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• The Latest: Trump looking to Barrack to lead inauguration

  10-11-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential transition (all times EST):
  
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• Fresh protests erupt in several US states over Trump win

  10-11-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of people, many of them students who skipped classes, staged fresh protests on Thursday in several US cities in anger at Donald Trump's election as president. "We are protesting because we want to stand up for our rights and we deserve to be heard," Pamela Campos, 18, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "Donald Trump is just racist.
  
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• Behind The Scenes: Making Donald Trump's Wax Head at Madame Tussauds

  10-11-2016 23:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Work has begun on the President-elect's wax likeness at Madame Tussauds, London, with yak hair being used to recreate his most distinctive featur
  
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• Medicare premium to rise modestly for most beneficiaries

  10-11-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Medicare has announced the "Part B" premium for 2017, and for most beneficiaries it's a modest increase. Next year's tiny Social Security cost-of-living increase means that about 70 percent of ...
  
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• McGregor raises a chair to UFC's turn in its New York debut

  10-11-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Conor McGregor looked he may have strolled straight off a New York fashion show catwalk in his white Gucci mink coat as he raised a steel chair high over his head and took aim on Eddie Alvarez's skull.
  
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• Reports of racist graffiti, hate crimes surge

  10-11-2016 23:55 via cnn.com
  
  Fears of heightened bigotry and hate crimes have turned into reality for some Americans after Donald Trump's presidential win.
  
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• FCC concerned about AT&T exempting DirecTV from data caps

  10-11-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators say that they are concerned that AT&T's exempting its DirecTV unit from cellphone data caps could hurt competition.
  
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• Trump Train may have left GOP North Carolina governor behind

  10-11-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Trump train that carried Republicans to victory all over the South may have left one car behind in North Carolina — Gov. Pat McCrory, who trailed by a few thousand votes Thursday in a still too-close-to-call race that played out amid anger over the state's transgender bathroom law.
  
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• Coach: Kicker tryouts 'lit a fire' under Vikings' Walsh

  10-11-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh has been tight-lipped in recent days about the struggles that prompted the team to bring in free agents for tryouts this week.
  
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• Firefighters from around US battle Appalachian wildfires

  10-11-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — All but a few of the nation's largest active wildfires Thursday were burning in the southern Appalachian mountains, where a relentless drought has turned pine trees into torches and forced evacuations in dozens of communities.
  
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• How did Trump win? Here are 24 theories

  10-11-2016 23:40 via cnn.com
  
  Here is one thing we know: Donald Trump, against all odds, will be the next President of the United States.
  
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• How did Trump win? 24 theories

  10-11-2016 23:40 via cnn.com
  
  Here is one thing we know: Donald Trump, against all odds, will be the next President of the United States.
  
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• The Latest: Campus probes threat to diversity advocates

  10-11-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on anti-Donald Trump protests around the country (all times EST):
  
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• Bears quarterback Jay Cutler looks to build on strong effort

  10-11-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Jay Cutler already had his break and it lasted five long weeks while his sprained thumb healed.
  
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• The Latest: No verdict yet in Ohio police shooting

  10-11-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a white police officer charged with murder following the shooting of an unarmed black man in a traffic stop (all times local):
  
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• Prince's museum adds tour dates, offers new fan packages

  10-11-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHANHASSESN, Minn. (AP) — Prince's Paisley Park plans to offer new, themed fan packages and is adding tour dates through March 31.
  
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• Seahawks' Richard Sherman fined for hit vs. Buffalo

  10-11-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman confirmed Thursday he's been fined by the NFL for his hit on Buffalo kicker Dan Carpenter in last Monday's game against the Bills.
  
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• Many stars available on trade market as GMs head home

  10-11-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Big league general managers walked under seven palm trees and across the sun-splashed red stone courtyard of the Sonoran Desert resort where they had spent four days. Pulling their wheelie bags as guitar music played on speakers, they passed a sign that explained Montelucia, part of the hotel's name, was Spanish for mountain of light.
  
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• Yahoo took its time investigating massive security breach

  10-11-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo detected evidence that a hacker had broken into its computer network at least 18 months before launching an investigation that discovered personal information had been stolen from about 500 million user accounts.
  
