US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine General James N. Mattis to be his Secretary of Defense, reports said on Friday....

The architects of the historic Abki bar Trump Sarkar campaign, which turned over 850,000 Hindu votes from Democrat to Republican in the weeks leading up to the election, are gaining influence in the developing Trump administration....
Nandu Thondavadi, CEO of Schaumburg-based Quadrant 4 System, and Dhru Desai, its chief financial officer and chairman, were charged with wire fraud and certifying false financial reports related to two acquisitions and the settlement of a lawsuit against the company in 2013, the Chicago Tribune reported. ...
Donald Trump plans to keep President Barack Obama's US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, daily mail reported....
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has been in touch with Palin, raising the possibility that it could consider her for the post, NBC reported....
United States Democratic legislators re-elected Nancy Pelosi as House minority leader on Wednesday as she defeated Ohio Democratic Representative Tim Ryan by 71 votes, media reports said....
"This team will be instrumental in implementing the president-elect's America First economic plan that will create more than 25 million jobs over the next decade," Efe news agency quoted Trump's transition team as saying in a press release. ...
Cuban leader Fidel Castro's ashes began a four-day journey that will take them from the emblematic Revolution Square here to city of Santiago de Cuba via caravan, where the revolutionary leader's funeral service will take place on Sunday....
Balwinder Singh, an Indian citizen holding a Green Card, made the admission before Federal Judge Larry R. Hicks in Reno, Nevada state, on Tuesday that he provided a co-conspirator with night vision goggles for the planned attack as a part of their terrorist conspiracy....
Even as broader uncertainty looms over the fate of the H1B visas under the incoming Donald Trump administration, some recent changes by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) make them friendlier to those already on them....