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California students protest Trump victory

Matt Hamilton
Los Angeles Times
Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:40 UTC
ucla protest
© Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times
Students flocked to the campus of UCLA, where a protest erupted early Wednesday.
The election of Donald Trump to the presidency sparked protests early Wednesday across California, drawing crowds to city streets and college campuses.

The demonstrations reflected sadness, anger and bursts of rage. Crowds openly disavowed the president-elect and a few resorted to vandalism.

Shortly after Trump delivered a victory speech in New York, up to 1,500 people gathered at UCLA. The demonstration peaked about 1 a.m., when a Trump piñata was set on fire in a trash can outside a Westwood Boulevard store.

The small blaze aside, no major incidents were reported and police said the crowd was peaceful.

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Election Day: Voters suffer long lines, equipment failures in several states, power outages


RT
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:13 UTC
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© The Guardian
Voters waited up to an hour to cast their ballots for presidential candidates as long lines became a signature motif of Election Day in New York, Miami and Washington, DC. There have been some reports of voting irregularities at polling stations.

Over 200 million US citizens were registered to cast their votes on Election Day, with 50 million new registered voters since 2012.

Long lines stretched often a block long in parts of the New York, with voters waiting as long as an hour before entering the polling station.


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Poll: Majority of Venezuelans view anti-government forces as divided and lacking any program

Lucas Koerner
Venezuelanalysis
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:18 UTC
National Assembly President Henry Ramos Allup (L), MUD Secretary General Jesus Torrealba (C), and MUD parliamentary majority leader Julio Borges (R)
© Versión Final
National Assembly President Henry Ramos Allup (L), MUD Secretary General Jesus Torrealba (C), and MUD parliamentary majority leader Julio Borges (R) at a press conference.
Over 60 percent of Venezuelans view the country's right-wing political opposition as deeply divided and lacking a program to tackle the nation's economic difficulties, reports a new poll.

According to a new survey released by the private polling firm Hinterlaces, 66 percent of the population agrees that the right-wing opposition coalition, the MUD, "only talks about removing [President] Maduro from power yet presents no plan to solve the country's economic problems".

The poll also found that 65 percent of Venezuelans view the political opposition as "very divided", while 64 percent agree that anti-government forces lack "a strong leader that represents them".
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US states, including Florida and California, vote to legalize marijuana


RT
Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:03 UTC
marijuana plants
© Andres Stapff / Reuters
California has voted to sanction cannabis for recreational use, and Florida has approved the use of the drug to alleviate symptoms of illness, as a raft of US states endorsed loosening their marijuana legislation through ballot initiatives.

Needing at least 60 percent approval to pass, Amendment 2 received 71 percent of the votes from Floridians.

"This is a major tipping point," said Tom Angell, from the pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority. "With Florida's decision, a majority of states in the U.S. now have laws allowing patients to find relief with medical marijuana, and these protections and programs are no longer concentrated in certain regions of the country like the West and Northeast."
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Lady Gaga dresses like 'futuristic Nazi' at Clinton rally in North Carolina

John Shammas
The Sun
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 09:14 UTC
Lady Gaga
© AP
Lady Gaga addresses supporters gathered in support of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The pop star spoke out to give the Democrat a boost, but her outfit raised some eyebrows

Pop icon Lady Gaga has been slammed for her bizarre outfit while speaking at a Hillary Clinton rally, as social media users likened it to a Nazi uniform.

The singer addressed supporters of the Democratic presidential candidate in North Carolina ahead of today's election, urging them to get out and vote while also calling for reconciliation between Clinton's and Donald Trump's supporters.

Speaking of her admiration for Clinton, the 30-year-old told the crowd: "No matter how absurd and mean [Trump] became, she smiled bravely and she continued on." She added that Hillary Clinton is "made of steel" and said: "If we are true, true Americans, then we must go from viewing his followers as our adversaries to viewing them as our allies."

