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France train shooting crew left passengers to take terrorist down — Train staff on board train which was the scene of a foiled terrorist attack accused of abandoning passengers — A man named in reports as Ayoub el-Qahzzani opened fire on train which had more than 550 passengers on board
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France train shooting: Americans overpower gunman — Forensics experts check the crime scene — Three people have been hurt after a heavily armed man opened fire on a train in northern France, before being overpowered by two American passengers. — The incident happened …
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Official: 2 U.S. Marines stop Islamist attacker on train in France — European official: France shooting a terrorist attack — As a gunman on an Amsterdam-to-Paris train was about to launch an attack by loading his Kalashnikov he was surprised by two U.S. Marines in civilian clothing …
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2 American Service Members Foil Gunman in Train Attack — PARIS — The two American service members who tackled a suspected terrorist on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris rushed him even though he was fully armed, then grabbed him by the neck and beat him over the head …
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US soldiers prevent French train massacre: latest
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Trump's audacious Southern spectacle is part of his strategy — MOBILE, Ala. — It was the most audacious Donald Trump spectacle yet in a summer full of them, as the Republican presidential front-runner, in his Boeing 757, thundered over a football stadium here Friday night and gave …
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Trump tells Alabama crowd he can't wait for the election — Donald Trump commanded an fervent crowd Friday night in Mobile, Ala., as the Republican presidential front-runner said he wished voting for the 2016 election was already underway. — “You know, if this were another country …

Ornstein's Warning — Us old folks remember a time when AEI's …
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Maybe This Time Really Is Different — Historical context is a great asset.
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Jeb Bush Super PAC Sends Mailer To 86,000 Iowans With Jeb's Head On A Black Body — Jeb Bush has been lagging in the polls, trailing Donald Trump by a wide margin nationally and in early states. — Nevertheless, he's still considered one of the most likely eventual nominees by pundits and political experts.
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Why Conservatives Should Care About Ferguson — Last Saturday I made a first-ever visit to the down town Dallas Police Department to fill out a report. I had never been to a police department before. My only image of one was the police station I had seen on the television series Hill Street Blues.


Ellen Page Confronts Ted Cruz on Gay Rights at Iowa State Fair — While Sen. Ted Cruz was grilling pork chops at the Iowa State Fair today, actress Ellen Page, wearing a hat and sunglasses, snuck her way up to the grill and asked the GOP presidential candidate about “the persecution of gays in the workplace and LGBT rights.”
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Ellen Page confronts Ted Cruz on LGBT issues
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Ted Cruz Criticizes Carter Day After Wrenching Talk on Cancer
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Hillary Clinton's Woes Pushing Joe Biden to Reach Out to Those Who Could Back a Campaign — WASHINGTON — As Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign struggles with sliding poll numbers, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s exploration of a presidential candidacy is taking on a new seriousness.
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With the FBI Investigating Clinton's Emails, Bernie Sanders Should Be Considered the Democratic Frontrunner — Last year, if someone told you that by August of 2015, a poll would show Bernie Sanders ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, what would you say?
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Inspector Clouseau was unavailable (4) — Omri Ceren emails an update on the IAEA side deal with Iran on Parchin. I think that readers who have followed this important story so far will find this of interest as well. Omri writes: — As was more or less inevitable …
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Read TIME's cover story and watch Trump's take on the Clintons, his opponents and how to change American politics — There are some things you just can't do in politics, not at the presidential level, anyway. — This is a game like any other, with rules honed over decades by the pros …
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Scott Walker: I don't have time for Black Lives Matter — let's talk about ‘things that matter’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Campaigning in New Hampshire, where he finds himself tied in the polls with also-rans Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker …
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Scott Walker talks birthright citizenship
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Mr. Trump's immigrant-bashing rhetoric breeds violence — DONALD TRUMP'S rapidly expanding catalogue of bombast is already a weighty tome, and it's a fool's errand to take each of his utterances seriously. Still, his loathsome comment on Wednesday, in which he excused violence …
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Pennsylvania becomes fifth state to find no Planned Parenthood wrongdoing — Pennsylvania has found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood in the state after a review, according to a letter from the state health department. — That decision makes it the fifth state to announce that they have found …
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