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US President Barack Obama says he had "excellent conversation" with Donald Trump
After being elected the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump received an invitation from our 44th president to meet with him at the White House on Thursday. We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. Giuliani later told CNN that Trump would still pursue a wall along the US border with Mexico.
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More Americans Voted for Hillary Clinton Than Donald Trump
And, shortly before noon, she asked her supporters to do the same. President Barack Obama promised a peaceful transition of power between his and President-elect Donald Trump's administrations while speaking to reporters Wednesday outside the White House.
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APTA Congratulates President-Elect Donald Trump and Vice President-Elect Mike Pence
Pence has only held a handful of IN events since he was picked as Trump's running mate IN July and started making dozens of campaign stops for Trump across the country. The event comes two days after President-elect Donald Trump's election victory. U.S. Rep. Todd Young kept an Indiana Senate seat in Republican hands by defeating Democrat Evan Bayh, handing the former two-term senator and two-term governor his first election defeat.
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Obama: Trump presidency's success is America's success
US President-elect Trump said, for his part, "I very much look forward to dealing with the President in the future, including counsel". U.S. President-elect Donald Trump responded to activists across the country publicly declaring he is "not [their] president" by accusing them of being "professional protesters".
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South Koreans gather en masse for protest against president
The protest on Saturday is anticipated to surpass the record 80,000 protesters in June 2008 during a rally against the government's decision to resume USA beef imports, Yonhap reported. Two previous anti-Park rallies were mostly peaceful, with a large number of families turning up at them. Tens of thousands were being brought to Seoul by buses and trains from provincial cities around the country.
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PM Modi departs for India after three-day visit to Japan
But India, which announced a unilateral moratorium on tests after the 1998 nuclear explosions, has never in the past agreed to the explicit detailing of such a condition while signing nuclear agreements with other countries, including the US, France, Russia, Canada and Australia.
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Russian experts arrive in Aleppo to take samples in chemical attack area
Social media accounts linked to the rebels carried photos and footage purporting to show the factions targeting government positions with artillery, tank and rocket fire. The Friday cease-fire came as a Russian naval battle group, including the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, approached the Syrian coast. Fastaqim and Nour el-Din el-Zinki are two of the largest rebel factions in Aleppo.
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Trump's deep roots in United States corporate apparatus poses massive conflicts of interest
Experts say Trump could tread into unconstitutional territory if his enterprises dealings with foreign governments or government-run businesses are so profitable as to be considered a "gift". The president has a vast business empire with ties to US business interests and foreign governments that present dramatic ethical conflicts for the nation's leader.
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U.S. offers a home to refugees in Australian camps
A senior government official also said that claims the U.S. government refused to make a joint announcement of the deal, in light of the presidential election was false. "Those who seek to come to Australia with people smugglers will not be admitted to Australia under any circumstances", he said . A "one-off" bilateral agreement that will see some refugees on Manus Island and Nauru resettle in the United States lacks detail and leaves many questions unanswered, refugee advocates say.
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Powerful quake strikes near Christchurch, New Zealand
The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat from Monday's quake. Be proactive - Use the "Flag as Inappropriate" link at the upper right corner of each comment to let us know of abusive posts. "We're going to stock up on water supplies just in case". New Zealand is part of a geologically active region that's often called the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.
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Obama Is Saving Planned Parenthood While He Still Can
The proposition would prevent states from withholding Title X federal family planning money from constituents for any reasons other than their provider's " ability to deliver services to program beneficiaries in an effective manner". Laura Goodhue, the vice president of public policy for Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida, told local media, "This is a rule that's affirming what many courts across the country have already stated-that it is unconstitutional for states to take ...
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South Korean president 'to be quizzed over power manipulation'
A huge crowd gathered in Seoul on Saturday to demand the resignation of South Korean President Park Geun-hye for allowing her friend Choi Soon-sil, the daughter of a cult leader, access to government resources. but unbelievable things have been happening and I came out today because I didn't want to feel defeated as a South Korean citizen", said Cho Jong-gyu, who took a five-hour bus ride from the small southern island of Geoje to participate in the rally, where he quietly held a cardboard ...
