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Hillary Clinton, now a private citizen after conceding the election to Donald Trump, wants in on the recount effort Green Party nominee Jill Stein launched Friday, even though she previously called such a notion "horrifying." During the final debate between Clinton and Donald Trump last month in Las Vegas, Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would honor the results of the election even if he lost.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. >> President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday condemned a growing push to force recounts in three states pivotal to his Nov. 8 victory, confronting the Green Party-backed effort for the first time even as he worked to address key Cabinet vacancies.
President-elect Donald Trump ripped the election recount on Saturday, calling it "a scam" and "ridiculous" and noting that Hillary Clinton had already conceded. Trump charged in a statement that the effort was nothing but a fundraising ploy by the Green Party and its nominee, Jill Stein.
The US president-elect called the former Cuban leader "a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades". Trump said Castro, who has died aged 90 , leaves a legacy of "firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights".
For half a century, as Fidel Castro transformed Cuba into a communist state and sparred with the U.S., his brother Ral worked in his shadow, the authoritarian leader's disciplined, junior partner. But by the time the elder Castro died Friday night, Ral Castro, who assumed presidential powers in 2006 before getting the official title in 2008, had transformed Cuba into country that was unrecognizable in many ways - and yet remarkably the same.
Individuals have sent Stein millions of dollars to recount the votes in Michigan and Wisconsin, and nearly enough to fund the effort in Pennsylvania. These three states were decisive in the election, but their combined margin of victory for Donald Trump was a slim 107,000 votes.
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President-elect Donald Trump's proposals would modestly cut income taxes for most middle-class Americans. But for nearly 8 million families - including a majority of single-parent households - the opposite would occur: They'd pay more.
There is concern for the undocumented Irish living in the US after Donald Trump vowed to deport or imprison millions of immigrants. While the US president-elect has rowed back on some of his campaign pledges, his immediate affirmation of a plan to round up and deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records -- a group he estimated at between two and three million people -- has caused alarm.
New Jersey lawmakers say they're concerned about what President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general could mean for marijuana legalization. But he recently invited Sessions, who opposes legalizing recreational marijuana, to lead the Justice Department.
President-elect Donald Trump reacted Saturday to the death of controversial Cuban leader Fidel Castro in a four word tweet. The longtime revolutionary leader died Friday, presenting more potential opportunities for change in a country whose relations with the United States recently began to improve Castro's death came just weeks after Trump, a frequent critic of the deal that lead to a reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba, was elected president.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gave his first reaction to the death of Fidel Castro on Saturday, saying on Twitter, "Fidel Castro is dead!", without elaborating.
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Fidel Castro as the "symbol of an era," the Kremlin said in a statement Saturday. Former London mayor Ken Livingstone said Mr Castro was an "absolute giant of the 20th century", and blamed the US for the restrictions on civil liberties under his leadership.
Gov. Nikki Haley was supposed to leave the Statehouse when her second and final term in office ended in January 2019. Haley's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations could come soon after President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration - setting off an early seismic shift in the Palmetto State from the next legislative session to the 2018 governor's race to the upcoming presidential elections.
There will be a recount of the US presidential vote in Wisconsin as failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein stepped up her bid to force two other key Midwestern battlegrounds, Michigan and Pennsylvania, to do the same. In a move that could complicate President-elect Donald Trump's push for national unity as he continues to shape his White House team, Ms Stein formally requested a Wisconsin recount on Friday, and vowed to do the same in the coming days in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
As hard as the campaign might have been and the transition is proving to be, Donald Trump's challenges are really just beginning. Governing after a toxic election in which the results awarded him an ambiguous national mandate - his opponent, after all, got more votes - will require finesse, a clear-eyed view of his role in the world, and no small amount of luck.
Judy Woodruff, Tamara Keith and Amy Walter discuss how Trump distracts us as a way of avoiding talking about what Trump distracts us from. Euphemism isn't journalism, but conflating the two can be irresistible for mainline journalists when candor might seem overly intrepid.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2 million, and she would probably be president-elect if the director of the FBI hadn't laid such a heavy thumb on the scales just days before the election.
President-elect Donald Trump looked at hundreds of marble samples before selecting one for the lobby of Trump Tower. He can recall, in painstaking detail even decades later, how he stood in the cold and oversaw the ice-making process at Central Park's rink.
The morning after Hillary Clinton's shocking defeat I woke up and took those usual sleepy few seconds to remember why everything felt so awful. Of course, good grief, Donald Trump.