An online petition urging the Senate to block President-elect Donald Trump 's Cabinet nominations is gaining momentum. The petition, set up by the progressive advocacy group MoveOn, has attracted more than 44,000 signatures since it was set up five days ago. This figure is more than double the 20,000 it achieved one day after it went live.

Who’s good for Russia and who’s going to be a problem among Trump’s Cabinet choices according to Russian commentators.

Moving from a Wall Street corner office to a DC corner office comes at a cost: For a top financier who’s been asked to run the Treasury Department, say, you could be looking at a pay cut of tens of millions of dollars a year.