While this election has revealed the true state of America and where we are at racially and politically, we do have a few things to celebrate. Although we are all dealing with the aftermath of Donald Trump winning the presidency over Hilary Clinton, we have been victorious in other spectrums. Latinos have always been a
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USAMuch of the world knew a few hours after voting concluded that Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States, based on the tally of electoral college votes—at least 270 are required to win. But as of Wednesday morning, Hillary Clinton was still leading in the popular vote, by a margin of
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USA(With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer) By Laurie Baron The outlook was optimistic for Clinton-Kane just yesterday. The polls showed leads of three points, but narrowing each day. When Comey concluded that she was not to blame. The voters who despised her had nothing to defame. The Donald was campaigning, appealing to white males. Spouting
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Remarkable Women of San Diego: Pioneers, Visionaries and Innovators by Hannah S. Cohen and Gloria G. Harris; History Press © 2016; ISBN 9781467-118262; 144 pages including index and bibliography, $21.90. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Divided into four time periods that begin in 1850, 1900, 1950 and 2000, this collection of biographical sketches honors
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USAKeep calm and carry on. That was the basic message Wednesday morning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as millions of Canadians woke to the reality of Donald J. Trump – a man whose persona, approach, values and proposed policies could not be more at odds with Canada’s present direction – as president-elect of our immediate
Election Day in the United States finally came to a long-awaited close last night as Americans chose who would be the 45th president. Some of the other names on the ballot, however, have gone on to make history. style=”display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-8420654331411867″ data-ad-slot=”1313712966″> For starters, 52-year-old Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto became the nation’s first Latina Senator after
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USASen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that he expects a flurry of repeals of Present Obama’s regulations by the next Congress and President-elect Donald Trump. “You’re gong to find that we are going to repeal a half dozen or more regulations in the first week of Congress, and I’m excited about it because I think the
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USAWASHINGTON — For most of the last four months, the USC/L.A. Times Daybreak tracking poll has been the great outlier of the 2016 campaign — consistently showing a better result for Donald Trump than other surveys did. In light of Tuesday’s election returns, the poll now looks like the only major survey to see the
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) — President Barack Obama made the following statement about Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential race: THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Yesterday, before votes were tallied, I shot a video that some of you may have seen in which I said to the American people: Regardless
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USAHillary Clinton delivered a speech at about 11:30 a.m. EST Wednesday morning conceding the US presidential election to Donald Trump. Watch it here. Clinton takes the stage at minute 43: Meanwhile, major global media outlets have been shocked by Trump’s astonishing victory, describing the US president-elect as “dangerous” and unpredictable. Here is a round-up of
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USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — In the immediate aftermath of the American presidential election, the New York Times wrote, “For not the first time this year, those analyzing this election missed what was happening all around them — and it was the story of a lifetime.” This is probably the understatement of the
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Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — There’s an ill wind blowing through the world. First Brexit, and now Trump. What’s next? And what makes people vote for a policy or a person that seems on the face of it to embody all that is worst in human nature and societal relations? In the referendum in
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, USA“Bear with me folks. This is gonna be good,” said journalist John Kucko during News 8 WROC’s Facebook Live video. For about eight hours, since 7:15 AM this morning, he’d been shooting live footage of Susan B. Anthony’s grave in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, where parents, children, elderly couples and everyone in
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USAIsraeli leaders have been congratulating President-elect Donald Trump. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described him as a “true friend of Israel,” while Education Minister Naftali Bennett sees an opportunity to jettison the idea of a Palestinian state. Minister of Finance and Kulanu Chairman Moshe Kahlon commented on the US election results, “I congratulate President-elect Donald Trump
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