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A newborn turtle swims on a beach at the Ostional National Wildlife Refuge in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, where hundreds of loggerhead turtles arrived recently to spawn. | (Jeffrey Arguedas/EPA/Newscom)

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday chose Fox News national security analyst KT McFarland to serve as his deputy national security adviser, Politico reported, citing a transition aide. McFarland previously served as a White House spokesperson under former President Ronald Reagan and as an official in the Pentagon. In 2006, she launched an unsuccessful bid to run for the New York Senate seat held by then-Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has raised $4.7 million to fund an audit and recount of election results in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Stein announced Wednesday she would seek a recount after reports surfaced that cybersecurity experts had noticed alleged irregularities in the states' results. However, one of the experts said they did not uncover any evidence the election was hacked, and Politico reported some have said it's "unlikely that there was evidence showing a... Читать дальше...

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On Friday, President-elect Donald Trump picked Fox News national security analyst Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland to serve as deputy national security adviser, and campaign lawyer Donald McGahn to be White House counsel. Trump spent Thanksgiving Day continuing to sift through potential Cabinet picks, reportedly settling on billionaire investor Wilbur Ross Jr. as commerce secretary. Rival factions of Republicans are clashing over another key pick — secretary of state. Trump is considering Mitt Romney... Читать дальше...

Americans got an early start to Black Friday shopping this year, spending $1.15 billion on online shopping by 5 p.m. ET on Thanksgiving, Adobe Digital Index revealed. That marked a nearly 14 percent increase from last year, as more U.S. consumers avoid showing up to stores in favor of snagging deals online and as Black Friday deals start earlier.

Actress Florence Henderson, known for her role as mom Carol Brady on TV sitcom The Brady Bunch, died Thursday night. She was 82, and reportedly suffered heart failure.

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I've never been the kind of person who spins a globe, shuts my eyes, slams my finger on a random spot, and then books the next flight to whatever country I stopped on. My vacations are typically of the less inspired variety.

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Regrets, I have a few.

I've made some impulsive and boneheaded mistakes in my life that sometimes surface in the wee hours, like Dickensian phantoms, to mock me. (Lately I've been seeing several pre-election covers of The Week that were premised on polls predicting a Trump defeat.) But there are no do-overs in life; we all have to live with — and learn from — our mistakes. There are some people, however, for whom that burden is public, historic, and unimaginably heavy. Consider what some... Читать дальше...

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Term paper season is nearly upon us. Particularly for students of the humanities, this dreaded foe blocks the path to Christmas break with a daunting demand of 30, 40, even 50 double-spaced pages the weary student must somehow produce.

Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump is a shocking upset that is likely to have disastrous consequences. A great deal is going to be written about what went wrong for the Democratic Party. But before we get too far into the recriminations, we should remember two crucial things. First, it's almost impossible to know how campaign tactics affected the outcome of an election. And, second, Clinton's campaign shows some of the potential perils of being too focused on the past.