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• Everything You Need to Know About the Election Recount Efforts - ABC News

  28-11-2016 23:59 via abcnews.go.com
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  Everything You Need to Know About the Election Recount Efforts
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  The presidential election was called for Donald Trump nearly three weeks ago but that has not stopped a potential recount of three important swing states that experts say will likely not change the outcome of the election. Green Party presidential ...
  Security experts join Jill Stein's 'election changing' recount campaignThe Guardian
  Why Donald Trump's Election Tweets Are TroublingTIME
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• Trump: 'Very impressed' with Petraeus as he weighs top diplomat job

  28-11-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Just met with General Petraeus--was very impressed!" Trump said on Twitter shortly after Petraeus, a retired general, left an hour-long meeting with the Republican winner of the Nov. 8 election at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Trump's consideration of Petraeus, who has also been mentioned as a contender for the top job at the Pentagon - adds a new layer of drama to his unusually public deliberations over the top diplomatic job for his administration. Petraeus, who led international forces in both I
  
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• The Air Force operators who maintain the GPS

  28-11-2016 23:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Col. DeAnna Burt commands the men and women who maintain the Global Positioning System satellites.
  
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• Trump's foreign business interests: 144 companies in 25 countries

  28-11-2016 23:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  While President-elect Donald Trump will soon step into the Oval Office, his business interests continue to circle the globe and in some cases operate in places likely to overlap with his administration's foreign policy decisions.
  
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• Iranian patrol boat trains its weapon on US Navy helicopter

  28-11-2016 23:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A US Navy Seahawk helicopter had what the Navy is calling an "unsafe and unprofessional encounter" with an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps patrol boat Saturday near the Strait of Hormuz.
  
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• Trump's Cabinet: Doctor, surgeon eyed for HHS

  28-11-2016 22:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Trump will have about 4,000 government positions to fill, including some of the most important posts in the US government.
  
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• Obama Didn't 'Praise' Castro - FactCheck.org

  28-11-2016 22:42 via factcheck.org
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  Obama Didn't 'Praise' Castro
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  Sen. Ted Cruz went too far when he claimed that President Barack Obama praised the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Obama offered neither praise nor criticism in his official statement on Castro's death. Appearing on ABC's “This Week,” Cruz, ...
  How Trump Could Easily Reverse Obama's Opening To CubaNPR
  What's the Obama Doctrine? A shrug of the shoulders.Washington Post
  White House urges Trump to keep Obama policies on CubaThe Hill
  
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• How will recounts work in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania?

  28-11-2016 22:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's destruction of the Democratic "blue wall" of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania -- victories that catapulted him to the presidency over Hillary Clinton -- is set to become the subject of recounts.
  
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• Trump Has Shown Receptiveness To Obama's Agenda. Does He Actually Mean It? - Huffington Post

  28-11-2016 22:23 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Trump Has Shown Receptiveness To Obama's Agenda. Does He Actually Mean It?
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  The president-elect has talked several times with President Barack Obama, including a 45-minute discussion this weekend that Trump initiated. And while the White House and the transition team have been studiously quiet about the contents of those talks ...
  Federal agencies push flurry of 'midnight' rule-making under ObamaChristian Science Monitor
  White House confirms Obama called Clinton o
  
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• National Front gears up for risky campaign against 'French Thatcher'

  28-11-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - Depending on who you ask, center-right presidential nominee Francois Fillon is either the perfect candidate to defeat the National Front, or the man whose economic radicalism will let France's far right pose as protector of working class rights. Pollsters predict Fillon, a former prime minister who clinched the nomination of his Les Republicains party on Sunday, will face the far National Front's Marine Le Pen in the run-off, casting him as the champion of th
  
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• Neil Young Begs Obama To Step In And End The Violence At Standing Rock - Huffington Post

  28-11-2016 22:05 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Neil Young Begs Obama To Step In And End The Violence At Standing Rock
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  Neil Young and his girlfriend, Daryl Hannah, published an open letter on Monday calling for President Barack Obama to do whatever he can to make sure authorities begin to treat the protestors at the Standing Rock Native American Reservation with ...
  Neil Young asks Obama to stop 'violent aggression' at Dakota pipeline protestThe Guardian
  Army Corps evicting everyone from Standing Rock on Decem
  
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• Pelosi challenger steps up criticism ahead of leadership fight

  28-11-2016 21:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rep. Tim Ryan is accusing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of seeking to "further consolidate her power" as he tries to stoke antipathy over her long tenure as the Democratic leader ahead of this week's leadership elections.
  
