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• Trump threat fires up U.S. climate activists, draws in more

  11-11-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Seattle financial worker Harrison Karlewicz had been considering joining an environmental activist group for a while. The day after Donald Trump won the White House, he signed up. "That was a big push for me, kind of a wakeup call," the 25-year-old said, after joining 350 Seattle, a group that stages mass protests against fossil fuel use.
  
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• Trump considering outgoing Senator Ayotte for defense secretary: Wash Post

  11-11-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is considering outgoing Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire for the post of defense secretary, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing two sources familiar with the discussions. Other people on the list include retired Army Lieutenant General Joseph "Keith" Kellogg, former Defense Intelligence Agency Director General Mike Flynn and Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the Post said. (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Eric Walsh)
  
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• First Muslim elected to Congress eyes run at DNC chairmanship

  11-11-2016 23:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The country on Tuesday elected for president a man who once proposed "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."
  
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• Anti-Trump protest leaders say preparing for long fight

  11-11-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The protests in major U.S. cities against Republican Donald Trump's surprise presidential election victory have been impromptu affairs, quickly organized by young Americans with a diverse array of backgrounds and agendas. Rallies scheduled for Saturday in New York and Los Angeles, and a protest planned for Washington on Jan. 20, when the New York businessman succeeds President Barack Obama, will be just the beginning, activists said in a series of interviews.
  
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• Minorities Worry What a ‘Law and Order’ Donald Trump Presidency Will Mean

  11-11-2016 23:25 via nytimes.com
  His election was seen by many as a repudiation of the Black Lives Matter and similar protests and left questions about what policing would look like under him.
  
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• Three Trump children seen managing president-elect's company

  11-11-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The Trump Organization said on Friday it was vetting new business structures aimed at transferring management control to three of President-elect Donald Trump's children and a team of executives. The Trump Organization said in a statement it was planning to transfer control of the portfolio of businesses to Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump and other executives. Earlier on Friday, the three Trump children - the oldest of Trump's five children - were also named as members of T
  
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• Twitter impresses advertisers with BuzzFeed U.S. election livestream

  11-11-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twitter Inc said it was able to deliver more viewers than promised to advertisers on a U.S. election night livestream, good news for the microblogging site as it tries to ward off growing competition for ad dollars from Snapchat and Instagram. Twitter partnered with BuzzFeed to host an election night broadcast on Tuesday and attracted major advertisers, including Paramount Pictures, Amazon.com Inc’s “Man in the High Castle,” Activision Blizzard Inc’s “Call of Duty,&
  
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• Trump names loyalists, children to transition team

  11-11-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Luciana Lopez WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump put vice presidential running mate Mike Pence in charge of a White House transition team that also includes three of his grown children on Friday as he began the work of filling top administration jobs. Pence replaces New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Trump's campaign said, who remains as a vice chair of the transition effort as he deals with the fallout from the 'Bridgegate' lane closure scandal th
  
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• Kremlin: 'Lousy' US relations could improve with Trump

  11-11-2016 22:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke of points of agreement between the Kremlin and President-elect Donald Trump in a wide-ranging interview with CNN Friday, even as he said the relationship with the current White House is "lousy."
  
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• Supporters to Trump: break campaign promises at your peril

  11-11-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kathryn Stellmack expects the world from Donald Trump. After listening to his speeches and casting her vote for him, she expects Trump to toughen immigration laws, restore lost jobs, upend a corrupt political system, build a wall on the border, and be, as the millionaire put it, the "greatest jobs president that God has ever created." "We expect him to move forward on all the items he has promised to move forward on," said Stellmack, 69, a retiree in Wes
  
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• Pence will lead Trump transition

  11-11-2016 22:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Vice President-elect Mike Pence will lead the presidential transition now, a source on transition planning told CNN.
  
