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Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’ — IRVING — Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday.
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‘They thought it was a bomb’: 9th grader arrested after bringing a home-built clock to school — Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to get noticed by his teachers. — Instead, he got arrested. — In an incident that has raised allegations of racism and made a Texas school district …
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Irving ISD student detained for invention resembling bomb
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Fiorina: Trump is going to hear a lot from me — 'Mr. Trump's going to be hearing quite a lot from me': Fiorina — Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, fires back at front-runner Donald Trump, one of her most vocal detractors.
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Portland artist uses period blood for Trump portrait … A Portland artist used her own menstrual blood to paint a Donald Trump portrait. She did so after hearing Trump's disparaging remarks about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. VPC — PORTLAND, Ore. - A Portland artist's unusual painting is making national headlines.
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Records Show Scant Reagan-Trump Ties — Reagan Library files indicate real-estate developer was rebuffed in many entreaties to former president — SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—Like many hopefuls before him, presidential candidate Donald Trump has embraced Ronald Reagan, the icon of the modern Republican Party.
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The Note: Debate Expectations, Reagan Library Edition — Shares- — Play
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A day before the GOP debate, Donald Trump talks national security on board a battleship
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Glenn Beck: Tea Partiers Who Support Donald Trump Are Racist
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Rand Paul Preparing To Go After Trump In The Debate: ‘I Think He Deserves Both Barrels’
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WBUR Poll: Close N.H. Race Between Trump, Carson
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Carson closes in on Trump in NH poll
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If Donald Trump wins, what country would you flee to?
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Trump, Sanders, Corbyn, Syriza, and Scottish Nationalists
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Roger Waters on Donald Trump: ‘He Is Pig-Ignorant’
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Steve Rannazzisi, Comedian Who Told of 9/11 Escape, Admits He Lied — When the comedian Steve Rannazzisi has explained his success, which includes seven seasons starring on a popular TV show, “The League,” and a one-hour special this Saturday on Comedy Central, he has frequently attributed …
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House GOP wants McConnell to go nuclear — Multiple House Republicans want Senate leaders to “go nuclear” over the Obama administration's deal with Iran now that Democrats have stymied efforts to derail the accord by conventional means. — A small but growing number of GOP lawmakers …
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House conservatives warm to McCarthy as Speaker
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CNN Spends 78 Percent of Prime Time GOP Campaign Coverage on Trump — Share it Tweet it — When the GOP candidates assemble on CNN's stage Wednesday night, they will be appearing on a network that has virtually ignored most of them, while spending vast amounts of time covering the now-frontrunner, businessman Donald Trump.
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Cable TV News Binges on Trump Coverage
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The GOP debate: 5 things to watch
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The Truth about Mass Incarceration — From the September 21, 2015, issue of NR — America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, outstripping even Russia, Cuba, Rwanda, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Though America is home to only about one-twentieth of the world's population …


‘Black Lives Matter’ post leads to police chief's retirement — SURF CITY, NC (WECT) - — Surf City Police Chief Mike Halstead has retired effective immediately following an emergency meeting called in reference to a Facebook post he made. Major Ron Shanahan will take over as Interim Chief.
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Analysts Detail Claims That Reports on ISIS Were Distorted — WASHINGTON — A group of intelligence analysts have provided investigators with documents they say show that senior military officers manipulated the conclusions of reports on the war against the Islamic State …
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Former Romney Adviser Stuart Stevens on Loss, the GOP's Race Problem, and Why Trump Won't Win — “For Donald Trump to win, everything we know about politics has to be wrong. And I don’t think it is.” — Shares — Stuart Stevens is the type of Renaissance man seemingly conjured …
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Hillary Clinton Thinks You're Stupid . . . . . . and guess what? If you support her, you are. — Newsflash: Hillary Clinton thinks you're stupid. And if you still support her, then you must be stupid, too. — During a speech at Northern Iowa University on Monday …
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GOP rivals hope more subdued debate setting throws Trump — The candidates won't have the benefit of a raucous crowd when they face off at the Reagan Presidential Library. — When Donald Trump steps onto the debate stage Wednesday, he'll face his rivals for the first time without one of his most valuable assets: a crowd.
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