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New York: As older demonstrators across the United States protest the election of Donald Trump, American teachers and school pupils are facing challenges in dealing with an incoming president who built a campaign often branded as sexist, racist and bullying. Harassment in schools and on university campuses across the country has been widely reported over the past week while in New York City, a part of the country built on tolerance and diversity, school teachers told Fairfax Media the election of Donald Trump had sparked unprecedented discussion and concern from students of all age ranges.
President-elect Donald Trump is considering an oil billionaire and a North Dakota lawmaker for top posts as he moves to roll back President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies and allow unfettered production of oil, coal and natural gas. Trump has vowed to rescind "all job-destroying Obama executive actions" and pledges to sharply increase oil and gas drilling on federal lands, while opening up offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean and other areas where it is blocked.
Kevin O'Connor, the general counsel for Steven A. Cohen's investment firm, is overseeing staff picks for the Justice Department as a member of President-Elect Donald Trump's transition team, according to a chart obtained by Bloomberg. O'Connor's employer, Point72 Asset Management, is the successor to Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors, which was the subject of one of the largest insider trading cases in recent years, though he wasn't there at the time.
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Steven Mnuchin has been recommended by Donald Trump's transition team to serve as Treasury secretary, according to two people familiar with the process, and the choice is awaiting the president-elect's final decision. Mnuchin, the campaign's national finance chairman, has been considered the leading candidate for the job.
Oregon has plenty to lose when it comes to President-elect Donald Trump's vow to change the nation's health care system. His surprise victory threatens state officials' hope of plugging a looming budget hole with $1.25 billion in federal health care reform payments, and his vow to immediately repeal Obamacare creates uncertainty for more than 470,000 Oregonians who received coverage or subsidies under the law.
President Barack Obama is delivering a message to his fellow world leaders: "People have to know that they're being heard." Obama says increasingly people feel disconnected from their government and institutions.
United States President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone on Monday and agreed to "normalize U.S.-Russia ties", the Kremlin said, according to the BBC . During the conversation, Putin wished Trump "success in implementing the election program", while Trump said he wanted an "enduring relationship with Russia".
Google's search engine highlighted an inaccurate story claiming that President-elect Donald Trump won the popular vote in last week's election, the latest example of bogus information spread by the internet's gatekeepers. The incorrect results were shown Monday in a two-day-old story posted on the pro-Trump "70 News" site.
Police in riot gear confront demonstrators outside City Hall during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump in Los Angeles, Nov. 13, 2016. Anti-Trump protesters hold signs as they gather at The Linq Promenade before marching on the Las Vegas Strip, Nov. 12, 2016, in Las Vegas.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is the leading candidate for defense secretary in the Donald Trump administration, Politico reported , quoting sources close to the process. The news comes as the Associated Press reported another close Trump ally, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, tops the list for secretary of state.
Witnesses who tuned in to Donald Trump and Barack Obama's post-election get-together can't have missed the change in the president-elect's demeanor and affect. Quiet and reserved, he seemed almost chastened.
That scares its critics, which consider Breitbart News the home of cheerleaders rather than journalists - and often offensive ones at that. Despite the opponents, Breitbart is unquestionably on a high following the surprise election of Trump, whose candidacy the web site unceasingly backed both before and after its leader, Stephen K. Bannon, was brought in to run the general election campaign.
Sen. Jeff Sessions "is the leading contender for Donald Trump's secretary of defense, sources close to the transition say - a choice that would reward the president-elect's most outspoken congressional loyalist but offer few olive branches to a Trump-wary Republican national security establishment," Politico reports. "The two men haven't seen eye to eye on everything: Session is a budget hawk who favors caps on defense spending, while Trump has called for an arms and troops buildup that could cost $55 billion or more per year.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday that he would prefer an advisory position to President-elect Donald Trump as opposed to a Cabinet post in the incoming administration. "I want to be the general planner, looking out over the next eight years and trying to design how we fundamentally reshape the federal government," Gingrich told Fox News' Megyn Kelly on "The Kelly File."
Trump, a Republican who defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election, fought allegations during the campaign of encouraging racism and xenophobia. A founder of Human Rights Watch warned that Donald Trump's election as US president is encouraging anti-Semitism in Europe.
The world is not new to being in shock on November 9th. In 2016, the worldwide shock was that Donald Trump could garner over 59 million votes and even though getting less votes than Hillary Clinton, seal the Electoral College and become President Elect.
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.
Wanda Sykes is used to making people laugh, but her jokes about president-elect Donald Trump at a charity comedy event was met with negative backlash from the audience. Performing to an audience of thousands at the 22nd annual Comics Come Home fundraiser in Boston, the comedian - who was a vocal advocate for Hillary Clinton during the election campaign - had been enjoying a largely receptive crowd until she veered into politics.
London: US Vice President-elect Mike Pence is shaping up to be the most important man in the new US administration, apart from his boss. The long presidential campaign revealed sharp differences between Donald Trump and Mike Pence, which may yet cause difficulties between the now President-elect and Vice-President-elect.