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• Trump, now president, vows to put 'America First' in nationalist speech

  20-01-2017 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States on Friday and pledged to end what he called an "American carnage" of rusted factories and crime in an inaugural address that was a populist and nationalist rallying cry. Striking a defiant tone, Trump said American workers have been devastated by the outsourcing of jobs abroad. "From this day forward it’s going to be only America First,” the Republican told thousands of people g
  
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• How pop stars reacted to President Trump's inauguration

  20-01-2017 23:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Following President Donald Trump's inauguration, musicians, many whom supported Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, responded by posting photos of former President Barack Obama online.
  
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• Chaffetz on Clinton: 'The investigation continues'

  20-01-2017 23:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee that has investigated Hillary Clinton's actions as secretary of state, including her private email server, shook hands with the former Democratic presidential nominee Friday.
  
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• Factbox: U.S. stock performance on dates a new president takes office

  20-01-2017 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Since the launch of the benchmark S&P 500 indexin 1957, U.S. stocks have generally not fared well on the day a new president assumes office from a predecessor.
  
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• Who Sang, Spoke or Stood By at Donald J. Trump’s Inauguration?

  20-01-2017 22:56 via nytimes.com
  Viewers of the inaugural ceremony in Washington searched for answers online. At least one remains hidden in a little blue box.
  
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• News Analysis: In Inaugural Address, Trump Continues to Shun Establishment

  20-01-2017 22:53 via nytimes.com
  Uncompromising in tone and entirely in keeping with his insurgent campaign, President Trump dispensed with appeals to unity or attempts to build bridges to his opponents.
  
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• Under fire, imam defends role at Trump inaugural service

  20-01-2017 22:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Imam Mohamed Magid will issue the Islamic call to prayer at an inaugural event for President Donald Trump Saturday, despite sharp criticism from fellow Muslims.
  
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• Trump brings campaign populism to Washington

  20-01-2017 22:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The cloak of the presidency isn't changing Donald Trump. Not one bit.
  
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• Violence flares in Washington during Trump inauguration

  20-01-2017 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Landay and Scott Malone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - America's political divisions turned violent on Washington's streets during U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, as black clad anti-establishment activists set fires and clashed with police while Trump supporters cheered the new chief executive. Earlier, activists wearing masks used chunks of pavement and baseball bats to shatter the windows of a Bank of America branch and a McDonald's outlet, all symbols of American cap
  
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• This powerful photo shows Obama's final White House goodbye

  20-01-2017 22:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Eight years later, Barack Obama made a final goodbye to the place he called home.
  
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• What happened to Obama's White House website?

  20-01-2017 22:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The moment that Donald Trump took the oath of office and became the 45th President, a transformation occurred -- online.
  
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• Factbox: Trump's presidency prompts some notes of caution from foreign leaders

  20-01-2017 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president on Friday was greeted with notes of caution by some foreign leaders. Here is some of the reaction: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto congratulated Trump on his inauguration, saying he would like to strengthen ties, but that sovereignty, national interest and protection of Mexicans would be paramount. Pena Nieto, criticized for meeting Trump last year even after the New York businessman had insulted Mexicans in his election campaign, sa
  
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• Trump takes over as U.S. president, vows 'America First' in nationalist speech

  20-01-2017 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States on Friday and pledged to end what he called an "American carnage" of rusted factories and crime in an inaugural address that was a populist and nationalist rallying cry Striking a defiant tone, Trump said the American middle class has been devastated by the outsourcing of jobs abroad. "From this moment on, it's going to be America First," the Republican told thousands of people gathered on
  
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• Germany must prepare for 'rough ride' under Trump: Vice Chancellor

  20-01-2017 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will need a new economic strategy geared toward Asia should the new U.S. administration start a trade war with China, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Friday, warning against protectionism hours after President Donald Trump was sworn in. "I think we have to prepare for a rough ride," Gabriel said in an interview with the public broadcaster ZDF, in the first official German reaction to Trump's inauguration.
  
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• Gambia's Jammeh agrees to go into exile as regional troops mass

  20-01-2017 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tim Cocks BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's Yahya Jammeh, who led his country for 22 years but refused to accept his election defeat last month, has agreed to step down and go into exile, a senior advisor to new President Adama Barrow on Friday. The news came as regional armies, who entered Gambian territory late on Thursday, were poised to remove Jammeh by force just hours after the army chief recognized Barrow as commander-in-chief. West African leaders Alpha Conde of Guinea and Mauritania's Pres
  
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• Trump picks FCC member Pai to lead agency: Bloomberg

  20-01-2017 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will name Ajit Pai, a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission, to lead the agency, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the transition. Pai has dissented from the decisions of Democrats on the FCC that supported net neutrality provisions that forbid internet service providers from blocking or slowing web traffic to some users. (Reporting by Eric Walsh)
  
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• President Trump signs first bill into law

  20-01-2017 21:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump signed his first bill into law Friday, moments after being sworn in, clearing the way for his defense secretary to be confirmed.
  
