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Pollster Sam Wang of Princeton University was really confident Hillary Clinton would win the election. Like, really confident. So confident, in fact, that in mid-October he tweeted a promise to "eat a bug" if Donald Trump "wins more than 240 electoral votes."

The Democratic Party finds itself at a crossroads in the wake of Hillary Clinton's unexpected loss to Donald Trump, and party progressives want to see the "Clinton-corporate wing" of the Democratic establishment gone for good.

The music venue where gunmen loyal to the Islamic State killed 90 people on Nov. 13, 2015, will reopen Saturday night one year after the attacks with a performance led by Sting. The 1,000-ticket concert at the Bataclan sold out in 30 minutes.

After losing to the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday, the Cleveland Browns are currently 0-10, making a no-win 0-16 season a real possibility. Though the team has yet to lose its final six games — against the Steelers (twice), the Giants, the Bengals, the Bills, and the Chargers — some fans are already planning a parade to celebrate a "perfect" season.

At least 43 people were killed and 100 more wounded in an attack on a Muslim shrine in the Balochistan province of Pakistan on Saturday. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the bombing, calling it "a martyrdom attack." The death toll is expected to continue to rise, in part because the blast site's remote location makes it difficult for emergency medical services to transport the injured.

At least 30 people were killed and 70 more wounded in an attack on a Muslim shrine in the Balochistan province of Pakistan on Saturday. The death toll is expected to continue to rise, in part because the blast site's remote location makes it difficult for emergency medical services to transport the injured.

A member of the Louisiana Tax Commission resigned this week after the revelation that he failed to pay property taxes on a building he owned for 30 years. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards asked the commissioner, Jimmie Thorns, to step down following the news of his tax delinquency.

President-elect Donald Trump made "immediately repealing and replacing ObamaCare" a key promise of his campaign, but in his first on-air interview since the election, Trump moderated his plan for the Affordable Care Act. He described the law's ban on denial of coverage for preexisting conditions as "one of the strongest assets" and said ObamaCare's provision that children under 26 can stay on their parents' insurance is "something we're going to try and keep."

As U.S.-supported Iraqi forces advance into Mosul, the last major city controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq, the surrounded militants have murdered dozens of trapped civilians, sometimes forcing children around age 12 to do the executions.

Protesters objecting to the election of Donald Trump took to the streets for the third night Friday in cities across America. Chief among their demands is an upset in the Electoral College: In some states, electors can vote for a candidate other than the one selected by a majority of voters in their state without facing legal consequences.

A suicide attack claimed by the Taliban killed four people and injured 17 more Saturday at Bagram Airfield, a large U.S. base central to NATO operations in Afghanistan. The identities of the dead have not been released, nor has the identity of the bomber.

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President-elect Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday he is reconsidering a complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act after his meeting with President Obama on Thursday. While Trump argued Obama's signature health care plan has become so costly "you can't use it," he said he does like certain parts of it "very much" and is taking Obama's ideas into consideration. In the same interview, Trump also backed away from the suggestion he would try to jail Hillary Clinton. Читать дальше...

Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union reveal the FBI took over and operated 23 child pornography websites out of a government facility in an attempt to catch site users.

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Health inspectors in Kansas City, Missouri, destroyed hundreds of pounds of "perfectly good barbecue" moments before it was going to be served to the city's homeless. A pair of local community organizations had collected the food from a recent sporting event and were about to distribute it to about 150 people in need when inspectors arrived, a FOX affiliate reports. They said they couldn't confirm that the brisket, ribs, and sides came from a "permitted establishment," so they poured bleach on it. Читать дальше...

Forget about trying to uncork Champagne with a dull pop and soft hiss. The St. Regis Saber, which sells at $25,000, lets you decapitate a bottle the way Napoleon did. Handcrafted by Parisian silversmith Christofle and produced in partnership with St. Regis hotels, the 22-inch saber has a stainless-steel blade and sterling silver hilt. St. Regis butlers will provide each purchaser with a master class in the art of sabrage, which requires that the blade be slid swiftly up the neck so that when it strikes the collar... Читать дальше...

President-elect Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday that he is reconsidering a complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act after his meeting with President Obama on Thursday. While Trump argued Obama's signature health care plan has become so costly "you can't use it," he said he does like certain parts of it "very much" and is taking Obama's suggestions into consideration. Trump said he may keep "the prohibition against insurers denying coverage because of patients' existing conditions... Читать дальше...

This week's question: Researchers have discovered that men who put on weight after fathering children live longer and are more attractive to women than their leaner, more muscular male counterparts. What would be the title of a new book instructing men on how to develop the perfect dad bod?

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