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MOVING ON
Corey Lewandowski Out at CNN
Expected to take position in Trump administration.
FLIP-FLOPPER
Trump Open to Parts of Obamacare
After saying during campaign that he’d repeal the entire law.
WISHFUL THINKING
Oprah: Trump Seems ‘Humbled’
Believes “hope is still alive” after Clinton's loss.
IT’S HAPPENING
Trump Announces Transition Committee
List includes 5 members of Congress, Steve Bannon, and Peter Thiel.
BULLSEYE
Gun Stocks Plunge After Trump’s Win
More than 20-percent decrease.
STANDING ROCK
Obama to Approve Dakota Access Pipeline
As early as Monday.
IDOL
Actor Robert Vaughn Dies at 83
Best known for his role in “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
R.I.P. TO ME
Facebook Wrongly Tells Many They’ve Died
Company became aware of the glitch midday Friday.
TOP BRASS
Pence Taking Over Trump Transition
From Chris Christie.
BACKLASH
Juncker: Trump Bad for US-EU Relations
Says “intercontinental relations” will be put at risk.
Keep ReadingThe very women Ivanka’s made a career out of wooing are the ones least likely to forgive her role in Trump’s hateful campaign.
You Can’t Sit With Us, Ivanka
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Surviving Darkness With Leonard Cohen
Keep ReadingStop blaming angry white men. Blame Colin Kaepernick. And if you are black or brown or young and didn’t vote—blame yourself.
Kaepernick Didn’t Vote. Can’t Complain.
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Pentagon Waits for Team Trump to Show Up
Pentagon Waits for Team Trump to Show Up
There was a growing feeling of anticipation among Pentagon staffers Thursday over the arrival of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team—which so far hasn’t showed up. The offices designated for those who will help to shape the future of th...
‘Hundreds of people’ may be starting to apply for security jobs in a Trump administration. But so far, the Pentagon transition team to vet those résumés is nowhere to be found.
16M May Lose Insurance Under Trump
16M May Lose Insurance Under Trump
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Millions of low-income Americans on Medicaid could lose their health coverage if President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress follow through on GOP proposals to cut spending in the state-fe...
Repealing Obamacare really means slashing federal aid to states’ Medicaid program for the poor.
Raging Trump Protesters Blame Hillary
Raging Trump Protesters Blame Hillary
NEW YORK CITY — Early Wednesday evening in Manhattan’s Union Square, the chants of hundreds of anti-Trump protesters ricocheted through the park’s northern plaza: “Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!” Twenty-four hours earlier, many in the cr...
Millennials in New York joined demonstrators on the streets across the country to condemn the election of Donald Trump.
Trump’s Next Victims Watched Him Win
Trump’s Next Victims Watched Him Win
DALLAS—It took three years in court for Alex and Claudia Golinelli to get back the $1,100 — an entire month's wages for the couple — they were owed by an employer who refused to pay them for their labor.It is a predatory page taken right of t...
Just like the next president, Alex and Claudia’s boss hired them and didn’t pay. The difference is he couldn’t deport them. Meet those with the most to lose.
A Muslim’s Pep Talk for the Left
A Muslim’s Pep Talk for the Left
The flood of text messages and emails of concern from my white liberal friends began late Tuesday night when it was clear Donald Trump was going to win. And the outpouring continued through Wednesday with listeners calling my SiriusXM radio show o...
Yes, there’s a lot to be worried about. But let’s not move to Canada or retreat to the shadows. In fact, we must do the opposite.
Entertainment
Trump-Obama Meeting Dumbfounds Noah
Trump-Obama Meeting Dumbfounds Noah
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to meet your worst Twitter enemy in person?” Trevor Noah asked on Thursday night’s episode of The Daily Show. He was referring to the bizarre meeting at the White House earlier in the day between Presi...
‘The Daily Show’ host couldn’t believe his eyes as President Obama welcomed Donald Trump and his family to the White House.
How Hillary Lost the Rust Belt
How Hillary Lost the Rust Belt
One question will ring painfully throughout America’s coastal bubbles and blue states long after Donald Trump’s Tuesday triumph over Hillary Clinton: How did this happen?Racism. Bigotry. Apathy. Third-party voters. More clues are to be found in Bl...