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• Washington protests 'mostly under control,' 95 arrested: police chief

  20-01-2017 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Violent protests against Donald Trump's presidential inauguration on Friday were "mostly under control," and about 95 people had been arrested, the head of the city's police force said. "We have maybe a couple hundred people, and then a small group within there throwing rocks at the police ... but we believe that we've got it mostly under control," interim Police Chief Peter Newsham told NBC's local affiliate. (Reporting by Timothy Ahmann; Editing by Eric Beech)
  
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• Trump stakes out inward, protectionist vision for America

  20-01-2017 21:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump, in his first address as the 45th US president, struck a protectionist, isolationist chord as he vowed to upend the way America relates to and does business with the rest of the world.
  
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• Police injured in protests, 'numerous' arrests at Trump inauguration

  20-01-2017 21:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A pair of police officers were injured and "numerous" protesters arrested after they engaged in scattered acts of vandalism at Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday in Washington, D.C., the police said.
  
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• The 1st Trump White House Petition is in: Release tax returns

  20-01-2017 21:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The first petition on the White House's page for citizens to petition has its first entry mere hours after President Donald Trump was sworn in. And it's a request for him "immediately" release his full tax returns.
  
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• Melania Trump channels Jackie Kennedy but Conway grabs fashion headlines

  20-01-2017 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump, 46, the White House's first former model, chose American designer Ralph Lauren's baby blue cropped jacket with cowl neckline and matching dress for the swearing-in ceremony in Washington. Conway described it "Trump revolutionary wear" in an interview with NBC television.
  
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• Trump inauguration: key moments

  20-01-2017 21:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump promised a new era guided by one principle -- "only America first" -- moments after being sworn in as the nation's 45th commander-in-chief.
  
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• Chapo extradition seen boosting U.S.-Mexico security relations under Trump

  20-01-2017 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Irrespective of whether Mexico's decision to extradite drug kingpin Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman aimed to honor outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama or appease his successor, Donald Trump, law enforcement from both countries say it bodes well for security cooperation. Guzman, the feared boss of the Sinaloa cartel who shot to international stardom after two jailbreaks, was extradited from a prison in northern Mexico to New York on Thursday, the eve of Trum
  
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• Comparing Trump and Obama's inaugural crowd sizes

  20-01-2017 21:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  He campaigned on the huge crowd sizes, but the turnout for the inauguration of President Donald Trump appears to be smaller than that of his predecessor as measured by side-by-side photos of the two events.
  
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• The world reacts as Trump takes power

  20-01-2017 21:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  On the streets, in small gatherings and in the halls of government, people around the globe weighed in on US President Donald Trump's inauguration Friday, anticipating how the real estate tycoon's policies may play out on the world stage. Here is some of the reaction -- including opposition, support and even indifference:
  
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• Washington police chief says violent protest an isolated incident

  20-01-2017 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A violent protest that erupted in Washington on U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration day is a small, isolated incident, Interim Chief of Police Peter Newsham told CNN in an interview on Friday, adding that about 90 people have been arrested. Newsham said the violent group consisted of a couple hundred protesters, while thousands of others are peacefully demonstrating elsewhere across the national's capital city. (Reporting by Susan Heavey and Tim Ahmann; Editing by C
  
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• U.S. housing regulators suspend plans to cut mortgage premiums

  20-01-2017 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Friday suspended a controversial plan that would have slashed the premium rates for certain federally backed mortgages. The reversal by the Federal Housing Administration came less than two hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
  
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• Obama's post-inauguration remarks: Full text

  20-01-2017 20:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama bid farewell to members of his staff Friday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland before departing with his family for a vacation in California:
  
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• The Crooner in Chief: Barack Obama's Musical Legacy - New York Times

  20-01-2017 20:48 via nytimes.com
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  The Crooner in Chief: Barack Obama's Musical Legacy
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  In 2015, after Aretha Franklin played an outstanding, fur-dropping rendition of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” onstage at the Kennedy Center Honors, Barack Obama reflected on the performance in an email to The New Yorker editor David ...and more »
  
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• Protesters, police clash in Washington as Trump assumes presidency

  20-01-2017 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Black-clad activists smashed store windows and blocked traffic in Washington during U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, and fought with police in riot gear who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. The incident occurred about 90 minutes before Trump was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol a mile and a half (2.4 km) away. The group of detainees became a flash point after Trump was sworn in, when a crowd of several hundred that had formed to call for their release turned violent, w
  
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• More than 90 arrested in protests in Washington: CNN

  20-01-2017 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 90 people have been arrested so far in protests in the nation's capital during demonstrations across the city as U.S. President Donald Trump was sworn into office, CNN reported on Friday. Protesters and police clashed just blocks from the parade route and the White House, with some demonstrators smashing storefront windows and cars, and police in riot gear responding. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Chris Reese)
  
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• Trump makes policy promises as the new president

  20-01-2017 20:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In his first speech to the nation as the President of the United States, Donald Trump vowed Friday that every decision he makes would be intended to "benefit American workers and American families."
  
