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The now officially-certified votes from the 2016 presidential race show that Hillary Clinton surpassed Donald Trump in the national popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes.

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According to vote tallies from The Associated Press, Clinton amassed 65,844,610 votes across all 50 states and Washington D.C., 48.2 percent of all votes cast. Trump received 62,979,636 votes, 46.1 percent of all votes cast.

The Associated Press announced today that all votes had officially been certified.

Clinton had 2,864,974 votes more than Trump, the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate in U.S. history, according to the AP.

Trump won the presidency by clinching 304 electoral votes, well over the minimum 270 needed. Clinton won 227 electoral votes.

Clinton is the fifth presidential candidate in history to win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College.

The only other time this has happened this century was in 2000, when Democrat Al Gore came up short in the Electoral College but won the popular vote by 540,000 more votes than George W. Bush, the AP reported.

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If you ever have ice cream at the White House, expect President Trump to be served two scoops while everyone else gets one. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.

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President Trump has appeared on camera several times tosupport victims of Hurricane Harvey.

What has also received air time?The "Official USA 45th Presidential Hat," for sale by Trump's campaign for $40.

The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, points out that the president has been pictured wearing the hat, both in red and in white, in two official photos released by the White House. He wore the white version on his trip to Houston Tuesday.

"Even removed from the hurricane, it's pretty inappropriate," CREW spokesman Jordan Libowitz said.

The issue at play here is free advertising for Trump products, according to CREW.

Libowitz said he does not believe the president is violating any ethics rules by wearing the hat.

"There is a difference between what is technically legal and what is ethically right," he said.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Ethics experts have argued that the president's heavily photographed weekend visits to his golf courses and Mar-a-Lago club amount to gratuitous marketing.

Trump refused to sell his business holdings as president. Instead, he transferred them into a trust in his name. Any business profits will ultimately go to him when he leaves office.

CREW is suing President Trump over his business interests. It claims he is violating a section of the Constitution that bars officials from accepting anything of value from a foreign government.

Related: Trump can't stop advertising his own brand

Trump sported the white version of the USAcap in an official photo distributed by the White House on Saturday after his teleconference with cabinet members about Harvey.

He was pictured wearing the hat in red in a photo distributed by his press office on Sunday ...

... And he kept one on for his trip toTexas, where he surveyed damagefrom Harvey and met with local leaders.

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Testing his glucose is one of the few moments of control Ari feels in his daily battle with type 1 diabetes, a disease so severe that he'd once been helicoptered to the hospital to save his life.

A letter that came last week from the state of Colorado warned that Ari's insurance program, called the Children's Health Insurance Program, could end. It felt like yet another uncontrollable, cruel turn in the Richter family's never-ending fight to keep their boy healthy.

"It's not a choice for us. We need this," said Heather Richter, Ari's mother. "We pay our mortgage, or we pay for the life-saving supplies my son has to have. We have to choose this first, or Ari would die without insulin."

The Richters, who live in Loveland, also use CHIP to insure Ari's brothers, Finn, 10, and Jett, 6. They are among the approximately 9 million American children enrolled in CHIP who could see their medical coverage evaporate without congressional action.

Congress missed a September 30 deadline to extend funding for CHIP, a popular plan created in 1997 that's been regularly funded by both Republicans and Democrats. Members of both parties say they want to continue the approximately $14 billion-a-year program, but amid the chaotic and partisan fighting in Washington this year, they can't agree on how to fund it. A short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown after Friday could include CHIP funding. But the long-term solution remains elusive.

CHIP covers children like the Richters, whose parents make too much money for Medicaid and too little to pay for private insurance. Adam Richter, who makes approximately $50,000 to $60,000 as a low-voltage installation technician, covers himself and his wife under his company's insurance. But add in the children and the medical insurance with the family deductible, and Richter's middle-class salary suddenly can't cover it all.

CHIP is the financial lifeline for families like these.

Standing in front of a stack of bottles and small boxes, Heather Richter runs through all the pharmaceuticals Ari needs every month.

"Because we have CHIP, we pay $30 a month," Richter said. "Without it, it's up to $2,000 a month."

