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For eight years after America elected her first black president, Americans were accused of being racist for pointing out President Obama's insufferable arrogance. He was being held to a higher standard than all the white buffoons who came before him, we were told.
Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard said Tuesday that he won't pursue an expansion of Medicaid in 2017 after a discussion with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. The South Dakota governor said in a statement that his decision is based on a Monday meeting in which he and Pence talked about the Trump administration's plans for repealing or reforming the Affordable Care Act.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras escorts US President Barack Obama prior to their meeting at the Maximos Mansion on November 15, 2016 in Athens. Photo: AFP The Nato alliance is "absolutely vital" to US interests, President Barack Obama said yesterday, as he flew in to Europe to reassure jittery allies concerned by Donald Trump's shock presidential election win.
President Barack Obama encouraged Americans Monday to give President-elect Donald Trump some time to get adjusted to the responsibilities of the presidency. But in his first news conference since last week's stunning election results, Obama warned that some of Trump's expectations will soon be shaken up by the gravity of the job.
As part of an outreach effort to Americans who are difficult to reach due to "geographic distribution," President Obama said it is key for Democrats to "train new voters" and volunteers to rally support. "We have better ideas.
The number of hate crimes reported to police increased by about 6.7 percent last year, led largely by a 67 percent surge in crimes against Muslims, according to FBI statistics released Monday. Civil rights groups had been raising concerns about an anti-Muslim backlash in the U.S. even before the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, late in the year.
President-elect Donald Trump was weighing contenders for other top jobs in his administration after choosing Washington insider Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and firebrand outsider Stephen Bannon as senior counselor. Less than a week after his upset win over Democrat Hillary Clinton in last Tuesday's presidential election, Trump's choice on Sunday of Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman and friend of House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, could help him repair his strained relations with members of the Republican Party establishment.
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.
President-elect Donald Trump's tough-talking plan to rein in illegal immigration showed signs of cracking on Sunday, with the president-elect seemingly backing off his vow to build a solid wall along the southern U.S. border and the top House Republican rejecting any "deportation force" targeting people in the country illegally. In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes," Trump said Sunday he would accept a fence in some places along the U.S. southern border where he had promised to build a wall.
Caracas, Nov 14 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has urged his US counterpart Barack Obama to revoke an executive order that labelled his country a security threat. It is an atrocity that I hope Obama corrects before he leaves office, Maduro said on Sunday, reiterating his government's willingness to improve diplomatic ties with the US.
For the combatants in America's long-running culture wars, the triumph of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans was stunning _ sparking elation on one side, deep dismay on the other FILE - In this Thursday Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, from left, Celeste Ramirez, 20, Erin Ckodre , 21, Ronald Elliott, 18, Patricia Romo, 22, and Rose Ammons, 18, hold up signs during a rally at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, to protest Donald Trump's presidential election victory. For the combatants in America's long-running culture wars, the triumph of Trump and congressional Republicans was stunning _ sparking elation on one side, deep dismay on the other.
A few college professors stood up to a tidal wave of prevailing thought to separately predict for months that the New York billionaire and reality TV star would pull off one of the biggest shockers in American political history. A political scientist at New York's Stony Brook University based his prediction on a formula using primary results and his "pendulum of change" theory.
Lesley Stahl interviews Donald Trump and family members Friday for a segment of CBS' 60 Minutes scheduled for broadcast today. In a 60 Minutes interview set to air today, President-elect Donald Trump shifts his position on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, saying he would try to preserve key parts of it and praising Hillary Clinton as "very strong and very smart."
The amazing grace of our president was never more evident than on Thursday, when he received President-elect Donald Trump at the White House. Despite our deeply divided country, President Obama provided for us all an example of how we should respond during these difficult times.
President Barack Obama greets audience members after he spoke about immigration reform at Chamizal National Memorial Park in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Courtesy of AP Photo/Charles Dharapak What: Two-part, four-hour documentary that examines the last 50 years of African American history from Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Perhaps it's fortunate that PBS's “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise” - a four-hour documentary that examines the past 50 years of African American history - is airing a week after the presidential election.
Donald Trump says social media helped him win the presidential election -- but he'll be "restrained" about using Twitter and Facebook once in power. In an interview with CBS, set to air on Sunday, Trump also tells Lesley Stahl that social media gives him "a method of fighting back" against negative news coverage.
As protests of President-elect Donald Trump entered another day, police in Portland, Oregon, say one person was shot by a man who had gotten into a confrontation with a protester. Portland police said the person who was shot was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening.
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."
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As stunning as Donald Trump's Tuesday victory was for many in America, the shock was double-fold for Cobb citizens as results showed a Hillary Clinton victory in this county regarded as a haven of conservatism.