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Plane carrying Brazilian football team crashes in Columbia

At least six people are believed to have survived after a plane carrying 81 passengers, including members of a top flight Brazillian football team, crashed in Colombia, officials said.

The Jose Maria Cordova de Rionegro airport, which serves Medellin, said in a statement that “all possible aid was being mobilized because six survivors are being reported.”

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Policemen Protest Non-Payment Of Allowances In Ondo State

just two days after the conclusion of the governorship election in Ondo state, several policemen have taken to the streets to protest non-payment of their allowances. 26,000 security personnel were deployed to Ondo state to ensure violence-free elections and sources say the Policemen are yet to be paid the allowances due to them for their part in the elections.


Some residents of Ondo say that the policemen took to the streets and beat up journalist as well as people who tried to take photographs of their protest. There has been no official response from the Nigerian Police Force about the incident.

Is It Time For Manchester United To Sack Jose Mourinho?

Manchester United assistant manager, Rui Faria has thrown his support behind Jose Mourinho following United’s 1-1 draw with West Ham on Sunday. With 20 points from 13 games, Mourinho has made the worst start to a campaign by any United manager, including the much maligned David Moyes.

Mourinho now holds the unenviable record of four consecutive league matches without a win for the first time since February 1990 and has drawn four consecutive league games for the first time since 1989.He compounded his woes by getting sent to the stands by Referee Jon Moss after kicking a bottle in frustration as Pogba received a yellow card for diving.

Faria said after yesterday’s match, “It’s a big club and we are used to big clubs – we also know how to take a team to win, We know that we will do it”

Addressing Mourinho’s sending off, the assistant manager added, “I think everyone saw his frustration in the situation where it should be a free-kick for us.

“And there’s the issue about the yellow card for Paul, which means he’ll be suspended, so there is maybe reasons to express some frustration.”

Despite a run of poor Premier League results, Faria insists United’s title chances are still alive, “We are looking to the team and trying to get the best results. We knew the job was not an easy job and we fight to change the things and it’s what we’ll keep doing.

“We believe in the players, we believe in the team and we believe things will change. And what we are chasing will arrive for sure”

Mourinho experienced failure for the first time as a manager last season after he was sacked from Chelsea in a season when everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. Having lost nine of their sixteen fixtures and lying in sixteenth place, Mourinho was shown the door,

Hilary Clinton's lead in the popular vote surpasses 2 million

Hilary Clinton's lead in the popular vote surpasses 2 million

Read the report by www.politico.com below...

Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump in the popular vote surpassed 2 million Wednesday morning, according to Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. Clinton has garnered 64,223,958 votes, compared to Trump’s 62,206,395 votes.

By Nov. 15, the Democratic nominee’s advantage had crossed the 1-million mark and ballooned to 1.5 million by Sunday.

Despite Clinton’s lead in the popular vote, it was Trump who prevailed on Election Day by clinching 270 Electoral College votes.

Trump told New York Times reporters Tuesday he would “rather do the popular vote” and was “never a fan of the Electoral College until now.”

“The popular vote would have been a lot easier, but it’s a whole different campaign. I would have been in California, I would have been in Texas, Florida and New York, and we wouldn’t have gone anywhere else,” Trump said. “Which is, I mean I’d rather do the popular vote.”

“But I think the popular vote would have been easier in a true sense because you’d go to a few places,” he added. “I think that’s the genius of the Electoral College. I was never a fan of the Electoral College until now.”

Trump's comments echo the sentiments he expressed a week after his historic election, when he tweeted: “The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!”

That, however, was an about-face from what he tweeted after President Barack Obama’s reelection against Mitt Romney in 2012.

“The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy,” Trump declared then.

For good measure, Trump boasted last week, “If the election were based on total popular vote I would have campaigned in N.Y. Florida and California and won even bigger and more easily.”
California Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democratic lawmaker who supported Clinton, introduced legislation last week to abolish the Electoral College. The long-shot bid is not expected to clear the GOP-controlled Congress, though.

