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Clapper says U.S. confronted Russia about hacking
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the House Intelligence Committee Thursday that he has submitted his resignation.Evan Vucci/Associated Press file Hacked emails from Democratic Party officials were released by…
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Yellen: The ‘case for an increase’ in rates has strengthened
Secretary of the Treasury and Council Chairperson Jack Lew speaks during the Financial Stability Oversight Council along with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at the Treasury Department in Washington.Molly Riley/Associated…
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San Francisco teachers union offers Trump lesson plan
The union that represents city teachers posted the plan on its website and distributed it via an email newsletter to its more than 6,000 members. The school district has more…
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House, Senate select leaders for new Congress
McConnell, 74, is a discreet but deadly master of the Senate’s legislative chess game. His role will be to steer GOP bills to the desk of a president whose name…
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Rome’s Circus Maximus offers new attractions
Six years of excavations have given Rome a new tourist attraction in Circus Maximus, <br><br>an open-air archeological ruin that for centuries has been a vast muddy field.Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press The…
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Obama warns leaders to heed voters’ fears
President Barack Obama, with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, right, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, left, said in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday that he believes Donald Trump’s election as president…
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Justice trades judicial robes for opera costume
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee escorts Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the curtain call of “The Daughter of the Regiment.”Scott Suchman/Washington National Opera Cheers and prolonged applause rang out from the crowd…
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Liberal groups see post-election bump
Fundraising is up for many progressive associations after Trump’s election
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Getting the facts right about ‘big data’
Election raises doubts about usefullness of polling
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Army Corps wants more study on Dakota Access oil pipeline
Dakota Pipeline protesters stand arm-in-arm at the intersection of Rosser Avenue and Fourth Street in downtown Bismarck, N.D., after marching from the state Capitol to the William L. Guy Federal…
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Obama, Clinton tell Democrats not to despair
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Ellison, a prominent progressive and the first Muslim elected to Congress, has emerged as…
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Concerns about Trump loom over Obama’s final foreign tour
President Barack Obama pause will use his last major trip abroad to try to calm shocked world leaders about the outcome of the U.S. election and what comes next when…
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Trump plans to immediately deport millions of undocumented immigrants
“What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million,…
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Zuckerberg: ‘Crazy’ to say Facebook influenced election
Some blame misinformation on social media site for swaying voters
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Thousands rally, march in nationwide anti-Trump protests
‘Out of his own mouth he made this division,’ protester says
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Analysis: Cracks were evident on Clinton’s last day before election
She lost in all three states she visited last
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Analysis: No one has a clue what kind of president Donald Trump will be
No one has a clue what kind of president he will be
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Heavy fighting as ISIS attacks Iraqi forces in Mosul
Suicide bombings on the rise in Baghdad
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Europe honors fallen in WWI
Hollande attended a solemn and chilly Armistice Day ceremony at the famed Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Harry, who served with the British Armed Forces in Afghanistan, attended a service…
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Climate aid program may get trumped
UN official fears new president threatens plan to help poor nations mitigate impacts
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Nationalists gather in Poland
Far-right groups from around Europe mark country’s independence