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• How did Trump win? Here are 24 theories

  10-11-2016 23:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Here is one thing we know: Donald Trump, against all odds, will be the next President of the United States.
  
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• Judge tells Trump University litigants they would be wise to settle

  10-11-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dan Levine and Karen Freifeld SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The U.S. judge overseeing the lawsuit against President-elect Donald Trump and his Trump University told both sides they would be wise to settle the case "given all else that's involved." Lawyers for the president-elect are squaring off against students who claim they were they were lured by false promises to pay up to $35,000 to learn Trump's real estate investing "secrets" from his "hand-picked" instructors.  Earlier on Thursday, U.S.
  
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• Here's What Happens to President Obama's Twitter Account When Donald Trump Takes Office - TIME

  10-11-2016 23:21 via time.com
  
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  Here's What Happens to President Obama's Twitter Account When Donald Trump Takes Office
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  So Donald Trump is the next President of the United States, and he and President Obama took the first step toward his inauguration with a meeting at the White House on Thursday. But amid questions about nuclear codes and the transfer of power, here's a ...
  Obama, Trump meet at White House, discuss transition of powerFox News
  Obama Calls for Unity, but Signature Acts Remain in JeopardyNew York
  
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• Trump strongly considering Steve Bannon for chief of staff

  10-11-2016 23:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is strongly considering naming his campaign CEO Steve Bannon to serve as his White House chief of staff, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN on Thursday.
  
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• 'South Park' on the election: 'Oh Jeez' - Los Angeles Times

  10-11-2016 23:13 via latimes.com
  
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  'South Park' on the election: 'Oh Jeez'
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  One of the casualties, if that's the word, of Tuesday's big result, is that the third quadrennial “South Park” day-after-the-election episode — a stunt that has become a tradition — required some last-minute revision. And this is a show that works ...
  South Park spoofs the US election result: 'What have you done? You maniacs!'The Guardian
  South Park Re-Wrote Tonight's Episode For a Trump VictoryE
  
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• Reince Priebus says he doesn't know his role in Trump administration

  10-11-2016 23:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Thursday he doesn't know what role he'll have in President-elect Donald Trump's administration.
  
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• Bannon, Priebus top candidates for White House chief of staff: NY Times

  10-11-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's campaign chief, Steve Bannon, is a leading candidate to become White House chief of staff, but Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is also being considered for the job, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Bannon, the executive chairman of the conservative website Breitbart News, is well liked among Trump's circle of advisers, the Times said. Priebus is said to be viewed favorably by Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner,
  
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• Barron Trump will be first son in White House since JFK Jr.

  10-11-2016 23:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When Donald and Melania Trump move to Washington in January, they'll be bringing along something that the White House hasn't seen in over 50 years -- a son.
  
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• Trump foreign policy adviser: Trump will demand changes to the Iran nuclear deal

  10-11-2016 23:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Walid Phares, one of Donald Trump's foreign policy advisers, says the President-elect is going to demand changes to the Iran nuclear agreement.
  
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• Philippine leader says honoring defense pacts with 'friends' U.S.

  10-11-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday he would respect defense treaties with "friends" and "ally" the United States, but still wanted foreign troops to leave his country by the end of his term. Duterte spared the United States one of his trademark verbal lashings and took a more conciliatory tone than usual, although he hinted at revoking the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) that gives U.S. troops rotational access to Philippine
  
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• President-elect Trump goes to DC

  10-11-2016 23:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump visited DC and took in the sights.
  
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• President-elect Donald Trump goes to DC

  10-11-2016 23:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump visited DC and took in the sights.
  
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• The Cavaliers bring 🏀 to the White House

  10-11-2016 23:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  🏀 was life at the White House on Thursday when the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers visited.
  
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• Trump considering Rep. Hensarling for Treasury secretary: WSJ

  10-11-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Aides to President-elect Donald Trump are considering Republican Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas as a candidate for Treasury secretary, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Hensarling told the Journal on Thursday he would "certainly have the discussion" if the Trump administration came calling. "But I’m not anticipating the telephone call," Hensarling added.
  
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• Roger Goodell: Trump has made things hard for me at home

  10-11-2016 22:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One of many Americans shaken by the election of Donald Trump as president is NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who said Thursday that he was struggling to explain his victory to the women in his family.
  
