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His maverick campaign and inflammatory rhetoric led supporters to hail him as a 'blue-collar billionaire' - but to others Trump is a dangerous sociopath Live election results: track the vote, county by county Support our...

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His surprise victory ended an erratic and grievance-filled campaign that took direct aim at his own party and long-held ideals of American democracy.

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Many Hillary Clinton supporters are in tears in the wee hours of Wednesday morning as it increasingly appears that Donald Trump is the likely next president of the United States. But while some people are already explori...

Trump rides wave of anti-establishment sentiment to one of the most improbably political victories in modern US history Live election results: track the voting, county by county Support our fearless, independent journali...

Hillary Clinton was exactly the wrong candidate: a technocrat who offered fine-tuning when the country wanted to take a sledgehammer to the machine A month ago I tried to write a column proposing mean nicknames for presi...

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Police say someone with an assault rifle killed one person and wounded two others Tuesday near two Los Angeles-area polling sites that were locked down as a result

Just before 10 p.m. ET on Election Day, The New York Times gave Donald Trump a 59 percent chance of winning the presidency. The latest projection marked a drastic shift from just hours before, when The New York Times pro...

Both the Bush and Clinton clans share an abhorrence of what Trump would do to the country

Voters from coast to coast reported a myriad of problems at the polls on Tuesday -- from malfunctioning machines and voter intimidation to maddeningly long lines. Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers' Committee for C...

Trump addresses crowd at Hilton in midtown.

After the most grimly horrifying presidential election in living memory, we are left with a shocking upset in favor of the horror: Donald Trump has defeated Hillary Clinton. This is a victory for racist nationalism over ...

In one of the most shocking U.S. elections in modern political history, Donald Trump has defeated Hillary Clinton. The Associated Press called the race for Trump at just about 2:30 am Wednesday morning. Trump’s upset w...

The shooter remained at large in Azusa, Calif., the police said.

All around the country, people have come out to show their colors

Organisation criticises trade minister Greg Hands for failing to highlight abuse of migrant workers during trip to trade event Amnesty International has criticised a UK trade minister for travelling to Qatar to seek cont...

Syrian activists say an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition has killed at least 20 civilians in a part of Syria held by the Islamic State group. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory …

With the Republican nominee Donald Trump being elected as the 45th president of the United States, there remains a large part of the American society that is not happy with the popular mandate, causing instances of rioti...

Advances by the Democrats did not appear to be enough to amass the 30 additional seats they needed to capture the chamber majority.