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    In addition to winning the electoral college in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. Angered by demands for a recount in the three states that gave him an electoral college victory, President-elect Donald Trump made a bold but unsubstantiated assertion in a tweet — that “millions of people” voted illegally in the presidential election. He suggested they voted for his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, who now leads in the popular vote by 2.2 million votes, and thus he actually also won the popular vote. Winning the electoral college is all that counts in the presidential race. But losing the popular vote by such a substantial margin apparently gnaws at Trump. Is there any basis for his claim? The simple answer is no....

    A plane carrying more than 80 people, including members of the Brazilian football team Chapecoense, has crashed in Colombia. There has been no confirmation of casualties at this moment. There were 72 passengers and nine crew on board. Reports say there are at least six survivors, including the Chapecoense goalkeeper Alan Ruschel. The team was scheduled to play Copa Sudamerica finals against Atletico Nacional on Wednesday in Medellin. Medellin international airport has confirmed that a charter aircraft with squad members and journalists on board was involved in a serious emergency on its way to the city. The plane – a British Aerospace 146 short-haul aircraft – is believed to have started its journey in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at 3.35pm in the afternoon local time. It made a sto...

    President-elect Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims Sunday of serious US voter fraud and said "millions of people" had cast their ballots illegally, offering no evidence for the assertions he put forth on Twitter. Trump's shock path to the White House saw him fall short of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the popular vote -- she carried the election by 2.2 million ballots -- but win the all-important Electoral College count, which decides the US presidency. The Republican billionaire's latest statements, in which he said he would have won the popular vote were it not for the "millions of people who voted illegally," came as steps are being taken towards recounting votes in the state of Wisconsin, which Trump won. Trump and his aides have pushed back hard agains...

    Hillary Clinton's campaign on Saturday, (26 November) said that it will take part in the Wisconsin recount initiated by Green Party nominee Jill Stein and added that it would participate in potential recounts in two other states, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The campaign's general counsel, Marc Elias, wrote on Medium on Saturday that the Clinton team has been conducting a review of election results and looking for any signs that the voting process had been tampered with. He stressed that campaign analysts have so far found no evidence to suggest that the election was manipulated but said that the campaign is keen on making sure of a fair recount process. Elias further said in his post: "The campaign is grateful to all those who have expended time and effort to investigate va...

    Ivanka Trump responded to her father Donald Trump’s remarks about her sex appeal by saying that if he wasn’t her father, she would spray him with self defence pepper spray, it has emerged. While the President-elect’s eldest daughter has appeared to say little in response to a number of crude comments her father has made about her, it has emerged that in 2006, after Mr Trump publicly joked that he would date her if he weren’t her father, she was quick to respond. According to the ‘Quotables’ section of the Chicago Tribune, Trump, aged 24 at the time, said: “If he wasn’t my father, I would spray him with Mace.” The President-elect’s fascination with his daughter’s looks has been no secret, and during the election campaign trail a number of comments he had made about her that...

    Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger brother announced to the nation. He was 90. Castro had been in poor health since an intestinal ailment nearly killed him in 2006 and he formally ceded power to his younger brother two years later. Wearing a green military uniform, Cuba's President Raul Castro appeared on state television to announce his brother's death. "At 10.29 at night, the chief commander of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, died," he said, without giving a cause of death. "Ever onward, to victory" Havana residents on the streets reacted with sadness to the news, while in Miami, where many exiles from the Co...

    The former ethics lawyers for president Barack Obama and George W Bush have asked the electoral college to not appoint Donald Trump as the next president due to his potential conflicts of interest. Richard Painter, former chief ethics counsel for Mr Bush, and Norman Eisen, former chief ethics counsel for Mr Obama, said that the president-elect must sell out from his real estate and business holdings before 19 December, when the electoral college officially appoints the next president. As reported by ThinkProgress, Mr Eisen pointed to Article 1, Section 9 of the US constitution which prohibits presidents from accepting "any present, emolument, office, or title, or any kind whatever, from any king, price, or foreign state". The most recent up-and-running example of a Trump b...

    Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said on Thursday she has raised $3.5 million to force recounts of the Nov. 8 election results in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, three states where Donald Trump scored narrow wins. The campaign said it exceeded its initial goal for raising $2.5 million and has enough money to pay Wisconsin's $1.1 million filing fee due on Friday. At the same time, the party said it raised its target to $4.5 million, with filing deadlines approaching in Pennsylvania on Monday and Michigan on Wednesday. Hillary Clinton. Stein is pushing for recounts because experts pointed to statistical anomalies in the tallies in all three battleground states, according to the party's website. Trump, a Republican who ran as an anti-establishment maverick,...

    Nigel Farage is planning to visit Washington DC early next month to meet again with aides to US President-elect Donald Trump. amid claims he is planning to move across the Atlantic. The visit to the US capital will be seen as part of an unofficial diplomatic offensive by Mr Farage to forge links with Mr Trump’s team which will undermine Theresa May, the Prime Minister, who is still yet to meet with the President-elect. Sources close to the interim leader of the UK Independence Party (Ukip) said he will be meeting with the team around Mr Trump. It comes as friends of Mr Farage told the Times that he is preparing to emigrate to America with his wife Kirsten. He is reportedly hoping to escape from the public eye. Mr Farage is due to travel with the same group who met Mr Trump...

    A group of computer scientists and election attorneys are urging Democrat Hillary Clinton to call for a recount in three swing states where President-elect Donald Trump won, New York Magazine reported Tuesday. The group, which includes voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz and J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, said they had found evidence indicating the results in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan may have been manipulated or hacked. The group has not gone on record with their findings yet and is lobbying in private for Clinton to demand a recount. The findings do not prove that the results in the three states were hacked or manipulated but the group said it believes the evidence merits a recount. The a...