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• Why Donald Trump's Election Tweets Are Troubling - TIME

  28-11-2016 21:12 via time.com
  
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  Why Donald Trump's Election Tweets Are Troubling
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  If you only read one thing: Donald Trump is spreading false information about the election, responding to a liberal push for a recount in Wisconsin by alleging voter fraud in three states where he lost. The baseless allegations of millions of illegal ...
  Everything You Need to Know About the Election Recount EffortsABC News
  What you need to know about the election recountsUSA TODAY
  US election 2016: Could recounts change result?BBC
  
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• Trump wins Michigan, state officials say

  28-11-2016 20:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump wins Michigan's 16 electoral votes, the secretary of state's office announced on Monday.
  
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• Trump steps up search for secretary of state, meets Petraeus

  28-11-2016 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and David Brunnstrom NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Monday stepped up his search for a new U.S. secretary of state, with the focus on former CIA head David Petraeus, who is a candidate despite admitting he shared classified information with his mistress. Petraeus, a retired general, arrived at Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with the Republican winner of the Nov. 8 election. Once the top U.S. military commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, Petraeus
  
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• Factbox: Trump to meet with retired General Petraeus, Mitt Romney

  28-11-2016 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. Republican President-elect Donald Trump holds more meetings on Monday and Tuesday as he continues to form his administration before taking over from Democratic President Barack Obama on Jan. 20. He was scheduled to meet with the following people, according to his transition team: MONDAY FRANCES TOWNSEND * A former adviser on homeland security to former U.S. President George W. Bush PAUL ATKINS * A former commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission * Member of Tru
  
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• How Trump Could Easily Reverse Obama's Opening To Cuba - NPR

  28-11-2016 20:26 via npr.org
  
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  How Trump Could Easily Reverse Obama's Opening To Cuba
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  When President Obama began opening up to Cuba two years ago, reversing U.S. policy that dated back more than a half-century, he relied on executive orders that did not require the blessing of Congress. That means President-elect Donald Trump could ...
  Obama Didn't 'Praise' CastroFactCheck.org
  Obama, Biden won't attend Castro funeralPolitico
  What's the Obama Doctrine? A shrug of the shoulders.Washington Post
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• Delta bans disruptive Trump supporter from future flights

  28-11-2016 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines said on Monday it was banning a disruptive supporter of Donald Trump from all future flights after a video showed the passenger going on an-expletive filled rant in support of the President-elect.
  
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• Trump meets with Petraeus, Romney as secretary of state battle heats up - Washington Post

  28-11-2016 20:18 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Trump meets with Petraeus, Romney as secretary of state battle heats up
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  President-elect Donald Trump met Monday with retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, a possible alternative choice for secretary of state amid an escalating feud over the position between supporters of former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and 2012 GOP ...
  A recount won't change the election results, but Trump and the political fringes are debating it anywayLos Angeles Times
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• Republicans looking to tighten New Hampshire election laws - The Boston Globe

  28-11-2016 20:07 via bostonglobe.com
  
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  Republicans looking to tighten New Hampshire election laws
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  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Though there is no evidence behind President-elect Donald Trump's recent claim of “serious'' voter fraud in New Hampshire, the state could see a handful of election law changes now that Republicans are in charge at the State ...
  NH Republican fires back at Trump: There was no election fraudThe Hill
  'Stunning and troubling': Election experts aghast at Trump's baldfac
  
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• Stein asks for Pennsylvania recount, too

  28-11-2016 19:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Wisconsin election officials pledged Monday they would oversee a fast and fair recount of the presidential vote there, as they race to beat a federal deadline for getting it done done,but they declined a request to conduct the new tally by hand.
  
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• Green Party's Stein files in Pennsylvania for recount in presidential vote: Politico

  28-11-2016 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Green Party nominee Jill Stein is filing requests in Pennsylvania to start a recount of votes in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election, Politico reported on Monday. Recount requests were filed on Monday in more than 100 precincts in the state, Politico said, citing her campaign. (Reporting by Eric Walsh; Editing by Chris Reese)
  
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• Why I Support An Election Audit, Even Though It's Unlikely To Change The Outcome - FiveThirtyEight

  28-11-2016 19:33 via fivethirtyeight.com
  
  Why I Support An Election Audit, Even Though It's Unlikely To Change The Outcome
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  Here at FiveThirtyEight, we've been skeptical of claims of irregularities in the presidential election. As we pointed ... And he significantly improved on Mitt Romney's performance in regions of states that otherwise weren't competitive, such as ...and more »
  
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• White House: No evidence has emerged about U.S. voting fraud

  28-11-2016 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There has been no evidence of widespread election fraud in the Nov. 8 presidential contest, the White House said on Monday in reaction to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's tweet over the weekend alleging millions of illegal votes and fraud in three states. White House spokesman Josh Earnest, speaking to reporters at a daily briefing, deferred comments on Trump's specific tweets to the president-elect's team, but added: "What I can say, as an objective fact, is that there
  
