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Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 15:42 UTC
Preconceptions, misconceptions and experts that fail to see reality

Explaining the not so quite unexplainable. Donald Trump's victory by a convincing margin left all those so called analysts who had foreseen his defeat as inevitable trying to find out how they had so spectacularly misread the world. The role of mass media under fire.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 12:42 UTC
It's President Donald Trump, after all

Following the Republican candidate's win in Pennsylvania there was virutally no chance the Democrat nominnee Hillary Clinton could reverse the situation and her campain manager John Podesta sent everybody at her camp home to sleep, saying she would not be making any comments during the evening.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 09:29 UTC
Trump becomes US 45th president with support from white working class and rural voters

Donald John Trump has been projected as the winner of the presidential election, according to the Associated Press, after election returns showed that Trump had won stunning come-from-behind victories across a swath of contested states. Trump, 70, will be the 45th president of the United States. A real-estate developer and former reality-TV star,
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 09:02 UTC
Close friends and loyalists considered for the Trump cabinet

Now that Donald Trump will be moving to the White House next January, speculation about the names being considered for his cabinet have started to emerge. According to sources close to the winning team some of the names included are Rudy Giuliani for attorney general, Newt Gingrich for secretary of state, retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn for defense secretary or national security adviser, Trump finance chairman Steve Mnuchin for Treasury secretary, and Republican National Committee finance chair Lew Eisenberg for commerce secretary.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 08:56 UTC
Bill Clinton's inconvenient truth about the white working class expectations

Bill Clinton once said the white working class had been left hopeless after six years of Barack Obama's administration. The former president was quoted in a speech published by Wikileaks as part of the website's release of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's emails.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 08:32 UTC
Stock markets sink, Mexican peso plunges as Trump takes early lead

The U.S. dollar sank and stock markets slammed into reverse in wild trade as investors faced the real possibility of a shock win by Republican Donald Trump that could upend the global political order. Major indexes in Asia fall by more than 2%.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 08:22 UTC
Republicans retain control of the US House of Representatives

The Republican Party has retained its majority in the US House of Representatives, projections suggest early Wednesday. The TV networks ABC and NBC both projected a Republican majority in the 435-seat chamber, which the party has controlled since 2010.
Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 07:49 UTC
A Trump victory could mean a brake for the Argentina/US dynamic relation, says Malcorra

Under the administration of president Mauricio Macri, the relation between Argentina and the US has “entered a new dynamic phase” and somehow those close links could be affected if the Republican candidate wins on Tuesday, said foreign minister Susana Malcorra.
Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 07:28 UTC
South American presidents and who they would like to see at the White House

A majority of South American presidents would prefer to see former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the White House, while a few believe whoever wins will make not much of a difference for the continent. Nevertheless be it Hillary or Trump there is mostly respect for US institutions.
Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 07:04 UTC
Argentine economists choose Hillary Clinton for president

Analysts estimate Clinton would continue the bilateral relationship, while Trump is a mystery that would halt trade and investment worldwide