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• Hillary Clinton’s Team to Join Wisconsin Recount Pushed by Jill Stein

  27-11-2016 23:42 via nytimes.com
  The campaign also said it would participate in potential recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan, though it saw no “actionable evidence” of vote hacking.
  
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• Combative, Populist Steve Bannon Found His Man in Donald Trump

  27-11-2016 23:38 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Bannon courted politicians who share his dark, populist worldview of a ruling class preying on working Americans and “the Judeo-Christian West” in a “war against Islamic fascism.”
  
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• French PM Valls raises prospect he could challenge Hollande in election

  27-11-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jean-Baptiste Vey PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Sunday raised the prospect he could challenge his boss Francois Hollande as the Socialists' candidate in the 2017 presidential election. A challenge to President Hollande could divide the Socialists further, just as their center-right rivals get down to serious campaigning against the far right after choosing former prime minister Francois Fillon as their candidate on Sunday. In past weeks, the message from the Valls ca
  
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• Boris Johnson may attend Fidel Castro's funeral as Barack Obama is told to stay away - Telegraph.co.uk

  27-11-2016 23:01 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Boris Johnson may attend Fidel Castro's funeral as Barack Obama is told to stay away
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  Boris Johnson may attend Fidel Castro's funeral on behalf of the British Government, it has emerged, as senior Republicans demand Barack Obama stay away from the ceremony to pay respects to the Cuban leader. Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the ...
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• Trump falsely claims voter fraud

  27-11-2016 22:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump alleged Sunday, without evidence, that "millions of people" voted illegally for Hillary Clinton and otherwise he would have won the popular vote. It's an unprecedented allegation by a president-elect.
  
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• France's Fillon would beat Le Pen in presidential election: poll

  27-11-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French conservative candidate Francois Fillon would easily beat far-right party leader Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential election, according to a Harris Interactive poll conducted on the day Fillon won his party's nomination for the election. Fillon would beat Le Pen in the presidential election's second round with 67 percent of the votes versus 33 percent for Le Pen, the poll said. In the first round, Socialist President Francois Hollande would only get 9 percent of the votes.
  
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• Obama Expands War With Al Qaeda to Include Shabab in Somalia - New York Times

  27-11-2016 22:16 via nytimes.com
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  Obama Expands War With Al Qaeda to Include Shabab in Somalia
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  WASHINGTON — The escalating American military engagement in Somalia has led the Obama administration to expand the legal scope of the war against Al Qaeda, a move that will strengthen President-elect Donald J. Trump's authority to combat thousands ...
  
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• Obama Expands War With Al Qaeda to Include Shabab in Somalia

  27-11-2016 22:15 via nytimes.com
  The administration’s move to stretch a 2001 war authorization will strengthen Donald J. Trump’s authority to combat thousands of Somali militants, and has drawn objections from some experts.
  
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• Fillon scores huge win in French conservative presidential primaries - Reuters

  27-11-2016 22:01 via reuters.com
  
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  Opinion polls suggest neither he nor any left-wing candidate would make the second round of the presidential election itself next May, leaving Fillon a clear run at the anti-EU, anti-immigration National Front leader Le Pen that the surveys predict him ...
  France's presidential election: Who is Francois Fillon?CNN
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• Fillon scores huge win in French conservative presidential primaries

  27-11-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ingrid Melander and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - Francois Fillon, a socially conservative free-marketeer, won France's center-right presidential primaries on Sunday, setting up a likely showdown next year with far-right leader Marine Le Pen that the pollsters expect him to win. With votes from four-fifths of 10,228 polling stations counted, Fillon, who went into Sunday's second-round run-off as firm favorite, had won over 67 percent of the vote in a head-to-head battle with another ex-prime
  
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• France's far-right says Fillon 'great candidate' to face in presidential election

  27-11-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Francois Fillon's wide-reaching plans to slash public spending and overhaul the French economy would "trigger chaos", a top official of the far-right National Front said, welcoming him as an opponent because of their sharp differences on that issue. Fillon on Sunday became the center-right's nominee for next year's presidential election after winning a primary vote. Under the leadership of Marine Le Pen, who took over from her father Jean-Marie in 2011, the National Front has switched from an ec
  
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• Fillon promises 'software change' for France in primaries' victory speech

  27-11-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - Former prime minister Francois Fillon pledged to unite his camp behind a project to carry out deep reforms in France in a victory speech after winning the conservative ticket for next year's presidential election. "My approach has been understood: France can't bear its decline. It wants truth and it wants action," Fillon told supporters at his campaign headquarter. "I will take up an unusual challenge for France: tell the truth and completely change its software," he said. (Rep
  
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• Ted Cruz makes it very clear that Obama should not send anyone to Castro's funeral - TheBlaze.com

