(#1) Here's What Students Are Saying About The Election Results [NPR]
At 8 a.m. sharp, just hours after Donald Trump was declared president-elect, the hallways at Harrisburg High's SciTech campus were buzzing. There were tears, but also a few subtle nods in approval of the results. But mostly the students expressed their ...
(#2) Third Parties Faded to the Background in a Shocking Election [TIME]
This is a celebration,” Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson told supporters Tuesday night. Green Party candidate Jill Stein struck a more ominous tone early Wednesday morning before the final result had been called, telling Al Jazeera the U.S. political ...
(#3) How were the polls so wrong? [CNN]
(CNN) Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang, two professors at Princeton who co-host a podcast on "Politics and Polls," exchanged emails early Wednesday morning, as America witnessed one of the most unexpected outcomes ever in a presidential election with the ...
(#4) Popular Vote Update 2016: Hillary Clinton Still Leads Donald Trump As Last ... [International Business Times]
But, as the billionaire and real estate mogul prepares to assume power in January, he's likely to face questions of legitimacy as Clinton appears poised to win the popular vote in the 2016 election, according to the latest reported tallies. Of the 119 ...
(#5) Twitter's Chief Operating Officer to Step Down [New York Times]
SAN FRANCISCO — For many months, Twitter has been trying to reshape itself as a growing social media service. That attempt now includes reshaping the company's top ranks. On Wednesday, Twitter said that Adam Bain, its chief operating officer, plans to ...
(#6) Here's the rundown on propositions approved and rejected in California [OCRegister]
In this Oct. 25, 2004 file photo taken in San Quentin, Calif., guard Joe Dellabruna opens an entrance to death row at San Quentin State Prison. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) ,. BY LAUREN WILLIAMS / STAFF WRITER. Facebook; Twitter; Email; Comments; PRINT ...
(#7) PolitiFact Sheet: Donald Trump's immigration plan [PolitiFact]
President-elect Donald Trump's tough stance against illegal immigration and pledge to enforce immigration laws became one of his most powerful rallying cries during his campaign for the White House. Trump supporters cheered him on as he vowed to end ...
(#8) Barack Obama Begins To Hand Over The Reins To Donald Trump [Huffington Post]
WASHINGTON ― Early Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama called the man who long attempted to delegitimize his presidency to congratulate him for winning the race to serve in the office next. The White House announced that Obama had called ...
(#9) Here were 2 totally plausible electoral-college maps in which Clinton and ... [Washington Post]
Update: None of these four scenarios has come to pass, after Donald Trump was just named the winner of Pennsylvania -- and likely soon the presidency. But we got surprisingly close. The original post follows. The below is unlikely to happen. But it's ...
(#10) Crisis Help Lines Have Been Inundated Following The Election [Huffington Post]
Many people felt a deep need to reach out for mental health help following Tuesday night's election results. Crisis Text Line, a mental health service that allows people to chat with a counselor via messaging, experienced twice the average volume in ...
(#11) How to Impeach a President [Heavy.com]
Google searches for “How to impeach a president” rose by almost 5,000% on Wednesday, according to Metro UK. Google Trends show that the top five states searching this question were Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado.
(#12) Who is Melania Trump? Profile of the woman who will be America's next First Lady [Mirror.co.uk]
She graced the world's catwalks and magazines, appeared naked on the front of British GQ magazine, in a shoot on Trump's customised Boeing 727 featuring Melania wearing handcuffs, wielding diamonds, and holding a chrome pistol. She also appeared in ...
(#13) Putin Reaches Out To Trump, Calls For End To 'Current Crisis' [NPR]
They traded compliments during the campaign. Those comments then became part of the campaign itself. And now that Donald Trump has won the U.S. presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated him and raised the prospect of a ...
(#14) Google enacts stricter penalties on sites that continuously spread malware [TechCrunch]
Google has been protecting users against dangerous and harmful websites for many years by warning web surfers when they accidentally click on links that could lead them to sites that spread malware or attempt to phish for your private information. But ...
(#15) Back to the future: how the Simpsons and others predicted President Trump [The Guardian]
In 2000, Bart to the Future, an episode of the Simpsons in which Bart imagines his coming years, showed Lisa Simpson taking over as “America's first straight female president” from an outgoing President Trump. “As you know,” she tells her team in the ...
(#16) Christie mute on interest in Trump cabinet, says birther campaign is in the past [Politico]
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday he has not yet discussed a potential cabinet appointment with Donald Trump, and he fell silent when asked about his interest in specific positions. “We have not talked about anything,” Christie, Trump's ...
(#17) Stranger Things Finally Cares About Barb, Adds Familiar Faces to Cast [Geek Magazine]
The first season of Stranger Things was spectacular, and it became an unsuspecting hit overnight. The question now is; Can the show maintain quality in the second season, or will it pull a True Detective and flush the good will its garnered. From the ...
(#18) David Duke: Trump win a great victory for 'our people' [Politico]
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke is calling Donald Trump's electoral victory "one of the most exciting nights of my life." Duke, a white nationalist who unsuccessfully ran for Louisiana Senate, tweeted early Wednesday that his supporters played a ...
(#19) Donald Trump Wins the Presidency, Markets Tank: What Investors Need to Know [Motley Fool]
Just looking at the past few weeks, the stock market fell for nine straight days after FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers that the FBI had received new information related to its probe of Clinton's private email server. (The news was expected to ...
(#20) Elections Podcast: President Trump [FiveThirtyEight]
The day after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, our podcast crew gathered to discuss the path he took to secure the Electoral College while losing the popular vote, the demographic divide among the American electorate and where the ...
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