2016 U.S. Presidential Election.

2016 Election: Donald Trump Wins the White House in Upset Washington DC, November 09th, 2016 (NBC News). America woke up Wednesday to a new and unexpected reality — Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States.

In a resounding rebuke to the political establishment, the Manhattan mogul and reality TV star was elected the 45th president following one of the most bitter and wildly unpredictable campaigns in the nation's history, Trump, in an upset for the ages, defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton by running the table in battleground states across the country from Florida and North Carolina to Ohio and Pennsylvania.

He declared victory Tuesday night before a large crowd of enthusiastic supporters, pledging to help unite the country after his rancorous battle with Clinton. "Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division," Trump said at the Midtown Hilton in New York City. "I say it is time for us to come together as one united people." He congratulated Clinton on a "very, very hard-fought campaign." Clinton called Trump sometime after 2 a.m. ET to concede the race, he told supporters.

She did not address her supporters on Tuesday night and her campaign chairman John Podesta told her stunned followers not to give up hope in the face of likely defeat. "Let's get those votes counted and let's bring this home," he told a subdued crowd from the stage of the Javits Center in Manhattan.

President Barack Obama, who campaigned furiously for Clinton, congratulated Trump by telephone early Wednesday and invited him to a meeting at the White House on Thursday.  "It was a very warm conversation," Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told TODAY. "They resolved to work together, which is exactly what this country needs … to help unify and heal the country."

Still, it is likely to be an awkward face-to-face conversation — Trump was behind the so-called birther campaign designed to discredit Obama by questioning whether he was born in the U.S.Trump's bitter Republican rival, Jeb Bush, also congratulated him — via Twitter — and said he and his wife Columba "will pray for you in the days and months to come."

As of 10:30 a.m. ET, Clinton was actually ahead of Trump in votes, with 59,333,856 compared to her rival, who had 59,166,034. That arithmetic put Clinton on track to possibly become the fifth presidential candidate to win the popular vote but lose the election.

Despite Trump's electoral win, there were still several states where the victor had not been decided. Here's the current tally, according to NBC News projections:

Clinton wins: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine (three of four electoral votes), Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington state and Washington, D.C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump wins: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida (apparent winner), Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska (four of five electoral votes), North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too close to call: Arizona, Michigan and New Hampshire.

 

 

Trump's victory gives the GOP a lock on power in Washington. NBC News projects that Republicans will retain control of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

 

Heading into Election Day, Clinton was leading Trump by 4 points in the last NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken before Tuesday. By that evening, it became clear that narrow advantage was a mirage

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MSH WorldWide By Marcelo Santiago Hernández™.

Juan Gabriel Dead (1950 - 2016).

Mexico City to August 28th, 2016 (FOX News). Juan Gabriel, a superstar Mexican songwriter and singer who was an icon in the Latin music world, died Sunday at his home in California at age 66, his publicist said.

Juan Gabriel was Mexico's leading singer-songwriter and top-selling artist. His ballads about love and heartbreak and bouncy mariachi tunes became hymns throughout Latin America and Spain and with Spanish speakers in the United States. He brought many adoring fans to tears as they sang along when he crooned his songs about love and heartbreak, including his top hits, "Hasta Que Te Conoci" ("Until I Met You") and "Amor Eterno" ("Eternal Love"). His hit "Querida" ("Dear") topped Mexico's charts for a whole year.

A flamboyant performer, Juan Gabriel, whose real name was Alberto Aguilera Valadez, liked to wear jackets covered in sequins or dress in shiny silk outfits in hot pink, turquoise blue or canary yellow, and he was known for tossing his head before dancing or jumping around the stage. "He has passed on to become part of eternity and has left us his legacy through Juan Gabriel, the character created by him for all the music that has been sung and performed all around the world," his press office said in a statement. It gave no details on his death. Publicist Arturo de la Mora told The Associated Press that he died at 11:30 a.m. in his home. He said the family would provide a statement later.

Juan Gabriel performed to packed auditoriums, including New York's Madison Square Garden and the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. His last concert was Friday night at the Forum in Inglewood, California. He was scheduled to perform Sunday in El Paso, Texas.

Juan Gabriel broke ground in Mexico in 1990 by becoming the first commercial singer to present a show at Mexico City's majestic Palace of Fine Arts, until then a forum reserved for classical musicians. The proceeds from the three sold- out concerts went to support the National Symphony Orchestra and became his most celebrated performances. His album "Juan Gabriel live from the Palace of Fine Arts" set record sales. A six-time Grammy nominee, Juan Gabriel was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame in 1996 and received countless industry awards, including ASCAP Songwriter of the Year in 1995, Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year 2009, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that same year.

The singer, who was born Jan. 7, 1950, wrote his first song at age 13 and went on to compose more than 1,500 songs. "There are no rules when I compose songs," he said, according to a biography published by Mexico's Society of Music Authors and Composers. "There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa."

Artists across Latin America and in the United States covered many of his songs, including Paul Anka and Marc Anthony, who broke into the salsa music world in the U.S. with Juan Gabriel's "Hasta Que Te Conoci." Juan Gabriel also wrote and produced albums for artists such as Mexican singer Lucha Villa and Spain's Rocio Durcal.

The youngest of 10 children, he rose rags to riches. He was born in the western state of Michoacan. His father, Gabriel Aguilera, was a farmer and his mother, Victoria Valadez, a housewife. The family lost contact with his father after he was taken to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City when Juan Gabriel was still a baby. Unable to support her children, his mother moved the family to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, where he grew up as she worked as a maid.

Juan Gabriel said his mother was one of the people he most loved in his life even though he spent most of his childhood away from her. Unable to care for him, she sent him to an orphanage. He said he wrote "Eternal Love," one of his greatest hits, thinking about his mother, who died in 1974.

"Even though I don't have my mother's love today, I have the love of millions," he told the newspaper La Jornada in an interview in 2012. "Her love comes through all the mothers of Mexico." He went to school only until fifth grade after he escaped the orphanage, where he met music teacher and mentor Juan Contreras. He said his artistic name came from Contreras and his father.

He traveled to Mexico City as a teenager and slept on the streets and in train stations while trying to break into the music business. During that time he was accused of robbery and sent to jail. "I was good writing songs, but I was innocent for many other things and when I ended up in jail I didn't know how to defend myself," he told La Jornada.

The prison director and his wife helped get Juan Gabriel freed.

He signed his first record contract in 1971 and had his first big hit with "No tengo dinero" ("I don't have any money"), according to his biography by Mexico's Society of Music Authors and Composers.

At the height of his fame, he had problems in Mexico and the United States for not paying taxes. He was also linked to the Cali drug cartel when Fernando Rodriguez, son of Colombian drug trafficker Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, wrote in his book "The Son of Chess Player" that Juan Gabriel sang at a party in Colombia for the cartel leaders. The singer denied the claim.

Juan Gabriel rarely gave interviews. When he did, he avoided talking about his private life.

Although his former personal secretary, Joaquin Munoz, described their homosexual relationship in a book, "Juan Gabriel and I," the singer neither admitted nor denied being gay. His fans were surprised when years later it became known that he had fathered four children with his friend Laura Salas.

"I'm not married; I don't ever plan to marry. I'm happy single," Juan Gabriel is quoted as saying in his biography by Mexico's Society of Music Authors and Composers. "I have many loves but the most important are: my mother, my children, my sister, my brothers, my nieces and nephews and my songs.".

© 2016 ALL RIGTHS RESERVED
MSH WorldWide By Marcelo Santiago Hernández™.