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MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Lady Gaga took to Trump Tower early Wednesday morning to protest the results of the U.S. election as Donald Trump won the 58th election and became the 45th president of US. The “Bad Romance” singer, a well-known Hillary Clinton supporter, stood outside Donald Trump’s building and held a sign that read “Love trumps hate.” As the hours passed Tuesday night and it became clearer that Trump would win the presidency, Gaga tweeted, “In a room full of hope, we will be heard. Stand up for kindness, equality, and love. Nothing will stop us. Say a ...

MNA Technology Desk: Two American astronauts orbiting the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour have cast their votes from space in the US president election 2016 on Tuesday. According to NASA, astronaut Shane Kimbrough has officially filed his electronic absentee ballot from the International Space Station (ISS). Another astronaut Kate Rubins cast her ballot before returning to Earth last week. Thanks to a bill passed by Texas legislatures in 1997 that put in place technical voting procedure for astronauts, the two astronauts – residents of Houston where the Johnson Space Centre is located a. voted while in orbit. The United ...

MNA International Desk: The US presidential election got underway-on a small scale as seven people in a tiny New Hampshire village cast their ballots at the stroke of midnight. Dixville Notch has had the honor of launching the voting, symbolically, since 1960. Clay Smith was the first of seven people to cast their ballots as Tuesday’s long awaited Election Day began. An eighth resident voted by absentee ballot. The tally was announced in a matter of minutes: four votes for Democrat Hillary Clinton and two for Donald Trump. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson won one vote, and there was a write-in ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Jeffrey Katzenberg, one of Hollywood’s most influential figures branded the FBI “disgraceful” on Sunday over its controversial last-minute intervention in the US presidential election. Katzenberg spoke out after FBI Director James Comey lifted the threat of charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while secretary of state, just 36 hours before her White House showdown with Donald Trump. “To have put her in that light one week before the election, and turn around two days before and say ‘just kidding?’ Pretty harsh,” the former Disney studio chief and DreamWorks co-founder ...

MNA International Desk: Presidential nominee Donald Trump said he will bring real change to Washington if elected president, as he looked to frame the final days of the 2016 race for the White House against Hillary Clinton. Mr. Trump said real change begins with scrapping Obamacare, which he described as an “international joke” and restoring honesty in the federal government. “So we ought to start by getting rid of Hillary Clinton,” Mr. Trump said. The New York businessman said Mrs. Clinton is a “candidate of yesterday” and said he friends in government have shielded her from facing criminal charges over ...