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A surprising admission from a former top aide revealed Hillary Clinton's reaction to the result of the 2016 presidential election. Jennifer Palmieri was the communications director for Clinton's 2016 campaign, and she recently said her former boss was the least surprised member of the campaign that President Donald Trump came out on top.

Barack Obama, US president will appear on AOL.com on Tuesday, part of the president’s get out the vote effort on election day, and a relaunch of the beleaguered website. Mr Obama pre-recorded a segment called “You’ve Got,” a one minute slot that will now air on AOL’s redesigned home page. It is part of AOL’s video-heavy approach, which it hopes will revive the fortunes of its website and lure back advertisers. EDITOR’S CHOICE AOL takes impairment charge hit - Aug-05 AOL - Jun-17 AOL reviews future of Bebo network - Apr-07 AOL taps Google executive - Feb-05 AOL starts staff...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Averting a looming court battle over how it has been handling the exodus from its Internet dial-up service, AOL has agreed to make it easier for its remaining customers to leave as part of a $3 million settlement with 48 states, including North Carolina, and the District of Columbia. The resolution announced Wednesday was driven by a deluge of complaints from AOL customers who said they tried to close their accounts, only to be thwarted in their attempts or discover they were still being billed for services that they thought had been canceled. The outcry triggered...

AOL (America On-Line): You could pave the nation with the free discs these people send out, call 1-800-605-4297 (24 hours a day) to get off the list. Tell them your first name is "current", last name "resident". Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes: You can get the Clearinghouse to stop clogging your mailbox by contacting customer service at 1-800-645-9242 (8:30 am to 8:30 EST), sending a fax to 1-800-453-0272, mailing to 101 Channel Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050, or you can send email to pch@ant.net. PCH will remove any number of names from a specific address, but you have to list each name...

Computer-savvy and interested in presidential politics, 13-year-old Erin was upset to learn that America Online's Instant Message (AIM) robot, "Smarter Child," favored Democrat John Kerry in this year's election. Erin, whose last name is being omitted in this article, is a fan of President Bush. Internet instant messaging is one of the most popular methods for teens and even adults to stay in touch with friends and family. One of the better-known messenger programs, AIM, offers the feature called Smarter Child, a robot programmed to provide automated responses to those with whom it chats. Built and programmed by Conversagent, Inc.,...

LITCHFIELD - Ken Pedersen thought running AOL’s AutoFix on his computer would help solve his connection problems. Instead, he said, he wound up with a phone bill that was over $3,000. Pedersen, 67, has filed a complaint with the attorney general’s office, canceled his American Online service, canceled his separate phone line for the computer, and switched to Adelphia’s Powerlink cable Internet service. However, the town resident still faces the obstacle of paying Verizon a little under $3,400. The problems, Pedersen said, began when he noticed a feature on his homepage called AutoFix that was promoted as a tool to...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. OKLAHOMA CITY - About 100 workers who moderate AOL's message boards and screen for objectionable online content will be laid off by the end of March, AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said. The jobs of the Community Action Team will be moved to other America Online call centers, and possibly overseas, Graham said Wednesday. The layoffs will leave AOL with about 1,000 people at its Oklahoma City call center. "This is a planned part of our ongoing efforts to adjust AOL's member services organization to more closely align with our business goals...

I cancelled AOL for the first time in June, 2003. It took forever, because you have to call them on the phone, and they don't answer the phone. They sent me a nice letter with a cancellation number.Unfortunately, they kept billing my credit card.I appealed the charge, and in October, 2003 they sent me another cancellation letter with a NEW cancellation number.Of course, they kept billing the card.So I asked Amex to open a fraud investigation, and the billing stopped, or so it seemed.This month, for the first time, a charge for AOL service appeared on ANOTHER credit card of...

America Online's subscriber base plunged by 846,000 in the second quarter, as hundreds of thousands left for cheaper or faster Internet connections and a similar number were dropped because they had been mistakenly counted in the past, AOL Time Warner Inc. disclosed yesterday. In addition, new disclosures about a federal investigation into improper accounting at Northern Virginia-based America Online Inc. showed that the division's legal problems are hurting other parts of the AOL Time Warner media empire. AOL Time Warner said yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission would not allow it to spin off a portion of its cable...

Apparently AOL is not letting the Townhall.com OpinionAlert get through to their subscribers. We are working frantically to find a solution but AOL is being quite stubborn despite several calls from our technical staff and hundreds of calls from all of you. We will keep you informed and will be working on some short term solutions in the next few days. [10:58 PM 11-Jun-03 | Jonathan A. Garthwaite]