And at least a half-dozen electors, those who will formally cast votes for Trump and Clinton on Dec. 19, are pushing to block Trump from winning a majority of votes.

While the effort is unlikely to succeed — even if it did, the House of Representatives could simply choose to elect Trump — so-called faithless electors who buck the will of the voters could spur more widespread calls for reform.

Al Gore's lead over George W. Bush in the famously close 2000 election was about 500,000 — which at the time was the largest advantage in the popular vote for a candidate who lost the Electoral College vote in the presidential election.

The mistery behind "Black Friday"

As Thanksgiving approaches, you might be gearing up to stuff yourself with turkey and dressing, spend some time with the family and watch a little football. Then again, if you’re a die-hard bargain shopper, turkey is the farthest thing from your mind. That’s because you’re too busy making a plan of attack for the biggest shopping day of the year.

Each year, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, consumers flock to Walmart, Best Buy, Toys “R” Us and other stores in hopes of scoring the best shopping deals of the year. The most fanatical Black Friday extremists skip Thanksgiving dinner altogether and camp out in parking lots for days or even weeks. Frays and brawls break out in stores as strangers fight over the last marked down Hatchimal or deeply discounted Samsung HDTV, with police officers called in for crowd control. Appallingly, a worker at a big store was even trampled to death one Black Friday as throngs of shoppers pushed their way into the store when the doors


As crazy as it all sounds, millions of shoppers across the U.S. participate in this strange ritual every year. In fact, during the 2015 Black Friday weekend (Thursday to Sunday), 151 million Americans either took the trip stores or shopped online, according to the National Retail Federation.

So what’s the story behind this enchanted shopping day and how did it become known as “Black Friday”?
The Surprising Origins of Black Friday

The concept of retailers throwing post–Turkey Day sales started long before the day was actually coined “Black Friday.” In an effort to kick off the holiday shopping season with a bang and attract hordes of shoppers, stores have promoted major deals the day after Thanksgiving for decades. Although many people mistakenly believe the name “Black Friday” is simply an accounting reference – as in retailers are moving from “in the red” to “in the black” by boosting profits – this is not how the name was born.

The term was actually coined by overworked Philadelphia police officers. In the 1950s, crowds of shoppers and visitors flooded the City of Brotherly Love the day after Thanksgiving. Not only did Philadelphia stores tout major sales and the unveiling of holiday decorations on this special day, but the city also hosted the Army/Navy football game on Saturday of the same weekend. As a result, traffic cops were required to work 12-hour shifts to deal with the throngs of drivers and pedestrians, and they were not allowed to take the day off. Over time, the annoyed officers started to refer to this dreaded workday as “Black Friday.”

The term quickly gained popularity and spread to store clerks who used “Black Friday” to describe the long lines and general chaos they had to deal with in the department stores. In 1961, concerned that the negative-sounding name would deter shoppers from coming into the city, store owners and city officials pushed to change the name to “Big Friday.” To their dismay, the more positive sounding term never caught on with consumers. Before long, Philly retailers decided to embrace the name “Black Friday,” even plastering the catchphrase on newspaper ads and other sales promotions.
The Phrase Goes National

The term “Black Friday” remained Philadelphia’s little inside joke for a few decades. Although it spread to a few nearby cities, such as Trenton, New Jersey, the phrase stayed relatively close to home for quite a few years. It wasn’t until the 1980s that people outside of Philly started using the term. Finally, in the mid-1990s, “Black Friday” swept the nation and started to appear in retail ads and promotions across the United States.
The Evolution of Black Friday

Somewhere along the way, Black Friday made the giant leap from congested streets and crowded stores to fevered shoppers fist-fighting over parking spaces and pepper-spraying each other as they tussle over the last Tickle Me Elmo. When did Black Friday become the frenzied, over-the-top shopping event it is today?