The letter she received from the state minced no words about what her future could look like. "If Congress does not renew federal funding, CHP+ (Colorado's CHIP program) in Colorado will end on January 31, 2018. Congress can pass a law at any time to renew federal funding for CHP+, but there is no guarantee that they will," the letter said.

Richter began to calculate how much money and for how many months the sale of her home could keep the insulin flowing to her son. "I would just really hope Congress would look at this and look at these children and families and do what's right," she said.

Scrambling for funds

Families aren't the only ones scrambling. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which administers CHIP, tapped into a national redistribution fund of unused CHIP allotments from previous fiscal years. Simply put, the agency is spending every available cent to keep CHIP children covered as long as possible.

But that fund is limited and will run out rapidly. The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, a nonpartisan legislative branch agency that provides data to Congress, estimates that by July, every single state will have exhausted all CHIP funds.

States are left wrestling with how to fund the insurance program if Congress fails to act quickly. For example, Minnesota's Department of Human Services says it has begun using money from its state general fund to cover the gap between Medicaid funds and CHIP funds. Colorado is working on how to prioritize the CHIP cases that are most urgent and cover their CHIP insurance.

"How can we let ourselves get in this situation?" asked Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, unable to restrain his disdain for the situation facing the approximately 75,000 children in his state covered by CHIP.

"We're just extending the period of anxiety for something that almost everyone seems to agree is a non-partisan event," Hickenlooper said. "What is becoming most frustrating to me is, this is becoming like a muscle that Congress is using, that no matter what the issue is, they're going to debate it back and forth and get some kind of political benefit. Sometimes there's just doing good, doing the right thing, not 'what I'm going to get in exchange.' These are kids!"

Hickenlooper believes Congress will eventually fund CHIP but will play political football with parents' suffering and anxiety. "CHIP should be the one place, the oasis, where everyone says we're not going to negotiate."

He comes to that belief because Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wrote the bill with the now-deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts). Hatch invoked the bipartisan nature of CHIP on the floor just last week, reminding the Senate that "nobody believes in the CHIP program more than I. I invented it."

He pledged, "we're going to get CHIP through. There is no question about that."

'Coverage for kids has not been a problem during my entire career'

Dr. Christopher Stille has been a pediatrician for 24 years and has always known CHIP, so he's puzzled as to why funding hasn't been extended by Congress. "Coverage for kids has not been a problem during my entire career," he said.

According to Stille, about a thousand patients who are covered by the program go to Children's Hospital Colorado to receive care. One of them is 5-year-old Laniya Madison.

Laniya sat patiently in an exam room at the facility in Aurora while Stille listened to her heartbeat during a routine checkup. Her trip to the doctor cost only $5. Her mother, Latisha Galloway, is single and works as a special education teacher at a middle school.

"Having that set, minimal payment is awesome for us," Galloway said. "If (CHIP) expires, I'm not too sure what my options are. Because every penny goes somewhere."

Stille says it should be a no-brainer for Congress to extend the funding to cover his young patient, but this political year has been anything but rational, he said.

"I'm cautiously optimistic it will get done. I think that there is a lot of pressure, that there's a lot of bipartisan feeling that is still there. I'm just really afraid that other things will get in the way that are completely unrelated to health coverage for kids."

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the approximate number of children in Colorado covered by CHIP. It is 75,000.

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Testing his glucose is one of the few moments of control Ari feels in his daily battle with type 1 diabetes, a disease so severe that he'd once been helicoptered to the hospital to save his life. A letter that came last week from the state of Colorado warned that Ari's insurance program, called the Children's Health Insurance Program, could end.

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Trump became well-known for his love of fast food during the 2016 election. He even tweeted a photo from his plane, ready to diveinto a big bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, but there are new details about his go-to meal at his other fast food favorite, McDonald's.

Former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski wrote about it in his book about the campaign, saying Trump would order two Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fish sandwiches and a chocolate milkshake.

"Well, he never ate the bread, which is the important part," Lewandowski told CNN's Alisyn Camerota. "He was busy campaigning. We didn't have time to sit down for a meal."

But even without the bread -- or the fries one would typically get with McDonald's meals -- nutritionists say he should rethink his diet.

"This is not a healthy way of eating, even if it is without the carbs of the bun," said Lisa Drayer, a nutritionist who frequently writes for CNN. "I'd prefer he'd eat half the protein and much less saturated fat."

