How a professor in China predicted Trump’s victory more accurately than most U.S. pollsters

An international relations professor in China believes that social pressure in the U.S. prevented voters from sharing their views about Donald Trump. The professor also sensed many Americans' fundamental distrust of Hillary Clinton, a sentiment the Democrat couldn't shake.

Xi calls up Trump, says cooperation ‘only right choice’ to boost ties

Chinese President Xi Jinping today told US President-elect Donald Trump that cooperation was the "only right choice" to bolster ties between the two major powers, in the first contact with the US President-elect who in his campaign had accused China of snatching American jobs. In his first telephonic conversation since Trump won the US presidential election last week, Xi congratulated him on his election victory, state-run CCTV reported.

.com | China’s Xi reaffirms US relations in talk with Trump

Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed the importance of relations with the US in a phone conversation with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, opening communication with a politician who had been strongly critical of China during his campaign. State media reported that Xi congratulated Trump on his election and said co-operation was the "only correct choice" for China and the US, the world's two biggest economies.

Deportation fears grip immigrants after Trump’s election

President-elect Donald Trump launched his candidacy on an anti-immigrant sentiment and has vowed to repeal a key Obama administration program that shields hundreds of thousands of people from deportation. In immigrant-heavy areas like Los Angeles and Phoenix, activists are scrambling to provide informational meetings for immigrants to help them protect themselves from deportation.

Trump rally in stock markets still has legs

A woman holds a bottle of tea in front of an electronic board displaying stock prices at a brokerage house in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Asian shares rallied Thursday, extending a surprising global recovery as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's conciliatory acceptance speech comments helped soothe world financial markets spooked by his unexpected U.S. election victory.

Trump headed to surprise victory in US presidential election

Donald Trump is heading toward a surprise victory in Tuesday's US presidential election, winning one battleground state after another in what would be one of the biggest upsets in American election history. Trump has so far picked up 232 electoral votes against Hillary Clinton's 209.

Merkel’s migrant U-turn: Germany wants to STOP refugees from…

Killer caught on video in his torture chamber: Chilling video shows Craiglist killer preparing chains and weapons in dungeon where he tortured a pregnant woman for five days, then murdered her Democrat staffers helped CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper prepare for interviews with Trump, new batch of 8,000 WikiLeaks emails reveals Are YOU middle class? Here's how much you have to earn to be considered in the bracket in the U.S. It's going to the wire: Clinton will campaign at MIDNIGHT as fierce election battle with Trump goes beyond the eleventh hour Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway calls the Clinton email investigation a 'hot mess' - and denies that The Donald's not allowed to touch his Twitter account On a knife-edge: Clinton's lead is wafer-thin with just a day to go as a series of polls give her a margin of no more than four points 'Did you grab 'em by the p***y, ... (more)

Clinton sent daughter material that was later classified

The State Department on Friday released a 2009 email chain that shows then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton forwarding to her daughter material that the department classified last year. At issue is a December 2009 email that President Barack Obama's trade adviser, Michael Froman, sent to senior White House and State Department staff members.

Afghanistan: The war Trump and Clinton have ignored

That's remarkable, given the enormous U.S. investment in blood and treasure over the past 15 years - including two American deaths on Thursday - the resilience of the Taliban insurgency and the risk of an Afghan government collapse that would risk empowering extremists and could force the next president's hands. In addition to the two service members killed on Thursday, four others were wounded while assisting Afghan forces in the northern city of Kunduz.

Russians unconcerned by Kremlin’s saber-rattling

BALTIYSK, Russia - Russia held civil defense drills involving 40 million people this month, the largest since the collapse of the Soviet Union. State media broadcast instantly recognizable Soviet imagery, showing school children trying on gas masks, and urge viewers to find the nearest bomb shelter "before it's too late."

Reports: Russia shows off new ‘Satan 2’ missile that could ‘wipe out Texas’

For an even better view of "Texas sizing," check out the following maps to see just how big the state is compared to other landmasses around the world. In June 2011, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation signed a state contract for the "Sarmat" missile, developed as a nuclear deterrent, according to a translation of a Russian publication.

NK shows interest in US presidential election, prefers Trump to Clinton: report

North Korea hopes that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will win the race for the White House over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, a US broadcaster reported Wednesday, citing a Japanese journalist who has made a visit to the North. Keisuke Fukuda, an editor at Japan's Toyo Keizai magazine specializing in Korean affairs, said in an interview with the Voice of America, "People at the North Korean government and public institutions show an interest in the US presidential election and appears to wait for its outcome cautiously."

Philippine president’s China trip puts US ties to the test

After lashing out at longtime ally America, the new Philippine president is making a state visit to China in a charm offensive that will help define how far he wants to shift allegiance from treaty ally the U.S. to an Asian superpower locked in a territorial standoff with his small, impoverished country. While he recalibrates Philippine relations with the world's big powers, his country's 65-year alliance with the United States - a key pillar of President Barack Obama's rebalance to Asia - hangs in the balance.

Another Abduction by North Korea?

Chris Stewart gave a simple explanation for introducing a congressional resolution on missing American David Sneddon: "As a parent, it seemed the right thing to do." The Utah congressman's own son was the one who told him that his friend had mysteriously vanished-the first U.S. citizen to disappear from China without a trace since President Nixon's historic 1972 trip.