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• Climate scientists say Trump win means U.S. emissions may not fall as pledged

  10-11-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alister Doyle MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - Donald Trump's election as U.S. president muddies the outlook for efforts to cut greenhouse gases and could mean U.S. emissions stay flat until 2030, compared with deep cuts planned by President Barack Obama, scientists said on Thursday. Republican Trump, who has called climate change a hoax and is expected to favor the coal and oil industries, opposes last year's Paris Agreement by almost 200 nations to combat global warming. In the past year "nat
  
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• Two dead, scores wounded as blast rocks German consulate in Afghan city

  10-11-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Militants attacked the German consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif late on Thursday, ramming a car packed with explosives into its high outer wall in an assault that media said killed at least two people and wounded scores. The bombing was claimed by the Taliban in retaliation for NATO air strikes last week near the northern city of Kunduz, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle said. At least two people were killed and 60 wounded including locals in Thursday's attack, some critica
  
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• Britain's Johnson says no need for gloom about Trump victory

  10-11-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, setting aside his previous hostility toward Donald Trump, said on Thursday his U.S. presidential election victory offered economic opportunities and there was no need for Europeans to be despondent about it. "I may respectfully say to my European friends and colleagues that it's time we snapped out of general doom and gloom about this election," Johnson said after meeting Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic. Trump's shock victory over Hill
  
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• Glitch briefly removes 'Muslim ban' proposal from Trump website

  10-11-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of the most controversial proposals Donald Trump made while running for U.S. president disappeared from his campaign website on Thursday, but a spokesman said what some observers took as a softening of Trump's policies was due to a technical glitch. The link to Trump's Dec. 7 proposal titled: "Donald J. Trump statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration," in which he called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" vanished
  
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• Attacks on U.S. minorities reported in wake of Trump victory

  10-11-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attacks on women in Islamic head scarves, racist graffiti and stories about bullying of immigrant children indicated a backlash against U.S. minorities from Donald Trump supporters after his presidential win. The reports of intimidation and violence came as people protested Trump's victory in cities across the country, citing concerns that the Republican's campaign rhetoric about women and racial and religious minorities could result in persecution of these groups once he takes office in January
  
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• Trump meets with Obama at the White House as whirlwind transition starts - Washington Post

  10-11-2016 22:06 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Trump meets with Obama at the White House as whirlwind transition starts
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  President-elect Donald Trump and President Obama met for the first time Thursday and pledged to work together, starting the whirlwind transition that will unfold over the next 10 weeks until Trump is sworn into office Jan. 20. Trump later met with ...
  White House Offers Details on Trump-Obama MeetingTIME
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• SAD! 9 words and phrases that will never be the same after 2016

  10-11-2016 21:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Following the 2016 election cycle, where a billionaire reality television star took American politics by storm, some words will just never be the same.
  
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• Obama welcomes Cleveland Cavaliers to White House - CNN

  10-11-2016 21:59 via cnn.com
  
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  Obama welcomes Cleveland Cavaliers to White House
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  But through it all, Obama said, "Cleveland was always Believeland," adding, "that's why the Cavs have always given back to their fans and the community that's been so loyal to them." The reigning NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers visited the White House ...and more »
  
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• Obama meets his nemesis - Politico

  10-11-2016 21:53 via politico.com
  
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  Obama meets his nemesis
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  President Barack Obama spoke first. President-elect Donald Trump barely looked at him, his eyes on the floor, darting around the room, his face a little red, his son-in-law Jared Kushner—who had just had a long walk around the South Lawn of the White ...
  See President Barack Obama and President-Elect Donald Trump Meet for the First TimeTIME
  At the next presidential election, the popular vote must win outThe Guardian
  Trump's 2-Point Popular Vo
  
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• When the people protest the president

  10-11-2016 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Thousands of people in at least 25 US cities took to the streets to protest Donald Trump the night after his election to the presidency -- a swift and robust outcry against the man more than two months before he even takes office.
  
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• Trump team promises press pool, but concerns remain

  10-11-2016 21:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's transition team said Thursday that his administration will have a traditional press pool.
  
