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Listening and Responding To Calls for an Audit and Recount — Over the last few days, officials in the Clinton campaign have received hundreds of messages, emails, and calls urging us to do something, anything, to investigate claims that the election results were hacked and altered in a way to disadvantage Secretary Clinton.
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Trump rages as Clinton helps recount — Just when you thought it was over, the acrimonious presidential race is back. — Nearly three weeks after Election Day, the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaigns went back into battle mode Saturday in the wake of Wisconsin's pending recount.
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Clinton Campaign Will Participate in Stein's State Recounts — Little chance to overturn results seen but ‘principle’ remains — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan could redo vote counts — Hillary Clinton's campaign lawyer announced plans to participate in vote recounts of Wisconsin …

White House insists hackers didn't sway election, even as recount begins
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Clinton campaign: We are taking part in the recount
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Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro — The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro: — “It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba's longest serving President.
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Trump's Brutally Honest Castro Statement Proves He's No Obama — President-elect Donald Trump called now deceased former Cuban president Fidel Castro a “brutal dictator” whose legacy represents decades of death and oppression. — That's a stark contrast from President Barack Obama's statement …
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Statement by the President on the Passing of Fidel Castro — At this time of Fidel Castro's passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans - in Cuba and in the United States - with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways …
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Trump condemns Castro as ‘brutal dictator’ — 1.7k Shares — Donald Trump condemned the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro on an otherwise quiet Saturday for the president-elect. — “The world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades,” …
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Trudeau expresses ‘deep sorrow’ over Castro's death — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday expressed “deep sorrow” over the passing of Fidel Castro, noting his family's connection to the former Cuban dictator. — “Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century.
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Rubio blasts Obama's ‘pathetic’ Castro statement
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TRUMP: ‘Fidel Castro is dead!’
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Trudeau faces backlash after Castro tribute
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Fidel Castro was the last living symbol of the Cold War at its peak
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Jeremy Corbyn has hailed Fidel Castro as a “champion of social justice”, following the announcement …
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Unrepentant hypocrite Colin Kaepernick defends Fidel Castro
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Ros-Lehtinen Comments on Death of Fidel Castro
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Farewell to Cuba's brutal Big Brother
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Trump is ‘going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews’: California mosque threatened — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Police in San Jose, California are investigating a letter threatening a local mosque and telling members of the religious center to …
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3 California mosques threatened in letter praising Trump
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CAIR-SFBA Calls for Protection of Mosques After Anti-Muslim, Pro-Trump Letter Sent to San Jose Islamic Center
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San Jose police investigating hate letter reported by Islamic center
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Obama Must Save the Courts to Save America From Trump — Can President Obama appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court now that the Senate's term is ending? Should he? — The answer to the first question is yes: The constitution gives him that power.


A look at Steve Bannon and his years at Harvard Business School — From the very first day, Steve Bannon made an impression. — In a Harvard Business School classroom of about 90 people in 1983, he took a seat in the “skydeck” — a spot at the top giving him a view of the entire class.


Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President — MANILA — On Thanksgiving Day, a Philippine developer named Jose E. B. Antonio hosted a company anniversary bash at one of Manila's poshest hotels. He had much to be thankful for.
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Army Corp Closes Public Access to Oceti Sakowin Camp on Dec. 5th — Tribe calls on President Obama again to deny easement and honor treaty — Cannon Ball, N.D. — The following statement from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Chairman, Dave Archambault II, can be quoted in part or in full.
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Dakota Pipeline: Army Corps orders protesters out
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Americans keep looking away from the election's most alarming story — Eric Chenoweth is co-director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe. — In assessing Donald Trump's presidential victory, Americans continue to look away from this election's most alarming story …


DoD releases name of service member killed Thursday in Syria — The Defense Department announced Friday evening the identity of the service member killed in northern Syria while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. — Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott Cooper Dayton, 42, of Woodbridge …
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