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President-elect Trump does an about-face on protesters hours after tearing them apart

Late Thursday night, President-elect Donald Trump hopped on Twitter to praise a late morning meeting with President Barack Obama — and to rip apart the people protesting his election. “Just had a very open and successful presidential election,” Trump wrote. “Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!” Just had a very […]

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KKK Will Hold Parade Celebrating Trump’s Presidential Victory

The Ku Klux Klan has planned a parade to celebrate Donald Trump’s presidential victory, the infamous white nationalist group announced Thursday. The “victory klavalkade Klan parade” is scheduled for Dec. 3 in North Carolina. The parade is set to be organized by The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in Pelham, North Carolina,

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Rick Santorum: Time for conservatives to come together to support our new president

A political earthquake shook the nation and the world on Tuesday when Donald Trump shocked all the prognosticators and won the presidency. Those same pundits are digging through the wreckage of their predictions to try and figure out why Trump was able to prove them wrong, but to me, the answer was on full display

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Leonard Cohen, spiritual musician who stirred a generation, dies at 82

Jewish singer-songwriter and poet, best known for ballad ‘Hallelujah,’ dies month after releasing last album about coming to terms with mortality By AFP , AP and Times of Israel staff Leonard Cohen in concert at London’s O2 Arena, September 15, 2013. (Brian Rasic/Getty Images/JTA) Leonard Cohen, the storied musician and poet hailed as one of

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Humoring the Headlines: November 11, 2016

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−When Obama became president, sales of guns spiked.  When Trump became president, applications for Green Cards and DACA status spiked. * Donald and Melania Trump have indicated that they have huge plans for redecorating the White House.  Although specifics aren’t yet available, reporters have detected that members of Trump’s transition team

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In electing Trump, Americans rejected the Left

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not easy drawing lessons from this election. There will be as many explanations as commentators. Among the prominent features is the tilt of pre-election polls toward Clinton. Perhaps a lot of Trump voters were ashamed to tell their true feelings to pollsters. Connected with that was antipathy toward both candidates.

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Revenge of the Forgotten Class

In March, I was driving along a road that led from Dayton, Ohio, into its formerly middle-class, now decidedly working-class southwestern suburbs, when I came upon an arresting sight. I was looking for a professional sign-maker who had turned his West Carrollton ranch house into a distribution point for Trump yard signs, in high demand

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After Trump’s win, even some in Silicon Valley wonder: Has Facebook grown too influential?

Hillary Clinton was the choice of nearly every American newspaper editorial board. It didn’t matter. When it comes to influencing public opinion, the 2016 presidential election demonstrated with sobering effect the weakening role of traditional media and the ascendant power of social networks like Facebook. Forty-four percent of Americans get their news from Facebook, according

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Sanders And Warren To Trump: We’ll Help You Fight GOP

During his unorthodox Republican presidential campaign, Donald Trump at times touted his support for longtime progressive causes, promising to reform trade deals, invest in infrastructure, reinstate a key Depression-era financial regulation and combat political corruption. Now, some of Trump’s harshest progressive critics are offering their support for the president-elect on the issues on which they

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