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• Explosion rocks German consulate in Afghan city

  10-11-2016 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (Reuters) - An explosion rocked the German consulate in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, late on Thursday, a spokesman for NATO forces in the area said. Troops from the North Atlantic alliance were investigating the blast, which occurred in front of the building, he told Reuters by telephone. There were no immediate details any casualties. (Reporting by Sabine Siebold, editing by John Stonestreet)
  
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• Trump says discussed immigration, healthcare and jobs in Senate meeting

  10-11-2016 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, after a meeting with the Senate Republican leader on Thursday, said his top three priorities are immigration, healthcare and jobs. Trump spoke to reporters after his meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Earlier Thursday, Trump held meetings with House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and President Barack Obama. (Reporting by Susan Cornwell; Writing by Eric Walsh; Editing by Eric Beech)
  
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• Tech CEO letters to employees address feelings of unrest after election - The Verge

  10-11-2016 21:24 via theverge.com
  
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  Tech CEO letters to employees address feelings of unrest after election
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  Over the past 24 hours, top executives at Apple, eBay, Box, LinkedIn, and Microsoft have sent company-wide memos urging employees to try to move forward and expressing the belief that people are inherently good. Others, like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, ...and more »
  
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• Canada sees U.S. trade deal minus Mexico as fall-back option

  10-11-2016 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Ljunggren and Andrea Hopkins OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada could fall back on a free trade agreement that excludes Mexico if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump follows through on radical protectionist policies, officials said, predicting fears of a massive economic hit are overblown. During a raucous election campaign, Trump vowed to either renegotiate or scrap the 1994 three-nation North American Free Trade Agreement, under which Canada sends 75 percent of all its exports to the United Stat
  
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• Trump's foreign policy approach almost same as that of Putin: Kremlin

  10-11-2016 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's foreign policy approach was "phenomenally close" to that of President Vladimir Putin, giving Russia hope that tattered U.S.-Russia relations could gradually be improved. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, speaking in New York, said he saw incredible similarities between the two men's foreign policy ideas, and this meant there was a solid basis to start a meaningful dialogue between Moscow and Washi
  
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• Obama welcomes Cleveland Cavaliers to White House

  10-11-2016 21:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama welcomed the kings of Cleveland to the White House Thursday.
  
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• VA moves to fire executive who used office for veterans charity for lavish spending

  10-11-2016 21:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking steps to fire one its lawyers, whose personal charity is shutting down in the wake of a settlement with the New York attorney general's office over the widespread misuse of funds.
  
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• White House says Obamacare enrollment a priority

  10-11-2016 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Getting more Americans to enroll for health insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law known as Obamacare is a top priority of his administration until President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, the White House said on Thursday. "We would be focused on ... maximizing the opportunity that currently is available for millions of Americans to go to healthcare.gov during the open enrollment period and sign up for healthcare," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told a news brie
  
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• Liberal Warren throws down gauntlet to President-elect Trump

  10-11-2016 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democrats' liberal firebrand, Senator Elizabeth Warren, threw down the gauntlet to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday, telling labor union members there are financial and social issues where her party will fight him and continuing to blast the Republican. Battling bigotry is the first job for Democrats after the election, said Warren, of Massachusetts, giving a sense of how her party will operate now that it no longer controls the White House and
  
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• From avocados to autos, Mexican businesses fear tough times with Trump

  10-11-2016 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein and Christine Murray TIJUANA, Mexico/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - From avocado orchards to border factories, Mexican exporters who have prospered under two decades of NAFTA face the prospect of an abrupt end to the boom if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump carries out his threats to ditch the free trade pact. Trump says the North American Free Trade Agreement favors Mexico at the expense of U.S. workers and has vowed to either rewrite or withdraw from the deal, as well a
  
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• 20 things Trump has promised to do in office

  10-11-2016 20:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump already has a to-do list that will keep him busy starting on Day One.
  
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• Obama Hosts Trump at White House for First Meeting After Election - NBCNews.com

  10-11-2016 20:48 via nbcnews.com
  
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  Obama Hosts Trump at White House for First Meeting After Election
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  After their first face-to-face meeting, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump pledged to work together following a rancorous election, with the sitting president saying he wants to make Trump and his family "feel welcome as we prepare ...
  After trading insults, Trump and Obama to meet at White HouseCBS News
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• Warren vows to work with Trump on economic issues

  10-11-2016 20:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren offered an extraordinary pledge Thursday to work with President-elect Donald Trump on economic issues, declaring that "the truth is that people have a right to be angry."
  
