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Navarro, a University of California, Irvine professor, will serve as director of trade and industrial policy.

A Muslim YouTube star who made a hoax video in 2014 showing an NYPD officer stopping him for stop-and-frisk because he was wearing traditional Muslim garb is claiming Delta Airlines booted him off a flight from London to New York because he was speaking on his phone to his mother in Arabic.

A Texas court is expected to make a decision before New Year?s Day on one of President Obama?s newest transgender mandates, which would require doctors to provide transgender treatment for kids who desire it. That treatment would be required under Obama?s federal rule even if the physician is convinced it would harm the child. The case was brought by [?]

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CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter found himself in hot water on Wednesday morning as he met swift criticism on Twitter for sharing video of YouTube prank artist Adam Saleh being removed from a Delta Airlines flight because, according to Saleh, he was speaking Arabic.

A Mississippi man arrested in the burning of an African-American church that was spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump” is a member of the congregation, the church’s bishop said.

President Obama, who this week has issued a flurry of environmental rules, is planning to unleash another set of midnight regulations right before he leaves office that will cost Americans $6 billion. Obama has already broken all past records on creating federal regulations and red tape, and his new adds will boost the overall price tag to over $1 trillion. The new regulations, according to the watchdog group American Action Forum, include four from the Environmental Protection Agency and one from Interior. These five measures alone could impose $5.1 billion in costs and more than 350,000 paperwork burden hours. In addition, three other rules in proposed form could add $898 million in burdens and 146,000 paperwork hours, for a cumulative total of nearly $6 billion in potential midnight costs and nearly 500,000 burden hours from the two agencies. Consider, EPA and Interior have already imposed $349 billion in previous burdens since 2009, said AAF's Sam Batkins.

African-American man Andrew McClinton was arrested and charged with first-degree arson of a place of worship for setting fire...

We will soon enough be leaving behind the 2016 election and entering the era of the Trump Administration, but now that the popular votes have all finally been counted, it’s worth running a few more times through what we can learn from the numbers. Today’s lesson: the historically unusual dependence of Hillary Clinton on the voters in a single state, California. As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, Hillary won the national popular vote by 2.86 million votes (48.2% to 46.1%), due entirely to a 4.27 million vote margin of victory in California, which she carried by more than a 30-point margin (61.7% to 31.6%). Her margin in California was a million votes wider than Obama’s in 2008, the previous record for the largest margin in a single state. In fact, only five times in U.S. history has a candidate won a state by 2 million or more votes: after Hillary and Obama ‘08 (3.26 million), we have Obama ‘12 in California (3.01 million), LBJ in New York in 1964 (2.67 million) and Obama in New York in 2008 (2.05 million). Excluding 1912, when Teddy Roosevelt won California and took almost all the state’s Republican voters from President Taft, Trump’s 31.7% of the vote was the lowest by any Republican in California since 1856, and the lowest by any major-party candidate there since 1920. Outside California, Trump outdistanced Hillary by 1.41 million votes, 47.8% to 46.6%. As I have noted before, Hillary’s support was so geographically narrow that she won a popular vote majority in only 13 states (plus DC), the fewest of any major-party candidate since Bob Dole, barely half as many as Obama four years ago. Bill Clinton in 1992 is the only candidate since World War II to win the election without winning a majority in at least 15 states. Trump, who won a majority of the vote in 23 states and won 7 of the 10 largest states, nonetheless had his support spread out much more broadly: his largest total margins of victory were in Texas (807,000 votes) and Tennessee (652,000 votes). By contrast, Hillary also won New York by 1.73 million, Illinois by 944,000, Massachusetts by 904,000, and Maryland by 734,000. What I wondered, looking at these numbers, was how historically rare it was to see a candidate’s support as concentrated in a single state as Hillary’s. It turns out that it’s rare in post-WWII America, but the trend has varied over time more with population shifts than anything. 13.29% of Hillary’s votes came from California, the most for any candidate from a single state since we went to 50 states. The last candidate to draw more than 13% of his votes from a single state was Tom Dewey in 1944: The chart goes back to 1880, the first election after the end of Reconstruction (I listed “51” states for elections from 1964 on that included DC). As you can see, the top 9 candidates on the list – and 11 of the top 12 – lost the election. The top 3 (Al Smith, Dewey and Wendell Willkie) all even lost New York, the state where they got the most votes. It turns out that running candidates with a geographically narrow appeal has always been a losing strategy. That said, the predominant fact of this chart is the size of California and, before it, New York. The past century has seen a dramatic shift in the political balance of power among the states, and it’s not done yet – if we include the latest population projections at this decade’s midpoint, Florida may be ready to surpass New York in House seats and thus electoral votes (which are a state’s House seats +2), whereas a century ago, New York was ten times Florida’s size: The Midwest as a whole is in decline, just as the GOP is ascendant there. If you’re wondering, between 1828 (the first election with popular votes tabulated for most states) and 1876, it was more common in a smaller nation with more regional voting patterns to have candidates overconcentrated in one state – Henry Clay in 1832 got almost a third of his votes from New York alone. (I’m not counting the Whigs in 1836, who took this strategy to its logical extreme and ran multiple candidates based in different states). New York was also dominant in this period, although it competed at times with Pennsylvania and Ohio: If you think the shifts among the states were wild this past century, they were even wilder in the nation’s early history. In colonial times, as I detailed a few years back, the population was exploding, and the population behemoths (even if you counted only the free white population, excluding slaves who had no political rights) were Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. New York, in the age before steamships and canals and the growth of Wall Street, was tiny, with fewer people than Connecticut. New York would also benefit greatly from its disparately friendly treatment under British military occupaton during the Revolution compared to its nearest port competitor, Newport, Rhode Island, which saw its population decline under occupation and lost its status as a major commercial port. For example: The Constitution originally apportioned House districts in the First Congress by a back-of-the-envelope estimate, to be followed in 1790 by the first Census (the U.S. actually conducted its first Census a decade before Great Britain did). You can read the first Census online here (submitted by the State Department and signed “Th. Jefferson”). Over the next 40 years, population and power shifted dramatically towards New York and Ohio (which only became a state in 1803), while Virginia stagnated and Massachusetts lost a big chunk of its population when Maine (previously a part of Massachusetts) obtained independent statehood in 1820: The lesson, as always, is that nothing in American politics is forever. Populations shift, and the strength of parties in one part of the country or another waxes and wanes. The Electoral College produces anomalous results only in times of flux, when neither party can muster a majority. Before you know it, that will shift again, and we’ll stop talking about the Electoral College and go back to projecting the next “permanent majority.” In the meantime, Democrats need to find a way to reconnect outside of their coastal enclaves to avoid electing another President of California.