While her outfit was likened to that of a Nazi uniform, it was actually a tribute to Michael Jackson. Dressed in a tight black pantsuit, the star then began dancing to her song "Come to Mama". But the artist's choice of outfit raised more than a few eyebrows on social media, with one user saying she looked like a "futuristic Nazi".

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Nevada judge rejects Trump's request to isolate ballots from early voting time dispute


RT
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:35 UTC
Voting stations
© Scott Morgan/Reuters
Voters cast ballots in polling station located in a farm shed during the U.S. presidential election near Nevada, Iowa, U.S., November 8, 2016.
Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in Nevada state court alleging at least four Las Vegas area polling places stayed open "two hours beyond the designated time" during early voting. A judge has denied the request to isolate ballots from those locations.

The campaign for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sued Joe P. Gloria, the registrar of voters in Clark County, Nevada, claiming election officials violated state law in allowing people to join an early-voting line after 8pm. The primary polling location in question was east of downtown Las Vegas, at Cardenas Market, the Las Vegas Sun reported.

Clark County includes Las Vegas and the city's suburbs. While Nevada is considered a swing state, Las Vegas is a Democratic Party stronghold and has sizable minority-voting precincts.

"This is a lawsuit about the rules of the game," said David Bossie, Trump's deputy campaign manager, according to Reuters. Trump's lawyers asked that relevant early voting ballots be kept separate from other ballots, but a Nevada state judge denied that request on Tuesday.
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Students at two Phoenix, Arizona high schools staged anti-Trump walkout


RT
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:15 UTC
Phoenix protest
© FOX 10 Phoenix / Facebook
Students at two Phoenix, Arizona high schools staged a walkout on Tuesday afternoon to protest against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to one of the organizers.

Students walked out of Maryvale High School, in a northwestern suburb of Phoenix, KXNV reported. Closer to downtown, several hundred North High School students gathered in a nearby parking lot around a pickup truck carrying an effigy of Arpaio in a striped prison suit.

Comment: See also: DOJ files criminal charges against corrupt Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio

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Modi's strike on India's black money: "Deposit in your bank account or trash it"


Deccan Chronicle
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Move aimed to flush out black money hoarders, counterfeit notes; govt withdraws Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes from midnight.
Narendra Modi 1
© PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In an extraordinary step to tackle the scourge of black money in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes will no longer be legal from midnight today.

In his first televised address to the nation, Modi said people holding notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 can deposit the same in their bank and post office accounts from November 10 till December 30. He explained that the currency notes will be just paper with no value.

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Sick cops use pliers to forcibly remove teen girls' nipple rings

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:04 UTC
Taylor Myers, 18, and Courtney Palacios, 19
© NBCDFW
Taylor Myers, 18, and Courtney Palacios, 19
A Texas state trooper has been placed on administrative duty after two teenage females he arrested had their nipple rings forcefully removed — one with pliers.

The two women came forward after they were injured while being processed into jail for riding in the back of a vehicle in which the trooper found a single pill. 18-year-old Tayler Myers and 19-year-old Courtney Palacios were returning to Fort Worth from a concert in Houston when Trooper Michael Tice stopped them.

While processing them into jail for a single pill in the driver's door, Tice told the two teens to remove any piercings. When they asked where they can go to remove their nipple rings, the male trooper told the two females to do it right there — in front of him.

"And then we told him, 'Well, where do we go to take out our nipple rings?'" Myers said. "And he was like, 'You are going to have to do it right here, in the open.'"

The teens complied. They simply turned around, lifted up their shirts and each removed one of their nipple rings. However, both of them had trouble with one of them.
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Polling station on lockdown after shooting leaves 4 injured in Azusa, California


RT
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 23:25 UTC
Shooting at Azusa, CA polling station
© BreakinNewz / Twitter
At least two people were injured in a shooting in Azusa, California, a northern suburb of Los Angeles. A nearby polling station has been placed on lockdown.

The Los Angeles Fire Department said they they were treating four patients as a result of the incident.

The shooting was first reported around 2pm local time (5pm eastern), and there are reports it may have involved a police officer, and that the suspect is still at large.
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