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• Trump defeated Clinton by 10,704 votes in Michigan: unofficial tally

  23-11-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican President-elect Donald Trump defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 10,704 votes in the state of Michigan, according to certified unofficial county-by-county results released on Wednesday by the Michigan secretary of state. Trump received 2,279,543 votes compared with Clinton's 2,268,839, according to figures posted on the secretary of state's website. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson received 172,136 votes and Green candidate Jill Stein won 51,463.
  
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• Dem electors launch final salvo against Trump

  23-11-2016 23:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Democratic electors are launching one last bid to block Donald Trump from taking the White House -- reaching out to their Republican counterparts with the plea they break rank and support another Republican candidate.
  
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• Trump has not offered Carson U.S. housing post: spokesman

  23-11-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has not extended an offer to retired neurosurgeon and former presidential rival Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Carson spokesman said on Wednesday, disputing a report by the Wall Street Journal. "Trump did not make an offer," Carson spokesman Armstrong Williams told Reuters. Nothing has been offered and no decision has been made." The Wall Street Journal earlier had cited Williams as saying Carson had been offered the post and ha
  
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• CNN/ORC poll: Most say only turkeys will talk politics at the table

  23-11-2016 22:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Americans say that this Thanksgiving they are most thankful for their family, but they really hope that Aunt Ann won't ask about politics as she passes the mashed potatoes.
  
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• Wilbur Ross seen as Trump pick for Commerce Department: WSJ

  23-11-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select Wilbur Ross Jr as secretary of the Commerce Department, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the deliberations. Ross, 78, is the billionaire chairman of private equity firm W.L. Ross & Co, which is known for buying up failed companies. (Reporting by Eric Walsh; Editing by Chris Reese)
  
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• Carson accepts Trump's offer to head Housing and Urban Development: WSJ

  23-11-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a former presidential rival, on Wednesday accepted an offer from President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a Carson spokesman. As recently as last week, Carson had told The Washington Post he was not interested in a Cabinet job, saying, "Having me as a federal bureaucrat would be like a fish out of water." But he and Trump met on Tuesday at T
  
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• Golden State Warriors head coach talks politics, Trump

  23-11-2016 21:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr hears the same refrain all the time from fans who think his sole focus should be basketball: "Stick to sports."
  
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• 'Yes, we cran': Obama pardons turkeys for last time as POTUS

  23-11-2016 21:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama dished out some final Thanksgiving puns Wednesday as he performed the ceremonial White House task of pardoning turkeys.
  
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• Betsy DeVos picked for Trump's education secretary

  23-11-2016 21:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has picked Betsy DeVos, a top Republican donor and school choice activist, to head the Department of Education, the Trump transition team announced Wednesday.
  
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• Trump names Haley, a foreign policy novice, as envoy to U.N.

  23-11-2016 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Wednesday named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a former critic who has little foreign policy experience, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at a time of uncertainty over America's international role under his presidency. Haley, one of two women chosen for a job in Trump's Cabinet, is "a proven dealmaker, and we look to be making plenty of deals. The 44-year-old daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley represents wha
  
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• French Jewish leaders criticize Fillon over fundamentalism comments

  23-11-2016 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jewish leaders criticizes French presidential frontrunner Francois Fillon on Wednesday for suggesting Jews had in the past not wanted to respect the country's rules. Fillon, tipped to win the second round of a primary this weekend to become the conservative candidate for next year's presidential election, was talking to Europe 1 radio about the need to fight radical Islamism. "We must fight that fundamentalism, in the same way that in the past ... we fought some forms of Catholic fundamentalism
  
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• New cutting-edge $4B Navy destroyer malfunctions in Panama Canal

  23-11-2016 20:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Just weeks after its debut, the Navy's most technologically advanced destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, has been put out of action due to engineering problems that occurred while it was crossing the Panama Canal.
  
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• Trump looks to critics for top jobs

  23-11-2016 20:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is looking to some of his most bitter past opponents and critics as he assembles a Cabinet.
  
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• Contenders, picks for key jobs in Trump's administration

  23-11-2016 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Wednesday picked South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as his U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and wealthy Republican donor Betsy DeVos as education secretary. It was the latest move from the Republican president-elect as he works to fill administration positions before his Jan. 20 inauguration. His transition team said he might have another Cabinet-level announcement later in the day. Below are people mentioned as contenders for senior roles. See end of list for p
  
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• Election Facts to Keep Handy for Thanksgiving Dinner Discussion - New York Times

  23-11-2016 19:50 via nytimes.com
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  The New York Times called the election for Donald J. Trump at about 2:40 a.m. on Nov. 9. At that time, he had about 57.2 million votes, almost a million more than Hillary Clinton. Even before then, the signs pointed to her edge in the national popular ...
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• Trump names foreign policy novice Haley as envoy to U.N.