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• Trump may already have a plan ready to revamp Dodd-Frank

  11-11-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When Jeb Hensarling, the Republican chair of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, released legislation this summer to weaken the major financial law known as Dodd-Frank, many said it was a prêt-a-porter plan that his party’s nominee, Donald Trump, could easily adopt. Now that Trump is president-elect, he appears to be doing just that. Language about financial services posted on the Trump transition website, www.greatagain.gov, echoes the tone of Hensarling's bill, known as th
  
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• Canada says Russian sanctions must be upheld by all countries

  11-11-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion on Friday urged all countries to remain firm about upholding sanctions against Russia for its actions toward Ukraine and said Canada will not ease them as long as Moscow keeps its current stance. Dion's comments came three days after businessman Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election after a campaign in which he praised Russian President Vladimir Putin. "The behavior of Russia in Ukraine and Syria is problematic to say the least.
  
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• Inside the Clinton loss

  11-11-2016 21:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The high command of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign believe there's plenty of blame to go around for their stunning loss to Donald Trump.
  
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• Trump says he's considering keeping parts of Obamacare: WSJ

  11-11-2016 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal he would consider leaving in place parts of the Affordable Care Act, including provisions allowing parents to keep older children on their insurance and prohibiting insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing condition. In his first interview since Tuesday's election, Trump said a big reason for his shift from his call for an all-out repeal was his meeting Thursday with President Barack Obama, who suggested areas of t
  
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• Pence in, Christie out as head of Trump's transition team

  11-11-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Luciana Lopez WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump put vice presidential running mate Mike Pence in charge of his White House transition team on Friday, knocking New Jersey Governor Chris Christie down a peg as he began the work of filling top administration jobs. Christie will remain as a vice chair of the transition effort, Trump's campaign said, as he deals with the fallout from the 'Bridgegate' lane closure scandal that has damaged his political s
  
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• How voters who found both candidates unfit broke

  11-11-2016 21:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Nearly 18 million voters cast ballots this election despite believing that neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton were qualified to be president.
  
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• Parents Navigate Tears and Cheers as Kids React to Election

  11-11-2016 21:31 via nytimes.com
  Parents on both sides of the vote try to find teachable moments in the sometimes unpleasant aftermath of a divisive election.
  
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• Trump supporters cry foul over street protests

  11-11-2016 21:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The strong reaction to President-elect Donald Trump's victory has led to a backlash of another kind -- this one among his supporters.
  
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• Fairfax cuts equity hedging, sees U.S. rally after Trump win

  11-11-2016 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd , a Canadian firm headed by high-profile investor Prem Watsa, said on Friday it planned to significantly reduce its defensive equity hedges due to Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential election. Watsa made billions for Fairfax by correctly calling the 2008 financial crisis, but has since been famously bearish on the outlook for global equity markets. Last week, he said Fairfax would maintain defensive equity hedges and deflation protection as it remained conce
  
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• First U.S. transgender soldiers make gender transition after policy shift

  11-11-2016 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For several years, transgender U.S. Army Captain Julia Harrison shunned military social events, anxious at the thought of having to wear the pants and coat of male service members despite identifying as a woman. "If I hadn't been able to wear that uniform then I simply wouldn't have attended the event," said Harrison, who asked to be identified by a pseudonym. A month after the repeal of a ban on transgender people openly serving in the U.S. military went into effect, Harrison is part of a small
  
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• Michelle Obama makes third Vogue cover appearance

  11-11-2016 20:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  First Lady Michelle Obama is making her third appearance on the cover of Vogue as her days in the White House draw to a close.
  
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• Sheriff David Clarke: I will serve if Trump asks me to

  11-11-2016 20:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said in an interview Thursday he was open to serving in the Trump administration if a position was offered.
  
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• Trump Manhattan HQ 'fortress' amid transition to power

  11-11-2016 20:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Trump Tower in Manhattan, home to President-elect Donald Trump and a fixture of American politics for the last 18 months, has become a de facto "fortress" as security measures go into place for the incoming president.
  
