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Can Kamala Harris still become US President after losing election to Donald Trump? Know how it's possible

Some Democrats urge President Biden to step down so Kamala Harris despite losing to Trump to become the first...




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Served hot, a Donald Trump dosa

With this special dish, a city hotel pays tribute to the U.S. President-elect




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Bitcoin At New Record High Of $87,000 After Donald Trump's Victory In US Elections

Trump was previously a crypto skeptic, but changed his mind and embraced cryptocurrencies during this year's presidential race. 




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Bitcoin May Touch $100,000 By January End After Donald Trump Takes Office

The bullish prediction from Green comes after the cryptocurrency has experienced a staggering 93 per cent price rise year-to-date.




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Climate experts worry about Donald Trump’s re-election impact

Climate experts anxious about American commitment to carbon mitigation efforts, particularly the Trump campaign’s espousal for fracking and distrust of scientific consensus on the impacts of greenhouse gas warming




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Meet Marco Rubio: Donald Trump’s Likely Secretary Of State Pick Who's Pro-India

Senator Marco Rubio, long-time admirer of US-India relations and foreign policy hawk, will be named by Donald Trump as Secretary of State.




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Donald Trump Announces Key Appointments; Picks Mike Huckabee As Ambassador To Israel

Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and long-time advocate for Israel, has been chosen to serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Israel. 




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Paths to Convergence: Stock Price Behavior After Donald Trump's Election [electronic journal].




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Donald Trump speaks to Putin, warns against escalating war in Ukraine: report

Donald Trumps’s representativessaid he also expressed an interest in further conversations to discuss “the resolution of Ukraine’s war soon.”




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President-elect Donald Trump chooses Elise Stefanik as Ambassador to United Nations

Nikki Haley, who challenged Mr. Trump for the GOP nomination, was among those who previously held the role in his first term.




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Sensex, Nifty surge over 1% on heavy buying in IT stocks as Donald Trump wins U.S. polls

Stock markets surge over 1% as Sensex gains 901 points on Trump’s U.S. election win, boosting IT and pharma shares




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How much can US president-elect Donald Trump derail global climate action?

Trump is a climate change denier who has promised to increase fossil fuel production and withdraw the US from the Paris climate deal, among other worrying pledges.




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Narendra Modi congratulates Donald Trump on US election victory, says looking forward to renewing collaboration

‘Let’s work for the betterment of our people and to promote global peace, stability and prosperity,’ Modi says in a post on X




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A guide to key figures in Donald Trump's orbit

Donald Trump will return to the White House accompanied by a crew of longtime friends and aides as well as newfound, splashy allies




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Donald Trump demands apology from ‘very rude’ Hamilton cast




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​Rein in the darkness: On a second term for Donald Trump

Americans will have to reckon with the consequences of putting Trump back in office 




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A West Asia under Donald Trump

With Joe Biden leaving behind a broken region, it remains to be seen whether Donald Trump can look at the larger strategic picture




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No time lost: On Donald Trump and the incoming U.S. administration

In calls with world leaders, Donald Trump showed he is true to his own self 




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Donald Trump names Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

The U.S. President elect said their work would conclude by July 4, 2026, adding that a smaller and more efficient government would be a "gift" to the country on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.




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How Elon Musk's clout with Donald Trump could enrich his companies

Elon Musk’s backing of Donald Trump’s decisive victory for a second presidency gives the billionaire entrepreneur extraordinary influence in business




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Donald Trump chooses Elon Musk to lead THIS new Department, it is...

The US President-elect said this will become, potentially, 'The Manhattan Project of the current time'




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Donald Trump’s victory sparks mixed reactions; experts urge intensified action for climate crisis




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Donald Trump, Elon Musk could unite Saudi Arabia-led LIV and PGA Tour: Rory McIlroy




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From Donald Trump and ‘The Apprentice’ to ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’, the allure of the villain origin story




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What Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump means for state power vs reproductive rights — in America and beyond




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Donald Trump is in love – and not just with himself




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Express View Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris: The world – including and especially India – is waiting




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Donald Trump is terrible news for climate change, but Kamala Harris isn’t good news either




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U.S. Presidential Elections: Hillary Clinton Leading Donald Trump By Four Points Says, Poll

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads her Republican rival Donald Trump by 4% points, a latest national opinion poll said on Sunday, two days ahead of the crucial US general elections.




