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    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,...