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Demonstrators chant during a protest in opposition of President-elect Donald Trump, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, at Bayfront Park in Miami. Michelle Ocello holds a sign as she listens to a speaker during an event dubbed a "Love Rally" organized by students as a peaceful demonstration following the presidential election Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis.
It wasn't just the result of the presidential election that was unexpected - a surprisingly large number of people didn't even show up or cast ballots. Voter turnout in 2016 looks likely to be around 55 percent, based on election numbers that are still being counted, CNN reports.
President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the White House has drawn a sharp rebuke from political strategists who see in Bannon a controversial figure too closely associated with the "alt-right" movement, which white nationalists have embraced. Bannon, who was the executive chairman of Breitbart News before joining the Trump campaign in August, will serve as chief strategist and senior counselor for Trump; that will give Bannon authority over the strategic direction of the White House.
Tuesday's stunning presidential election was, first and foremost, a devastating rebuke of Barack Obama's presidency, especially his economic record. Many issues, no doubt, influenced the voters' decisions to put the Republicans back in charge of the White House and the executive branch of government.
I am uplifted by Tuesday's presidential election results because I believe we have a good chance to start turning things around in the country for the better, from economic issues to social issues and matters of national security and the rule of law. There is one subject, however, I feel compelled to address above many others today, as I see it raised by so many Democratic leaders and many liberals throughout the country -- inclusiveness.
The Senate's soon-to-be-top Democrat told labor leaders Thursday that the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal at the center of President Barack Obama's "pivot" to strengthen ties with key Asian allies, will not be ratified by Congress. That remark from Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who is expected to be the incoming Senate minority leader, came as good news to the AFL-CIO executive council, which met in Washington.
This was the most-viewed U.S. election related live stream on Twitter, surpassing unique viewer totals for U.S. political convention and presidential debate live streams. The broadcast, which aired exclusively on Twitter as part of a partnership between Twitter and Buzzfeed, had an average minute audience of 165K viewers globally, peaking at 244K concurrent viewers.
As Barack Obama began preparing to leave office, the first smartphone-toting U.S. president ordered his team to upgrade the White House's aging technology for his successor.
Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States. Both parties are talking about what a Trump presidency could mean for the Magnolia State.
Tuesday night, Donald Trump was named president-elect after a tense race. Trump defeated rival Sec. Hillary Clinton, securing 279 votes from the Electoral College to Clinton's 228.
U.S. intelligence agencies will soon begin giving President-elect Donald Trump the same top secret national security briefings they give President Barack Obama, current and former intelligence officials said Wednesday. The briefings by veteran career intelligence analysts, which will begin in the next few days, will include some of the government's most closely-guarded secrets, including details of undercover espionage operations and classified intelligence collection methods, including the National Security Agency's controversial eavesdropping operations, the officials said.
U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan gestures to the crowd during an 'Election Night event' in Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S. November 8, 2016. The U.S. Capitol is seen the day after the election of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election in Washington, U.S., November 9, 2016.
Hillary Clinton speaks during a news conference at the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel the day after the election on Wednesday in New York. There were countless stories this campaign about Donald Trump's ostensibly insurmountable gender gap .
Putting the capstone on a campaign that began seventeen months ago with a trip down an elevator at Trump Tower in New York City, Donald Trump overcame the odds, the doubts, the pollsters, and the political establishment to pull off a historic surprise win last night to become the 45th President of the United States: Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.
A staff carries balloons to decorate the venue during a live broadcasting of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election results at U.S. Ambassador's residence in Tokyo, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. . German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, welcomes Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom prior to talks between the foreign ministers of Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Germany in the guest house of the For... .
In this Oct. 4, 2016 file photo Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a press conference concerning the referendum on migrants held in Hungary on the European Commission's proposed mandatory resettlement of migrants in member states of EU. Orban's Fidesz party failed Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 to secure any opposition support and fell two votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary in today's vote.
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.
America's ugly and unpredictable presidential election neared the finish Tuesday, with voters finally deciding between Democrat Hillary Clinton, hoping to become the first woman to serve as commander in chief, and Republican Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman who tapped into a searing strain of economic populism.