WASHINGTON (AP) — The true test now begins for Donald Trump. The Republican president-elect paid little attention to transition planning leading up to his stunning victory. With 72 days before he takes control of the executive branch, Trump and his senior team on Wednesday immediately began the herculean task of picking a Cabinet and tapping … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s muscular performance with working-class whites overwhelmed the national trend toward a more diverse population that tends to favor Democrats. That dynamic was amplified by the peculiar mathematics of the Electoral College, which gave a megaphone to less-educated voters in the Midwest. A look at the building blocks of Trump’s win … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. election. (All times EST): 11 p.m. Vice President Joe Biden says Donald Trump’s election victory should have little effect on U.S.-Israel relations. Biden was receiving an award from the World Jewish Congress at New York’s Pierre Hotel on Wednesday night. He says he has “no doubt, none … Continue reading
CHICAGO (AP) — The raw divisions exposed by the presidential race were on full display across America on Wednesday, as protesters flooded city streets to condemn Donald Trump’s election in demonstrations that police said were mostly peaceful. From New England to heartland cities like Kansas City and along the West Coast, demonstrators carried flags and … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 71.4 million Americans watched returns electing Republican Donald Trump the next president on prime-time television Tuesday, narrowly missing a record set eight years ago on the night Democrat Barack Obama won his first term. The Nielsen company said Wednesday that 71.5 million watched election night in 2008. The Trump … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The number of Americans living in states with recreational marijuana more than tripled after at least three states voted to fully legalize the drug. But the election of Republican Donald Trump and GOP majorities in the Senate and House tempered advocates’ excitement about an easing of federal restrictions. “There is a … Continue reading
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Congressman Bobby Scott is trying to make clear he’s interested in a U.S. Senate seat that’s not even open without sounding presumptuous. Should Hillary Clinton defeat Republican Donald Trump to win the White House, her running mate, Tim Kaine, would leave his senate seat up for grabs. Virginia Gov. Terry … Continue reading
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — It seems everyone has an opinion about the U.S. presidential election, including Iran’s supreme leader. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized both Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump in a speech Wednesday marking the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Khamenei said Clinton and Trump’s comments in the presidential … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign is firmly rejecting the embrace of a Ku Klux Klan-affiliated newspaper. The latest issue of The Crusader used Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan as its headline for an editorial praising the catchphrase and the Republican presidential candidate. The newspaper bills itself as “The Premier Voice of the … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Joe Heck is struggling on the question of Donald Trump’s candidacy, saying he would be a good commander in chief but refusing to say whether he would vote for the presidential nominee. The Nevada Senate candidate revoked his endorsement of Trump last month after an audio emerged of the billionaire … Continue reading
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada already has legal brothels, round-the-clock casinos and a coy catchphrase declaring that “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” If voters approve, the state could soon add another vice in the form of recreational marijuana. A proposal on the Nov. 8 state ballot would legalize pot, and entrepreneurs hope its … Continue reading
MADISON, Maine (AP) — In the north country of New England, where gun rights are sacrosanct and good jobs vanished along with the paper mills that traditionally propped up the economy, Donald Trump is finding far stronger support than in coastal and urban areas more politically attuned to Boston. The demographics could help the Republican … Continue reading
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange first outlined the hypothesis nearly a decade ago: Can total transparency defeat an entrenched group of insiders? “Consider what would happen,” Assange wrote in 2006, if one of America’s two major parties had their emails, faxes, campaign briefings, internal polls and donor data all exposed to public scrutiny. … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — This is a presidential campaign about trust, temperament, honesty, judgment, character, personality and, some are convinced, a personality disorder or two. It’s pocked with Donald Trump’s ballistic-missile tweets in the middle of the night. It’s enlivened by the spectacle of Hillary Clinton’s campaign innards spilling day after day into public view, quite … Continue reading
PHOENIX (AP) — There is palpable momentum for Democrat Hillary Clinton in Arizona, a state so traditionally Republican that her party’s nominee for president has carried it just once in the past 64 years. Encouraged by Donald Trump’s failure to unite the GOP in Arizona, long-hungry Democrats are scrambling to capitalize in the campaign’s final … Continue reading
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