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• Why climate change experts fear Trump's presidency

  11-11-2016 20:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  He has claimed that climate change is a "hoax" being led by the Chinese and promised to "cancel" the historic Paris Agreement. So it should come as little surprise that there is trepidation surrounding President-elect Donald Trump's views on what one expert describes as the "biggest future instability" facing the planet.
  
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• Trump pulled in different directions on chief of staff; Priebus has edge

  11-11-2016 20:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is once again being pulled in two different directions.
  
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• In rural-urban divide, U.S. voters are worlds apart

  11-11-2016 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Nick Carey JANESVILLE, Wisc. (Reuters) - Semi-retired Wisconsin pig farmer John Lader does not think much of Donald Trump as a messenger, but voted for what he described as the Republican president-elect's message of change and economic hope for America. "The last few years, there hasn't been much optimism and hope among working people in rural areas in this country," said Lader, 65, who lives in the farmland outside the southern Wisconsin city of Janesville. Around 65 miles (105 km) to the n
  
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• Christie moves to vice-chairman role for transition

  11-11-2016 20:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Vice President-elect Mike Pence will lead the presidential transition now, a source on transition planning told CNN.
  
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• Trump seen more moderate on criminal justice, law enforcement

  11-11-2016 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Criminal justice reform advocates said they expect Donald Trump will embrace moderate change once he is in the White House, toning down the punitive but undefined "law and order" image he projected on the campaign trail. In another instance of experts trying to pin down Trump on an issue he used on the stump without offering much detail, two groups that have met recently with his staff said they expect him to back mainstream sentencing and corrections reform
  
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• Hensarling would take Donald Trump's call for Treasury secretary

  11-11-2016 20:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rep. Jeb Hensarling said Friday if Donald Trump wanted to talk to him about being Treasury secretary, he'd take the call.
  
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• Trump taps Pence to lead transition team, removes New Jersey's Christie: NYT

  11-11-2016 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has removed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as leader of his transition team, handing the reins over to Vice President-Elect Mike Pence, a former U.S. lawmaker with deep Washington ties, the New York Times reported on Friday. The Times, citing several sources close to the transition team, said Trump told advisers he wanted to use Pence's contacts to move the transition process along. NBC News also reported the handover, which came one week after tw
  
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• Trump ignorant of Europe, poses risk to relations: EU's Juncker

  11-11-2016 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Donald Trump's election as U.S. president poses risks for the relationship between the European Union and the United States, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Friday. The shock winner of Tuesday's U.S. election was ignorant of the EU and its workings, Juncker told students at a conference in Luxembourg which can be viewed on the EU's website.
  
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• How Trump is helping Ryan keep his job as House speaker

  11-11-2016 20:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Paul Ryan's speakership seems safe -- and Donald Trump may deserve some of the credit.
  
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• Voter turnout at 20-year low in 2016

  11-11-2016 20:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Voter turnout this year dipped to nearly its lowest point in two decades.
  
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• Scared by Trump, some migrants on Mexico border give up American dream

  11-11-2016 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Alire Garcia NOGALES, Mexico (Reuters) - Donald Trump's election victory and his plans to crack down on illegal immigration is so troubling for the groups of men gathered just south of a rusty, towering fence on the U.S.-Mexico border that some are even considering going home. For most poor Central Americans and Mexicans at travelers' shelters in the desert town of Nogales, Trump's threats to build a wall along the whole border and deport millions of illegal immigrants have not made the
  
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• Democratic senator: Trump must 'get rid of his cell phone and quit tweeting stupid things'

  11-11-2016 19:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, offered some advice for President-elect Donald Trump Friday: get rid of your cellphone and "quit tweeting stupid things."
  
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• GOP national security world seeking détente with Trump

  11-11-2016 19:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Republican Party's most senior national security experts denounced their presidential candidate during the campaign as too reckless to lead the nation safely.
  
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• GOP National security world seeking détente with President-elect Trump

  11-11-2016 19:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Republican Party's most senior national security experts denounced their presidential candidate during the campaign as too reckless to lead the nation safely.
  