  27-11-2016 20:58 via theblaze.com
  
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  Ted Cruz makes it very clear that Obama should not send anyone to Castro's funeral
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  Ted Cruz made it very clear Sunday that he doesn't want President Barack Obama to send any U.S. representative to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's funeral. Cruz's comments came during an interview with ABC's “This Week.” “I very much hope that we don't ...
  Fidel Castro's death could ensure Obama's opening to Cuba survivesLos Angeles Times
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• Fidel Castro, François Fillon, Mitt Romney: Your Monday Briefing - New York Times

  27-11-2016 20:19 via nytimes.com
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  Fidel Castro, François Fillon, Mitt Romney: Your Monday Briefing
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  A recount effort in the United States presidential election that began in Wisconsin may extend this week to two more states narrowly lost by Hillary Clinton. President-elect Donald J. Trump dismissed the effort as a “scam,” and, in a tweet, said he had ...
  
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• Trump and Obama Speak 'Regularly,' Conway Says - NBCNews.com

  27-11-2016 19:44 via nbcnews.com
  
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  Donald Trump talks "regularly" with President Barack Obama and "very much enjoys" their conversations, a top Trump aide said Sunday. Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said Trump's consulted the president on his ...
  Conway: Trump and Obama have been 'talking regularly'CNN
  Trump and Obama spoke by phone SaturdayUSA TODAY
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• Recounts Rarely Reverse Election Results - FiveThirtyEight

  27-11-2016 19:36 via fivethirtyeight.com
  
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  The Wisconsin vote in the presidential election is undergoing a recount. Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who requested the Wisconsin recount, also has raised funds for a recount in Pennsylvania and is seeking more funds for one in Michigan and ...
  Trump Calls the Election Recount Efforts 'Sad'ABC News
  Could a recount change the Trump-Clinton election result?NJ.com
  Why Is Jill Stein Challenging Election Results?The Hill (
  
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• Trump Calls the Election Recount Efforts 'Sad' - ABC News

  27-11-2016 18:51 via abcnews.go.com
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  Trump, who on numerous occasions during the general election claimed the electoral system was "rigged," and in 2012 questioned the integrity of the Electoral College following Mitt Romney's loss to Barack Obama, dug in his heels against the Green ...
  Why Is Jill Stein Challenging Election Results?The Hill (blog)
  Could a recount change the Trump-Clinton election result?NJ.com
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• Pelosi faces big leadership challenge

  27-11-2016 18:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Leadership battles within the Democratic Party. The fight over repealing Obamacare. And the story of an awkward hallway scramble two decades ago involving Al Gore and Fidel Castro.
  
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• High turnout in French center-right primaries, up from first round

  27-11-2016 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest turnout figures in the second round of France's center-right primaries for next year's presidential election stood 4.5 percent higher than they did at the same time in the first round, the organizer of the vote said. Thierry Solere, president of the committee organizing the Les Republicains party vote, told reporters on Sunday that the turnout stood at more than 2.9 million at 5 pm (1600 GMT), with 78 percent of polling stations taken into account. Former prime minister Francois Fillo
  
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• What Trump Can Learn From Obama's Rough Ride on Health Care - Fortune

  27-11-2016 18:16 via fortune.com
  
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  What Trump Can Learn From Obama's Rough Ride on Health Care
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  President Barack Obama took on the problems of a lack of access to health care and high cost, but he and Democrats paid a political price. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to undo much of what Obama put in place, and pledged to make the ...and more »
  
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• Kellyanne Conway: Mitt Romney 'went out of his way to hurt Donald Trump' - Washington Post

  27-11-2016 17:51 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Kellyanne Conway: Mitt Romney 'went out of his way to hurt Donald Trump'
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  Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's senior adviser and former campaign manager, publicly criticized the possibility of Mitt Romney becoming secretary of state on the morning political-show circuit on Sunday. On ABC's “This Week,” Conway told host Martha ...
  Conway resumes Romney opposition, says Trump loyalists feel 'betrayed'Fox News
  Conway: Trump backers feel 'betrayed' by Ro
  
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• Trump Adviser Steps Up Searing Attack on Romney - New York Times

  27-11-2016 17:49 via nytimes.com
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  Trump Adviser Steps Up Searing Attack on Romney
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  WASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, on Sunday assailed Mitt Romney, a leading contender for secretary of state in the Trump cabinet, accusing him of having gone “out of his way to hurt” the president-elect ...
  Kellyanne Conway: Mitt Romney 'went out of his way to hurt Donald Trump'Washington Post
  Conway: Trump backers feel 'betrayed' by Romney consid
  
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• Conway: Trump and Obama have been 'talking regularly'

  27-11-2016 17:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama have been in regular communication, a top Trump aide said Sunday.
  