A new documentary—that screened outside of the Republican National Convention—chronicles the hardships of coal miners in West Virginia. The specter of Trump looms large over the film.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Zooms Out on Trump
Neil deGrasse Tyson Zooms Out on Trump
Neil deGrasse Tyson was the perfect guest for Stephen Colbert to have on his show the night after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.The astrophysicist and host of the rebooted Cosmos not only helped calm Colbert’s nerves abou...
Leave it to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to make us all feel a little bit better about President Donald Trump.
De Niro: I Won’t Punch President Trump
De Niro: I Won’t Punch President Trump
Robert De Niro is, needless to say, no fan of Donald J. Trump.The Oscar-winning fellow New Yorker recorded a video for the #VoteYourFuture campaign that was rejected for its partisanship. In it, the film legend—and longtime Democrat—is seen rantin...
The acting icon—and devoted Democrat—sat down with Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday night to discuss the election of Donald Trump and his threat to ‘punch him in the face.’
Sam Bee: ‘Nasty Women’ Not Going Away
Sam Bee: ‘Nasty Women’ Not Going Away
“I’m so excited to not have to say the words ‘Donald Trump,’ hopefully, for at least a little while,” Samantha Bee told The Daily Beast a week ago. “That would give me a great sense of peace.”Get ready for four more years of rage.After making her ...
In a special post-election episode, the ‘Full Frontal’ host confronted President-elect Donald Trump—and the white women who helped him get there.
Trump Victory Stuns ‘South Park’
Trump Victory Stuns ‘South Park’
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may have written both acceptance and concession speeches for Tuesday night, but it appears Trey Parker and Matt Stone may have made too many assumptions about the outcome of the race ahead of this week’s South Park...
Just one night after the election, ‘South Park’ managed to nail what we’ve all been thinking re: the shocking results.
World News
Pentagon Ready to Check President Trump
Pentagon Ready to Check President Trump
Even as in some parts of the Pentagon the shock of Tuesday’s election was setting in, there already was talk about how the military’s legal and constitutional duties could serve as a check and balance against some of President-elect Donald Trump’s...
Every troop swears to follow the orders of the president. But what if those orders constitute a war crime? Some at the Pentagon say they could stonewall or refuse—but will they?
Why Catholics Crucified Clinton
Why Catholics Crucified Clinton
For weeks before the shocking election that vaulted Donald Trump to the highest job in the land over Hillary Clinton, pollsters had warned that American Catholics, who make up 25 percent of the electorate, were strictly divided.Some, they said, fa...
Polls predicted that American Catholics were evenly split between Trump and Clinton, but they voted strongly against abortion and insurance-sponsored contraception.
The New President’s World of Trouble
The New President’s World of Trouble
PARIS — In the dark early hours before dawn Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump sounded like he wanted to put back in their grimy boxes the scabrous demons that candidate Trump set free on the American landscape.Speaking to his ecstatic suppor...
Trump’s notion is that he can make deals with other governments, including dictators, much as he did in real estate. Good luck with that.
Blinded by Trump: The News You Missed
Blinded by Trump: The News You Missed
While “Pussygate” and political mayhem was clogging up your newsfeed, you may have missed some of the big stories that broke in the past three months.1. Chris Christie’s Allies Convicted on All Bridgegate ChargesBridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni ...
Believe it or not, the world kept turning during the 2016 election. Here are some of the major stories you missed while Trumpkins were flooding your newsfeeds.
Putin TV Hails ‘Trump Administration’
Putin TV Hails ‘Trump Administration’
The chyron that repeated throughout Ed Schultz’s broadcast on RT, the Kremlin’s English-language television network, was “The End Is Near.” How right he was.Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States. Vladimir Putin became one of...
The Kremlin’s English propaganda channel wasn’t exactly giddy at the prospect of President Trump. But boy, did they love the idea of Clinton going down.
‘They Are Heading Towards the Snipers’
‘They Are Heading Towards the Snipers’
MOSUL, Iraq—The civilians reached the end of the street and spilled onto a stretch of wasteland in the Samah neighborhood in the east of Mosul. Waving white flags, they briefly dithered before filing past a group of Iraqi soldiers that had set up ...
