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Vester Flanagan Threatened Colleagues, Played the Race Card for Years — The cold-blooded Roanoke killer kept getting fired, kept threatening co-workers, and kept claiming he was the real victim. — Vester Lee Flanagan claimed in a suicide note Wednesday that June's massacre of black parishioners …
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Lessons From the Murders of TV Journalists in the Virginia Shooting — The slaying of two journalists Wednesday as they broadcast live to a television audience in Virginia is still seared on our screens and our minds, but it's a moment not only to mourn but also to learn lessons.
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SEE IT: Video shows Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan in July road rage incident — A former reporter-turned killer who considered himself a “human powder keg” ignited behind the wheel as well. — A recently emerged YouTube video shows Vester Lee Flanagan II, who also went by the name Bryce Williams …
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President Obama talks Va. shooting with Monica Malpass — Action News anchor Monica Malpass was on assignment Wednesday to interview President Barack Obama one-on-one at the White House. — They discussed several topics, including the shooting of two TV news staffers during a live report in Virginia.

On Wednesday, America met a deeply evil human being: Vester Lee Flanagan II, also known as reporter Bryce Williams.
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TV news reporter, cameraman are fatally shot during live broadcast in Virginia; suspected shooter …
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Driver Breaks Into Dance Following Downtown L.A. Pursuit — Cameras captured a driver breaking into dance following a pursuit in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday night. — Police attempted to stop the woman for driving erratically near Seventh Street and Towne Avenue around 10:10 p.m …
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Q poll: Trump numbers soar, Hillary continues slide — A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday shows Donald Trump widening his lead over other Republican presidential challengers and Vice President Joseph Biden running slightly better than Hillary Clinton against leading GOP contenders
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Biden More Competitive Than Clinton Against Leading Republicans: Poll
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Sanders to Democratic Party elite: Consider me, not Hillary Clinton
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Joe Biden Isn't Sure Family Is Ready for Run — In a conference call on Wednesday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. told Democratic National Committee members that he was uncertain if his family had the “emotional fuel” for another presidential campaign. — The call was intended as a pitch …
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Tom Harkin Cautions Joe Biden Against Running for President
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Behind the Biden hype
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Hillary Clinton Takes ‘Responsibility’ for Email Use, Saying It 'Wasn't the Best Choice'
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Report for Planned Parenthood finds sting videos manipulated — A report commissioned by Planned Parenthood has found that the sting videos targeting its tissue donation practices contain intentionally deceptive edits, missing footage and inaccurately transcribed conversations.
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Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos Were Altered, Analysis Finds — WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood on Thursday gave congressional leaders and a committee that is investigating allegations of criminality at its clinics an analysis it commissioned concluding that “manipulation” …
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Pollsters dumbfounded by Trump — Polling experts agree on one thing when it comes to Donald Trump's presidential run: They've never seen anything like it. — The businessman's dominance of the Republican presidential race is forcing experienced political hands to question whether everything …
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Inside the Trump-Bush melodrama: Decades of tension and discomfort — Donald Trump spent a day in January 2014 hobnobbing with politicians at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. The billionaire mogul touted legalizing gambling with state House Speaker Steve Crisafulli …
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MSNBC moves Al Sharpton to Sunday mornings — Al Sharpton is leaving MSNBC's weekday dayside lineup, and moving to Sunday mornings. — Sharpton's last weekday “PoliticsNation” will be Sept. 4. He moves to Sundays a month later on Oct. 4, according to a memo sent to MSNBC staff …
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Usain Bolt wiped out by cameraman on Segway when celebrating 200m gold — Justin Gatlin could not get close to Usain Bolt in the 200m final in Beijing - but it appears he might have had better luck if he had been on a Segway and armed with a camera. — Bolt streaked clear of his sprint rival …
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White House pushes for Iran filibuster — The administration seeks to tamp down expectations, but the numbers of supportive Senate Democrats are adding up. — President Barack Obama's almost certain to get the Iran nuclear deal through Congress — but whether he gets there by filibuster …
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Austria Finds Up to 50 Bodies Thought to Be of Migrants in Truck — VIENNA — The partly decomposing bodies of as many as 50 people assumed to be migrants being smuggled across Europe were found in a truck abandoned on a highway east of Vienna on Thursday, the police said.
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Austrian police fear as many as 50 migrants dead inside lorry
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Stop blaming me for Hurricane Katrina — Ten years later, the name ‘Brownie’ is still identified with the government's failures. Here's what really happened. — Getty. — SHARES — Had I left the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the spring of 2005, my life would be very different today.


The havoc that Trump wreaks — Every sulfurous belch from the molten interior of the volcanic Trump phenomenon injures the chances of a Republican presidency. After Donald Trump finishes plastering a snarling face on conservatism, any Republican nominee will face a dauntingly steep climb …
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Derrick Rose — Accused of Drugging and Gang Raping Ex-Girlfriend — Accused of Drugging ... AND GANG RAPING EX-GIRLFRIEND — 8/26/2015 5:35 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF — EXCLUSIVE — Derrick Rose is being sued by a woman who claims the NBA superstar and two of his friends drugged and gang raped her.
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