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Failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein took new steps to force recounts across key Midwestern battlegrounds that could complicate Donald Trump's push for national unity. Stein, who earned little more than 1 per cent of the national vote, formally requested a Wisconsin recount Friday afternoon, vowing to do the same in the coming days in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
The incoming president has tapped Fox News analyst Kathleen "KT" McFarland to serve as deputy national security adviser, and campaign attorney Donald McGahn as White House counsel. He cited McFarland's "tremendous experience and innate talent," which he said would "complement the fantastic team we are assembling."
President-elect Donald Trump narrowly won Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and has a small lead in Michigan. Stein has said she planned to request recounts in the three states - all reliably Democratic in recent presidential elections - to see whether hacking may have taken place, though there's no evidence voter results were hacked or electronic voting machines were compromised.
The Black Friday weapon sales are not driven by the Christmas spirit since gun laws in many states prohibit buying guns for someone else. The sales are driven by sharp discounts.
The bank asked the U.S. District Court in Utah on Wednesday to force dozens of those customers to resolve their claims in closed-door arbitration instead of open court. The bank is being sued for opening as many as 2-million unauthorized accounts.
Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein filed a petition Friday for a recount of election results in Wisconsin. An election recount is underway in Wisconsin, after former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein filed a petition Friday with the state's Election Commission, the first of three states where she has promised to contest the election result.
Washington, Nov 26 - Presidential hopeful Jill Stein's fund-raising push to pay for recounts in three rust-belt states that were crucial to Donald Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton in the November 8 election has already exceeded its original target, the Green Party said on Friday. After initially asking for $2.5 million, the recount effort has so far collected more than $4 million, EFE news agency quoted Stein's campaign website as saying.
A new report suggests a "sophisticated" Russian propaganda campaign helped flood social media with fake news stories leading up to the presidential election. The Washington Post, citing a yet-to-be published report from independent researchers, says the goal was to punish Hillary Clinton, help Donald Trump, and undermine faith in American democracy.
The Central Texas Food Bank serves more than 40,000 people in a week, but it was one person Monday who reportedly took issue with the charity's insistence on providing "these poor folks in need" with sustenance. The food bank received a "disturbing" letter Monday in response to a Thanksgiving direct-mail campaign asking supporters to donate any food they had.
Established Republicans can learn from Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election and should build on his success, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush argues in The Wall Street Journal . Bush, who was part of the crowded field of 17 Republicans vying for the presidential nomination, was often the target of Trump's arguments that Washington was broken - a point Bush makes in his opinion piece.
The flood of "fake news" this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation. Russia's increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery - including thousands of botnets, teams of paid human "trolls," and networks of websites and social-media accounts - echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal hiding potentially fatal health problems and preparing to hand control of the nation to a shadowy cabal of global financiers.
Before people took to the polls to elect a new president, analysts predicted that Hillary Clinton would win by a landslide. But in a shocking turn of events, Donald Trump nabbed the top spot.
It appears turnout in Northeast Mississippi, like that of the rest of the state, was strong for the Nov. 8 election, but not at record levels. The certified election results from the 82 counties recently were submitted to Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann who oversees state elections.
Perhaps we should be thankful this week for Donald Trump's insincerity. In a breathtaking fortnight of flip-flopping, he has reversed many of his most reckless and damaging campaign positions.
Under president Obama, relations with Moscow plummeted to depths lower than those that brought on his administration's attempt at a so-called "reset." Now, Trump hopes to capitalize on the increasingly vocal sentiments of Americans on the unorthodox right and left who worried that Hillary Clinton and other "globalists" wanted continued conflict or outright war with the former superpower.
A top Donald Trump adviser warned Sunday that the president-elect's supporters would feel "betrayed" if he tapped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as secretary of state, a move that would put a fierce... A top Donald Trump adviser warned Sunday that the president-elect's supporters would feel "betrayed" if he tapped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as secretary of state, a move that would put a once-fierce Trump... The Secret Service will face expanded expenses as it provides security for President-elect Donald Trump not only in the White House but also in Trump Tower in New York.
Every media outlet is going to have a point of view. That's pretty unavoidable. But when a media organization directly collaborates with a political campaign, that crosses the line.
Along with too few others, I am mortified that President-elect Donald Trump is successfully fooling the custodians of democracy once more. This time there is virtually no resistance.