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Donald Trump Willing to Keep Parts of Health Law — President-elect hints at possible compromise after vows to repeal the Affordable Care Act — NEW YORK—President-elect Donald Trump said that, after conferring with President Barack Obama, he would consider leaving in place certain parts …
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Trump Okay With Keeping Parts Of Obamacare Despite Calling It ‘Disaster’ — After railing against Obamacare as a “catastrophe” on the campaign trail, Donald Trump said that he is willing to keep parts of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law in place after conferring with him in the Oval Office.
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If you have a preexisting health condition, don't even think about leaving your job
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Vice President-Elect Pence to Take Over Trump Transition Effort — WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect Mike Pence will take over the job of leading Donald J. Trump's transition effort, taking the helm from Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, as Mr. Trump moves to assemble a government …
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Pence to take over Trump's transition effort from Christie — President-elect Donald Trump has shaken up his transition team just days after winning the White House, announcing that he is replacing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with Vice President-elect Mike Pence at the helm of the effort …
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Trump Campaigned Against Lobbyists, but Now They're on His Transition Team
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Donald Trump Shuffles Transition Team, Making Mike Pence Chairman
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Reid Statement on the Election of Donald Trump — Washington, D.C. - Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement about the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States: — “I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections …

‘Prediction professor’ who called Trump's big win also made another forecast: Trump will be impeached — Few prognosticators predicted a Donald Trump victory ahead of Tuesday night. Polls showed Hillary Clinton comfortably ahead, and much of America (chiefly the media) …
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The View From Trump Tower — If your social circles are like mine, you spent Tuesday night swapping miserable texts. Not all, but many of my friends and family members were outraged, stunned, disgusted and devastated. This is victory for white supremacy, people wrote, for misogyny, nativism and authoritarianism.
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Trump Victory Surprises Americans; Four in 10 Afraid
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SCOOP — SCHUMER backs ELLISON for DNC — TRUMP WORLD begins to float cabinet secretaries — SCHOCK indicted — TARGETED VICTORY splits in two — B'DAY: Tucker Bounds — Listen to Playbook in 90 Seconds http://bit.ly/2eP91e4 ... Subscribe on iTunes: http://apple.co/2f1856A — Happy Veterans Day.
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Top Democrats Line up Behind Progressive Keith Ellison for Party Chair
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Fight erupts among Democrats for control of party in crisis
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Why FiveThirtyEight Gave Trump A Better Chance Than Almost Anyone Else — Based on what most of us would have thought possible a year or two ago, the election of Donald Trump was one of the most shocking events in American political history. But it shouldn't have been that much of a surprise based …
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Keep the Electoral College: Our view
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No, the Electoral College won't make Clinton president instead of Trump
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Chelsea Clinton being groomed to run for Congress — More On: — While some pundits are declaring the Clinton political dynasty dead, sources tell us that it is far from over. Chelsea Clinton is being groomed for the New York seat held by Rep. Nita Lowey.


Anti-Trump protesters march for 3rd night; Portland police call it a ‘riot’ — Trump tweets response to second day of protests — (CNN)Thousands protesting Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election took to the streets for a third night of demonstrations and vigils in several US cities.
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Jane Sanders: ‘Absolutely’ Bernie could have beat Trump — Jane Sanders, wife of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, said Friday that she “absolutely” believes he could have won Tuesday's election if he'd been the Democratic nominee. — In an interview on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked Sanders …
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What I Got Wrong About the Election — Like many people around the world, I expected a comfortable Hillary Clinton victory on Tuesday. But I'm not a random pundit when it comes to understanding presidential races and the electorate — I managed one Obama presidential campaign and oversaw another from the White House.


Sen. Lindsey Graham offers thoughts on Supreme Court nominee … GREENVILLE, S.C. — Sen. Lindsey Graham made a stop Friday in the Upstate. — Graham attended the Veterans Day ceremony at Greenville MemorialHospital and spoke with WYFF News 4's Patrick Hussion about the open seat on the Supreme Court.
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Hard Choice for Mitch McConnell: End the Filibuster or Preserve Tradition
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‘N—er Lynching’ group text shocks Penn freshmen — Penn students and staff are in an uproar after black freshmen students were added to a GroupMe group titled “Nigger Lynching.” — Student Calvary Rogers posted on Facebook about the group earlier today:
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Thoughts for the Horrified — So what do we do now? By “we” I mean all those left, center and even right who saw Donald Trump as the worst man ever to run for president and assumed that a strong majority of our fellow citizens would agree. — I'm not talking about rethinking political strategy.
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EXCLUSIVE: Huma breaks down and weeps openly as she returns to campaign headquarters where she and her aides ran doomed bid to elect Hillary Clinton — Hillary Clinton's closest aide Huma Abedin wept in the street as she approached the failed campaign's headquarters in Brooklyn
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When Trump Takes Control of the Justice Department, Be Afraid — America's litigious president-elect is about to run the world's most fearsome legal agency. — As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump threatened to sue those who crossed him: the scores of women who accused him of sexual assault …
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Clinton's Substantial Popular-Vote Win — Hillary Clinton didn't just win the popular vote. She won it by a substantial margin. — By the time all the ballots are counted, she seems likely to be ahead by more than 2 million votes and more than 1.5 percentage points, according to my Times colleague Nate Cohn.
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Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal — Congressional GOP leaders indicated they wouldn't consider Trans-Pacific Partnership in lame-duck session — The Obama administration on Friday gave up all hope of enacting its sweeping Pacific trade agreement, a pact designed …
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