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Why Donald Trump Isn't A Real Candidate, In One Chart — At FiveThirtyEight, we like to celebrate outliers. LeBron James's Cleveland Cavaliers may end up losing in the NBA Finals, but James's performance has been outlandishly good. In the same vein, I want to congratulate Donald Trump …
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Donald Trump: I'm running for president — In a free-ranging speech, Trump takes on China, his own wealth, and declares 'I will be the greatest jobs president God ever created" — Donald Trump is running for president. — Speaking from New York City's Trump Tower office building …
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Trump Makes It Official: He's Running For President — Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, reality television star and hair icon, today announced he is taking his first run at the White House. — From the iconic Trump Tower in New York City, the Donald told his supporters he is …
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Why Donald Trump Is Important, in One Chart — Businessman Donald Trump is controversial, and his political star has dimmed a bit since he last floated the idea of a White House bid. But he scores well enough in polls to land a seat in the Republican debates, should he move ahead.
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Donald Trump Transcript: ‘Our Country Needs a Truly Great Leader’
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We Are All Donald Trump Now — Back in 2000, my grandmother returned …
We Are All Donald Trump Now — Back in 2000, my grandmother returned …
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Mark Halperin / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump: An Announcement Like No Other
Donald Trump: An Announcement Like No Other
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Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Watch Donald Trump Go Full Nativist In Presidential Campaign Launch
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Donald Trump hopes to go from TV to campaign trail - CNNPolitics.com
Donald Trump hopes to go from TV to campaign trail - CNNPolitics.com
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Donald Trump Runs for President (This Time for Real, He Says)
Donald Trump Runs for President (This Time for Real, He Says)
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Issa escorted out of Benghazi deposition — Former House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) tried to crash former Hillary Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal's deposition before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday. — Issa marched into the closed-door deposition …
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Donald Trump Elbows His Way into the Republican Clown Car — And Sidney Blumenthal does the whole Benghazi thing. — GETTY NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP — This is one of those days that cries out for Mark Twain. Not the jovial old squire of Hartford, but the dark, brooding skeptic who saw human nature …
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Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary Clinton's Confidant, Turns Over Memos on Libya
Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary Clinton's Confidant, Turns Over Memos on Libya
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St. Louis Cardinals Investigated by F.B.I. for Hacking Astros — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating front-office officials for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, for hacking …
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Rachel Dolezal breaks her silence on TODAY: ‘I identify as black’ — Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP chapter president accused of pretending to be black, tells TODAY's Matt Lauer in an exclusive live interview that she identifies as black — something she started doing at the age of five.
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Let Rachel Dolezal Be as Black as She Wants to Be — She's given me the courage to reveal my true identity. — I sympathize with the dilemma of Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP whose parents maintain that she is not any part black, as she has claimed (#whiteisthenewblack).
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Rachel Dolezal, Ex-N.A.A.C.P. Official: ‘I Identify as Black’
Rachel Dolezal, Ex-N.A.A.C.P. Official: ‘I Identify as Black’
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Shocking new poll in NH suggests Sanders giving Clinton real fight — NH1 Political Director - NH1.com — CONCORD - A new poll suggests that New Hampshire's 2016 Democratic primary may be up for grabs. — According to a survey released Tuesday by Suffolk University …
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It's official: Obama axes trans fat — The Obama administration is making good on its pledge to all but ban trans fat nationwide. — The Obama administration is making good on its pledge to all but ban trans fat nationwide. — The FDA issued a final decision Tuesday that gives …
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FDA Tells Food Industry to Phase out Artificial Trans Fats
FDA Tells Food Industry to Phase out Artificial Trans Fats
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House punts on trade — House GOP leaders are punting on voting again on President Obama's trade agenda, possibly until the end of July. — After Friday's failed vote to pass aid for workers displaced by trade deals, known as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) …
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Dems should not be losing voting-rights fight — Why are Democrats losing the debate over voting rights? — The biggest political fight shaping the 2016 campaigns for the White House and Senate is over limiting the Democrats' base of likely voters. — President Obama twice won …
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Joni Ernst: Jeb Bush Should Return to Iowa, Ride a Harley
Joni Ernst: Jeb Bush Should Return to Iowa, Ride a Harley
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GOP rife with tensions over Obamacare-SCOTUS response — The Republican senators running for president could stymie the party's response to an anti-Obamacare ruling. — Senior Republicans who are worried they'll be blamed for killing health insurance for millions of Americans …
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South Bend mayor: Why coming out matters — Editor's note: South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg wrote this essay, which was published on the Tribune's Voices page. — Any day now, the Supreme Court will issue a decision on same-sex marriage that will directly affect millions of Americans.
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Teacher, vice principal resign over gay fable — Teacher Omar Currie reads a copy of a complaint a parent filed after he read the book 'King & King" to his third grade students at Efland-Cheeks Elementary School. The school has upheld the use of the book, but a parent has appealed the superintendent.
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Joyce Mitchell had sexual relationships with both escaped N.Y. inmates, sources say — They got out with a bang. — The wayward wife accused of helping two killers break out of upstate's Clinton Correctional Facility had sex with both of them, sources told the Daily News.
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The mysterious case of $54 million VA spent on prosthetics in $24,999 payments — The payments couldn't help but catch the attention of the top procurement official at the Department of Veterans Affairs. — Employees in the purchasing department of a VA hospital in the Bronx …
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How Obama Abandoned Israel — Netanyahu and the president both made mistakes, but only one purposely damaged U.S.-Israel relations. — 'Nobody has a monopoly on making mistakes. " When I was Israel's ambassador to the United States from 2009 to the end of 2013, that was my standard response …
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With Eye on Fiscal Armageddon, Texas Set to ‘Repatriate’ Its Gold To New Texas Fort Knox — Texas wants its gold back. — On Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation that will create a state-run gold depository in the Lone Star State - one that will attempt to rival those operated …
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