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One victory speech apparently wasn't enough for President-elect Donald Trump. On Thursday, Trump's team reportedly said he's planning to grace America with a "victory tour" after the Thanksgiving holiday. Pool reports indicate trip-planning is already underway.

Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan will challenge Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for the role of House Democratic leader, he announced Thursday in a letter to the House's Democratic caucus.

Americans have their fingers crossed that Donald Trump will address health care within his first 100 days in office, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday has found. The priority tops the list of Americans' concerns that they want to see addressed as soon as Trump moves into the White House.

While 21 percent of Americans want health care fixes, employment was the second-most popular priority of respondents, at 16 percent. Fourteen percent of Americans picked immigration, and 11 percent said race relations. Читать дальше...

Americans have their fingers crossed that Donald Trump will address healthcare within his first 100 days in office, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday has found. The priority tops the list of Americans' concerns that they want to see addressed as soon as Trump moves into the White House.

While 21 percent of Americans want healthcare fixes, employment was the second-most popular priority of respondents, at 16 percent. Fourteen percent of Americans picked immigration, and 11 percent said race relations. Читать дальше...

Neil Patrick Harris is practically unrecognizable in the first full-length trailer for the upcoming Netflix mini-series Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Harris plays the role of the evil Count Olaf in the eight-episode series, based on the best-selling children's books by Daniel Handler.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is meeting with Donald Trump this weekend to discuss "governing and [a] possible Cabinet post," CNN reports.

An Iowa City restaurant has been plagued by one-star reviews and arson threats after charging Donald Trump supporters and Michigan football fans a higher cover fee, The Des Moines Register reports. Stella restaurant typically charges a $5 fee to enter on college football game days but it used a sliding scale last Saturday night so that fans of both Trump and Michigan had to pay $20, fans of Trump and Iowa $10, and fans of Clinton and either team just $5.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's chances at a future in President-elect Donald Trump's administration keep getting slimmer and slimmer. Days after Christie lost his position as chair of Trump's transition team to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, NBC News reported that a senior Trump official "merely laughed" when asked if Christie might get tapped for a job in the administration.

President Barack Obama met with European leaders in Berlin on Friday to discuss expanding sanctions on Russia, due to the nation's continued presence in Ukraine and possible war crimes in Syria.

Even as Election Day 2016 inches ever farther into the rearview, votes are still being counted in several states as absentee and mail-in ballots reach vote-tallying facilities. And while President-elect Donald Trump clinched a decisive victory over Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8, with a likely 306 electoral votes (Michigan's 16 electoral votes haven't been officially appropriated yet) to Clinton's 232, the popular vote has yet to be decided — but Clinton's lead keeps growing.

About 4,500 migrants have died or disappeared while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe in 2016. This marks a record number of asylum-seeker casualties, easily outpacing last year's total of about 3,770.

Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway doesn't get why young people are so freaked out over Trump winning the presidential election last week. In an appearance Wednesday night on Hannity, Conway slammed the coddling of college students post-election, noting how professors are excusing students from taking tests or offering college credit in exchange for protesting the election results.

"Donald Trump is a reaction not just to Democrats but to Republicans," former Daily Show host Jon Stewart mused in an interview on CBS on Thursday morning. "He's not a Republican," Stewart continued. "He's a repudiation of Republicans, but they will reap the benefit of his victory in all of their cynicism and all of their — I will guarantee you Republicans are going to come to Jesus now about the power of government."

President-elect Donald Trump continues to explore options for his Cabinet, with plans to meet South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Thursday amid rumors that she is being considered as a candidate for secretary of state. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has also been considered a top candidate for the job, multiple sources report, along with former ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton.

Donald Trump's former campaign manager turned CNN commentator turned likely political appointee Corey Lewandowski thinks he knows why Trump won the election, The Telegraph reports. And it isn't exactly because Trump outplayed Hillary Clinton.

On Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced to the House Select Committee on Intelligence that he is resigning. "[I] submitted my letter of resignation last night, which felt pretty good," Clapper said, per CNN's report. Clapper had in the past admitted to "counting down the days to stepping down" at the end of President Obama's term, NBC News reported, and on Thursday told lawmakers he had "64 days left and [would] have a pretty hard time with my wife going past that."

Archaeologists studying one of Mexico's most famous Mayan pyramids have discovered another smaller pyramid nestled inside it, The Independent reports. The newfound pyramid actually sits inside a second pyramid, both of which are enclosed by the larger third pyramid: "It's built like a Russian nesting doll. Under the large one we get another and another," chief researcher Rene Chavez Seguro said.

Paul Horner writes fake Facebook news for a living, and he's pretty sure he's one of the reasons President-elect Donald Trump won the election last week. In an interview with The Washington Post published Thursday, the 38-year-old admitted his tall tales "were picked up by Trump supporters all the time" — and often seemingly without any scrutiny.

A white winter wonderland is nothing but a dream for most Americans in the Lower 48, where snow cover is at its lowest point ever for November, modern records indicate. "How unusual is this?" the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration writes. "National snow analyses have been compiled by NOAA's National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center since 2003 and, during that time, never have the first two weeks of November shown such small amounts of snow."

A Washington state senator plans to propose a bill banning "illegal protests," although many of his critics say his definition of "illegal protests" sounds suspiciously like "protests" in general. Republican Sen. Doug Ericksen announced Wednesday that he wanted to create the crime of "economic terrorism" and "allow the felony prosecution of people involved in protests that block transportation and commerce, damage property, threaten jobs, and put public safety at risk," KOMO News reports.

Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump's husband, has become one of Donald Trump's most trusted campaign advisers, and now he's likely to take a top job at the Trump White House, possibly senior adviser or general counsel, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing "people familiar with the presidential transition." Both incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and senior adviser Stephen Bannon are reportedly pushing Kushner, 35, to join the president-elect's inner circle, but there are a few problems. Читать дальше...

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average snapped a seven-day post-election winning streak on Wednesday, closing down by 0.3 percent as financial stocks sank. The S&P 500 dropped by 0.2 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index rose by 0.4 percent. Analysts said the shift was a predictable breather after days of broad stock gains attributed to relief after the end of a scary election season, and President-elect Donald Trump's promise of infrastructure spending to boost the economy. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump has made a lot of phone calls since being elected president, but Thursday will mark his first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader since winning the White House. Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, plans to meet with Trump in New York to try to feel out how serious Trump's campaign promises regarding his country have been.

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President-elect Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at The New York Times for reporting that infighting had left his transition team in disarray. "[T]he failing @nytimes story is so totally wrong on transition. It is going so smoothly," he tweeted Wednesday morning. Reports surfaced earlier this week that several transition team members had been expelled due to internal tensions. Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who replaced New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday as head of the transition team... Читать дальше...

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an anti-immigration hardliner, is part of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, and according to Reuters, he would like Trump to consider instituting a registry and tracking system for visitors to the U.S. from some Muslim countries. The George W. Bush administration put a system like that in place in 2002, but the Obama administration scrapped it in 2011. Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and spokesman for a pro-Trump super PAC, argued on Wednesday's... Читать дальше...