Without the bun, this meal still contains at least 1,880 calories based on nutrition information available on the McDonald's website. Although your daily calorie count can vary, based on the typical 2,000-calorie count diet used by the US Dietary Guideline, that doesn't leave a lot of room to eat anything else during the day -- bun or no bun.

Drayer said that based on the protein and saturated fat in all those sandwiches, Trump would be better off eating one of the Big Macs or one of the Filet-o-Fishes rather than two of either, even without the bun. And if he had a medium chocolate shake, that alone is 2½ times the recommended daily amount of sugar.

Trump measures in at 6-foot-3 and 236 pounds, according to his last available medical records, resulting in a body mass index of 29.5. That makes him overweight, according to the National Institutes of Health's online BMI calculator, though his doctor said his "test results were within normal range," with a cholesterol level of 169 and blood pressure of 116/70. However, he takes a cholesterol-lowering statin, which is prescribed to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke and low-dose aspirin, which also can benefit the heart.But at 71 years of age, a steady fast-food diet could compromise his health.

"As you get older, your metabolism slows down, your blood pressure increases with age just naturally, and if you are doing this every day, then you are increasing your risk for heart disease in addition to upping your risk for cancer," Drayer said.

Eating red meat regularly has been linked with an increased risk of colorectal cancer. A 2009 study showed that people who regularly ate red meat were more likely to die sooner than those who ate it in smaller amounts.

"A hamburger every once in a while is fine, but eating this on a regular basis is not healthy," Drayer said. "Red meat does offer iron and protein, but at the amount he is consuming, it is putting his health at risk."

It is unclear how often the President would eat such a meal.

If he continues to make McDonald's a go-to, she suggests some menu alternatives: Apple slices and mandarin oranges are good. Some of the salads are better choices. But if he insists on a sandwich, she recommends skipping the Big Macs and instead having the fish without tartar sauce and cheese.

Swap the chocolate shake for a low-fat yogurt parfait she suggests, which has healthy fruit and fiber. The blueberries and strawberries at least offer antioxidants. If Trump is not a yogurt man, even a vanilla cone would be healthier, at less than half the calories and less than a third the sugar than a small shake.

"At least," she said, "he is not eating the McFlurry with M&M's. He didn't pick the (least-healthy) dessert choice on the menu."

Correction: An earlier version of this article gave the incorrect nutritional details for a medium shake.

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Jimmy Kimmel brought out his son, Billy, who underwent a second heart surgery, while he discussed funding for Children's Health Insurance Program.

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This is the first time justices have allowed any edition of the ban to go forward in its entirety. It signals that some of the justices might be distinguishing the latest version from previous iterations and could be more likely, in the future, to rule in favor of the ban.

Issued in September, the third edition of the travel ban placed varying levels of restrictions on foreign nationals from eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia and Yemen.

Lower courts in two separate challenges had partially blocked the ban.

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One of President Trump's personal lawyers called Tuesday for a special counsel to investigate alleged corruption at the FBI and Justice Department.

Jay Sekulow, a member of the legal team counseling Trump on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's wide-ranging Russia probe, said Tuesday that a second special counsel should be appointed to focus on FBI and Justice Department investigators.

Sekulow's call for a second special counsel was first reported Tuesday morning by Axios.

Sekulow did not allege wrongdoing on the part of Mueller or his team, telling The Washington Post that his call for a second special counsel has "nothing to do with Bob Mueller."

But Sekulow argued that alleged conflicts of interest among FBI and Justice Department officials demand a full investigation by a special counsel. He singled out a Fox News report last week that Bruce G. Ohr, a senior Justice Department official, was demoted amid an investigation of his contacts with Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that commissioned a salacious dossier documenting Trump's ties to Russia.

"This is the kind of situation that, in my view, warrants a special counsel," Sekulow said.

[Inside Trump's legal team: Trying to protect the president from Mueller's 'killers']

Asked whether he was speaking on Trump's behalf or whether the president agrees with having a second special counsel, Sekulow would not answer. He said he does not speak publicly about his conversations with the president.

"We're just the president's private lawyers," Sekulow said.

