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Witless Ape Rides Escalator — Donald Trump is in the race. — Donald Trump may be the man America needs. Having been through four bankruptcies, the ridiculous buffoon with the worst taste since Caligula is uniquely positioned to lead the most indebted organization in the history of the human race.
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Donald Trump Hired Paid Actors To Attend Presidential Launch Event — “I am officially running for president of the United States and we are going to make our country great again,” proclaimed Donald Trump in the lobby of Trump Tower. And with that, Trump ended his decades long flirtation …
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Fact checking Donald Trump's presidential announcement speech — Businessman Donald Trump is a fact checker's dream ... and nightmare. He spouts off so many “facts,” often twisted or wrong, that it takes a lot of time to hack through the weeds. So here are some of the highlights …
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@realDonaldTrump - Mr. Trump should know he's doing something right when the malcontents go ballistic in the press! There is no denying Donald J. Trump's accomplishments and drive to create opportunity for every willing American to succeed. His own success is testament to the job-creating achievements …
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Donald Trump's First Speech Was Basically Filled With Lies
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Neil Young, Donald Trump Spar Over ‘Rockin’ in the Free World' Use
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The Note: What Candidate Trump Means For The GOP
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Trump Says He'd ‘Win Easily’ If He Ran With Oprah
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Full transcript of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential announcement
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Donald Trump has spent years courting Hillary and other Dems
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Senate GOP floats two-year Obamacare fix — Senate Republicans are coalescing around a plan to extend Obamacare subsidies for up to two years if the Supreme Court strikes them this month. — The court is due to rule within days on whether the president's health care law allows …
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G.O.P. Is Wary That Health Care Win Could Have Its Own Risks
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A Victory for Obamacare's Challengers Will Be a Disaster for Republican Candidates
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A California Labor Ruling Just Said Uber Drivers Are Employees. That's Uber's Worst Nightmare. — In what could be an explosive decision, the California Labor Commission has found that a driver for Uber in San Francisco is an employee of the company. That's from a ruling filed in state court …
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496 Uber cars seized amid crackdown on illegal pickups
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AT&T just got hit with a $100 million fine after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data — The Federal Communications Commission slapped AT&T with a $100 million fine Wednesday, accusing the country's second largest cellular carrier of improperly slowing down Internet speeds for customers who had signed up for “unlimited” data plans.
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Hillary Clinton Walks the Line Between Presidential Ally and Aspirant — WASHINGTON — If there was one moment recently in which President Obama could have used Hillary Rodham Clinton's help, it was on Sunday, as the president scrambled to salvage his trade deal, which had been halted by congressional Democrats.
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Bernie Sanders surge forms backdrop for Hillary Clinton S.C. visit
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Jim Webb: Presidential Decision Coming In Next Two Weeks
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Police seized his life savings without charging him for a crime. Now he's fighting back. — Charles Clarke entered the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport last February eager to go back to his mother after a months-long visit with relatives.
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Innocent College Student's Life Savings Seized by Feds
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Walker leads nationally in new poll — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leads a tight field of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a new survey from Public Policy Polling. — Walker is alone in first place in the poll with 17 percent, followed by former Florida …
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Walker, Bush, Rubio lead GOP field; Clinton Still Dominant
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Why Marco Rubio scares all other presidential candidates
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Roger Ailes's Demotion Signals Power Shift Within Murdoch Empire — Rupert Murdoch issues a stinging rebuke. — Shares — For much of the past 15 years, Roger Ailes has operated with virtual impunity inside Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Nothing, it seemed, could induce Murdoch …
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For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April suggests that economic activity has been expanding moderately after having changed little during the first quarter. The pace of job gains picked up while the unemployment rate remained steady.
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Taken — I took some time this weekend to re-read Jennifer Gonnerman's piece on the odyssey of Kalief Browder. I wanted to understand how, precisely, it happened that a boy was snatched off the streets of New York, repeatedly beaten, and subjected to the torture of solitary confinement, and yet no one was held accountable.


Carly for America? Bad. CARLY for America? Fine. — Back in April, the executive director of the super PAC backing Carly Fiorina dared the Federal Election Commission to sanction the organization for calling itself “Carly for America,” which violated rules prohibiting using a candidate's name …


Meet The Valedictorian Who Turned Graduation Into A ‘Shake It Off’ Flashmob — Their parents had no idea what was coming. — The commencement speech arms race is no joke this year. It takes something pretty special to grab attention during a season when one valedictorian got …
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Rachel Dolezal: I cried reading Caitlyn Jenner's story — it ‘resonated’ — Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP chapter president accused of pretending to be black, said she cried while reading about Caitlyn Jenner's journey to becoming a woman because it “resonated” with her.
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CBO: Debt to hit 101 percent of GDP by 2039 — U.S. debt will hit 101 percent of the nation's economic output by 2039, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in a report released Tuesday. — That's slightly lower than the nonpartisan CBO's projection from a year ago …
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