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Chelsea Handler interviewed California Sen. Barbara Boxer for her Netflix program. Boxer stopped talking when she began to get choked up explaining why she has not yet spoken to Hillary Clinton , since Election Night.
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.
Bernie Sanders says it's an "embarrassment" that so many working-class citizens bolted the Democratic party to vote for Donald Trump - and is leaving the door open for another run for the White House in 2020, when he'd be 79. "Four years is a long time from now," the 75-year-old Vermont senator said. "We'll take one thing at a time, but I'm not ruling out anything."
NOVEMBER 09: Protesters on an onramp watch as police advance toward them after they shut down the 101 freeway in opposition to the upset election of Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the race for President of the United States on November 9 2016 in Los Angeles, California, United States. LOS ANGELES - A day after Donald Trump's election to the presidency, campaign divisions appeared to widen as many thousands of demonstrators - some with signs with messages declaring "NOT MY PRESIDENT" - flooded streets across the country to protest his surprise triumph.
John Porcari, interim executive director of the Gateway Development Corporation, the group heading the $24 billion project, said he "looks forward to working with [Trump] and his administration" and is happy that the president-elect has identified infrastructure as one of his top priorities, Politico reported. Donald Trump has said that he wants to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure and plans to introduce a bill that will authorize that spending - though the source of the funding is not yet clear.
"I think he should start with tax reform, because I think he's got the votes for it," former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNN's "New Day" on Thursday. He was talking about the first moves of the next president, Donald Trump.
The nation is starting to get back to normal after Donald Trump's stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton. She has officially conceded and he has started to work with President Obama on a peaceful transition.
President Barack Obama hands over the White House to Republican Donald Trump in 71 days, leaving the Democratic Party leaderless and with few up-and-coming stars among its aging cast of stalwarts. In what appeared to be a wave election, Republicans also secured majorities they already enjoyed in the Senate and the House and in governor's mansions and state legislatures across the country.
Late-night hosts pivoted from candidate Donald Trump to President-elect Trump, combining punchlines and audience group counseling after the billionaire's defeat of Hillary Clinton. "For years I've come out every night and asked how you're doing, but I've never meant it.
Hillary Clinton, holding hands with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, waves to a crowd outside a New York hotel as she arrives to speak to her staff and supporters after losing the race for the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Earlier in the day she conceded the race to Republican president-elect Donald Trump.
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New York: US financial markets witnessed wild swings after Republican Donald Trump won the country's presidential election, but then stabilised and regained momentum as the Wall Street further digested information about the results. "It is not quite a mandate, not with a popular vote loss, but it is a far different outcome than was expected 12 hours ago," said Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial on Wednesday.
Emboldened Republicans claimed a mandate Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump after his astonishing election triumph, and an emotional Hillary Clinton told crestfallen supporters the GOP victor deserved a "chance to lead." President Barack Obama pledged a smooth transition of power.
Bernie Sanders, who galvanized young Americans during this year's Democratic primary race, said that he is ready to work with president-elect Donald Trump if he wants to "improve the lives of working families." "Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media," the Vermont senator said in a statement following the Republican billionaire's surprise victory, which has sent shockwaves through the United States and around the world.
He's the ultimate outsider, so Donald Trump's Cabinet is likely to include appointees who have little or no connection to Washington. Ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's most eager campaign attack dogs, is considered the front-runner for attorney general.
Donald Trump will quickly begin to define his presidential legacy by nominating a new Supreme Court justice as one of his first acts in office. The high court has had a vacancy since the sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia in February , despite a strident effort by President Obama to replace the conservative with his own choice, Merrick Garland.
As Donald Trump celebrated his surprise election win over Hillary Clinton and equity futures swooned in response, billionaire investor and Trump supporter Carl Icahn headed home to start trading. Mr. Icahn, 80, left President-elect Trump's victory party in the early hours of the morning to bet about $1 billion on U.S. equities, he said Wednesday in a telephone interview on Bloomberg TV.
Republican businessman Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency after pulling off upsets in key battleground states. WSJ's Shelby Holliday reports on the election results and reaction.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has warned more than 2,100 veterans in Eastern Colorado and parts of Kansas that their personal information may have been compromised when an employee emailed documents to himself. An agency employee told The Associated Press that he is the person who emailed the information to himself, describing it as unauthorized wait lists used by VA health care facilities in Colorado.