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• Cruz to Trump, GOP: If we don't deliver 'there will be pitchforks and torches in the streets'

  27-11-2016 17:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Ted Cruz warned President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican leaders they may face a popular revolt if they don't carry through on some of their biggest campaign promises, including repealing Obamacare.
  
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• Trump adviser warns him not to pick Romney for Secretary of State

  27-11-2016 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An internal dispute among Donald Trump's advisers broke out into the open on Sunday when his campaign manager warned that the president-elect could face an intense backlash from supporters if he chose Mitt Romney to be his secretary of state. Trump has been weighing whether to pick Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who spent much of the past year criticizing Trump, or former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who backed the real-estate mogul
  
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• Rubio: Trump's Cuba policy should 'pave the way' for democracy

  27-11-2016 16:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday he is confident that President-elect Donald Trump will stake a hard line on Cuba, and in the wake of Fidel Castro's death said efforts should focus on promoting democracy there.
  
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• French PM Valls keeps open option of challenge to Hollande

  27-11-2016 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jean-Baptiste Vey PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Sunday kept open the possibility he could challenge his boss Francois Hollande as the Socialists' candidate in the 2017 presidential election, risking a further splintering of an already fractured left. In past weeks, the message from the Valls' camp has been that he would wait for President Hollande's decision on whether to seek a second term, and would make a presidential bid of his own only if Hollande decided to ste
  
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• Conway: Trump backers feel 'betrayed' by Romney consideration

  27-11-2016 16:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One of President-elect Donald Trump's top advisers said Sunday that his loyal supporters across the country feel "betrayed" that he is considering one of his most vicious critics, Mitt Romney, for secretary of state.
  
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• Conway: Trump backers feel 'betrayed' by Romney consideration - CNN

  27-11-2016 16:01 via cnn.com
  
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  Conway: Trump backers feel 'betrayed' by Romney consideration
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  "There was the Never Trump movement and then there was Mitt Romney he gave speeches against Donald Trump, he attacked his character," Conway said. Ana Navarro, a Republican Trump critic and CNN political commentator, registered her surprise at ...
  Conway unloads on RomneyPolitico
  Trump adviser warns him not to pick Romney for Secretary of StateReuters
  Top Trump aide questions if Romney would be 'loyal' secretary of State
  
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• Sanders calls for assessment of Electoral College

  27-11-2016 15:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Sunday it is time to re-examine the Electoral College, after Democrat Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote to President-elect Donald Trump.
  
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• Gambia's president vows 'zero tolerance' of election violence

  27-11-2016 14:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gambian President Yahya Jammeh warned on Sunday that anyone involved violence or unrest during the country's presidential election in four days time would be dealt with harshly. "There will be zero tolerance (of) ... violence and anyone disregarding public order will face full force of the law," Jammeh told supporters in Brikama, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of the capital Banjul, at a rally broadcast on Gambian TV. "I am warning all Gambians against violence." Jammeh and the opposition ar
  
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• CNN/ORC poll: A nation divided, and is it ever

  27-11-2016 14:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After a bruising presidential election featuring the two least liked major-party candidates in recent history, more than 8-in-10 Americans say the country is more deeply divided on major issues this year than in the past several years, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. And more than half say they are dissatisfied with the way democracy is working in the US.
  
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• Will Obama hold fire on Trump? - The Hill

  27-11-2016 14:02 via thehill.com
  
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  Trump, for his part, has suggested he hit it off with Obama during a White House meeting two days after his election. The two men had previously not met. The president-elect gushed to The New York Times this week about how Obama “said very nice things” ...and more »
  
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• Obama admin defends vote integrity after hacking fears - The Hill

  27-11-2016 14:02 via thehill.com
  
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  Obama admin defends vote integrity after hacking fears
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  “Nevertheless, we stand behind our election results, which accurately reflect the will of the American people,” the statement added. The statement comes as Green Party candidate Jill Stein pushes for a recount in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, ...and more »
  
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• Want an Election Escape? The Internet Doesn't Work Like That - WIRED

  27-11-2016 13:25 via wired.com
  
  Want an Election Escape? The Internet Doesn't Work Like That
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  After the election, my Boston online moms group melted down. Not exactly surprising, right? Boston is a city so blue it's practically navy—and that blue resembled nothing quite so much as a deep bruise the night Donald Trump was elected president. But ...
  