  23-11-2016 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Wednesday named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a former critic who has little foreign policy experience, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at a time of uncertainty over America's international role under his presidency. Haley, one of two women chosen for a job in Trump's Cabinet, is "a proven dealmaker, and we look to be making plenty of deals. A 44-year-old Republican and the daughter of Indian immigrants, Hal
  
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• Trump taps Michigan Republican DeVos for education secretary: reports

  23-11-2016 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has tapped wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the U.S. Education Department, a post she has accepted, according to media reports on Wednesday. DeVos, former chair of the Michigan Republican Party, met with Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Saturday and discussed "the Common Core mission, and setting higher national standards and promoting the growth of school choice across the nation," accord
  
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• Haley lends Trump team diversity but little diplomatic heft

  23-11-2016 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By picking fellow Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick rounded out his early Cabinet choices with his first woman and ethnic minority. In tapping the popular governor of a state that supported him, Trump's choice could signal an attempt to reach out to minorities in the wake of his Nov. 8 victory following a bitterly divisive campaign. Trump said on Wednesday that Haley could bring people togeth
  
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• Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei warns US on sanctions

  23-11-2016 19:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday his country will react if the United States renews sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
  
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• Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown: I'd likely support Romney for secretary of state

  23-11-2016 18:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Sherrod Brown said Tuesday that he'd likely support former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to be secretary of state if President-elect Donald Trump nominates him.
  
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• Trump selects foreign policy novice as ambassador to U.N.

  23-11-2016 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Roberta Rampton and Doina Chiacu WEST PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump has picked South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a former critic who has little foreign policy experience, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at a time of uncertainty over America's international role under his presidency. A 44-year-old Republican and the daughter of Indian immigrants who is a voice for tolerance, Haley took Trump strongly to task during the presidential campaign over h
  
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• Ivanka Trump's company: 'Our mission is not political'

  23-11-2016 18:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ivanka Trump is trying to put a little space between her company and her father.
  
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• Trump's national security adviser pick regularly pushed Sharia law conspiracy theories

  23-11-2016 18:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump's pick to be national security adviser, has on several occasions peddled conspiracy theories about Islamic Sharia law coming to the United States.
  
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• Carson talks with Trump team, says he can make 'inner cities great'

  23-11-2016 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Republican rival-turned-supporter Ben Carson on Wednesday said he could serve a role under Donald Trump after talks with the president-elect's team. Carson had been offered the job leading the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Carson spokesman said on Tuesday. "After serious discussions with the Trump transition team, I feel that I can make a significant contribution particularly to making our inner cities great for everyone," Carson, a former pres
  
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• Mattis waterboarding comments 'surprised' Trump

  23-11-2016 18:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump said a conversation with Ret. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis gave him a new perspective on waterboarding, a torture tool he has pledged to reinstate.
  
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• France's Fillon seen winning conservatives' primaries: poll

  23-11-2016 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French former prime minister Francois Fillon is set to win the conservative nomination for next year's presidential election by a wide margin, an Ifop-Fiducial poll forecast ahead of a primaries' run-off vote on Sunday. Fillon unexpectedly topped the first round last Sunday. Anyone can take part in the primaries independently of whether they are members of the Les Republicains conservative party or not.
  
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• Spokeswoman: Elton John 'will NOT be performing at Trump's Inauguration'

  23-11-2016 17:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Elton John will not be performing at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, according to the singer's spokeswoman, denying a claim made by a vice chair of Trump's presidential inaugural committee.
  
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• Iran rejects Israel claim of arms to Hezbollah on commercial flights

  23-11-2016 17:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday rejected as baseless and unsubstantiated accusations by Israel that Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were using commercial airline flights to ship weapons to the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah. Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon made the accusations in a letter to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday. "The letter, once again, contains a flurry of baseless and unsubstantiated accusations that are leveled against my
  
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• Jonathan Gray out of running for Treasury secretary

  23-11-2016 16:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Jonathan Gray, said to be one of two finalists for Treasury secretary in the Trump administration, says he is no longer in the running for the job.
  
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• South Carolina governor and Trump critic Haley picked for U.N. job

  23-11-2016 16:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Haley said she had accepted the offer and would remain governor pending her confirmation to the Cabinet-level post by the U.S. Senate. A 44-year-old Republican, Haley took Trump to task during the presidential campaign over his harsh rhetoric about illegal immigrants and for not speaking forcefully enough against white supremacists.
  
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• Trump supporter on prosecuting Clinton: 'Let's set this one aside'

  23-11-2016 16:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rep. Sean Duffy said Wednesday there is no need for Donald Trump to prosecute Hillary Clinton because the American public already has already made its decision about her.
  
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• So, Who Wants to Lead the DNC Back From Defeat?

  23-11-2016 15:06
  
  The focus for the past few weeks has been on the President-elect, of course, but the Democratic Party is currently in the midst of regrouping after a national loss and there are a few candidates tossing their name in the hat for party Chairman (or Chairwoman). This person will have the unenviable task of rebuilding […]
  
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• Petraeus says he is willing to serve in Trump administration

  23-11-2016 14:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus says he would serve in US President-elect Donald Trump's administration, if requested.
  
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• Trump picks South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be US ambassador to UN

  23-11-2016 14:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has picked South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be the US ambassador to the United Nations, according to a source familiar with the decision.
  