Woman may be charged with filing false police report.

A record high portion of people see reporters as low or very low ethical standards, after a year in which the winning president-elect made trashing the media's honesty a centerpiece of his campaign. A new Gallup poll said 41 percent of people polled said the media have low ethical standards. That's 10 points higher than the prior high of 31 percent of those who held the same view of the press in 2008 and 2009. Trust in college teachers has also slipped. A majority of those polled had said teachers have high or very high ethical standards, but that dropped to 47 percent. Additionally, those who said teachers have low or very low standards rose to 18 percent, up from 11 percent in 2009.

Richard Jones, the sheriff of Butler County, Ohio, and a Republican elector in The Buckeye State, did not appreciate all the letters he received asking him to ditch President-elect Donald Trump for another candidate.

The videographer, two assistants and the parents of two children who appear in the film were detained by police

Hillary Clinton’s campaign team is not happy that five of her electors failed to register a vote for her.

A VAN packed with gas canisters has been driven into a Christian rights campaign group's headquarters and set alight in Canberra, Australia.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh expects President Obama will create all kinds of unrest and disunity once President-elect Trump takes the oath of office next month. The first moment that Trump does anything that is the unraveling of an Obama agenda item. Obama's going to be on TV, Limbaugh said Tuesday on The Rush Limbaugh Show. They'll give Obama as much time as he wants to rip into Trump and to warn the American people. The radio show host said former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore waited until years after the Iraq War started to speak out against President George W. Bush. They would go to Europe to make speeches ripping into Bush, Limbaugh said. But Obama's going to do it from Washington. And he's going to do it within hours of whatever Trump does. And he's going to do it on major cable news. And the media is going to be 100 — 1,000 percent behind Obama.

Before the election, a bevy of top Republican thinkers assured wary conservatives that Donald Trump could be controlled – that the thinkers surrounding him would ensure that Trump didn’t pursue too many anti-conservative heresies. But with Trump’s election, one thing has become eminently clear: Trump’s driving the Trump Train. Not Reince Priebus. Not Mike Pence. Certainly not Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell. Trump. And Trump does not brook dissent.

Swedish State Television decided to enhance the "boring and oppressive" native Swedish tradition of St. Lucy's day that dates back to the 4th century by maki...

Today in West Aleppo, the Syrian people celebrated Christmas with a parade, horns and festive atmosphere. Watch the video below.

Gingrich says the president-elect may feel he should be "marginally more dignified than talking about alligators in swamps."

A van has rammed into the Australian Christian Lobby office in Canberra before exploding, according to local media reports.

Despite the best efforts of Democrats and the mainstream media to convince them otherwise, 71% of Americans still aren't convinced that Russia is responsible for the 2016 election-related email hacks.

When unnamed officials with the CIA recently claimed Russia hacked the U.S. presidential election, but failed to provide any evidence, suspicions immediately circulated that the allegation constituted a fabrication - particularly as left-leaning corporate media unquestioningly parroted the story. As Ben Swann notes there are five, specific problems with the CIA claims...

The U.S. government spent more than a decade preparing responses to malicious hacking by a foreign power but had no clear strategy when Russia launched a disinformation campaign over the internet during the U.S. election campaign, current and former White House cyber security advisers said.

Incoming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says he likes the sound of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal of a major infrastructure plan, as long as it meets certain Democratic criteria. “We think it should be large. He’s mentioned a trillion dollars. I told him that sounded good to...