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Post-debate, Trump pulls clear of competition — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has won his party's trust on top issues more than any other Republican presidential candidate, and now stands as the clear leader in the race for the GOP nomination, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
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I Am Republican, Hear Me Roar — To hear most of the Republican candidates tell it, all an American president has to do is talk tough, make demands, send more troops overseas, pour billions more dollars into the Pentagon and the world will fall in line. The notion they're peddling boils down to this …
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Jeb Bush on Donald Trump's immigration ideas: ‘A plan needs to be grounded in reality’ — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Monday night dismissed as impractical Donald Trump's proposals to erect a U.S.-Mexico border wall, use remittances to pay for its construction and to revoke birthright citizenship.
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Hillary Clinton Is Rooting for Jeb Bush
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Scott Walker: The U.S. should ‘absolutely’ stop granting birthright citizenship
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Hillary Clinton's email firm Platte River Networks was run from a loft in Denver — Democrat White House front runner used Platte River Networks of Denver, Colorado, to maintain her controversial ‘home brew’ server — Up to 60 emails with classified material have been found in a sample …
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Hillarymail ‘Chain of Custody’ Request May Lead To Indictments
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305 documents from Clinton server referred for further review
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CNN Forgets to Mention Op-Ed Writer Is a Million Dollar Bundler For Hillary
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CHELSEA O'DONNELL MISSING — Rosie O'Donnell's 17 year old daughter, Chelsea O'Donnell was reported missing. Nyack, New York police authorities have been looking for her in the Rockland County area since Sunday, August 16. She was last seen Tuesday, August 11.
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Hillary Clinton to #BlackLivesMatter in Video, “I Don't Believe You Change Hearts...” — “...you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate.” by Gabriel Reilich — As recently reported by various news outlets, Hillary Clinton held a closed-door session …
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Hillary Rolls Eyes, Lectures #BlackLivesMatter Activists — Hillary Clinton, who is routinely criticized for her lack of public availability, granted a private meeting on August 11 to activists from the group #BlackLivesMatter — a movement across the country well-known for its controversial methods of generating publicity.
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My Plan To Fix Health Care — To help more of our people achieve the American Dream, we need to make affordable, quality healthcare accessible in the 21st century. Unfortunately, President Barack Obama's one-size-fits-all, big government approach has failed to achieve this goal.
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Chris Cuomo saves drowning man in Hamptons — CNN anchor Chris Cuomo rescued a drowning man who had been swept away by a fierce rip current while boating in the Hamptons. — The “New Day” anchor and brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spotted the older man being carried …
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Divisions and Inertia in Congress May Hand Obama a Victory on Iran Deal — WASHINGTON — Partisanship has become the pre-eminent scapegoat for American political failure, an all-purpose explanation for Washington's inability to act. Yet in rare circumstances, it can actually guarantee action.
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Sen. Bob Corker: Congress should reject the bad Iran deal
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340 Rabbis Urge Congress to Support Nuclear Deal with Iran
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Little League says Iowa's allegations of another team cheating were ‘credible’ — Little League International issued a Tuesday morning news release after the outcome of a Monday game was questioned. — “The Little League International Tournament Committee recently received credible reports …
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Fox's Luntz blasted Trump at Koch seminar — In a fresh exchange of accusations, Donald Trump says Fox should fire its focus-group moderator. — Donald Trump's feud with GOP pollster Frank Luntz escalated Monday - with Trump calling on Fox News to fire Luntz from overseeing its post-debate focus groups …
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Ex-lover says Donald Trump was great in bed — Donald Trump would have even higher poll numbers if he had dated more women before he married his beautiful wife, Melania. — Penthouse Pet Sandra Taylor, who went on three dates with Trump decades ago, agrees with the famous Post headline, “The Best Sex I Ever Had.”
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Lindsey Graham calls Donald Trump the Wizard of Oz: 'There's nothing behind the curtain' — Donald Trump's immigration plan will be “his eventual undoing,” South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham says. — In an interview with The Des Moines Register published Tuesday, Graham outlined …
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Congress Sends Letter Requesting These Seven Things From Planned Parenthood — Make Note of Last One — The House Oversight Committee on Friday penned a letter to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards requesting seven documents or pieces of information be handed over by next week.
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20 times Donald Trump has changed his mind since June — Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, has done a lot of things no other GOP candidate this year would dare try: pick a fight with Fox News. Bad-mouth prisoners of war. Wear Palm Beach casual-wear to the Iowa State Fair.
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Donald Trump on ‘Meet the Press,’ annotated
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UCF fraternity member who chants ‘rape’ in video is suspect in sex assault — A UCF fraternity brother identified as chanting “rape” in a video recorded in June is the same man accused of sexual assaulting a woman at the fraternity's off-campus apartments last year, according to the victim's complaint released by the university.
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