That would be in the 2000s, when Black Friday was officially designated the biggest shopping day of the year. Until then, that title had gone to the Saturday before Christmas. Yet as more and more retailers started touting “can’t miss” post-Thanksgiving sales and the Black Friday discounts grew deeper and deeper, American consumers could no longer resist the pull of this magical shopping day.

Today, Black Friday is becoming an increasingly lengthy event. Following the lead of several other retailers, Walmart decided to make Black Friday a five-day affair in 2014. Cyber Monday deals are now available at both Walmart and Macy's from 12.01 am Thanksgiving day.

Obama says he may comment as citizen on Trump's presidency

US President Barack Obama has said he may speak out after leaving office if he feels his successor Donald Trump is threatening core American values.

By convention, former presidents tend to leave the political fray and avoid commenting on their successors.

Mr Obama said he would give Mr Trump time to outline his vision but added that, as a private citizen, he might speak out on certain issues.

Mr Trump spent the weekend interviewing candidates for top jobs in his cabinet.

"I want to be respectful of the office and give the president-elect an opportunity to put forward his platform and his arguments without somebody popping off," Mr Obama said at a forum in Lima, Peru

But, he added, if an issue "goes to core questions about our values and our ideals, and if I think that it's necessary or helpful for me to defend those ideals, then I'll examine it when it comes".

The president described himself as an "American citizen who cares deeply about our country".

Speaking at a news conference to mark the end of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, Mr Obama reiterated that he would extend to Mr Trump's incoming administration the same professional courtesy shown to his team by his predecessor George W Bush.

Mr Bush has refrained since leaving office from commenting on Mr Obama's presidency. "I don't think it does any good," he told CNN in 2013, after Mr Obama was elected for a second time.

"It's a hard job. He's got plenty on his agenda. It's difficult. A former president doesn't need to make it any harder. Other presidents have taken different decisions; that's mine."

Mr Bush's stance falls in line with tradition. US presidents tend to avoid criticising predecessors or successors. Mr Obama was clear that he would not weigh in on Mr Trump's decisions while he was still in office.

But his suggestion that, as a private citizen, he would seek to defend "core values" comes amid mounting concern among civil rights groups and others about Mr Trump's political appointments.

The president-elect's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was previously the head of Breitbart, a website accused of promoting racism and anti-Semitism. And Mr Trump's national security adviser, Gen Michael Flynn, has previously likened Islam to a "cancer" spreading through the US.

Mr Trump's nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, lost the chance to become a federal judge in 1986 because of allegedly racist remarks.

Mr Obama said he believed the intense responsibility of the presidency would force Mr Trump to moderate some of the more extreme policy positions he had advocated during his campaign.

On Sunday the incoming president indicated he had made more selections after a weekend of interviews at his golf resort in New Jersey, saying: "We really had some great meetings, and you'll be hearing about them soon."

Mr Trump has confirmed he is considering retired Marine Corps Gen James Mattis for the role of defence secretary, calling him "very impressive" in a tweet. He also met former critic Mitt Romney, who is now being considered for secretary of state.

Mr Trump also says that his wife, Melania, and their 10-year-old son Barron will not move into the White House straight away. They would move "very soon, right after he finishes school", he said. The US school year runs from late August or early September until late May or June.
'Smarter message'

Mr Obama, meanwhile, said his first priority after leaving office was to take his wife, Michelle, on holiday, and "get some rest, spend time with my girls and do some writing, do some thinking".

Asked about the failure of the Democratic party's campaign under Hillary Clinton, Mr Obama criticised the "micro-targeting" of "particular, discrete groups", arguing there should have been an effort to reach out to the entire country.

Mrs Clinton has been criticised for focusing her energy on certain demographics, including Latinos and women, who were believed to support her, at the expense of a more inclusive campaign.

That approach "is not going to win you the broad mandate that you need", Mr Obama said, adding that the party needed a "smarter message".