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Future of U.S. with Donald Trump as its 45th President

Donald Trump hushed all his detractors after winning the US elections to become the 45th president of the United States. He has stunned the whole world with this victory, driving on a wave of populist rage for defeating Hillary Clinton.




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Indian-American Amul Thapar On Donald Trump's List For Supreme Court Judge Nominees

Indian-American Amul Thapar is among the shortlisted potential nominees for Supreme Court judge picked by President-elect Donald Trump.




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Will Take $1 As Salary With No Vacations, Says Donald Trump

US President-elect Donald Trump has said he would take $1 as his salary a year and not the $400,000 that comes with the US president's job and will refrain from going on any vacation.




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Bobby Jindal Among Probables In U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump's Cabinet

Two-term Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, the first ever Indian-American to be elected as a state Governor, is among the shortlisted candidates for Trump's Cabinet, according to a media report.




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Donald Trump’s travel ban is gift to jihadis

The US risks repeating the errors of 2003




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Saudi energy minister welcomes Donald Trump election




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Donald Trump’s debt to Deutsche Bank

As others shied away, the German bank lent money for several projects. But the president and lender face increased scrutiny over their ties




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My First Million — Donald Trump

In a 2008 interview, the now president-elect revealed his ‘New York attitude’




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Alec Baldwin returns as Donald Trump to congratulate ‘class of COVID-19’ in SNL finale





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‘Response to coronavirus crisis has been anemic, spotty’: Barack Obama slams Donald Trump’s handling of… – Firstpost

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'We love it': President Donald Trump sends video message congratulating Dana White and UFC for holding UFC 249 event (VIDEO)

United States President Donald Trump sent a message of congratulations to Dana White and the UFC for being the first major sports league to return to action following the Covid-19 shutdown.
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Chinese adherence to trade deal report in a week or two, says Donald Trump

"I will be able to report on that at the end of next week," he told reporters at the White House, when asked if China is fulfilling its obligations as detailed out in Phase I of the trade deal signed between the two countries in January.




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COVID-19: Barack Obama lashes out at Donald Trump in call with supporters

Obama also reacted to the Justice Department dropping its criminal case against Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, saying he worried that the basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.




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Alec Baldwin Plays Donald Trump ‘One Last Time’ on SNL

Saturday Night Live season finales tend to be elaborate, star-studded affairs. And they managed to make that the case even this year with all of the cast members still broadcasting from their respective homes, along with guests stars like Kristen Wiig, Martin Short and more.

Two weeks after Brad Pitt debuted his effortlessly charming Dr. Anthony Fauci impression, the final—with any luck—episode of SNL at Home opened with a Zoom graduation featuring a commencement address from Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump, who somehow got ahold of a “Make America Great Again” hat at his Hamptons house.

“I’m so honored to be your vale-dictator,” he told the students. “But today’s not about me. It’s about you. Although I should spend a little time on me first, because I’ve been treated very poorly, even worse than they treated Lincoln.” 

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Donald Trump's White House Counsel Has One Main Job—And He's Failing At It

Donald McGahn, like all White House counsels who have served before him, has a broad portfolio but one fundamental charge: to keep his boss, the president of the United States, out of trouble. To say McGahn hasn't fared well in this department is an understatement. President Donald Trump and his administration have been besieged by scandal from the outset. And lawyers who worked in past administrations, Democratic and Republican, have questioned whether McGahn has the judgment or the clout with his client to do the job.

Four months in, despite having yet to confront a crisis not of its own making, the Trump administration faces a growing list of controversies, legal and otherwise. The FBI is reportedly investigating retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, who for 22 days served as Trump's national security adviser, for his lobbying on behalf of Turkish interests and for his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States before Trump took office. There are two congressional probes examining Flynn's actions and two more looking at whether anyone connected with the Trump campaign interacted with Vladimir Putin's regime when it was interfering with the 2016 presidential race. And the Justice Department recently appointed a special counsel to oversee the FBI's probe into Moscow's meddling and the Trump-Russia connections. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a close adviser; former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort; and Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, face FBI or congressional scrutiny.

