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US President-elect Donald Trump has awarded key roles in his incoming team to a top Republican party official and a conservative media chief.

A benefits cheat who swindled the taxpayer out of £191,000 and acquired a £1million property portfolio without 'ever working a single day' has been jailed for seven years.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will not attend a European special meeting called to discuss Donald Trump's US election victory.Mr Johnson has told his EU counterparts to end the "whinge-o-rama" over the result of the presidential race.
A Foreign Office spokesman said he would not go to the meeting on Sunday but would attend a regular Foreign Affairs Council meeting on Monday.

Winston Churchill once called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." The same could be said of President-elect Donald Trump.

US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama's healthcare bill.
Mr Trump, who has pledged to repeal the 2010 law, said he will keep the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Michelle Obama carried on an awkward White House tradition when she hosted Melania Trump for tea Thursday. It was their first meeting, coming on the heels of the ugliest campaign in recent history.

Less than 48 hours after all the polls closed, President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday to call the widespread protests around the country against his presidential victory "very unfair."

President-elect Donald Trump is meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, an historic encounter between two men who have been bitter enemies for years.

When the UK voted in June's EU referendum, people ticked one of two boxes - leave or stay. When the US went to the polls this week, voters were faced with a much longer process.

For President Barack Obama, Donald Trump's presidential victory is nothing less than a nightmare. His longstanding vision for progressive change faced sharp and unexpected repudiation Tuesday night from voters still fuming at their perceived diminished prospects. By Obama's own admission, the major pieces of his presidential legacy are now subject to a gutting by a successor he resents deeply.

They chanted anti-Donald Trump slogans. They flooded city streets. They gathered near the White House, disheartened and dismayed.