In Mosul, ISIS and the Golden Division dig in, with masses of civilians in the middle.
The World Holds Its Breath, And Its Nose
The World Holds Its Breath, And Its Nose
PARIS—Every four years, when American presidential elections roll around, there is one almost universal refrain that can be heard half in jest, and half not, from Patagonia to Penang, Oslo to Ouagadougou: “Everyone should be able to vote in the Am...
This campaign in which Donald Trump kept claiming he’d make America great again has, in fact, made it seem much smaller to the rest of the world.
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Trump’s Next Victims Watched Him Win
Trump’s Next Victims Watched Him Win
DALLAS—It took three years in court for Alex and Claudia Golinelli to get back the $1,100 — an entire month's wages for the couple — they were owed by an employer who refused to pay them for their labor.It is a predatory page taken right of t...
Just like the next president, Alex and Claudia’s boss hired them and didn’t pay. The difference is he couldn’t deport them. Meet those with the most to lose.
The Fire That Reminds Us Why Trump Won
The Fire That Reminds Us Why Trump Won
As if a message from providence on the morning after the election, a hot lightbulb chanced to fall upon a pile of cardboard in a shuttered steel plant in upstate New York.The result was a huge conflagration that served at once as a reminder why Do...
A conflagration in a shuttered steel plant Wednesday underscores not only why Americans elected him—but also why they should have voted for Hillary Clinton.
Will Trump Put LGBTQ Equality in Peril?
Will Trump Put LGBTQ Equality in Peril?
Those wondering how actively President-Elect Donald Trump wants to pursue the rolling back of LGBTQ rights and equality received an early disturbing signal on Wednesday afternoon.The New York Times reported that one of Trump’s first priorities, wi...
Trump’s scattered views on equality, his courting of Christian conservatives, and his bigoted veep mean LGBTQ people should be worried.
Trump’s Beyond-Radical SCOTUS
Trump’s Beyond-Radical SCOTUS
It’s no exaggeration to say that the issue of the Supreme Court gave Donald Trump the presidency. Through scandal after scandal, evangelical voters—around 35 percent of the electorate and over half the Republican party—stood by the most sinful pre...
In the short term, the Supreme Court will revert to how it was a year ago. In the long term, it will be utterly transformed.
The Shooting That Shook the Election
The Shooting That Shook the Election
LOS ANGELES—A maniac armed with an assault rifle strolled up a residential block near a polling station at a gymnasium in Azusa and unloaded. A score of voters queued outside fled for their lives.The male assailant shot three people, one fatally, ...
A gunman opened fire near a polling station, killing one and injuring three others, before barricading himself indoors. A neighbor describes the chaos and the victim.
Tech
4Chan Stunned You Must Register to Vote
4Chan Stunned You Must Register to Vote
Americans, and likely some troll Americans, took to social networks and websites like 4chan and Twitter to express befuddlement that they are unable to vote today, not knowing that in many states, they had to register in advance.“So apparently, yo...
On Election Day, many Americans expressed surprise that eligible voters needed to register in advance.
R.I.P. Vine, 2012-2016
R.I.P. Vine, 2012-2016
On Oct.27 at 12:30 p.m., Vine died. She was survived by her terrible father, Twitter. She was just 3 years old.The cause of death was murder by discontinuation. Twitter has taken responsibility for the killing, admitting that they will soon disabl...
Vine was good and now it’s dead.
Cyberwar on Hold ’Til President Hillary
Cyberwar on Hold ’Til President Hillary
After U.S. intelligence agencies and the Homeland Security Department publicly blamed Russia for a campaign of cyber espionage designed to interfere with the presidential election, the Obama administration promised a response “to protect [the coun...
American officials keep talking about how they’ll hit back at Russia for hacking the DNC. But any counterstrike will have to wait until after the election.
AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit
AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit
On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff’s deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist’s report of human remains outside of town.They identified the partially bleached skull of a child, and later discovered the remains of the McSt...
New documents reveal the telecom giant is doing NSA-style work for law enforcement—without a warrant—and earning millions a year from taxpayers.
Election Hackers Could Erase You
Election Hackers Could Erase You
With 23 days until Election Day, state and local election officials, as well as the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, are on their highest-ever level of alert for hackers trying to meddle with the vote. But it’s not vote rigging or the ...
