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CHICAGO — Hate crime charges have filed against four people shown in a Facebook video attacking a mentally disabled man in Chicago, cutting his scalp with a knife and punching him while yelling obscenities about Donald Trump and “white people.” Jordan Hill, 18, of Carpentersville, Ill.; and Tesfaye Cooper, 18, Brittany Covington, 18, and Tanishia

Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, but she beat him in their shared-hometown of New York rather handedly, where the former Democratic candidate received over 1.7 million more votes than the president-elect. Now, as Clinton has quietly been licking her wounds in upstate Chappaqua while her former opponent prepares to

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s hesitation in hiring immigration hard-liner Kris Kobach reflects the next president’s indecision on how to approach the biggest issue of his presidential campaign. As a candidate, Trump promised to build a wall on the southern border, deport 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally, ban all Muslims from

President Obama has issued 145 “midnight” regulations with a cost of more than $21 billion since the election of Donald Trump, the most by a lame-duck president in a generation, a study has found. The conservative American Action Forum said Thursday that Mr. Obama’s rules, issued from Nov. 8 through Dec. 31 of last year,

While Donald Trump struggles to land big names (or any names) to perform at his inauguration on January 20, the Obamas have corralled a host of A-listers for their final party at the White House, which will take place Friday night. Related: Obama to deliver farewell address from Chicago January 10 The White House has

Since Election Day, scholars and curators of Jewish history have consistently issued one message: Watch out By Ben Sales Participants in an anti-hate rally at a Brooklyn park named for the late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch after it was defaced with swastikas, Nov. 20, 2016. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) NEW YORK — In the two