Sekulow works alongside John M. Dowd, another private attorney for the president, and in close collaboration with Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer who handles the Russia portfolio.

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The Kremlin views the tweets sent by President Trump as official statements, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally briefed on them.

"Moscow considers all statements made on his official Twitter account to be official, so reports are presented to President Putin about them, as well as about official statements that politicians make in other countries," Peskov was quoted as saying by the state-owned Tass news agency.

Trump's prolific and sometimes pugnacious use of Twitter stands apart from other recent presidents, of whom only President Barack Obama had an account while in office - and he began to tweet himself only several years after his account was set up. Unlike Trump, Obama used the account relatively sparingly and signed his tweets to indicate that he himself had written them.

The sitting president's personal use of Twitter has at times appeared to undermine stated U.S. foreign policy goals, such as the pursuit of a diplomatic solution to the North Korea crisis. Critics have also suggested that the wording of some tweets from Trump's account could have legal implications for the ongoing Russia investigation and the legal fight against the Trump administration's travel ban.

The White House has repeatedly said that Trump's tweets count as official statements - though a Trump administration attorney last week told a court considering the legality of the travel ban that the president's sharing of inflammatory anti-Muslim videos on Twitter should not be considered as they were not "legally relevant."

Though some world leaders have played down the implications of Trump's tweets, most foreign governments appear to pay close attention to them, and some are reported to have set up dedicated teams to monitor his tweets.

"Trump's Twitter feed is a gold mine for every foreign intelligence agency," Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst, wrote for The Washington Post in June. "The president's unfiltered thoughts are available night and day, broadcast to his 32.7 million Twitter followers immediately and without much obvious mediation by diplomats, strategists or handlers."

Peskov declined to tell reporters what the Kremlin thought of Trump's tweets. "I do not think I have the right to comment on President Trump's actions. It would be a wrong thing to do," the Kremlin spokesman said.

"Putin does not have a Twitter account," Peskov added. "He explained earlier that he did not have a wish to do that and he did not consider it possible for someone else to do it for him, including members of his press service and other departments of the Kremlin administration."
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On Feb. 6, barely two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump Donald John Trump House Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for 'serious case of amnesia' after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: I don't want to represent Trump at Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans think senior Trump advisers had improper dealings with Russia MORE tweeted, "Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election."

Nearly 10 months later, the negative polls - the president's ''fake news" charge notwithstanding - have kept coming. The most recent, the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, shows Trump at a new low of 41 percent. Most other reputable polls have his job approval rating several points lower.

Barring a dramatic event like 9/11, which temporarily sent President George W. Bush's approval rating soaring from 50 percent to 90 percent, nearly every president's standing with the public declines as the first year unfolds.

When expectations raised during the campaign cannot all be met - some because they are excessive and others because they are contradictory - people become disappointed.

As a former Gerald Ford aide lamented, "Each [presidential decision] is bound to hurt somebody. ... He will satisfy one group but anger three others." Consequently, presidents experience what political scientists Paul Brace and Barbara Hinckley have labeled a "decay curve," a decline in public approval that normally begins about halfway through the first year of the term and lasts well into the third year.

But historically that decline has begun only after a six-month or longer "honeymoon" with the public, which new presidents often are able to translate into major legislative victories on Capitol Hill.

In the history of polling from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama Patagonia files suit against Trump cuts to Utah monuments Former Dem Tenn. gov to launch Senate bid: report Eighth Franken accuser comes forward as Dems call for resignation MORE , every president's initial approval ratings exceeded his share of the popular vote in the election that brought him to power. The increase represented a surge of goodwill toward the new president even among those who wished that his opponent had been elected.

Trump's brutalistic campaign assured that he would not have a honeymoon at all. His 46 percent level of support last November did not increase at all. Trump's Gallup approval rating the week after his inauguration was 45 percent, the lowest ever recorded for a new president.

Monthly YouGov/Economist surveys showed no measurable increase from Election Day onward in the public's assessment of Trump's "qualifications to be president," "temperament to be the president," or "honesty and trustworthiness."

