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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is warning that companies are not going to leave the United States anymore "without consequences." He says companies leaving will be "taxed very heavily" at the U.S. border. Trump spoke at an Indianapolis factory where he says he helped prevent hundreds of jobs from moving to Mexico. Trump said at the Carrier plant that more than 1,100 jobs will be maintained there. But he didn't talk about hundreds of workers who are still set to lose their jobs.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign has filed an objection to Green Party candidate Jill Stein's request for a hand recount of Michigan's presidential election votes. The objection will delay or block the recount, which the state was planning to begin tomorrow. Trump's attorneys say Stein, who finished fourth in Michigan, was not the victim of any alleged election fraud or mistake. They also say a recount couldn't be finished on time and that her petition wasn't properly signed. Stein has also requested recounts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which began its recount today.
PARIS (AP) — France's Socialist President Francois Hollande (frahn-SWAH' oh-LAWND') says he will not seek re-election next year. His announcement came just a few days after his number-2 -- the country's prime minister, Manuel Valls -- said he was "ready" to compete in the Socialist primary. Valls has been polling slightly higher than Hollande. The president had repeatedly said he would seek re-election only if he was able to curb the unemployment rate in France -- which, for years, has hovered around 10 percent.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The sentence is 16 years in prison for the man accused in the shooting death of a four-year-old New Mexico girl during a road-rage dispute last year. Tony Torrez apologized to the victim's family at his plea hearing today, a day after he accepted the plea deal with prosecutors. His jury trial had been scheduled to start today. Under the plea deal, he stands convicted of second degree murder.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of Vice President-elect Mike Pence's new Washington neighbors are welcoming him to the area with gay-pride flags. A TV station (WJLA) reports that several people on Pence's new block have hung rainbow pride flags to show their displeasure about his positions on LGBT issues. Pence is living in the neighborhood during the transition before he moves into the vice president's mansion on the grounds of the Naval Observatory next year. Activists have criticized Pence for a "religious-objections" law he signed as Indiana governor that they said could sanction discrimination against gay people.
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