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• A discontented Michigan town: America should have seen Trump coming

  11-11-2016 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Allen ALGONAC, Mich. (Reuters) - Back in April, there were already early signs in this quiet Michigan town of the rural American discontent that helped propel Donald Trump to election victory, even if it was underestimated by the Washington establishment, pollsters and Hillary Clinton's campaign. On a return visit after Tuesday's election, Reuters found that many of Algonac's 4,000 residents were jubilant that Trump had captured the White House, although there were also echoes of wha
  
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• Muslim woman: I'm one of Trump's "silent voters"

  11-11-2016 19:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Asra Nomani is an immigrant, a Muslim and a life-long liberal. She is also, as she told CNN's Carol Costello Friday, a "silent secret Donald Trump voter."
  
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• What a Trump presidency could mean for LGBT Americans

  11-11-2016 19:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The election of Donald Trump and running mate Mike Pence set off panic in gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities across the country, as people worried which of their divisive campaign promises would come true.
  
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• Twitter outperforms on ads for BuzzFeed's election livestream

  11-11-2016 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twitter said it was able to deliver more viewers than promised to advertisers on an election night livestream, good news for the microblogging site as it tries to ward off growing competition for ad dollars from Snapchat and Instagram. Twitter Inc partnered with BuzzFeed to host their election night broadcast on Tuesday and attracted major advertisers, including Paramount Pictures, Amazon’s “Man in the High Castle,” Activision Blizzard’s “Call of Duty,” Johnni
  
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• White House seeks additional $11.6 billion for ISIS fight

  11-11-2016 18:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama has requested an additional $11.6 billion from Congress to boost the fight against ISIS and fund the continued presence of US troops in Afghanistan.
  
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• Obama on how to heal post-election: Honor veterans

  11-11-2016 18:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Recognizing and honoring America's military can provide a salve for the bitterly fought presidential election, President Barack Obama said Friday during his final Veterans Day as commander in chief.
  
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• Austrian presidential hopeful aims to hammer far right with Trump's own message

  11-11-2016 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) - The independent candidate in Austria's tight presidential run-off plans to use the far right's support for Donald Trump as a weapon against it to ensure the U.S. election outcome will not help his opponent as many suspect. Former Greens leader Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly won a run-off in May against the anti-immigration Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer, but the result was overturned in July. Events since the original run-off, including Britain's vote to e
  
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• Stressed out over Trump victory? Try cleaning out your freezer

  11-11-2016 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clean out your freezer, try a manicure-pedicure and stay off social media. While many Americans celebrated the election victory of Republican Trump, who received 59.5 million votes, some supporters of Hillary Clinton, who got 59.7 million votes, took to social media to express anger and disappointment. Cosmopolitan magazine offered "14 Effective Ways to Deal With Post-Election Anxiety." One way is to stay off social media.
  
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• Trump win puts U.S.-Russia hostility on hold - but for how long?

  11-11-2016 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After years of rising U.S.-Russia tensions over Ukraine, Syria, cyber attacks and nuclear arms control, Donald Trump's election as U.S. president may offer a narrow window to repair relations as he and Russian President Vladimir Putin size up each other. U.S. officials and private analysts predict that Putin, who has reasserted Moscow's military and political muscle from eastern Europe to the Middle East, will avoid openly provoking Tr
  
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• 5 reasons not to expect Hillary Clinton to be prosecuted

  11-11-2016 17:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One of the more sensational and controversial pledges President-Elect Donald Trump made on the campaign trail was that he would seek to "lock up" his opponent, Hillary Clinton, whether for her controversial practice of using a private e-mail server for much of her official State Department correspondence or other crimes.
  
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• Team Trump is already filled with Washington insiders

  11-11-2016 17:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  To shape his administration, President-elect Donald Trump is drawing squarely from the "swamp" he has pledged to drain.
  
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• Richard Branson: 'People will die' without Obamacare

  11-11-2016 17:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sir Richard Branson said Friday the voters who helped elect Donald Trump are those who will be hurt most if he gets rid of Obamacare.
  
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