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• Trump steps up search for secretary of state, to meet Petraeus

  28-11-2016 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and David Brunnstrom NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Monday stepped up his search for a new U.S. secretary of state, with the focus on former CIA head David Petraeus, who is a candidate despite admitting he shared classified information with his mistress. The Republican was to meet Petraeus, a retired general, at Trump Tower in Manhattan in a new round of interviews. Once the top U.S. military commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, Petraeus was senten
  
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• Trump to Meet With Petraeus, Romney - KFSN-TV

  28-11-2016 19:17 via abc30.com
  
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  Trump to Meet With Petraeus, Romney
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  Trump loyalists like Newt Gingrich feel that picking Romney for secretary of state would be a poor choice and are pushing for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to fill the position. Other loyalists have pointed to Petraeus. However, the retired ...
  
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• Donald Trump to Meet With Retired Gen. David Petraeus and Mitt Romney - ABC News

  28-11-2016 18:54 via abcnews.go.com
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  Donald Trump to Meet With Retired Gen. David Petraeus and Mitt Romney
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  Trump loyalists like Newt Gingrich feel that picking Romney for secretary of state would be a poor choice and are pushing for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to fill the position. Other loyalists have pointed to Petraeus. However, the retired ...
  Trump Meets Petraeus as Secretary of State Sweepstakes Heat UpNew York Times
  David Petraeus, Mitt Romney Meeting With Donald Trump About Secretary of Stat
  
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• Why Kellyanne Conway hates Mitt Romney - Washington Post

  28-11-2016 17:45 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Why Kellyanne Conway hates Mitt Romney
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  Kellyanne Conway made one thing very clear in her Sunday interview with “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd: She's not a fan of Mitt Romney. Like, at all. Here's how she responded to Todd's question about her feelings about the 2012 Republican ...
  Donald Trump Gives Mitt Romney a Second Interview for Diplomatic PostWall Street Journal
  Trump reportedly 'furious' about Conway's comments on RomneyFox News
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• Trump team rejects effort to push vote recount

  28-11-2016 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's transition team on Monday pushed back against an emerging effort to recount votes from the Nov. 8 presidential election, calling it "nonsense," but not offering any evidence to back the president-elect's weekend tweet alleging millions of illegal votes. The Green Party last week filed for a recount in Wisconsin, a move joined by lawyers for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and has said it will seek a recount in Michigan and Pennsylvania. (Rep
  
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• Trump set to meet Petraeus, Romney, Corker

  28-11-2016 17:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is set to meet Monday with former Gen. David Petraeus and Tuesday with Mitt Romney as he looks to fill out his Cabinet.
  
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• Trump to meet with Petraeus, Corker, Romney this week: transition team

  28-11-2016 17:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump this week will meet with retired U.S. General David Petraeus and U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, as well as hold a second meeting with 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Trump's transition team said. Trump will meet with former CIA Director Petraeus on Monday, and with Corker and Romney on Tuesday, Trump aides told reporters on a conference call. All three have been floated as potential picks to be Tr
  
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• Officials blast Trump vote fraud claims

  28-11-2016 16:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Election officials, leading Democrats -- and even a prominent Republican -- blasted President-elect Donald Trump after he spread allegations of voter fraud and targeted a trio of states with his false claim.
  
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• Factbox: Contenders, picks for key jobs in Trump's administration

  28-11-2016 16:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is holding more meetings on Monday as he prepares to make high-level appointments, his transition team said.
  
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• Trump threatens to roll back US-Cuba relations

  28-11-2016 16:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump threatened Monday to "terminate" the Obama administration's efforts to normalize US-Cuba relations.
  
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• Trump considers retired General Petraeus as top diplomat: Bloomberg

  28-11-2016 16:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump will meet with retired U.S. General David Petraeus on Monday as the president-elect considers him to serve as U.S. secretary of state, Bloomberg reported, citing a senior official with Trump's transition team. Petraeus, a former CIA director who resigned in 2012 after it emerged he had an extra-marital affair, has indicated that he would serve in Trump's administration if asked. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Frances Kerry)
  
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• Trump vows to end U.S.-Cuba 'deal' unless Havana makes better one

  28-11-2016 15:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in a tweet on Monday he would end the United States' "deal" with Cuba unless a better one was made, reflecting his campaign pledge to reverse President Barack Obama's moves to open relations with the Cold War adversary. "If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate deal," Trump said in a Twitter post. Trump's tweeted as Cubans prepare to commemorate Fidel Castro, the com
  
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• Officials blast Trump vote fraud claims, GOP wants to 'move on'

  28-11-2016 15:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Election officials, leading Democrats -- and even a prominent Republican -- blasted President-elect Donald Trump after he spread allegations of voter fraud and targeted a trio of states with his false claim.
  
