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WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters set fires and hurled bricks in a daylong assault on the city hosting Donald Trump’s inauguration, registering their rage against the new president in a series of clashes that led to more than 200 arrests.
HONOLULU (AP) — Lauren Bruner was getting ready for church in 1941 on his battleship, the USS Arizona, when the alarm sounded.
Chente Benavides of Cle Elum has a front-row seat to history today — he is celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration as president in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters and supporters of President-elect Donald Trump clashed outside a pro-Trump event in Washington the night before his inauguration.
President-elect Donald Trump is making a surprise visit to his Washington hotel two days before his inauguration.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama celebrated the World Series champion Chicago Cubs on Monday and spoke about the power sports has to unite people.
President-elect Donald Trump is reviving long debunked attempts to link vaccines to autism, asking a vocal skeptic to chair a commission on vaccination safety. Robert F.
The text of Meryl Streep’s speech at the Golden Globes after accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award, according to a transcript provided by Hollywood Foreign Press Association:
President-elect Donald Trump pledged to step away from his family-owned international real estate development, property management and licensing business before taking office later this month.
To receive an invitation to participate in a presidential inauguration parade is quite an honor.

So it is understandable the Talladega College Marching Tornadoes were honored to be invited to perform in President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inaugural parade.
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) — Win or lose, Hollywood’s biggest stars will be looking forward to Oscar once again at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.
President-elect Donald Trump says “no computer is safe” when it comes to keeping information private.
NEW YORK (AP) — Massive 20-ton sanitation trucks, weighted with an extra 15 tons of sand, will surround the iconic New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, officials said Thursday, describing a security measure meant to stop deadly truck-driving attacks into crowds like those in Germany and Franc
Donald Trump applauded the addition of 8,000 jobs to the U.S. and hailed his transition discussions with President Barack Obama in a series of comments that amounted to the most detailed interaction he’s had with journalists since before the election.
The aging U.S. elections system remains susceptible to vote-rigging despite years of warnings. Electronic machines used by roughly 1 in 5 U.S. voters lack a paper trail, so meaningful recounts are all but impossible.
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech president has linked recent attacks in Europe to the ongoing influx of migrants escaping war-torn, poverty-stricken countries.
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — The Civil War diaries of a Union officer and letters by a Union soldier can now be read on a Mississippi State University website.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times local):

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Donald Trump says he wants “the people” to attend his presidential inauguration, dismissing the “so-called ‘A’ list celebrities” who he claims are seeking tickets to the Jan. 20 event.
CHICAGO (AP) — At the end, not much was getting through to Helen Weithman. The memories she collected over 98 years were slipping away.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s children may see his move to the White House as a way to raise money for their favorite causes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the Middle East’s richest nations said Tuesday it would host its annual Washington party at Donald Trump’s new hotel, underscoring the president-elect’s unusual status as the owner of a major venue for events in the U.S. capital.
A widely shared story that claimed in headlines that Michigan had mass Democratic voter fraud and that over half of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s Detroit vote faces disqualification is false.
President-elect Donald Trump says first lady Michele Obama “must have been talking about the past” when she said there’s no sense of hope after his election.
DALLAS (AP) — Growing up, Cathy Hinz and her five siblings would run up and down the stairs at their Minneapolis home, one hand on the banister, the other skimming a memento hanging on the wall that their father had brought back after fighting in World War II: a 16th century tapestry that once grace
President-elect Donald Trump says Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel is his pick for Republican Party chair next year.
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government’s capture of eastern Aleppo, held for more than four years by rebels, marks a horrific new chapter for Syria’s largest city.
DENVER (AP) — A federal judge dealt a severe setback Monday to a longshot plan to deny Donald Trump the presidency through the Electoral College, refusing to suspend a Colorado law requiring the state’s nine electors to vote for the presidential candidate who won the state in November.
The Infowars website acknowledges its story about a homeless woman claiming Republican President-elect Donald Trump has allowed her to stay at his New York hotel free of charge for nine years is “unconfirmed.”
A source close to Oklahoma’s Scott Pruitt says President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate the state’s attorney general to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Two days before the release of a new report into Russian doping, the IOC on Wednesday extended the provisional sanctions imposed on the country over allegations of systematic cheating and cover-ups.
HONOLULU (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE — On Dec. 7, 1941, as Japanese bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor, The Associated Press’ chief of bureau in Honolulu, Eugene Burns, was unable to get out the urgent news of the historic attack that would draw the U.S. into World War II.