Reality will force Trump to Adjust his Approach to Some of his Campaign Rhetoric – President Obama

LIMA, PERU – NOVEMBER 20: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2016 CEO Summit on November 20, 2016 in Lima, Peru.

Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama has said that he can not guarantee that president-elect Donald Trump will not pursue some of his campaign rhetoric when sworn-in as president, adding that reality will force Trump to adjust how he will approach the issues.

Obama made the remark in Lima at his final international news conference as U.S. president after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum.

“I can’t guarantee that the president-elect won’t pursue some of the positions that he’s taken. But what I can guarantee is that reality will force him to adjust how he approaches many of these issues; that’s just the way this office (U.S. presidency) works.”

The U.S. president, who had been assuring world leaders about a Trump’s presidency until now, however, asked them to adopt a “wait and see” approach about the president-elect.


“What I expect from world leaders is the same thing that I have said in a number of press conferences, which is the president-elect now has to put together a team.

He has to put forward specifics about how he intends to govern and he hasn’t had the full opportunity to do that yet.

So people should take a wait-and-see approach in how much his policy proposal, once in the White House once he’s sworn-in, matches up with some of the rhetoric of his campaign.

My simple point is that you can’t assume that the language of campaigning matches up with the specifics of governing, legislation, regulations and foreign policy.

I can’t be sure very well, I think like everyone else, we will have to wait and see,” Obama said.

Obama, however, assured that the reality would force Trump to adjust his stance on issues.


“As I have said before, once you are in the Oval Office, once you begin interacting with world leaders, once you see the complexities of the issues, that has a way of shaping your thinking.

Also in some cases, it has a way of magnifying your thinking. This is because, you recognise the solemn responsibility not only to the American people but some responsibilities that America has as the largest most powerful country in the world,” he added.

The outgoing president also said that Trump’s campaign rhetorics were not as easy to fulfil as he thought.

According to him, if those issues were that simple, they would have been done by previous presidents before Trump was even elected.

“I’ve said before, if these issues were easy, that ensuring prosperity, jobs, security, good foreign relations with other countries, if all that was simple, then it would have been done by every previous president. I’m a very pretty good presidential historian and I’ve looked at my 43 predecessors. I’ve seen that for all of them, even the best ones, that you end up confronting the realities and I think that is a good thing, that is interesting,” Obama said.

On the chance of the Democrats in producing future presidents, Obama expressed optimism, saying that former Democratic nominee Hillary Clintonwon the popular vote.

He, however, said that Democratic Party’s message needed to speak to a broad number of Americans and not limited to a segment adding, that was the secret of his victories.

Obama’s tenure as the 44th president of the U.S. will end on January 20, 2017, when Trump will be sworn-in as the 45th president.

"Safe flight back to Mexico" - Racist couple tell elderly Hispanic waitress in New York

Donald Trump's Presidency has encouraged more racists to emerge out of their shell. A racist couple recently attempted to humiliate an Hispanic waitress, who was serving them in a Barbeque joint. The waitress, an older woman originally from Mexico, who's been with the joint - Dallas BBQ in NYC for 25 years, saw the message (pictured above) on the credit card receipt of the couple, who spoke loudly and disrespectfully about immigrants.

President-Elect Donald Trump Makes First Set Of Appointments

President-elect, Donald Trump has announced his first set of appointments, months before he resumes office as President. The appointment of his Chief of

Staff and Chief strategist ended weeks of speculation over who Trump was likely to pick.

Trump named the Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Reince Priebus as his Chief of staff and Stephen Bannon as his Chief strategist and senior counselor.

The President elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump has said his administration will begin the deportation of 3 million people immediately he resumes office.

Trump has always been vocal about his plan to deport undocumented immigrants and in his first interview since winning the election, he repeated his plans.

Donald Trump told 60 minutes; “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records — gang members, drug dealers — we have a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million. We’re getting them out of our country or we’re going to incarcerate. But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.