Month: November 2016
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Trump nominating Mnuchin as Treasury secretary
President-elect Donald J. Trump is planning to nominate Steven Mnuchin as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury, Wilbur Ross as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and Todd Ricketts as Deputy Secretary of Commerce.
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Trump names Price as HHS secretary, Verma as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
President-elect Donald J. Trump is nominating U.S. Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., chairman of the House Budget Committee, as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and Seema Verma as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Passio closing out 2016 with trade shows in Georgia, Florida
Passio Technologies will close out a busy and productive 2016 trade show season by bringing its right-sized solutions to shows in Georgia and Florida.
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Fidel Castro dead at 90
Fidel Castro, a revolutionary who rose to power in 1959 and ruled Cuba with an iron fist for decades, died Friday.
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Georgia State wins Mayan Division of the Cancun Challenge
Georgia State won the Mayan Division of the Cancun Challenge on Wednesday at the Hard Rock Riviera Maya Hotel with an impressive 82-65 win over Eastern Kentucky.
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Trump nominates Gov. Nikki Haley as United Nations representative
President-elect Donald J. Trump is nominating South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
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Trump picks candidates for attorney general, CIA and NSA posts
President-elect Donald J. Trump plans to nominate U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to serve as Attorney General and U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Trump also selected retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to be the assistant to the president for National Security Affairs.
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Georgia executes man for 2001 murder
The state of Georgia on Wednesday executed a 54-year-old man for a 2001 murder.
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Draining the swamp: Transition team members agree not to lobby for five years
Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team must agree they will not lobby for at least five years after leaving the government.
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Tom Price meets with Donald Trump
U.S. Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., was among the potential candidates to meet with President-elect Donald Trump today, a transition team official said on a media call this evening.