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Donald Trump becomes 45th President of US

Trump snatches lead in key battlegrounds A candidate must secure 270 of the 538 electoral college votes to declare victory.

WASHINGTON, NOV 09:  He has won Florida, Ohio and North Carolina, while Democratic nominee Mrs Clinton took Virginia, Pennsylvania is too close to call. Trump is all set to become 45th President of the United States of America. The race is deadlocked in Michigan, which has not voted for a Republican White House candidate since 1988. Markets lurched as Mrs Clinton’s path to victory seemed less assured. The US dollar and Mexican peso plummeted while the Dow futures dropped more than 650 points. Mr Trump’s Ohio win was a bigRead More


Fatal shooting near California polling station in Azusa

Fatal shooting near California polling station in Azusa

LOS ANGELES, NOV 09: Two people have been killed and two injured in a shooting near a California polling station. However police say the incident in Azusa, about 25 miles (40km) east of Los Angeles, “had nothing to do with the ballot or voting”. Officers were called to the scene following reports of a shooting and exchanged gunfire with the suspect. After securing the area, police discovered a body, who they believe was the gunman, inside a house. The man has not been identified. Police say another person was killedRead More


past history of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

The past, history of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

UNITED STATES, NOV 09:  (DNA) :  Born as Hillary Diane Rodham on 26 October 1947, Clinton has not only served as secretary of state, but was also the first lady of USA from 1992 to 2000 as her husband, Bill Clinton was the president. Hillary s father was of English-Welsh descent and used to manage to small business. She studied at the Wellesley College, where her major was political science. She was also the leader of student union and later took admission at the Yale Law school, where she metRead More


Trump wins Indiana and, Clinton takes Vermont

Trump wins Indiana and, Clinton takes Vermont

WASHINGTON, NOV 9, (DNA):   Republican Donald Trump won Indiana, the home state of his running mate Mike Pence, while Hillary Clinton took the northeastern state of Vermont, in the first results of Tuesday s US presidential election, television networks projected. It was still too early to determine a winner in three of the first six states to close their polls — Republican-leaning South Carolina and Georgia, and the key battleground of Virginia, the networks said. Those first results give the 70-year-old Republican billionaire an early lead in the count ofRead More


Clinton, Trump notch early wins as US polls closing

Hillary, she has a history," said Charmaine Smith, 50, a retail manager as she cast her ballot in Harlem. "All Trump has is the bullying."

NEW YORK, NOV 09: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump locked up their first state wins Tuesday as polling stations closed in the eastern United States, with the world waiting anxiously to see who will head to the White House. Some 200 million Americans were asked to make a historic choice — between electing the nation´s first woman president, or handing the reins of power to a billionaire populist who has upended US politics with his improbable outsider campaign. With voting over in a handful of states and Americans queueing toRead More


Election 2016: Clinton and Trump both in full swing

Election 2016: Clinton and Trump both in full swing

WASHINGTON, NOV 09:  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are locked in a knife-edge battle in swing states after polls closed across half the US in the White House election. The contest is too close to call in the crucial battlegrounds of Virginia, Florida, Ohio and North Carolina. But Republican nominee Mr Trump has racked up wins in southern states while Democrat Mrs Clinton swept northeastern states, Republicans are set to retain control in the House of Representatives. As expected, Mr Trump has been victorious in the Republican strongholds of Alabama,Read More