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New York Times Calls for End to Electoral College

New York Times Calls for End to Electoral College

Posted by | Dec 20, 2016 | |

The New York Times Editorial Board on Monday called for an end to the Electoral College. The New York Times joins a growing coalition that is calling to get rid of the Electoral College since Donald Trump won the presidency despite losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. [AdSense-A] NY Times calls for end to Electoral College From the New York Times piece: “…for the second time in 16 years, the candidate who lost the popular vote has won the presidency. Unlike 2000, it wasn’t even close. Hillary Clinton beat Mr. Trump by more than 2.8 million...

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Obama shows Trump How Deal with China, doesn’t involve tweeting

Obama shows Trump How Deal with China, doesn’t involve tweeting

Posted by | Dec 17, 2016 | |

On Saturday, the Pentagon announced that China had agreed to return an underwater drone it had seized a day earlier in international waters. [AdSense-A] Pentagon press secretary said, “Through direct engagement with Chinese authorities, we have secured an understanding that the Chinese will return the U.U.V. to the United States.” Mr. Cook said the deal had been reached after the United States “registered our objection to China’s unlawful seizure of a U.S. unmanned underwater vehicle operating in international waters in the South China Sea.” The incident highlights the obivious differences between President Obama and his successor Donald Trump. While Trump...

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Donald Trump Misspells Tweet Blasting China’s ‘Unpresidented’ Seizure Of U.S. Drone Ship

Donald Trump Misspells Tweet Blasting China’s ‘Unpresidented’ Seizure Of U.S. Drone Ship

Posted by | Dec 17, 2016 | |

Donald Trump has awkwardly inserted himself into the growing diplomatic dispute regarding China’s seizure of a U.S. drone ship.In a bizarre Twitter rant on Saturday, the Donald Trump slammed China for its seizure of a U.S. underwater drone ship in the South China Sea two days earlier. [AdSense-A] “China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters – rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act,” he wrote, misspelling the word “unprecedented.” The post was later deleted and replaced with one in which he spelled the word correctly, but not before others on Twitter...

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Obamacare deadline extended because of overwhelming demand for insurance

Obamacare deadline extended because of overwhelming demand for insurance

Posted by | Dec 16, 2016 | |

The Obama Administration on Thursday announced it is extending the midnight deadline for Affordable Care Act insurance by four days because of the overwhelming demand by consumers who logged onto Healthcare.gov and called into the call center operators to buy insurance that takes effect Jan. 1. [AdSense-A] “Nearly a million consumers have left their contact information to hold their place in line,” Healthcare.gov CEO Kevin Counihan said in a statement late Thursday. “Our goal is to provide affordable coverage to everyone seeking it before the deadline, and these two additional business days will give consumers an opportunity to come back...

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Hillary Clinton Says Putin Played A Role In Election Loss

Hillary Clinton Says Putin Played A Role In Election Loss

Posted by | Dec 16, 2016 | |

According to a New York Times report, Hillary Clinton told a group of donors she believes Russian President Vladimir Putin played a role in her presidential election loss. [AdSense-A] In a meeting with top donors to her campaign, Clinton said that Russia attempted to “undermine our democracy” by hacking into the emails of the Democratic National Committee and her former campaign chairman John Podesta. “Putin publicly blamed me for the outpouring of outrage by his own people, and that is the direct line between what he said back then and what he did in this election,” Clinton said, according to...

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