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• Trump chooses Governor Nikki Haley for U.N. ambassador: news reports

  23-11-2016 13:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a daughter of immigrants from India who has little international experience, to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, The Post and Courier newspaper and other media reported on Wednesday. The 44-year-old governor has accepted the offer, the Charleston, South Carolina, newspaper reported, citing unidentified sources. The choice of Haley, who embraces tolerance, may be aimed at offsetting Trump's divisive
  
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• South Carolina Governor Haley accepts Trump's U.N. offer: NBC

  23-11-2016 13:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has accepted President-elect Donald Trump's offer to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, NBC News reported on Wednesday, citing a source familiar with the transition process. Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, had backed Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz during the Republican battle for a White House nominee. (Reporting by Richa Naidu in Bengaluru; Editing by Ted Kerr)
  
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• As Treasury pick, Steven Mnuchin may get questions about how he ran his own bank

  23-11-2016 12:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Steven Mnuchin is one of Donald Trump's top picks to be Treasury secretary, but if he's chosen he'll face some tough questions about how he ran his own bank.
  
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• Trump won with lowest minority vote in decades, fueling divisions

  23-11-2016 12:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Peter Eisler WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency with less support from black and Hispanic voters than any president in at least 40 years, a Reuters review of polling data shows, highlighting deep national divisions that have fueled incidents of racial and political confrontation. Trump was elected with 8 percent of the black vote, 28 percent of the Hispanic vote and 27 percent of the Asian-American vote, according to the Reuters/Ipsos Election Day poll. Among black vo
  
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• Kremlin to improve US-Russia relations: 'It's hard to make them worse'

  23-11-2016 12:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Russia hopes to resume dialogue and bring relations with the US "back to a constructive course," according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, who said it would be "hard to make them worse."
  
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• Postelection Harassment, Case by Case

  23-11-2016 11:45 via nytimes.com
  Here is a look at five cases: Some of the people involved apologized. One denied being responsible. And another said his actions had been misconstrued.
  
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• As Trump disses TPP, China says to 'play role' in Asia-Pacific integration

  23-11-2016 10:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China will "play its role" in promoting economic integration in the Asia-Pacific, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he would kill an ambitious regional trade pact. Trump's statement appeared to open the way for China to assume the United States' leadership mantle on trade and diplomacy in Asia.
  
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• Dalai Lama says will visit Trump in move bound to anger China

  23-11-2016 09:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that he would visit U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, a meeting that would infuriate Beijing which views the Nobel Peace Prize-winning monk as a dangerous separatist. Speaking during a visit to Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar and asked about the U.S. election, the Dalai Lama said he had always considered the United States a "leading nation of the free world". President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama at the White House in June despi
  
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• Ex-CIA boss Petraeus indicates would serve Trump if asked

  23-11-2016 09:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Retired U.S. general David Petraeus indicated on Wednesday that he would serve in President-elect Donald Trump's administration if he was offered a job, according to an interview on Britain's BBC radio. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Petraeus, who resigned as CIA chief in 2012 after an extra-marital affair was revealed, was under consideration for the post of defense secretary. Asked if he would agree to serve in the Trump administration, Petraeus said: "I've been in a position before
  
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• Biden spokeswoman: VP won't run DNC

  23-11-2016 03:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A spokesman for Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he isn't interested in leading the Democratic National Committee after he leaves office in January.
  
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• Haiti police clash with demonstrators ahead of election results

  23-11-2016 03:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Makini Brice PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian police fired tear gas at demonstrators backing presidential candidate Maryse Narcisse on Tuesday, in the second day of tension as the Caribbean nation awaited results from elections at the weekend. Haiti voted in presidential, parliamentary and local elections on Sunday that were meant to end a year of political and economic uncertainty. Official results from the provisional electoral council are not expected until next week, although some 29,00
  
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• Majority of voters say Trump should stop tweeting

  23-11-2016 02:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A majority of American voters are optimistic about the next four years under a Trump administration -- but most also think the President-elect should get rid of his personal Twitter account while in office, a new nationwide poll finds.
  
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• Trump keeping 'open mind' on pulling out of climate accord

  23-11-2016 02:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Roberta Rampton NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was keeping an open mind on whether to pull out of a landmark international accord to fight climate change, in a softening of his stance toward global warming. Trump told the New York Times in an interview that he thinks there is "some connectivity" between human activity and global warming, despite previously describing climate change as a hoax. A source on Trump's transition team told Reuters earlier t
  
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• Kushner explains how he led Trump to victory

  23-11-2016 02:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Jared Kushner played a key role in a sophisticated, secret data operation that led his father in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, to victory, according to a new profile in Forbes Magazine.
  
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• U.N. envoy fears 'brutal' Aleppo assault before Trump takes office

  23-11-2016 02:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria on Tuesday said he was worried that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could launch a new offensive to crush eastern Aleppo before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20. Staffan De Mistura did not explain why he thought Syria might make such a move, but European diplomats have said Assad may feel emboldened by Trump's vow to build closer ties with Russia, and the current U.S. government is unlikely to strike
  
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• Why did Trump wait so long to reject the 'alt-right'?

  23-11-2016 01:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has never been one to shy away from speaking -- or more accurately, tweeting -- his mind.
  
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