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• Obama's agencies push flurry of 'midnight' actions - Politico

  27-11-2016 13:24 via politico.com
  
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  Federal agencies are rushing out a final volley of executive actions in the last two months of Barack Obama's presidency, despite warnings from Republicans in Congress and the reality that Donald Trump will have the power to erase much of their ...
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• Fidel Castro's death could ensure Obama's opening to Cuba survives - Los Angeles Times

  27-11-2016 13:01 via latimes.com
  
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  Fidel Castro's death could ensure Obama's opening to Cuba survives
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  With his legacy in mind, President Obama has used the final months of his administration trying to ensure that his historic reopening of U.S. relations with Cuba could not be easily reversed. He ended a Cold War animosity that had begun before he was ...
  Newt: 'Under no circumstance' should Obama, Biden go to Castro's funeralBoston Herald
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• Teachers Rework Lesson Plans After Donald Trump's Election - Wall Street Journal

  27-11-2016 13:00 via wsj.com
  
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  Teachers Rework Lesson Plans After Donald Trump's Election
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  As some students protest the election of Donald Trump and others rejoice, teachers are wrestling with how best to educate them on a significant event that has split the country. Textbooks have yet to catch up to one of the most contentious presidential ...
  
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• Participation rate up at midday in second round of French center-right presidential primaries

  27-11-2016 12:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of voters taking part in Sunday's second round of France's center-right primaries for next year's presidential election was 10-15 percent higher than the first round at around noon local time (1100 GMT), the organizer of the vote said. Thierry Solere, president of the committee organizing the Les Republicains party vote, told BFM TV that the figures showed that 1.27 million votes had been cast, according to a count of 67 percent of polling stations in the country. Former prime ministe
  
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• Obama-to-Trump voters are not a myth — but they're also not the real story - Salon

  27-11-2016 12:03 via salon.com
  
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  Obama-to-Trump voters are not a myth — but they're also not the real story
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  Since Donald Trump's surprise victory in the presidential election, one number grasped onto by many pundits is that 298 American counties carried twice by Obama flipped to Trump this year. Some have asked how these voters can be motivated by racism, ...and more »
  
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• Obama-to-Trump voters are not a myth &mdash but they're also not the real story - Salon

  27-11-2016 12:03 via salon.com
  
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  Obama-to-Trump voters are not a myth &mdash but they're also not the real story
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  Since Donald Trump's surprise victory in the presidential election, one number grasped onto by many pundits is that 298 American counties carried twice by Obama flipped to Trump this year. Some have asked how these voters can be motivated by racism, ...and more »
  
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• Ghana Electoral Commission Approves Election Monitors - Voice of America

  27-11-2016 11:05 via voanews.com
  
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  Ghana Electoral Commission Approves Election Monitors
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  The criteria that poll observer groups must meet before their applications are considered include the name of the poll monitoring group, the leadership and composition of the group and their experience in election observation together with their ...and more »
  
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• People Are Imagining The White House Exit Pranks Obama Could Play - Huffington Post

  27-11-2016 09:15 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  People Are Imagining The White House Exit Pranks Obama Could Play
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  President Barack Obama will hand over the keys to the White House to President-elect Donald Trump in less than two months. And Twitter users are already suggesting some lighthearted practical jokes the outgoing POTUS could play on his successor, via ...and more »
  
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• Trump Calls Recount Push 'A Scam,' Says Election Is Over - ABC News

  27-11-2016 03:38 via abcnews.go.com
  
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  The New York billionaire, who charged the election was "rigged" on a daily basis before his victory, called the developing recount effort "a scam" in a statement released by his transition team. Trump had been ignoring Green Party nominee Jill Stein's ...
  Why Is Jill Stein Challenging Election Results?The Hill (blog)
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• Clinton to join recount that Trump calls 'scam'

  27-11-2016 02:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign said Saturday it will take part in efforts to push for recounts in several key states, joining with Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who has raised millions of dollars to have votes counted again in Wisconsin.
  
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• Trump blasts recount as 'ridiculous' and 'a scam'

  27-11-2016 01:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump ripped the election recount on Saturday, calling it "a scam" and "ridiculous" and noting that Hillary Clinton had already conceded.
  
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• Socialists risk getting pulverized in 2017 election: French PM

  27-11-2016 01:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned that his Socialist party risked getting wiped out in next year's presidential election, as he kept open the possibility in a newspaper interview of running as a candidate in the 2017 vote. "I must remind you - we could get pulverized during the evening of the first round," Valls told French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche in an interview to be published on Sunday, adding that "the left wing could die." Asked if he could challenge President Francois Holl
  
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• Sanders to Trump: use defense contracts as leverage for Carrier jobs

  27-11-2016 00:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Roberta Rampton WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders turned up the pressure on President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday about his pledge to try to stop an Indiana air conditioner manufacturer from moving 1,400 jobs to Mexico. Both Sanders, who challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, and Trump seized on an announcement earlier this year by United Technologies Corp's Carrier division that it would shift production to Mexico as an example of how trade d
  
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