Pressure from the Democratic grass roots (Trump's approval rating among Democrats consistently has been less than 10 percent) further undermined any claim he might have made to being a unifying figure. As late as mid-September, Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Grassley blasts Democrats over unwillingness to probe Clinton GOP lawmakers cite new allegations of political bias in FBI Top intel Dem: Trump Jr. refused to answer questions about Trump Tower discussions with father MORE actually said she would not "rule it out" when asked if she would question "the legitimacy of this election if we learn that Russian interference is even deeper than we know now."

But nothing degraded Trump's ability to bring the country together more than his own words and actions as president, which have been designed to unify his base of supporters in opposition to his critics.

Trump's approval rating at the six-month mark was 39 percent, the lowest of any newly elected president in the history of opinion polling, and his disapproval rating was 55 percent, the highest. They have remained within a point or two of those levels ever since, even as public regard for his handling of specific matters such as terrorism and health care has continued to decline. The average net approval rating - that is, the percent approving minus the percent disapproving - for the nine elected presidents from Eisenhower to Obama was +36 percent after six months. Trump's was -16 percent.

Trump's low standing with the American people is even more exceptional in light of the favorable economic conditions that have prevailed during his first year. Drawing on four decades of data, political analyst Harry Entman calculated that, based on the strength of the economy, Trump's approval rating should be at least 10 points higher than it actually has been.

To be sure, as 2017 has worn on, most self-identified Republican voters have remained steadfast in their support - about 80 percent in all polls. But the number of people who professed to being Republicans has declined. At the start of the Trump presidency, 31 percent of voters surveyed in the Gallup poll identified with the GOP. By October, only 24 percent did.

A president's job approval rating has no constitutional meaning, of course. What does have meaning is the effect the president's standing has on voting in the first midterm election. Unless Trump is somehow able to turn things around, there's a very good chance the Republicans will lose one or both houses of Congress to the Democrats next year.
Michael Nelson teaches political science at Rhodes College and is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. In January the University of Virginia Press will publish his latest book, "Trump's First Year."

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Another woman who has accused President Donald Trump of groping her is demanding a congressional investigation into the numerous sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Melinda McGillivray appeared on NBC's "Megyn Kelly Today" on Tuesday, breaking down in tears as she described her alleged interactions with Trump. She has accused Trump of grabbing her buttocks at Mar-a-Lago in 2003.

"I feel a grab on my right side so I quickly turn to look at what this is," said McGillivray, who was 23 at the time of the alleged incident. "To my surprise it's Donald. ... I'm stunned, just speechless."

"It made me feel very small, inferior," she added. "It made me feel like I was objectified. I was sick to my stomach."

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McGillivray said she immediately told her companion about what had happened, and that he discouraged her from confronting Trump and alerting Mar-a-Lago staff. Instead, she said they decided to leave the event.

Now, she's joining the call for Congress to investigate the allegations from women who say Trump sexually harassed or assaulted them.

"I can't believe a guy like [Trump] could make into the highest office and be revered as this leader," McGillivray said. "I think that we got to have higher standards in this country and we need to hold these people very accountable."

At least 19 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, including forcible kissing and groping, since the 1980s. Trump has denied the allegations. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested in October that all of Trump's accusers were lying.

The president tweeted Tuesday that women he "never met" were making "false" accusations against him.

Despite thousands of hours wasted and many millions of dollars spent, the Democrats have been unable to show any collusion with Russia - so now they are moving on to the false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don't know and/or have never met. FAKE NEWS!
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Four other women accusing Trump of sexual misconduct held a press conference Monday, urging Congress to conduct an investigation into his behavior. Their stories have drawn attention recently, given the wave of sexual harassment allegations against powerful men in Hollywood, media and politics.

"If they were willing to investigate Sen. [Al] Franken, I think it's only fair that they do the same for Trump," said Rachel Crooks, who has accused Trump of forcibly kissing her when she was a receptionist at Trump Tower in the mid-2000s. "We shouldn't let politicians get away with this."

Several lawmakers, including Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), have called on Trump to leave office over the allegations.

"President Trump should resign," Gillibrand said Monday during an appearance on CNN. "These allegations are credible; they are numerous. I've heard these women's testimony, and many of them are heartbreaking."

The Democratic Women's Working Group, a coalition of nearly 60 Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives, on Monday sent a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requesting a congressional investigation into the allegations against Trump.