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• Judge tells Trump University litigants they would be wise to settle

  10-11-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dan Levine and Karen Freifeld SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The U.S. judge overseeing the lawsuit against President-elect Donald Trump and his Trump University told both sides they would be wise to settle the case "given all else that's involved." Lawyers for the president-elect are squaring off against students who claim they were they were lured by false promises to pay up to $35,000 to learn Trump's real estate investing "secrets" from his "hand-picked" instructors.  Earlier on Thursday, U.S.
  
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• Democrats Try to Salvage What They Can From Wreckage

  10-11-2016 23:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  To cooperate with Donald Trump or not? Cooperating might put party leaders in immediate conflict with their base in the streets.
  
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• In Capitol Hill Meetings, Trump Reveals Top Priorities

  10-11-2016 23:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump laid out his top three priorities: immigration, health care and jobs.
  
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• Obama sends $11.6B anti-terror request to lame-duck Congress

  10-11-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama on Thursday asked Congress for $11.6 billion in additional war-related funding, including money to fight Islamic State militants, sustain higher overseas troop levels, and modernize ...
  
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• US stocks mixed overall as Dow sets record high; oil slumps

  10-11-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Banks and other financial companies led U.S. stocks mostly higher Thursday, propelling the Dow Jones industrial average to a record high.
  
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• Anti-Trump protests continue; Opponents call them hypocrites

  10-11-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Demonstrators took to the streets in San Francisco and gathered in a New York City park Thursday to express their outrage over Donald Trump's unexpected presidential win while Trump supporters took to social media and denounced demonstrators as hypocrites or worse for not accepting defeat in a democratic process.
  
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• Teen dedicates life to finding World War II combat veterans

  10-11-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — For as long as he can remember, Rishi Sharma's heroes haven't been sports stars or movie stars or any other kind of stars. They've been the U.S. combat veterans who won World War II.
  
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• Disney embraces streaming as ratings sag

  10-11-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — As more and more people get their favorite TV shows and movies online, Disney is also learning to embrace the stream.
  
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• Trump election gives momentum to unlikely secession idea

  10-11-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Donald Trump's election as president is giving a big social-media boost to an unlikely effort in the nation's most populous state: a plan to vote on seceding from the union.
  
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• PepsiCo, Starbucks CEOs call for inclusion after Trump win

  10-11-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chief executives from PepsiCo and Starbucks on Thursday called for a renewed commitment to inclusion following a presidential campaign that exposed racial and ethnic fault lines in the US. Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz, who also backed Clinton, bemoaned the "vitriolic" nature of the campaign and said he was disturbed by some of the after-effects.
  
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• Markets Right Now: Dow closes at record; other indexes mixed

  10-11-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local):
  
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• The Latest: British FM: Time to snap out of doom and gloom

  10-11-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest on world reaction to the U.S. presidential election (all times local): 9:45 p.m. British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson says that "it's time that we snapped out of the general doom and ...
  
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• Calexit? Californians turn their backs on Trump

  10-11-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After Brexit, could there be a Calexit? For some liberal Californians incensed by Donald Trump's election to the presidency over Democrat Hillary Clinton, secession from the United States is the only way forward. The election result marks a "real division" for California, said Kevin Klowden of the Milken Institute think tank.
  
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• Dow surges to record close, Nasdaq falls on Trump effect

  10-11-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Dow powered to a fresh record Thursday on continued momentum from President-elect Donald Trump's election win, but the Nasdaq tumbled on weakness in Amazon, Apple and other tech equities. Analysts said the tech pullback was partly due to a rotation to other sectors and partly to worries the industry could suffer under Trump policy changes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1.2 percent to 18,807.88, up 170 points from the prior record.
  
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• Ohio man accused of trying to join Islamic State is indicted

  10-11-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man accused of trying to travel to Libya to join the Islamic State group has been formally indicted.
  
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• Bank stocks continue rally; bond yields, dollar rise

  10-11-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rally in major world stock markets lost some steam on Thursday despite a continued surge in bank shares, as investors reassessed positions, while U.S. bond yields continued to climb on the likelihood of inflation under President-elect Donald Trump's proposed fiscal policy. Investors after the election quickly shifted to focus on Trump's priorities, including tax cuts, an increase in defense and infrastructure spending, and bank deregulation. After a st
  
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• Judge: Amazon to reimburse customers for in-app buys by kids

  10-11-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge has laid out rules for how Amazon must reimburse customers whose kids made in-app purchases without permission.
  
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• Trump Could Trigger Recession, Economists Say

  10-11-2016 22:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Some economists say Trump's plans for curtailing decades' worth of global trade networks could produce recession-triggering levels of inflation.
  
