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Exclusive: Alleged Dennis Hastert Sex Abuse Victim Is Named By Family … In Steve Reinboldt's 1970 high school yearbook, wrestling coach Dennis Hastert wrote that Steve was his “great, right hand man” as the student equipment manager of the Yorkville, Illinois wrestling team.
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Marco Rubio and His Wife Cited 17 Times for Traffic Infractions — Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, with his wife, Jeanette, after announcing his candidacy for the presidential nomination in Miami on April 13. — Senator Marco Rubio has been in a hurry to get to the top …
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Gov. Christie attacks Hillary Clinton on voter registration — CONCORD, N.H. - Governor Christie went on the attack against Hillary Clinton on Friday, saying the Democratic presidential candidate is calling for an expansion of voter registration because “she just wants an opportunity to commit greater acts of voter fraud.”
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Hillary Clinton, Voting Rights and the 2016 Election — A basic fact often gets lost in the propaganda that swirls around voting laws in this country: between one-quarter and one-third of all eligible voters — more than 50 million Americans — are not registered.
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Bankroller of Democratic Voting Rights Cases? George Soros — George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist, in New York last year. — The billionaire philanthropist George Soros, whose first major involvement in politics was with a large-scale voter mobilization effort in the 2004 presidential race …
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Perry: Hillary Doesn't Grasp Voter ID Because She Doesn't Fly Commercial (VIDEO)
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Hillary Clinton Hits the GOP on Voter Suppression
Hillary Clinton Hits the GOP on Voter Suppression
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Tom Coburn On 2016: Cruz And Walker Not Ready For Primetime, America Won't Elect Another Bush — The former Republican senator from Oklahoma says that Rand Paul scares him to death, Ted Cruz and Scott Walker are not ready for primetime, Rick Perry is not capable enough, and America will not elect another Bush to be president.
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Is Iowa over? — The caucus state fears it won't be a kingmaker in 2016.
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Why Ted Cruz's candidacy isn't catching fire with U.S. Latinos
Why Ted Cruz's candidacy isn't catching fire with U.S. Latinos
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IOWA'S BIG WEEKEND, amid fears state's clout is waning …
IOWA'S BIG WEEKEND, amid fears state's clout is waning …
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City of Springdale Responds to Duggar Claims — SPRINGDALE, AR — Springdale City Attorney Ernest Cate released the following statement about releasing Josh Duggar's records to the media: — “On 5/20/15, in full compliance with Arkansas Law, the Springdale Police Department responded …
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Science publishes new NOAA analysis: Data show no recent slowdown in global warming — [Updated at 3:45 p.m. ET: Headline truncated; no longer refers to original study title. Title was revised today by the journal Science at the time of publication] — A new study published online today …
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Scientists Drop Science Bomb on Climate-Change Skeptics — Now there's <em>no way</em> conservatives can deny global warming, right? — 1k — Shares — Over the last couple of years, the conservative movement, which loves science, has had a completely scientific-based reason for skepticism about climate change.
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Justice Scalia takes on commencement cliches in humor-filled speech — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered an off-the-bench opinion on graduation addresses Thursday, drawing laughter and applause as he criticized cliches that don't work during a commencement speech at an all-girls Catholic school.
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Stormtrooper arrested outside Lynn school — Students in Lynn were surprised by a man dressed as a Stormtrooper outside their school Wednesday, and the man is now facing charges. — After snapping pictures and taking cell phone video, parents in Lynn could not stop talking …
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Tariq Aziz, ex-Saddam Hussein aide, dies in Iraqi prison — Tariq Aziz (right) played a prominent role in Saddam Hussein's reign as Iraq's president — Tariq Aziz, known as the face of Saddam Hussein's regime on the world stage for many years, has died in an Iraqi prison, officials say.
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Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance — MOSCOW — TWO years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States.
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School Cancels Gay Valedictorian's Speech After He Said He Planned to Come Out — Colorado Congressman Jared Polis (D), the first openly gay parent in Congress, is calling for an investigation into Twin Peaks Charter Academy after its principal decided to cancel a gay valedictorian's speech at graduation.
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Greece moves closer to eurozone exit after delaying €300m repayment to IMF — Athens takes creditor by surprise, saying it will bundle together €1.6bn of debt payments due to International Monetary Fund and settle up on 30 June — Greece has moved closer to default and possible exit …
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Eight out of 10 Malala suspects ‘secretly acquitted’ — Malala Yousafzai was seriously injured in a 2012 assassination attempt — Eight of the 10 men reportedly jailed for the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai were acquitted, it has emerged.
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Why Are Libertarians Mostly Dudes? — Rand Paul is polling terribly among women. His political philosophy might be to blame. — Since 1980, the Republican Party has been bedeviled by a persistent gender gap in presidential elections, as GOP nominees have struggled with female voters.
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