Obama on Trump victory: we are now all rooting for his success
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday to work for a smooth transition of power with president-elect Donald Trump, the Republican winner of Tuesday’s election, who has promised to undo Obama’s top domestic and foreign p…
‘This is rage against the machine’: voters reject a ‘rigged’ system
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the 2008 U.S. election, Carrie Sheridan slept in her Honda Element as she campaigned across the country for Democrat Barack Obama. On Tuesday, the self-described community activist from the Washington, D.C. area spent $864 of …
Trump win raises fears over climate change goals, hits renewable stocks
MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president triggered fears that his view that global warming is a hoax might lead other nations to scale back ambitions under a landmark climate change deal, while renewable energy stocks fe…
Democrat Hassan declares victory in New Hampshire Senate race
BOSTON (Reuters) – New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, on Wednesday declared that she had won her race for the U.S. Senate, though local media and her rival, incumbent Republican Kelly Ayotte, said the race remains too close to call.
Republicans hold on to state legislative edge in U.S. election
(Reuters) – Republicans will continue to dominate state legislatures in the wake of Tuesday’s election that kept their party in control of Congress and put Donald Trump in the White House, legislative analysts said on Wednesday.
Backs against the wall: Trump victory casts pall over Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico was pitched into deep uncertainty by Donald Trump’s U.S. election victory on Tuesday after a bitterly divisive campaign, raising the prospect of major clashes over trade, immigration and security.
Melania’s Slovenian hometown eyes Trump win as boon for tourism
SEVNICA, Slovenia (Reuters) – The small Slovenian town of Sevnica, Melania Trump’s birthplace, savored her husband’s shock win in the U.S. election as a likely boon for tourism on Wednesday, while a former schoolmate remembered her as “creative and inn…
Trump election puts Iran nuclear deal on shaky ground
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s election as president raises the prospect the United States will pull out of the nuclear pact it signed last year with Iran, alienating Washington from its allies and potentially freeing Iran to act on its ambition…
How Trump crushed naysayers with a coalition of the forgotten
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump was right. Countless others were wrong.
Anti-Trump demonstrators set fires, break windows in California
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Protests against Donald Trump broke out in California’s Bay Area late on Tuesday after the Republican candidate won the U.S. presidential election, a Reuters witness and local media reported.