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Why Did Some White Obama Voters Go for Trump?
In essence, USA presidential elections are contested separately in each of the 50 states with the victor in each state getting all of that state's Electoral College votes . This upset of an election will require both parties to consider where they go from here. "I like those very much", Mr. Trump said, adding that he does plan to make massive changes to other parts of Obamacare.
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Celebrities express dismay, hope at Donald Trump's victory
Of course, it would be dishonest to totally brush aside the suggestion that racism, fear and hatred factored heavily into the Trump vote. Income inequality and the sense that the system is, as Trump says , rigged has infected the nation's psyche.
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Iran's Rouhani says there is no way Trump can torpedo nuclear deal
Iran violated one of the terms of its nuclear deal signed with six world powers by exceeding a limit on its heavy water stockpile, according to a report from United Nations monitors on Wednesday - the same day the rogue nation demanded the US stick to the deal, no matter what.
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How could the polls get Tuesday's election so wrong?
And precisely because they're after those electoral votes - meaning that each will emerge with all the votes allotted to a state in which he or she wins the popular vote, á la the esoteric and sometimes counterintuitive Electoral College - some states are much more coveted than others.
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Trump looking at fast ways to quit global climate deal
In 2004, he told BBC's Today Programme that climate change was an European Union-led hoax, created to weaken the US economy. The lower threshold was introduced on demand from vulnerable countries such as low-lying island nations who fear they will be washed away by rising seas as global warming melts glaciers and ice sheets.
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Ryan: 'Most incredible political feat I have seen in my lifetime'
Ryan said he'd spoken twice with Trump since he won the presidency and twice with "my good friend Mike Pence". On Wednesday, Ryan told reporters, "We're all on the same page on these things". "Thankfully we're doing it with a Republican president and Republican Congress", he said. Despite comlaints from Republican hardliners about Ryan's performance and his relationship with Trump during the election, he remains the only Republican with enough support to secure the 218 votes needed to ...
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1 shot in Oregon amid nationwide anti-Trump protests
Thousands of people have been out in the streets across the United States since Trump won the 2016 presidential race with 290 electoral votes on November 8, defeating Hillary Clinton even though she won the popular vote. The group chanted not my president and no Trump, no KKK, no fascist US.. In Tennessee, Vanderbilt University students sang civil rights songs and marched through campus across a Nashville street, temporarily blocking traffic.
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Climate change is `beyond doubt': Kerry
The US Secretary of State left from New Zealand after being held up for about a day by bad weather. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, sits in the cockpit of his U.S. "The evidence is mounting in ways that people in public life should not dare to avoid accepting as a mandate for action". He also made a point of crediting a previous Republican president, George H.W.
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Trump's foreign policy approach almost same as that of Putin
Russian Federation will continue working with the United States on Syria, not waiting for the new Administration of Donald Trump to assume office, Peskov said. Throughout the closing months of the campaign, Democrats were more convinced than ever that Russian Federation was trying to influence the outcome of the election in favor of Donald Trump .
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Hyundai boss quizzed in S. Korea scandal probe
Park has been rocked by a scandal involving an old friend who is alleged to have used her closeness to the president to meddle in state affairs. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean prosecutors want to question President Park Geun-hye this week over suspicion that she let a shadowy longtime confidante manipulate power from behind the scenes, an official said Sunday.
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Trump now says 'Crooked Hillary' is 'very strong and very smart'
A focal point for NY protesters is Trump Tower, where the real estate tycoon-turned-world-leader has been ensconced in his luxury apartment, mapping out his next steps. "When you are ready, I hope you will get up and back in there and keep fighting", she told her supporters. Trump also said he'd try to keep the measure that allows young people to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.
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Israel Looks Towards a Future with a Trump Presidency
President-elect Donald Trump expressed his utmost appreciation to President Sisi, pointing out that his was the first worldwide call he had received to congratulate him on winning the election", the statement said. The statement added that the Israeli government expected France to scupper the conference. JERUSALEM , Nov 8 (Reuters) - An attempt by the Palestinians to push for membership of global police organisation Interpol was rejected in a vote at the body's congress in Bali, ...
