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Donald Trump raised doubts over his pledge to appoint a special prosecutor to go after Hillary Clinton on Friday by ducking a question about the issue in a Wall Street Journal interview. Trump carried out a round of interviews on Friday including (top) with Lesley Stahl of 60 minutes. He brushed aside a question about a special prosecutor when asked by the newspaper - raising questions over whether such a probe will happen. It could lead to Clinton (bottom left) and her entourage (including Huma Abedin, bottom right) escaping the full-scale investigation he pledged. The promise that she 'would be in jail' energized his supporters who chanted ' lock her up' at his rallies.

Ivanka Trump, her brothers Don Jr and Eric, and her husband Jared Kushner are to be vice presidents of their father's transition team. It will be led by vice-president-elect Mike Pence, not Chris Christie. Ivanka was at Trump Tower for a meeting today and clearly delighted. Other members of the 12-person team include were (clockwise from top center) Eric, Don Jr, Mike Pence, who is in charge, and Jared Kushner, Ivanka's husband. The team also includes Steve Bannon, the ultra-conservative brains behind the final stages of the Trump campaign and Peter Thiel, the billionaire Silicon Valley investor who is a co-founder of PayPal and board member of Facebook.

A shocking video that emerged on Friday, shows a Texas mother kicking her young son out of their home after he 'voted' for Trump in a mock election at school. The child (left) screamed in horror as his mother showed him the door, where she left a small suitcase (center) packed with all of his belongings. As the child started crying and pleading with his mother, she told him to take his sign (right) that read: 'My mother kicked me out because I voted for Donald Trump.' As the little boy stood on the sidewalk, his mother asked: 'Why did you vote for him at school?' The child said: 'Because I see him on TV a lot.'

The chance encounter a mother hiking with her daughter had with Hillary Clinton the day after losing the election may not be what it has been made out to seem. Margot Gerster (right with Clinton this week) was out hiking with her daughter when she ran into Hillary and Bill Clinton in the upstate New York town of Chappaqua, where the Clintons have a home. The chance encounter Gerster had with Clinton gained national media attention as it was the first time Clinton had been photographed after losing the election. However, some critics allege that their meeting while hiking was staged and not random at all. Adding more fuel to those claims is the fact that it's actually not the first time they've met. When Gerster was in high school, her mother held a fundraiser for Clinton at Crabtree's Kittle House in Chappaqua (left during the fundraiser in the 2000s).

Hillary Clinton's closest aide wept as she went back to the Brooklyn headquarters of the doomed bid for the presidency. The future for Abedin, 40, is unclear and her marriage is over. The aide has worked for nobody except Clinton since she was an intern for the then First Lady in Bill Clinton's White House. Throughout the campaign she was at her boss's side - but then with less than two weeks to go until polling day the FBI explosively revealed they were looking at 650,000 of her emails found on her pervert ex-husband Anthony Weiner's laptop. He is being investigated for sexting a 15-year-old. The revelation is being blamed by Clinton aides for - at least in part - costing them the campaign. Abedin, 40, has seen her marriage collapse during the campaign when Weiner was caught sexting an adult, and was herself under FBI investigation for her handling of classified material.

The 52-year-old First Lady is the epitome of elegance in a white Carolina Herrera dress on the cover of the magazine's December issue. When Mrs. Obama spoke with the publication in September, months before she learned Donald Trump would be her husband's successor, she stated that 'it's time' for her and President Barack Obama to leave the White House.

An incredible new video shows every inch of the US border with Mexico, and just how hard it will be for Donald Trump to build his wall along it. The jaw-dropping clip was put together by Aeon Video, and it uses satellite images to create a seamless view of the border from high above. The seven-minute video starts over the ocean off San Diego (top left), California, before rolling across to show dry land. It then zips across the entire country, detailing every bend in the border along the way (top right and bottom left). The clip ends when the border again hits the ocean (bottom right). Trump (inset) made building the wall along the nearly 2,000-mile border one of his main election promises.

