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Well, the last of the holdouts have been called, as we wave goodbye to 2016 and look to the future under President-elect Donald J. Trump. New Hampshire, Arizona, and Michigan were the last remaining states to call in their vote counts.
People march through downtown Portland, Ore., to protest the election of president-elect, Donald Trump, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. Hundreds of protesters traveled through downtown Portland streets Friday night while others converged at an intersection, not budging as police told them the activity amounted to unlawful assembly.
Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry and considered by many to be the father of the same-sex marriage movement, responded on Friday to Donald Trump's election. President-elect Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, oppose marriage equality.
Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos, pictured at a June news conference down the street from the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, would be a bold choice for White House press secretary. Let's just start by saying this exercise assumes President-elect Donald Trump will actually have a White House press secretary who delivers regular briefings.
Even before Tuesday's voters brought a dramatic end to the political career of Hillary Clinton and served up a stunning rebuke to the presidency of Barack Obama, the chattering class had a weird spin on what was happening. "I can't identify a single issue domestic or foreign, in 2016, because no campaign in my adult lifetime has turned so little on policy and so much on character," wrote Frank Bruni in last Sunday's New York Times .
He's called the spiraling federal debt a disaster, leads a party of avowed fiscal hawks and has promised to balance the budget. But if you expect Donald Trump to act as a model of fiscal rectitude as president, the bond market has a message for you, and a very Trumpian one at that: Investors have been yanking money out of bonds around the world since Trump's victory became apparent early Wednesday, sending prices tumbling and wiping out several months of gains.
It was supposed to be his grand valedictory tour. Now President Barack Obama must use his last major trip abroad to try to calm shocked world leaders about the outcome of the U.S. election, and what comes next when Donald Trump is president.
In this Nov. 10, 2016, photo, President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., pose for photographers after a meeting in the Speaker's office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Washington's new power trio consists of a bombastic billionaire, a telegenic policy wonk, and a taciturn political tactician.
Republican Donald Trump has won United States elections and President Barack Obama has been very graceful while dealing with the President-elect. During his recent meeting with Trump, Obama said that he'll ensure smooth transition of power.
"Our motto is no longer 'E Pluribus Unum'; it's 'Go fuck yourself.' And that is not a sustainable way to live," host says Bill Maher discussed abolishing the Electoral College and uniting a divided nation on the first 'Real Time' episode under President-elect Trump.
Donald Trump's ratings soar in Iranian media too In more than one campaign speech, President elect Donald Trump declared that his number priority was "to dismantle the disastrous deal" with Iran, which he said was "the worst deal ever" He was referring to the 2015 accord negotiated with Iran by the 5P+1 , which the Obama administration presented as putting the lid on Iran's nuclear weapons program. So does Tehran have more to fear from Donald Trump than from Barack Obama in the way of US military intervention? They can't be sure that he will not set out to show the world and especially the Iranians - that under his presidency, they can no longer "mess with America."
In 2013, then-Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to excoriate the Obama administration's environmental policy and its impact of coal jobs in eastern Kentucky. Noting a recent listening session in Pikeville, Kentucky, McConnell sought "to put a human face on the suffering that is being felt in Appalachia due in large part to this administration's war on coal."
Hillary's last hurrah: Clinton greets her campaign staff one final time, admitting the last few days have been 'very, very tough' as it's claimed she was 'inconsolable' after crushing defeat to Trump Angry anti-Trump demonstrators in Portland are hit with tear gas while 11 are arrested in New York as protest leaders vow to continue marching across the country all the way to Inauguration Day Don't blame Hillary! Don't blame us! Loser's closest aides claim it was the FBI and the media who dared to scrutinize her who cost the election 'F**k your father!' Eric Trump and his wife, Lara, heckled on the streets of New York City after a dinner celebrating Donald's election win 'A sexual predator who lost the popular vote': Senator Harry Reid slams President-elect Donald Trump's victory for leaving law-abiding Americans 'wracked with fear' Is Trump about to DITCH his pledge to lock Hillary up? ... (more)
Most devastating electoral defeats in United States history at least had some mitigating circumstances. In 1984, Walter Mondale got blown out by Ronald Reagan, a popular incumbent President presiding over an improving economy.
Political polls are not supposed to be taken as fact, but more of a guide on how things might go, an Emporia State University political science professor said.
Whether Kids Voting Kansas students visited official polling sites or cast votes using DoubleClick Democracy, thousands of the state's youth participated in the democratic process Election Day.
Thousands of protesters took their frustrations over Donald Trump's election as the next U.S. president onto the streets on Friday and into Saturday in several cities, including Portland, Oregon, where one person was shot. People try to move away from a gas cloud during a protest against the election of Republican Donald Trump as President of the United States in Portland, Oregon, U.S. REUTERS/William Gagan People gather at Portland City Hall to protest of the election of president-elect, Donald Trump, Friday.
Hawaii is one of the bluest of blue states: 62.5 percent of its votes for president Tuesday went to Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump, higher than the Dem vote in other states that fell on the losing side of the election. Read More
The trampolining superstar has become US President Elect Donald Trump in one of the best parodies we have seen so far. Though we're not sure that Hillary Clinton will be pleased to see herself re-cast as the poor child who hasn't quite got what she wanted for Christmas.