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• Trump ally: Romney a 'self-serving egomaniac'

  28-11-2016 15:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New York Rep. Chris Collins on Monday criticized Mitt Romney, a possible Secretary of State nominee in the new administration, calling him a "self-serving egomaniac."
  
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• Source: Trump 'irritated' by Conway attacks on Romney

  28-11-2016 15:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is "irritated" with top aide Kellyanne Conway's public campaign against Mitt Romney's potential nomination as Secretary of State, according to a source.
  
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• Transition Briefing: Trump Has Serious Decisions to Make. (But First, a Twitter Rant.)

  28-11-2016 14:38 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Trump was widely criticized for baseless claims of voter fraud, and one of his advisers publicly denounced Mitt Romney, a contender to lead the State Department.
  
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• Stein Demanding Recounts in PA, WI, MI

  28-11-2016 14:21
  
  During the campaign, Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, was hardly mentioned. Her supporters might say it was a conspiracy, but the truth is that no Green candidate has received many votes. But Stein is making headlines now—with a fundraising campaign to require a recount of the “rustbelt” states—Pennsylvania (20), Wisconsin(10), and Michigan (16). If she […]
  
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• Federal agencies push flurry of 'midnight' rule-making under Obama - Christian Science Monitor

  28-11-2016 14:13 via csmonitor.com
  
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  Federal agencies push flurry of 'midnight' rule-making under Obama
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  With less than two months before US President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, federal agencies under President Obama are pushing for a final flurry of new rules – despite the high likelihood that many will not survive. ... Although some offices had ...
  Obama Attempts to Secure His Legacy with Last Minute Executive ActionsTownhall
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• French conservatives back Fillon for president, left flounders

  28-11-2016 13:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andrew Callus PARIS (Reuters) - France's center-right rallied behind free market reformist Francois Fillon as its candidate for president on Monday after a snap opinion poll showed him clear favorite to beat far-right leader Marine Le Pen in an election showdown next year. Fillon, a former prime minister who vowed to change France's "software" with an assault on public sector spending, moved one step closer to the Elysee by securing a resounding victory over Alain Juppe in the Les Republicain
  
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• Goodwin says Trump won, in part, because of his story

  28-11-2016 12:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, has spent a career analyzing some of America's most consequential presidents, understanding their shortcomings and the characteristics that made them extraordinary.
  So, when Donald Trump, in his first debate against Hillary Clinton, boasted that, as someone who regularly wins, he has "a winning temperament," the sentiment immediately captured Goodwin's attention.
  
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• Solar, wind industries hope years courting Republicans pays off under Trump

  28-11-2016 12:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. wind and solar companies for the first time gave more money to Republicans than Democrats during the 2016 election cycle, according to federal campaign disclosures, part of a years-long effort to expand renewable energy’s appeal beyond liberal environmentalists. The industry is now hoping its strategy of reaching across the political divide will pay off in the form of Congressional support as Republican Donald Trump, a climate change skeptic wh
  
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• US military prepares for the next frontier: Space war

  28-11-2016 12:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Since man first explored space, it has been a largely peaceful environment. But now US adversaries are deploying weapons beyond Earth's atmosphere, leading the US military to prepare for the frightening prospect of war in space.
  
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• Trump’s Promises Will Be Hard to Keep, but Coal Country Has Faith

  28-11-2016 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Though experts say out-of-work miners are likely to be disappointed by Donald J. Trump’s economic plans, his supporters in West Virginia believe he can bring jobs back.
  
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• Eyes on divided French Socialists as conservatives rally behind Fillon

  28-11-2016 09:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France's ruling Socialist party found itself in the spotlight on Monday after the decisive choice of a presidential candidate of the center-right piled pressure on President Francois Hollande's left to find a champion of its own. Sunday's selection of Francois Fillon by a comfortable majority to stand for Les Republicains in next April's presidential election hands a glimmer of opportunity to Hollande, his Socialists, and the broader French left. Fillon's plans to slash public sector jobs and hi
  
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• Trilobites: With Shifts in National Mood Come Shifts in Words We Use, Study Suggests

  28-11-2016 05:36 via nytimes.com
  A new analysis of Google Books and The New York Times archives suggests that when things get bad, the words do, too.
  
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• Meet the US military's sentry for space

  28-11-2016 03:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  1st Lt. Andrew Engle is a defensive duty officer at the Air Force's Joint Space Operations Center. His job is about monitoring space for trouble.
  
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