It is the first broken promise of the incoming Trump administration - and he didn't even make it. Celebrities who had said they would quit America if he won have abandoned their promises before President-elect Trump is even inaugurated. Some dismissed what they pledged as a 'joke' and others simply went to ground when asked by DailyMail.com when they were packing up and heading to Canada or other countries. However Lena Dunham has still to publicly say she is staying. From left to right: Cher, Miley Cyrus, Larry Flynt, Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, Omari Hardwick, Bryan Cranston, Ne-Yo; second row, George Lopez, Chloe Sevigny, Samuel L. Jackson, President Obama, Barbra Streisand, Chelsea Handler, Natasha Lyonne and Whoopi Goldberg.

Australian travel bloggers Lauren Bullen (left) and boyfriend Jack Morris found another couple were going to the same locations and re-creating their shots identically (right), down to the angles, poses and clothes. At least 20 of their photos from their Instagram accounts were copied almost exactly. 'I was very creeped out and disturbed when I saw the images,' Ms Bullen said.

A peaceful day in a Washington park turned ugly as a savage brawl broke out. The incident was caught on surveillance footage around 9.20am on November 4. In the video, five friends can be seen sitting at a picnic table in the Artesian Commons Park in Olympia, when a man walks over to them and starts talking to a woman. The fight began after the man wearing a cowboy hat sucker-punched another man (top left) who was sitting at the table in a purple hoodie, prompting three other people (top right) to jump in. After other people in the park broke the fight up, the man walked over again and sucker punched a man, who was dressed in black, in the face. But it didn't stop there. The man (bottom left) picked up a 15-pound rock and held it over his head as he walked over to a man and woman and threw it at her. When a responding officer tried to detain the suspects, the man then kicked the woman in the head (bottom right). It's unclear what sparked the brutal fight.

TMZ reports that Sarah Alaseri is suing Steve Howey and Sarah Shahi for back wages, harassment and wrongful termination, claiming that she was forced to quit after three years working for the family due to the constant abuse. Alaseri, who is Muslim, claims that Howey would chide and berate her when she practiced Islamic customs in his presence. She also alleges that this verbal abuse got so bad that she no longer did her daily prayers inside the home. Shahi, who was born Aahoo Jahansouz Shahi, is also Muslim, and her father was born in Iran while her maternal grandfather is Persian.

Leonard Cohen was a poet, a singer, a novelist, a gypsy, a Jewish Zen Buddhist and an unashamed ladies' man. And what a ladies' man! When the news of his death in Los Angeles was announced yesterday by his son, Adam, a little piece of romance went out of the world. His lovers included Marianna Ihlen (inset), singer Suzanne Melrod (top right), and Rebecca de Mornay (bottom right).

Two months on after the split, Brad Pitt has lost weight, is gaunt (pictured left) and has the haunted look common to men going through an acrimonious divorce and who have been separated from their children. He has been cleared in an investigation into whether he was abusive to his eldest son Maddox. Yet Angelina is still demanding that the courts give her sole custody of their six children. Under such an arrangement, Dad would be allowed only 'therapeutic', supervised visiting rights. Brad is said to be so terrified of losing his children he has been unable to sleep (Pitt a year ago, right).

Family members of the Portland hiker who disappeared last month said on Friday they believe her remains have been found near the bottom of a cliff. Anna 'Annie' Schmidt (pictured left), 21, was reported missing on October 19 after she did not return from a hike near the Columbia River George. Scmidt, is the daughter of The Piano Guys member Jon Schmidt and had recently moved from Utah to Oregon. On Friday, her father posted a message in the Facebook group Find Annie Schmidt stating that he believes his daughter's remains were found below a cliff near Munra Point (picture inset), as her 'clothing and personal items found at the site belong to her.'

Regina Tague hates that her son, Todd Kohlhepp, is called a serial killer, she told CBS for a '48 Hours' special airing on Saturday. 'I know that's what they say. He was very misunderstood,' she told CBS late Thursday. 'Todd is not a monster. He's not even close to it. He wasn't doing it for enjoyment. He was doing it because he was mad and he was hurt.' Kohlhepp was charged with kidnapping last week after investigators found 30-year-old Kala Brown, who had been missing for two months chained inside a metal storage container on his property in rural Woodruff, South Carolina. Authorities later found the bodies of her boyfriend, 32-year-old Charles Carver, and another missing couple.