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• President Donald Trump signs first bill into law

  20-01-2017 20:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump signed his first bill into law Friday, moments after being sworn in, clearing the way for his defense secretary to be confirmed.
  
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• Gambia's Jammeh to step down, leave country: advisor to new president

  20-01-2017 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DAKAR (Reuters) - Gambia's longtime leader Yahya Jammeh, who lost a December election but refused to recognize the result, has agreed to step down and go into exile, a close advisor to new President Adama Barrow told Reuters. Mai Ahmad Fatty was shown a tweet from a Twitter account purported to belong to Barrow stating that Jammeh had agreed to the deal and was asked if it was authentic. "That is correct," he said. (Reporting by Emma Farge; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
  
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• After 8,200 round trip train rides, Biden heads home

  20-01-2017 20:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN rode the rails with former Vice President Joe Biden as he took the train from Washington to Wilmington, Delaware, following President Donald Trump's inauguration.
  
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• Religious leaders offer blessings

  20-01-2017 20:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Three religious leaders spoke after President Donald Trump at his inauguration Friday. Below are their words:
  
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• The Obamas say goodbye to Washington

  20-01-2017 20:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Gliding toward Joint Base Andrews in his military helicopter Friday, Barack Obama watched a dramatically altered Washington recede from view, the work of his presidency now over and the future of his accomplishments uncertain.
  
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• Government references to Obama vanish

  20-01-2017 19:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Not only have the White House website and Twitter accounts swapped out former President Barack Obama for President Donald Trump, but cabinet departments no longer make any reference to the previous administration.
  
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• George H.W. Bush in stable condition; Barbara Bush improving

  20-01-2017 19:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former President George H. W. Bush has been extubated and is now breathing on his own "with minimal supplemental oxygen," Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement Friday. Former first lady Barbara Bush also continues to improve, he added.
  
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• Watch Former President Obama, Michelle Obama Announce... - RollingStone.com

  20-01-2017 19:44 via rollingstone.com
  
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• Pope urges Trump to show concern for poor, be guided by ethical values

  20-01-2017 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis urged U.S. President Donald Trump to be guided by ethical values and as he took office on Friday, saying he must take care of the poor and the outcast during his time in office. "At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding farsighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation’s commitment to the advancem
  
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• Republicans in London celebrate Trump's inauguration

  20-01-2017 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Under the gaze of a life-sized cardboard figure of Donald Trump, some 200 of his supporters gathered at an exclusive club near the Ritz hotel in London to celebrate Friday's inauguration of America's 45th president. Bunches of red, white and blue balloons, some of them star-shaped, adorned the walls of the Royal Over-Seas League where Trump's appearance on the balcony outside the domed U.S. Capitol was greeted with whooping and cheering. Later, Trump's inaugural speech was punctuated with cheers
  
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• U.S. housing regulators suspend plans to cut FHA premiums

  20-01-2017 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development abruptly suspended its plan to cut FHA premiums for mortgage borrowers, according to a letter issued by the department on Friday.
  
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• Trump takes first actions on Cabinet, declares day of patriotism: spokesman

  20-01-2017 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump took his first official actions as U.S. president on Friday, sending his Cabinet nominations to the Senate and calling for a national day of patriotism, his spokesman said. Trump, who was sworn into office earlier on Friday, also signed into a law a waiver to allow Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general, to serve, Sean Spicer said. (Reporting by Richard Cowan; Writing by Susan Heavey; Editing by Chris Reese)
  
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• Pope Francis sends best wishes to President Trump

  20-01-2017 19:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Pope Francis congratulated President Trump on his inauguration in a letter.
  
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• 'Numerous' arrests made during Trump inauguration protests: police

  20-01-2017 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington police made "numerous" arrests on Friday after violent protests during Donald Trump's inauguration, with individuals being charged with rioting, the city's police department said. "Pepper spray and other control devices were used to control the criminal actors and protect persons and property," the department said in a statement. The statement added that two police officers had sustained minor injuries from "coordinated attacks" and that police vehicles were dam
  
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• Trump, sworn in as U.S. president, vows to put 'America First' in defiant speech

  20-01-2017 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States on Friday and pledged to pursue "America First" policies in an inaugural address that was a populist, anti-Washington rallying cry. Sketching a bleak vision of a country he said was ravaged by rusted-out factories, crime, gangs and drugs, Trump indirectly blamed his predecessors in the White House for policies that helped the establishment at the expense of struggling families. "From this m
  
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• The Trump @POTUS Twitter account uses photo from Obama inauguration

  20-01-2017 19:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Although the @POTUS Twitter account changed hands from Barack Obama to Donald Trump a minute after noon Friday, Obama's presence lingered for about an hour longer.
  
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• Schumer delivers remarks at Trump inauguration ceremony

  20-01-2017 19:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, delivered remarks during the inauguration ceremony, just moments before Donald Trump was sworn in as president. Schumer spoke in his capacity as ranking member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. Here is the full transcript of his comments:
  
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