"We cannot ignore the multitude of women who have come forward with accusations against Mr. Trump," the lawmakers wrote.

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Investigators are piecing together the weeks, days and moments leading up to the attack, in which a 27-year-old Bangladeshi man detonated a home-made device in a pedestrian subway tunnel in the heart of New York on a busy Monday morning.

Here's what we know so far about the explosion and failed attack:

The location

The blast detonated around 7:20 a.m. in an underground walkway connecting two subway lines beneath the Port Authority Bus Terminal, near Times Square, which accommodates 220,000 passenger trips a day.

The suspect was first spotted on a security camera as he began to climb the subway station stairs to the 18th Avenue F. train platform in Brooklyn at 6:25 a.m., according to one law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation.

He then switched to the A train at Jay St./Metro Tech stop in Brooklyn before exiting the train at the Port Authority Bus Terminal stop in Manhattan, the same law enforcement official says.

On grainy surveillance footage, commuters are seen walking through a tunnel when a burst of smoke erupts into the hallway, quickly filling it. Commuters flinch and take cover. When the smoke clears, a man can be seen lying on the ground in the hallway.

The suspect

The suspect has been named as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi who has been living in the US since 2011 on an F43 family immigrant visa, according to Department of Homeland Security spokesman Tyler Houlton. He is a lawful permanent resident who lives in Brooklyn.

He had pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to one law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation, and said he acted in response to Israeli actions in Gaza.

Ullah recently carried out electrical work close to the Port Authority along with his brother, who lives in the same apartment building as the suspect, according to law enforcement.

He is currently hospitalized at Bellevue Hospital, where he is being treated for lacerations and burns to his hands and abdomen, New York City Fire Department Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. He is said to be seriously injured.

From March 2012 to March 2015 Ullah held a Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) license, which had not been renewed, TLC spokesman Allan Fromberg said. It's unclear "whether he drove for any particular base, or whether he simply got the license but didn't drive at all," Fromberg said.

Ullah had at least two devices, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation tells CNN.

Only one detonated -- a foot-long pipe that contained black powder, a battery, wiring, nails and screws. It was attached to Ullah with Velcro and zip ties. Investigators did not elaborate on the second device.

The suspect made the bomb last week at his apartment in Brooklyn, according to an official. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it was an amateur, "effectively low-tech device."

The explosive chemical ignited, but the pipe itself did not explode, lessening its impact, Cuomo told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

"Fortunately for us, the bomb partially detonated," he said. "He did detonate it, but it did not fully have the effect that he was hoping for."

The victims

Five people were treated for minor injuries in area hospitals.

"Mount Sinai Health System received and treated five patients with minor injuries as a result of the explosion today at Port Authority; four at Mount Sinai West and one at Mount Sinai Queens," a statement from the hospital group said.

"All were in stable condition and were release today. We are working closely with officials in law enforcement in the wake of this event."

The response

Ullah was apprehended by Port Authority police officers shortly after the blast. Four of the officers involved in the apprehension and arrest of the suspect have been named as Sean Gallagher, Drew Preston, John Collins and Anthony Manfredini.

"Today, four courageous Port Authority police officers risked their lives confronting an armed terrorist to protect others from harm," Port Authority Police Benevolent Association President Paul Nunziato said in a statement.

"I am so thankful there was no loss of life and I could not be prouder of our Port Authority police officers, their actions and dedication to their sworn duty."

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called the incident an "attempted terrorist attack," while Police Commissioner James O'Neill called it a "terror-related incident."

All subways and trains are running as scheduled, except the passageway where the incident occurred. Some exits and transfers may be blocked so passengers may be affected.

Gov. Cuomo praised the courage of the authorities, first responders and the city's residents.

"I am deeply grateful to the first responders and security personnel who kept people safe after today's attack and brought the suspect into custody," he said.

"Despite this morning's terrible incident, New Yorkers went about their lives unafraid, undeterred and more united than ever before. We will not allow this to disrupt us."

He added that he was directing the World Trade Center spire to be lit in red, white and blue "as a symbol of our essential values of freedom and democracy."

US President Donald Trump said Monday that an attempted terrorist attack in New York bolsters the need for his preferred immigration policies, which the White House says would have prevented the suspect from entering the country.

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