The attack occurred in Anaheim, California, on Tuesday. It started when the boy was set upon by the two dogs in the front yard of his home, before his mom came to his rescue. As the woman tried to get her son inside, she couldn't find her keys, and the dogs continue to maul the two. Surveillance footage shows the woman shielding her son with her body while trying to fight off the animals (main). Finally a neighbor who heard her screams came and grabbed the dogs. The little boy suffered extensive injuries and was rushed to hospital, where he underwent plastic surgery for a laceration to his face (inset).

They can fearsome hunters and majestic guardians of the natural world, but animals have a funny side, too. The winners of the 2016 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have finally been announced, and the top-ranking image of a fox face-planting in the snow is sure to make you laugh. There were more than 2,200 entries from around the world, but now, the judges have weeded out the best to reveal the funniest moments in nature caught on camera.

A mannequin challenge video has emerged, which focuses on controversial police incidents involving African-Americans. Simone Shepherd directed the video, which features people not moving in a tableau as the camera moves around. Their poses recall the fatal police shootings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana (top right) from July 2016, as well as the July 2015 arrest of Sandra Bland in Texas. One person in the video is seen dressed as teenager Travyon Martin (bottom right), who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida in February 2012.

Tan Shukla probably wished he stayed at home on Saturday after his $180k Ferrari exploded into flames after he stopped to use an ATM in the Sydney suburb of Lalor Park. And if things weren't bad enough, Mr Shukla's ATM card and money were pinched, while a man helping extinguish the fire then preceded to steal the Ferrari owners laptop.

While the rest of the country anxiously awaited the results of the presidential election, the Scudder family from Murrieta, California, spent Tuesday afternoon finalizing the adoption of Veronica, three, and Preston, one. Kylie, who is now the siblings' older sister, proudly took to Twitter after the adoption was made official to share photos of Veronica and Preston beaming for the camera.

Joan Rivers would do anything for her daughter Melissa, and even manipulated her into the celebrity sphere after the death of her husband, Edgar Rosenberg, who committed suicide in 1987. Melissa, who was a teen at the time, blamed Joan for Edgar's death. She all but cut her mother from her life. Joan clawed her way back with stunning resilience and by 1994 was in the position to woo her daughter with a plum role. She was to play herself in the television movie, Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story. And throughout the entertainment industry, it was known that Joan would 'pull every possible string' to get Melissa shoehorned into a deal. It certainly seems, though, Melissa has inherited Joan's ruthless momentum. Within eight months of her mother's death, she had a book out, The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief and Manipulation.

Touching footage shows little Leah unwrapping a large parcel in her Surrey bedroom to find her father hiding inside after she hadn't seen him for two months. After a loud squeal of shock at finding a man in the box she cries, 'Daddy!' in excitement and throws herself into her father's arms. They hug tightly before Leah can't help but jump up and down in glee at her dad's surprise return from working abroad.

A woman's dance moves at a Golden State Warriors game this week have become an Internet sensation. Robin Schreiber, of Redwood City, California, wore a Warriors sweater emblazoned with the words 'NBA Champs' as she got down on Wednesday at Oracle Arena. Her moves were caught on the Dance Cam and featured on the Jumbotron. The Golden State Warriors have called her 'a legend' on Twitter. She's had season tickets for 28 years and has been seen dancing on the Jumbotron an incredible 22 times.

As the latest viral craze known as the mannequin challenge continues sweeping the web, this attempt made by children believed to be in the U.S. might be the most adorable yet. A group of four-year-old students held still, or at least tried to, while they were filmed taking part in the challenge. While the phenomenon consists of participants freezing in place while holding dramatic poses as if someone hit a pause button, these kids nearly got the idea. However, they hilariously struggled to not blink or move but seemed to master looking shocked while standing in their classroom in their school uniforms.

Using hashtags like #WardrobePorn, bloggers have shown off their sparkling closets complete with colour-coded clothing racks, colour-coded shoes, drawers for jewellery and perfectly spaced hangers. Other snaps show islands topped with flowers and jewellery boxes, chic couches to sit on while getting ready and stacked labelled boxes filled with heels.

Footage shows the 20ft-long reptile coming through the ceiling tiles in front of shocked customers. The video shows the snake being guided out by workers at the restaurant using a metal hook. It is not clear exactly where the footage was filmed but people in the video can be heard speaking Cantonese, suggesting that it may have been in Hong Kong. One person can be heard saying: 'Look how big it is!' Another adds: 'How disgusting!'