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President Joe Biden appeared in high spirits as he addressed the nation following President-elect Trump’s landslide victory. “We accept the choice the country made,” Biden said Thursday in the Rose Garden. “I’ve said many times you can’t love your country only when you win. You can’t love your neighbor only when you agree. Something I hope we can do, no matter who you voted for, to see each other, not as adversaries,” he continued. Biden also encouraged Americans to bring down the temperature of rhetoric. In the final weeks of the campaign, Harris called Trump a threat to democracy and...

A 20-year-old Venezuelan woman has been arrested in connection with the brutal migrant mob beating of two police officers in Times Square — as cops continued searching for two more suspects. Edgarlis Vegas, from Brooklyn, was picked up by the police in Midtown Manhattan just after 8:30 a.m. Monday on a charge of assault on a police officer stemming from the Jan. 27 melee, according to the NYPD. A native of Venezuela, Vegas is suspected of kicking a police lieutenant during the shocking, caught-on-video attack. She was seen smiling wide in an image sent out by police searching for her...

Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, both on their way out of office soon, seemed in a particularly light-hearted mood despite the day's grim and dominant subject matter. The pair laughed and joked with fellow leaders as they posed for a group picture and yukked it up as photographers kept snapping. Hours earlier Obama had sermonized about the deaths of five police Texas police officers upon landing in Warsaw, saying that 'when people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes it more deadly and more tragic.' 'And in the days ahead we are going to have to consider...

The Sunday talk show of president Chavez is back in the air after an interruption of a couple of months "for redesign". The show used to be an itinerant affair that lasted from 3 to 6 hours where Chavez occupied the front scene, only relieved on occasion by some video or some "guest" making some form of expose. Alo Presidente was of course a must see of the political class as most of the maneuvers of the regime were announced previously from its set. The new format? Well, the step to a formal TV show with Chavez as the host...