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• Judge rejects Trump bid to bar campaign statements from fraud trial

  10-11-2016 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dan Levine and Karen Freifeld SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday tentatively rejected a bid by Donald Trump to keep a wide range of statements from the presidential campaign out of an upcoming fraud trial over his Trump University venture. The ruling came in advance of a pretrial hearing later on Thursday where lawyers for the president-elect will square off against students who claim they were they were lured by false promises to pay up to $35,000 to learn Trump's real estate inv
  
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• With Trump's Election, a Bonanza for Washington Lobbyists - New York Times

  10-11-2016 20:39 via nytimes.com
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  With Trump's Election, a Bonanza for Washington Lobbyists
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  Across Washington, lobbyists and trade association executives were busy reviewing their priorities, which include repealing financial regulations instituted during the Obama administration, pushing for cuts in corporate taxes, overhauling President ...and more »
  
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• Trump, Ryan meet for first time since historic win

  10-11-2016 20:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Just days ago, Paul Ryan was campaigning for the Republican ticket but barely mentioning Donald Trump's name.
  
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• Trump, after meeting Ryan, says will move fast on healthcare, immigration

  10-11-2016 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday after a meeting with House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan that after his inauguration he will work very rapidly on issues like healthcare and immigration. Speaking in Ryan's office, Trump told reporters: "We are going to lower taxes, as you know," and added: "I think we are going to do some absolutely spectacular things for the American people." (Reporting by Susan Cornwell; Editing by Chris Reese)
  
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• Ex-congressman Schock to be indicted in spending scandal

  10-11-2016 20:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A federal grand jury is poised to indict former Rep. Aaron Schock after a congressional ethics investigation revealed that he used taxpayer money to fund lavish trips and events.
  
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• Trump's business empire poses unprecedented potential conflicts of interest

  10-11-2016 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump campaigned for president as a savvy billionaire who would apply his business acumen to improving the U.S. economy, cutting taxes for Americans and negotiating better trade deals. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, quietly managed his broadcasting businesses despite insisting publicly that he had ceased all involvement, according to his biographer, Robert Caro. "There are no legal restrictions, no legal requirements," said Noah Bookbinder, the executive d
  
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• Trade group urges Trump to revise auto emissions rules

  10-11-2016 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A major auto trade group on Thursday urged President-elect Donald Trump's transition team to revise fuel efficiency mandates that could cost them billions of dollars and called for a full-scale review of the Obama administration's autonomous vehicle policies. In an eight-page letter Thursday to Trump's transition team made public and reported earlier by Reuters, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which presents major automakers including General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co and Toyota Motor C
  
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• Merkel allies warn of Trump effect, poll shows Germans dismayed

  10-11-2016 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Madeline Chambers and Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - Leading allies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Thursday that populists would pose a problem for Europe unless mainstream politicians came up with answers after Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election. Trump's win has encouraged right-wing parties in Austria, France and the Netherlands, among others. A Politbarometer poll for broadcaster ZDF showed 82 percent of Germans viewed it as bad or very bad, and 65
  
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• White House Offers Details on Trump-Obama Meeting - TIME

  10-11-2016 20:14 via time.com
  
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  White House Offers Details on Trump-Obama Meeting
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  The White House says Obama remains impressed by the tone Trump has taken in the immediate aftermath of the election, but on Thursday Earnest made clear that the views of a president who just days ago referred to his now-successor as “uniquely ...
  Obama, Trump Talk Policy Issues in First MeetingWall Street Journal
  President Obama Calls Conversation With Donald Trump 'Excellent'ABC News
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• Common cause for Trump and Yellen in continuing job and wage growth

  10-11-2016 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Fed Chair Janet Yellen may emerge as unlikely allies as the incoming administration moves toward policies Federal Reserve officials have long advocated and the Fed contemplates a “high-pressure” economy to try to boost jobs and wages, at least in the short term. Top Trump adviser David Malpass on Thursday seemed to set aside any likely assault on the Fed’s leadership or structure in a new administration that will be preoccupied with deliver
  
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• Obama to protesters: We're all Americans - White House

  10-11-2016 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama believes in the right of Americans to protest the election of Donald Trump in a non-violent manner, but wants people to hear the message that "we're Americans and patriots" before Democrats and Republicans, the White House said on Thursday. "It's important for us to remember, a day or two after the election, that we're Democrats and Republicans, but we're Americans and patriots first," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters.
  
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