All presidents, Democratic and Republican, experience their share of scandals. But the pace and magnitude of the controversies engulfing the Trump White House are on a different level and pace. (Recall that Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre—when he fired the special prosecutor investigating Watergate—didn't happen until nearly five years into his presidency.) And each leak and drip of new information raises more questions about McGahn, the man whose job is to steer Trump clear of potential land mines before they explode into breaking-news bombshells.

An election lawyer who served five contentious years on the Federal Election Commission, McGahn first met Trump in late 2014 and was one of the mogul's first hires when he launched his presidential run. He endeared himself to Trump by fending off an effort to remove Trump from the New Hampshire primary ballot and coordinated the campaign's well-timed release of a list of potential Supreme Court nominees, a move that helped to attract ambivalent evangelical and conservative voters.

Shortly after winning the presidency, Trump rewarded McGahn's loyalty by picking him to be White House counsel.

About six weeks later, on January 4, according to the New York Times, McGahn spoke with Michael Flynn, the retired general whom Trump had selected as his national security adviser a week before he hired McGahn, about a sensitive matter. In August 2016, Flynn's consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group, had signed a $600,000 contract to lobby on behalf of Turkish interests; Flynn's client was a Dutch company run by a Turkish businessman who is an ally of Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At the time, however, Flynn did not register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires lobbyists and advocates working for foreign governments to disclose their work.

Now, with Trump's inauguration almost two weeks away, Flynn reportedly told McGahn that he was under federal investigation for failing to disclose his lobbying on behalf of foreign interests.

What McGahn did with this information is unclear—but it's nonetheless revealing to former White House lawyers that Flynn went on to receive a top White House post, arguably the most sensitive job in the White House. (McGahn, through a White House spokesperson, declined to comment for this story.) Alums of the counsel's office in previous White Houses say it was unimaginable to hire a national security adviser who faced legal questions regarding foreign lobbying, let alone one who was under federal investigation. "In the White House counsel's office I was working in, the idea that somebody was under investigation was a big red flag and it would be doubtful that we would go forward with that person," says Bill Marshall, a former deputy counsel in the Clinton White House. "That's not even saying it strong enough."

Flynn remained on the job and, during the transition, reportedly told the outgoing Obama administration that it should delay a joint American-Kurdish military strike on an ISIS facility in the Syrian city of Raqqa—a move that conformed with the desires of the Turkish government.

In a short ceremony at the White House on January 22, Flynn was sworn in as national security adviser and McGahn as chief counsel. Four days later, Sally Yates, the acting US attorney general, and a senior official in the Justice Department's national-security division met with McGahn at the White House. Yates informed McGahn of a troubling development: the US had credible information to suggest that Flynn had not told the truth when he denied that he had discussed sanctions during conversations with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States. Yates added that Flynn had been interviewed by the FBI.

Flynn had lied. What's more, his mention of sanctions was potentially illegal under an obscure law known as the Logan Act. (Since the law's creation in 1799, not one person has been convicted under the Logan Act.) Yates warned McGahn that the discrepancy between Flynn's public statements and what he said to the Russian ambassador left him vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians.

"If Sally Yates had come to me with that information, I would've run down the hall like my hair was on fire," Rob Weiner, another former counsel in the Clinton White House, told me. Because the messenger in this case was a holdover from the Obama administration, Weiner added, the Trump White House "might not have had a lot of trust in Yates at that point. Even so, that should've been something to cause alarm bells to go off." Jack Goldsmith, a former senior Justice Department lawyer during the George W. Bush administration, echoed Weiner's observation. Writing at the website Lawfare, Goldsmith weighed in: "Especially coming against the background of knowing (and apparently doing nothing) about Flynn's failure to report his foreign agent work, the information Yates conveyed should have set off loud alarm bells."