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UK Brexit campaigner meets Trump in NY
The UKIP interim leader spent an hour thrashing out new ideas on Anglo-American relations with Trump yesterday. Farage earlier told USA media that Mrs May's team had been "quite rude" about Trump, "so there are some fences to be mended". Mr Farage has told the BBC he is willing to help Ms May's government build bridges with the United States president-elect, and one UKIP official has suggested Mr Farage be the next British ambassador to the US.
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New Mexico governor makes amends with Trump
The results started coming in after the first of the country's polls closed at 7. Though by early afternoon, Trump had won MI by 13,225 votes - a margin of less than three-tenths of a percent - out of more some 4.8 million cast, according to unofficial results posted late this morning by the state.
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Death toll of Pakistan shrine blast rises to 52
Sources say the blast occurred at the place where the pilgrims used to carry out Dhamaal . The shrine is also located in hilly terrain, which further added to the difficulties faced by emergency services. Later, another 100 soldiers, four medical teams and 45 ambulances were sent. Local hospitals were flooded with dozens of injured victims, and authorities said the death toll was likely to rise.
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Trump doesn`t rule out `amended` Obamacare
That includes keeping young adults on parental plans until age 26 and doing away with lifetime dollar limits on coverage . President-elect Donald Trump gave his first extended comments on Obamacare Friday, suggesting he may be rethinking the wisdom of taking a sledgehammer to the law, as he has promised to do.
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Why November's 'supermoon' could be once in a lifetime
There are about four to six a year but this month's Supermoon will be the closest the Earth has been to the moon since 1948. "The moon moves around on an elliptical orbit, so it can come very close to us and, if that matches with a full moon, then it can seem absolutely enormous", she explains.
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Russia Says It Was In Touch With Trump Campaign During The Election
Putin congratulated Trump via telegram shortly after the latter's presidential election victory. Unsurprisingly, the Trump camp has denied that it has been in talks with Russian Federation, with spokesperson Hope Hicks telling Bloomberg in an email that she was "not aware" of such meetings.
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Trump joins Obama for meeting at White House
Melania Trump's son, Barron, is 10 years old and will be the first son to be raised in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. In the last few days Mr Trump has said there were parts of Obamacare, the current President's overhaul of the United States healthcare system, which he'd keep - a far cry from his promise to completely repeal the "horror" legislation.
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Mosul siege: Teens 'brainwashed', trained to fight for ISIS
But they say some villages in which the population fought alongside IS have suffered extensive destruction because of the ferocity of the battles. Around 20 more people were also shot dead on Wednesday at Ghabat in the north of the city for supposedly leaking intelligence information to outside sources.
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Bold Predictions For Seahawks at Patriots in NFL Week 10
They're healthy and coming off a bye week, giving them an extra week to prepare. The Seahawks know that the offense depends on Brady, and they will be gunning for him every way they can. Bills. Buffalo had the ball for more than 40 minutes and Seattle's defense was on the field for 82 plays. With this past-first approach, the Seahawks' offense needs to be on the field closer to 60 plays.
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USA election: Clinton and Trump fight for key battleground states
The most recent data reflect a.53 percentage point shift toward Clinton and a.62 percentage point away from Trump compared to data collected a day earlier. Here are my final predictions for the popular vote and electoral college. Hillary Clinton is accused of using her family's private email server for official communications, rather than official State Department email accounts maintained on federal servers during her tenure as United States Secretary of State.
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Alaska police officer shot; second man killed in attack
The officer was shot multiple times but is expected to survive; the suspect was shot and killed. The wounded officer returned fire, . Neither the suspect nor the police officer's names were released Saturday. When asked if the attack was premeditated, Tolley says from the video he's seen from dash cams, "it was a clear and intentional ambush". "The officer was pulling his patrol vehicle over and a man brandished a gun and started firing at the officer", Castro says in an email to The ...