by Benjamin Din | Nov 13, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama welcomed the 2016 NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers to the White House on Thursday for a celebratory visit on the South Lawn, saying the team’s June championship victory embodied Obama’s campaign slogan. “That’s what we’re talking...
by David Fishman | Nov 13, 2016 | Featured, National Security
Nearly 70 years after the United Nations first deployed its iconic blue helmets, demand for peacekeepers is on the rise. In July, the United States teamed with India, the world’s second-largest contributor to international peacekeeping forces, to train African...
by David Fishman | Nov 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
NEW YORK — In a stunning upset, Republican Donald Trump Wednesday morning was elected the 45th president of the United States — ending a dramatic campaign by assuring voters he would seek to unify a broken country. Here are some captured moments from inside the...
by Rishika Dugyala & David Fishman | Nov 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
NEW YORK — In New York City’s Times Square, sandwiched between both campaigns’ Election Night headquarters, some young voters struggled — and failed — to hold back tears as they watched Republican Donald Trump, who was supported by only 37 percent of millennials,...
by David Gernon | Nov 9, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON – Global investors Wednesday tried to make sense of what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for financial markets across the globe. As the possibility of the political outsider’s victory grew Tuesday night, markets worldwide reacted in largely negative...
by Michelle Kim | Nov 9, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics, Topics
NEW YORK — Donald Trump walked on the stage at the New York Hilton early Wednesday as the president-elect, pledging to be “president for all Americans.” At around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, Trump surpassed the 270 electoral vote mark with a victory in Wisconsin,...
by Eunice Lee | Nov 9, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
WASHINGTON – In anticipation of a Republican controlled White House and Congress, several conservative leaders expressed excitement Wednesday about an America led by Donald Trump, particularly on issues like health care and appointment of Supreme Court justices. “This...
by Anna Waters | Nov 9, 2016 | Campaign 2016
WASHINGTON — In the early morning hours of Nov. 9, hundreds of people gathered outside of the White House, stunned. Many assumed they would be celebrating the election of the first female president. Now, they held their Clinton-Kaine posters at half-mast. Dozens...
by David Fishman | Nov 9, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Topics
NEW YORK — In a stunning upset, Republican Donald Trump Wednesday morning was elected to become the 45th president of the United States — ending a dramatic campaign by assuring voters he would seek to unify a broken country. “The forgotten men and women of our...
by Marissa Page | Nov 9, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
NEW YORK – Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton once again found herself beneath a glass ceiling. The Democratic presidential nominee lost to Republican challenger Donald J. Trump early Wednesday morning in a surprise upset. Polling agencies FiveThirtyEight, The...
by Darby Hopper and Kelly Norris | Nov 9, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON — Republicans will keep control of Congress, smashing predictions that Democrats might take back the Senate majority, which they gave up in 2014. But the margin, which is currently 54 Republicans to 46 Democrats (including the two independents who tend to...
by Eunice Lee and Jason Mast | Nov 9, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON — Some states with voter ID laws saw a decline in voter turnout Tuesday, as voters stayed home or were turned away from polling places, non-partisan election watchers said. The reports came amid the first general election without the protections of...