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• Obama honors NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers

  10-11-2016 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — You learn a lot about people when they're down, President Barack Obama declared Thursday, and he wasn't talking about an election. Obama saluted the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers for rallying from behind to defeat the Golden State Warriors and end a Cleveland pro sports title drought stretching back to 1964.
  
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• Glitch briefly removes 'Muslim ban' proposal from Trump website

  10-11-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of the most controversial proposals Donald Trump made while running for U.S. president disappeared from his campaign website on Thursday, but a spokesman said what some observers took as a softening of Trump's policies was due to a technical glitch. The link to Trump's Dec. 7 proposal titled: "Donald J. Trump statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration," in which he called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" vanished
  
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• Trump says health care, border, jobs are top priorities

  10-11-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President-elect Donald Trump visited Congress on Thursday and proclaimed that health care, border security and jobs will be his top three priorities when he moves to the White House next January. Continuing a Washington victory tour of sorts after his presidential election shocked the world, Trump and Vice president-elect Mike Pence sat down with House Speaker Paul Ryan and then with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to discuss the Republican priorities in Congress.
  
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• Opinion: Trump should work with China

  10-11-2016 22:05 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has just won a shocking election victory against Hillary Clinton. He won against all odds. Yet that was the easy part. Now comes the hard part: governing a deeply divided nation. There will be no easy options.
  
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• Donald Trump at the White House: Obama reports 'excellent conversation' – live

  10-11-2016 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  President-elect invited to Oval Office after US election win
  Michelle Obama to welcome incoming first lady Melania Trump Trump loyalists and rivals tipped for key administration rolesSupport our fearless journalism with a contribution or by becoming a member 9.01pm GMTFrom the president-elect’s pool report:Hope Hicks sends the following update about the president-elect’s plans for tonight: ‘Now heading to NYC’That is the full extent of what she has told me. 8.48pm GMTPres
  
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• How Hillary Clinton's white voters melted away

  10-11-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Peter Eisler BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - The unraveling of the coalition that was supposed to carry Hillary Clinton to the White House had a lot to do with voters like Jim McAndrew in counties like Northampton, Pennsylvania. McAndrew, who voted for Obama in the two previous races, was intrigued by Trump, but decided eventually that “all he does is insult everybody ... women, black people, white people, rich, poor.
  
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• RA Dickey agrees to $8M deal with Braves

  10-11-2016 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — R.A. Dickey was won over by an Atlanta Braves sales team that included two Hall of Famers, including a fellow knuckleballer.
  
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• German consulate in northern Afghanistan comes under attack

  10-11-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Germany's consulate in northern Afghanistan was attacked late Thursday when a suicide car bomber rammed the compound, a senior police official said.
  
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• House speaker Paul Ryan meets with Trump in Washington – video

  10-11-2016 21:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Paul Ryan, speaker of the House of Representatives and the most senior Republican in the US, met with president-elect Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday and made a statement to the press describing the discussions as ‘fantastic’. Ryan and Trump did not see eye to eye during the latter’s campaign for the presidency, with Trump repeatedly criticizing Ryan’s leadership of the Republican partyDonald Trump at the White House: Obama reports ‘excellent conversation&rsq
  
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• Rule would boost solar and wind energy on public lands

  10-11-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration took action Thursday to boost development of solar and wind energy on public lands, part of President Barack Obama's strategy to develop cleaner domestic energy and reduce emissions blamed for global warming.
  
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• 'Bloody battles and great chaos': Islamic extremists welcome Trump's victory

  10-11-2016 21:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Abdullah al-Muhaisny, a key authority among radical circles in Syria, says Trump presidency will sow division and expose west’s hatred of MuslimsJihadists have welcomed Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the American presidential race, saying his election would sow greater division and expose what they described as the hatred and racism of the west towards Muslims.The endorsement of the election result by extreme Islamist figures highlighted fears that Trump’s divisive rhetoric
  
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• President-elect Trump means angst for 'Obamacare' consumers

  10-11-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — People getting their health insurance through President Barack Obama's law are feeling anxious about Donald Trump's election.
  
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• Obama honors NBA champs at White House

  10-11-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — You learn a lot about people when they're down, President Barack Obama declared Thursday, and he wasn't talking about an election. Obama saluted the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers for rallying from behind to defeat the Golden State Warriors and end a Cleveland pro sports title drought stretching back to 1964.
  
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