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Trump campaign spent less than Clinton’s
Donald J. Trump’s campaign spent about $94 million in its final push for the White House, according to new fund-raising reports filed on Thursday.
Nobility of failure
Kate McKinnon celebrated, yes celebrated, the defeat of Hillary Clinton in a tearful rendition of Leonard Cohen’s famous song, Hallelujah.
Death of a dream
LAST November 15, I turned 68, which is like both feet in the grave. What a grim thing to say. Well, people close to me hate that about me. Ever since I was a boy, I went around with a cloud over my head. I could have stepped out from under it, but it gave me shade is how I explained it.
Trump’s view of US role in global affairs
As the now unquestioned leader of the most powerful country and the richest economy in the world, how does President Trump see America’s role in global affairs? US allies in the East and West are all wondering.
Our Election, Your Problem
It is not clear precisely how Donald Trump will govern, the extent to which he will carry out some of his scarier promises on trade and immigration, or who will be his economics top brass at the Treasury and in the White House. A decent first guess, though, is that President Trump will be bad for the world economy in aggregate, and a second is that his actions are likely to do more harm, in the short term at least, to economies outside America.
The candidate not chosen
If the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election was surprising, the aftermath was undoubtedly even more so. Since election night, people have been protesting the election of the Republican nominee, Donald Trump. Even nonvoting high-school students have begun raising their voices in solidarity across the country.
Why Trump beat Clinton
Candidates for public office at the national level are often, so far, out of touch with the concerns of the voters that when they lose, they blame factors completely unrelated. The Clinton-Trump presidential race is a textbook example.
Dollar bloodbath turns bonanza as fiscal spark seen in Trump victory
The consensus in the $5.1 trillion-a-day currency market couldn’t have been more wrong. The widely held view was that a victory by Donald J. Trump in the US presidential election would spur a dollar rout, as investors anticipated uncertainty and financial-market volatility that would cause the Federal Reserve (the Fed) to delay interest-rate increases. Yet, the real-estate magnate’s upset win triggered the opposite reaction—a bonanza for greenback bulls and one of the most stunning rallies since the financial crisis.
Trump ‘not-my-president’ protests around US
CHICAGO—The raw divisions exposed by the presidential race were on full display across America on Wednesday, as protesters flooded city streets to condemn Donald Trump’s election in demonstrations that police said were mostly peaceful.
President Trump and the Philippines
The Bible says: “There shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth” for people who look into heaven, but are not allowed beyond the “Pearly Gates.” Apparently, some have been able to look into the presidential term of newly elected US President Donald Trump, and are already weeping and gnashing.
A new world order
Without the slightest hint of irony, I say this: It’s the end of the world as we know it, only maybe not in the sense that you’re thinking. The world, of course, will go on; but the world, as we know it, has quite dramatically come to an end.
Trump win brings smiles to PHL business leaders
By Catherine N. Pillas, Rea Cu, Butch Fernandez
Trump and the death of ‘identity politics’
“Identity politics” is defined as a candidate taking positions and offering ideas/solutions for the interests and perspectives of the social groups with which people identify themselves.
Trump claims astounding victory as America’s 45th president
WASHINGTON—Donald Trump claimed his place on Wednesday as America’s 45th president, an astonishing victory for the celebrity businessman and political novice who capitalized on voters’ economic anxieties, took advantage of racial tensions and overcame a string of sexual-assault allegations on his way to the White House.
Dollar plunges as Trump success shocks global currency markets
The dollar plunged, as Republican Donald Trump pulled ahead in critical battleground states in the US presidential race, shocking foreign-exchange traders who had all but priced in a Clinton victory.
Treasuries lead global bond rally as Trump beats Clinton
U.S. Treasuries led a global bond rally as Republican Donald Trump showed surprising strength in winning crucial swing states Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, signaling potential unpredictability in American policy and fueling bets the Federal Reserve (the Fed) will hold off on raising interest rates.
Donald Trump elected 45th president of the United States
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Election Day 2016 (all times EST):
It’s tight into the night: Will Florida, North Carolina, Ohio decide?
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s ugly and unpredictable presidential election barreled toward the finish Tuesday night, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump fighting for Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, three of the nation’s most competitive states.
Asian shares open higher as US votes
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local):
Finally, it’s Clinton or Trump: Long race ends, voters pick
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s ugly and unpredictable presidential election entered its final hours Tuesday, with voters flocking to polls to choose between Democrat Hillary Clinton, hoping to become the first woman to serve as commander in chief, and Republican Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman who tapped into a searing strain of economic populism.
Trump Bid to Set Aside Some Nevada Ballots Gets Harsh Reception
A Las Vegas judge refused to go along with Donald Trump’s move to slap a county registrar of voters with a court order to set aside ballots cast by people who spent Friday night at the polls as early voting in the state wound to a close.
Clinton, Trump wait on results of most volatile US election
Preserve the US political establishment or blow it up? That’s the question facing 226 million Americans eligible to vote for president on Wednesday, with as many as 50 million having done so already. The winner inherits leadership of the world’s largest economy and a nation perhaps irreconcilably divided over immigration, trade and its role in the world.
US elections: So what?
WE have all had an experience that was life-changing, in the sense that tomorrow could never be like yesterday. It might have been minor; it could have been major.
Hillary Clinton focuses on healing, Trump on e-mails in final hours
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire—With the cloud of an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation lifted, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump struck strikingly different tones as they moved into the final hours of a volatile, nearly two years’ long presidential campaign. After days of full-throated attacks on Trump’s qualifications and temperament, Clinton cast herself as the candidate of “healing and reconciliation”—perhaps, a surprising position for a woman who’s long been one of the most divisive figures in American politics.