Cyber intruders could manipulate voter registration files and wreak havoc on Election Day. The FBI, Homeland Security, and states are preparing to keep the worst from happening.
Did a Russian Ship Cut Syria’s Internet?
Did a Russian Ship Cut Syria’s Internet?
A Russian ship that intelligence and military officials reportedly fear can cut undersea Internet cables is near the coast of Syria. And its appearance coincides with what researchers say is a marked uptick in the instability of Internet traffic i...
Networks in Syria have a history of going down in sync with regime offenses.
NSA Thief Worked With Super Hacker Squad
NSA Thief Worked With Super Hacker Squad
The retired Navy officer arrested for allegedly removing highly classified information from the National Security Agency worked with the organization's elite computer hackers, who specialize in using computer code to penetrate the systems of ...
Billed as a ‘Second Snowden,’ Hal Martin worked with the NSA’s most skilled hackers. But he may have taken classified info just to help him get through school.
Arts + Culture
The Point of Prince Harry’s Angry Letter
The Point of Prince Harry’s Angry Letter
An appealing narrative has developed around Prince Harry over the past several years: while he may be prone to recurring outbursts of youthful idiocy, Harry is a Prince more in touch with the real world than his brother, a regular guy who knows wh...
Harry’s letter appealing to social media trolls to leave his girlfriend alone was hopelessly naïve. He can’t have imagined it would work. Perhaps there was a hidden agenda.
Harry’s Girlfriend Meghan’s Struggle
Harry’s Girlfriend Meghan’s Struggle
Prince Harry’s new girlfriend Meghan Markle is taking some time off from filming her TV show Suits as she tries to come to terms with what Harry has described as a “wave of abuse and harassment” since their relationship became public knowledge.Pag...
Harry’s new girlfriend Meghan Markle is struggling to cope with the attention and is taking some time off work. Is this why Harry went public?
Will Trump Put LGBTQ Equality in Peril?
Will Trump Put LGBTQ Equality in Peril?
Those wondering how actively President-Elect Donald Trump wants to pursue the rolling back of LGBTQ rights and equality received an early disturbing signal on Wednesday afternoon.The New York Times reported that one of Trump’s first priorities, wi...
Trump’s scattered views on equality, his courting of Christian conservatives, and his bigoted veep mean LGBTQ people should be worried.
Van Jones: This Is a ‘Nightmare’
Van Jones: This Is a ‘Nightmare’
Van Jones’s longtime CNN sparring partner Jeffrey Lord marveled over the “miracle” that was Donald Trump’s unexpected success in the polls Tuesday. But Jones himself was seemingly living through a full-on “nightmare.”Close to 1 a.m. on the East Co...
The liberal CNN commentator used the term ‘whitelash’ to describe what seemingly happened across America on Tuesday night.
Weather Channel’s Epic ‘Election Escape’
Weather Channel’s Epic ‘Election Escape’
Three hours into the nine-hour epic of the Weather Channel’s Escape From The Election, and there was still no mention of Hillary C or Donald T, or their electoral confrontation which ended up, as inevitably it would for two wealthy New Yorkers, in...
The channel came up with its own ‘yule log’ for Election Day: nine hours of images of nature, plus soft jazz. Three hours of it may have left you stressed out and wanting CNN.
Harry Condemns ‘Racist’ Abuse of Meghan
Harry Condemns ‘Racist’ Abuse of Meghan
Prince Harry has issued an unprecedented public statement accusing both mainstream and social-media trolls of racist abuse in coverage of his relationship with his new girlfriend, Meghan Markle.The statement is extraordinary and historic; not sinc...
Prince Harry has turned on online trolls aiming racist abuse at his new girlfriend, Meghan Markle. But could his dramatic statement make matters worse?
Hillary vs. Donald: The Style Battle
Hillary vs. Donald: The Style Battle
White became a feminist color. Trump’s ties were angry. Clinton stayed pantsuit-strong. This is the 2016 election, as fought by candidates and their families, in what they wore.
White became a feminist color. Trump’s ties were angry. Clinton stayed pantsuit-strong. This is the 2016 election, as fought by candidates and their families, in what they wore.
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