Elections 2016

'You're gonna do everything, right?': Alec Baldwin returns to SNL as terrified Trump handing reins to Mike Pence

Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live as Donald Trump with Kate McKinnon playing a slightly shell-shocked version of campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.

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Trump already violating 'blind trust' agreement by meeting with Indian business partners

President-elect Donald Trump and his children attended a meeting with a group of Indian investors this week -- which may mean Trump has already violated rules separating his personal business and his role as ascendant chief executive.

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'Les Deplorables': #NameAPenceMusical hashtag takes off on Twitter as 'Hamilton'-gate lurches onward

What should probably have been an hours-long blip in the 24-hour news cycle has rolled on into a second day after Donald Trump went on a Twitter rampage against the cast of the Broadway musical "Hamilton."

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WATCH: Neo-Nazi attacks protesters in bloody melee outside right-wing think tank

A protest outside the right-wing National Policy Institute turned bloody when a neo-Nazi who was recording the protest put down his camera and attacked demonstrators.

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John McCain: 'I don't give a damn' what Trump says, US will not resume waterboarding

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain fired a shot across the president-elect's bow on Saturday when he said that under no conditions will the U.S. return to its "enhanced interrogation techniques" like waterboarding under a Pres. Donald Trump.

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Read 'em and weep: A list of the current contenders for key jobs in Trump administration

President-elect Donald Trump held talks on Saturday with 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a meeting between famous foes fueling speculation that Romney could be in line to be the new U.S. secretary of state.

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Trump will shell out $25M to settle fraud lawsuits from Trump University scam

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald Trump, who insisted he could settle fraud suits against his Trump University for "very little money," agreed Friday to pay $25 million end his legal battle over the real estate training program. The settlement put to rest a legal case hanging over the president-elect, who had argued that he did nothing wrong…

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'How do you have so little self-respect?': Corey Lewandowski gets blasted by student at open forum

Trump aide and former CNN commentator Corey Lewandowski got brutally called to task by a student at an open question-and-answer forum at the Oxford Union on Saturday.

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Jeff Sessions as attorney general would be a catastrophe for black Americans, says Bakari Sellers

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R) is among the names the Donald Trump transition team has floated for a possible nomination to the post of attorney general, which commentator and politico Bakari Sellers said would be catastrophic for black Americans.

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Pro-Trump Muslim whines about ‘bias’ when asked why she blames victims of anti-Islam hate attacks

In a confounding interview with MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin, a Muslim writer who voted for Trump — but who identifies herself as a “liberal” — refused to attribute recent attacks on Muslims to Trump’s victory on Nov. 8. Instead, she blamed Muslim organizations, Hillary Clinton and the past eight years under President Barack Obama.

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Woman creates satirical 'White Male Registry' to protect Americans during Trump fans' reign of terror

In a very tongue-in-cheek Facebook post, that is sadly based upon irrefutable statistics, a New York woman has set up an "White Male Registry" to keep track of America's most dangerous demographic: white men who use their privilege to abuse the marginalized.

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Trump fans are urging everyone to #BoycottHamilton — but there’s one big problem

As might be expected from fans of President-elect Donald Trump who spent the run-up to the election chanting "Lock her up" at the mention of Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's name, they are aghast that Vice President-elect Mike Pence was booed at a performance of Hamilton on Friday night.

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Gun nuts use fear of Trump to push liberals to buy guns -- but here are some facts you should know

Fresh off of eight years of stoking fear of America's first black president in order to encourage conservatives to heavily arm themselves, avid supporters of both gun manufacturers and the Second Amendment have set their sights on a new market: liberals who fear President-elect Donald Trump.

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