentary system to an executive presidency, the White House will welcome its new resident Donald Trump today. 

The German political establishment responded in a staunch manner to US-President-elect Donald Trump’s interviews to British London Times and German Bild, criticising him on adopting a protectionist economic policy and his stance on Russia and the migrant crisis.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attacked U.S. intelligence agencies and the media on Jan. 11 as he denied explosive allegations about his ties to Russia, but admitted for the first time that Moscow had likely meddled in the U.S. election.

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution on Wednesday supporting Montenegro's accession to NATO, in a second attempt to push the Balkan's country membership bid.

The committee passed a resolution in December 2016, but the full Senate did not reach consensus on Montenegro before the end of the year.

President-elect Donald Trump conceded that Russia was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) for the first time in a press conference, Wednesday, adding a little later a few times that perhaps it was another country. He vehemently denied a series of allegations published Tuesday about his involvement in “salacious behaviour” in a Russian hotel room. “It’s all fake news.