Flynn, with two federal investigations hanging over his head, remained on the job for another 18 days. He joined Trump in the Oval Office for calls with foreign dignitaries, including the leaders of Australia and Russia. He presumably sat in on daily intelligence briefings and had unfettered access to classified information. It was only after the Washington Post on February 13 reported on Yates' warning to McGahn about Flynn's susceptibility to blackmail that Trump fired Flynn.

The question looming over the entire debacle was this: How had Flynn been allowed to stay on the job? At the media briefing on the day after Flynn's dismissal, Sean Spicer, the press secretary, addressed McGahn's role in the Flynn controversy. McGahn had conducted his own review after meeting with Yates, Spicer explained, and "determined that there is not a legal issue, but rather a trust issue."

It was a mystifying answer, especially given the facts that later emerged: Flynn was allegedly the target of active investigations. "It is very hard to understand how McGahn could have reached these conclusions," wrote Goldsmith, the former Bush administration lawyer. McGahn, Goldsmith noted, could not know all the details of the investigations targeting Flynn. (Indeed, Yates later testified that McGahn appeared to have not known that the FBI had interviewed Flynn about his calls with the Russian ambassador.) "Just as important, the final word on the legality of Flynn's actions was not McGahn's to make," Goldsmith went on. "That call in the first instance lies with the FBI and especially the attorney general."

The steady stream of revelations about the Trump White House and its various legal dramas has only cast a harsher light on McGahn and the counsel's office. After the Post reported that White House officials had pressured the director of national intelligence and the National Security Agency chief to downplay the FBI's Russia investigation, Goldsmith tweeted, "Asking again: Is WH Counsel 1) incompetent or 2) ineffective because client's crazy and he lacks access/influence?"

Lawyers who have represented Democrats and Republicans agree that Trump is about as difficult a client as they can imagine. "One gets the sense that Mr. Trump has people talking to him, but he doesn't either take their advice, ask for their advice, or follow their advice," says Karen Hult, a Virginia Tech political-science professor who has studied the White House counsel's office. C. Boyden Gray, the White House counsel for President George H.W. Bush, said few, if any, presidents have had more financial and ethical entanglements than Trump. "I didn't have anywhere near the complexities that Don McGahn had," he told me earlier this year. Bob Bauer, a former counsel in the Obama White House, recently questioned whether any lawyer could rein in Trump: "Is the White House counsel up to the job of representing this president? We may find out nobody is." There is some indication that Trump does trust McGahn. When Trump wanted to release statements of support for Flynn and Kushner after the naming of a special counsel to oversee the Trump-Russia investigation, it was reportedly McGahn who convinced Trump not to do so.

But part of the job, former lawyers in the counsel's office say, is giving the president unwelcome advice and insisting that advice be followed. "It's always very hard to say no to the president and not do what the president of the United States wants," says Bill Marshall, the former Clinton White House lawyer. "But the long-term interests of the president of the United States can often be not doing something he might want to do, and if you do, it can come back and hit you from a direction that you never anticipated."




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Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump Sends Off the Class of 2020 in ‘SNL At Home’ Finale (Watch)

Actors, writers, musicians and even former president Barack Obama will be taking part in virtual graduation ceremonies as the Class of 2020 is still under stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and on “Saturday Night Live’s” “At Home” finale, the NBC late-night sketch series got in on the ceremonial event as well. Alec Baldwin […]




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US president Donald Trump congratulates UFC for restart, says 'we want our sports back'

UFC 249 served as the first major sporting event to take place since the global pandemic shut down much of the country nearly eight weeks ago. It was originally scheduled for 18 April in New York, but was postponed in hopes of helping slow the spread of COVID-19.





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Barack Obama describes Donald Trump's response to coronavirus as a 'chaotic disaster'

Former US president Barack Obama has criticised Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, calling it an "absolute chaotic disaster".




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Saturday Night Live: Alec Baldwin revives infamous Donald Trump impression, pretends to drink bleach

It's the first time Baldwin has impersonated the president in an episode of 'SNL at Home'




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Covid 19 coronavirus: Barack Obama labels Donald Trump's coronavirus response 'absolute chaotic disaster'

Former US President Barack Obama harshly criticised President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an "absolute chaotic disaster" during a conversation with ex-members of his administration, according to a recording...