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Certified: Georgia election chief finalizes Trump's win and statewide results

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ATLANTA — All votes have been counted and President-elect Donald Trump’s clear victory in Georgia is confirmed.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified the election results Friday after two audits and unanimous approval by county election boards across the state.

The final count showed Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris by...Read more

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NYC judge indefinitely delays Trump sentencing in Stormy Daniels hush money case

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NEW YORK — Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on Friday indefinitely adjourned President-elect Donald Trump’s punishment for covering up a hush money payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels after his first election victory.

In a brief order, the judge confirmed Trump’s sentencing would not go ahead next Tuesday and set a new schedule...Read more

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Trump still faces civil lawsuits even if criminal cases go away

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President-elect Donald Trump will bring legal baggage to the White House in January, even if he succeeds in pausing or getting rid of the four federal and state criminal indictments against him.

Trump’s reelection is expected to end the two federal cases, given the Justice Department’s policy against prosecuting sitting presidents. His ...Read more

Mike Rogers leading FBI is 'not happening', Trump adviser says

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WASHINGTON ― A top adviser to Donald Trump said Friday the president-elect told him Michigan's Mike Rogers won't be the next director of the FBI, after Rogers had been lobbying for the post in recent days.

"Just spoke to President Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI," Trump aide Dan Scavino Jr. posted on X Friday morning.

"It’s ...Read more

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What to know about Linda McMahon, the ECU grad Trump nominated for education secretary

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WASHINGTON — Linda McMahon once claimed an unearned education degree from East Carolina University.

Now the New Bern native is nominated to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Education.

Trump announced Tuesday that McMahon, best known as a founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, is nominated to be the next education ...Read more

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Trump wants to deport millions; Maryland counties are sharply split on whether to help

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BALTIMORE — Maryland counties are sharply divided over whether to assist President-elect Donald Trump with what he says will be the largest deportation program in American history.

A Baltimore Sun survey found widely divergent responses to Trump’s proposal — from Harford County’s pledge to “fully support” his efforts to Anne Arundel...Read more

Graduate students explore America’s polarized landscape via train in this course

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Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Crossing the Divide

I developed the idea for this course in 2016 during an Amtrak writing residency program. I spent over two weeks crisscrossing the United States via train while working on my 2021 book ...Read more

Americans agree politics is broken − here are 5 ideas for fixing key problems

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Now that the elections are over, you might be left feeling exhausted, despondent and disillusioned – whether your preferred candidate won or not. You are not alone.

Survey after survey has found that Americans agree that the political system is not serving them.

Americans say they are angry at the political dysfunction, ...Read more

Denmark’s uprooting of settled residents from ‘ghettos’ forms part of aggressive plan to assimilate nonwhite inhabitants

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History is full of examples of governments using forced segregation against ethnic minorities.

From settler colonialists coercing Indigenous peoples into reservations, Nazis forcing Jews into ghettos or the United States segregating Black Americans through redlining and zoning policies, displacement and housing have long been at the ...Read more

Presidents often claim mandates − especially when they want to expand their power or are on the defensive

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Shortly after the 2024 election was called in Donald Trump’s favor, he declared that voters had given him “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.”

As the popular vote margin shrinks, however, this claim seems less plausible. But it puts Trump squarely within the historical tradition of how presidents – and those around them �...Read more

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With Trump as president, can TikTok in the US survive?

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The fate of TikTok in the U.S. has been up in the air since 2020, when President Donald Trump moved to ban the popular video app because of national security concerns.

That set off four years of back-and-forth between the app’s Chinese owners and the U.S. government, with a possible ban scheduled to go into effect one day before Trump’s ...Read more

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Editorial: No free pass -- Judge Merchan should keep Trump's conviction on the books

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We commend Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for standing firm and opposing the dismissal of the hush money/Stormy Daniels case that resulted in Donald Trump’s 34 felony convictions in New York last spring.

Now Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan should do the right thing and stay Trump’s sentence until he ...Read more

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Commentary: Biden still has time to nudge the federal budget closer to sanity

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The U.S. fiscal outlook has dramatically deteriorated since the last time we ran a surplus in 2001, and President Joe Biden — like Democratic and Republican presidents before him — shares some responsibility for our high and rising debt. But it’s not too late to start turning things around.

During his time in office, Biden approved more ...Read more

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Trump picks former prosecutor Pam Bondi for attorney general

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced he will nominate Pam Bondi to be his next attorney general, in a social media post Thursday that touted the former Florida attorney general’s history as a prosecutor who “was very tough on Violent Criminals.”

Bondi, if confirmed, would oversee a sprawling Department of Justice ...Read more

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Graphic details revealed in Monterey sexual assault claim against Pete Hegseth, Trump Cabinet pick

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LOS ANGELES — A woman told police in Monterey, California, that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Defense secretary, took her phone, blocked her from leaving his hotel room and sexually assaulted her, according to a newly released police report.

The Monterey Police Department on Wednesday night released a 22-page report ...Read more

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Trump picks Florida's Pam Bondi for attorney general after Matt Gaetz backs out

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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday tapped former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his new pick for U.S. attorney general.

The announcement — made in a post on Trump’s social media site Truth Social — came just hours after the president-elect’s first choice for attorney general, former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name ...Read more

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Gaetz campaign's reports of vast spending on fees are scrutinized

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Former Congressman Matt Gaetz’s campaign committee has reported spending millions of dollars on Stripe Inc.’s payment-processing services in recent years, though it now says that those funds ultimately went somewhere else — and campaign-finance watchers say that’s a problem.

During the 2024 election cycle, Gaetz’s principal campaign ...Read more

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Trump picks Florida's Pam Bondi for attorney general after Matt Gaetz backs out

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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday tapped former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his new pick for U.S. attorney general.

The announcement — made in a post on Trump’s social media site Truth Social — came just hours after the president-elect’s first choice for attorney general, former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name ...Read more

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Police vet Idaho election mail after threatening manifesto with 'powdery' substance

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BOISE, Idaho — State police have been opening mail sent to the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office since September after a threatening package containing a manifesto and white powder was mailed to the state’s election official.

The U.S. Postal Service intercepted the package before it made it to the Idaho Capitol, and it was taken to an ...Read more

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How are vacancies in Congress filled? What to know as Trump picks members for Cabinet

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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped several sitting members of Congress to serve in his administration — meaning their empty seats will have to be filled.

So far, he has chosen Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to serve as secretary of state and New York Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as his U.N. ambassador. Both positions require Senate ...Read more

 

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