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Hardline Republicans To Paul Ryan: Family Time Isn't In The Job Description For Speaker — WASHINGTON — Hardline conservatives were skeptical of Rep. Paul Ryan's potential bid for speaker almost immediately after he announced it, but it's not just differences in policy or process they are wary of.
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Conservative media mocks ‘Emperor Ryan’ — <p>Conservative media pundits chafed at Paul Ryan's list of conditions upon which he would agree to the speakership, mocking him as "Emperor Ryan" and "King Paul."</p><p> Ryan, the reluctant draftee to one of the most powerful offices …


First Read: 'We Don't Like Our Candidates Very Much' — First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — Voters in the NBC/WSJ poll: “We don't like our candidates very much”
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Speaker Ryan's Conditions
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10 Freedom Caucus Members Publicly Reject Paul Ryan, Enough To Doom His Candidacy For Speaker
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House Freedom Caucus Skeptical of Ryan's Terms
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Biden swipes at Hillary: ‘Naive’ to think GOP is the enemy — Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday took a swipe at Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, saying it's “naive” to think the country can be governed without working with Republicans.
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Joe Biden Will Not Run for President in 2016 — WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Wednesday that he would not be a candidate in the 2016 presidential campaign, bringing to a close a three-month exploration that began shortly after the death of his eldest child and threatened to fracture the Democratic Party.
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Biden not running for president — <p>Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday ended months of breathless will-he-or-won't-he speculation about a potential presidential run, saying he's concluded that he's simply "out of time" to mount a real and winnable campaign.</p><p> The announcement …

What Hillary's claim that Republicans are her ‘enemies’ is really about
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WBUR Poll: Clinton Rises Again In New Hampshire
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Full text: Biden's announcement that he won't run for president
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Vice President Joe Biden is not running for president in 2016 …
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The Note: The Joe Biden, Paul Ryan Split Screen
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Netanyahu: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate the Jews — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked public uproar when on Wednesday he claimed that the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was the one who planted the idea of the extermination of European Jewry in Adolf Hitler's mind.
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Netanyahu Draws Broad Criticism After Saying a Palestinian Inspired Holocaust — Mr. Netanyahu said in a speech to the Zionist Congress on Tuesday night that “Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews,” according to a transcript provided by his office.
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Historians, politicians slam PM's ‘distortion of history’
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Germany in response to Netanyahu: We are responsible for Holocaust
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Netanyahu says Palestinian gave Hitler idea for the Holocaust
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Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Donald Trump Following ‘Live’ Appearance Cancellation — Donald Trump will no longer be stopping by “Jimmel Kimmel Live” tonight, as the presidential hopeful cancelled his appearance just hours before he was set for the late-night show. — Kimmel announced the news Tuesday morning on Howard Stern's radio show.
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Donald Trump Says He Would Consider Closing Down Some US Mosques
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Donald Trump Would ‘Absolutely’ Close Down Mosques In Order to Fight ISIS
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Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Attributes (POLL) — Donald Trump leads the Republican presidential field in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, not only in vote preferences but in expectations as well — a remarkable feat for the non-politician who's surprised …
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Donald Trump Says Jeb Bush 'Embarrassed by What's Happening'
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Cops: Teen who lost tongue in sexual assault charged as an adult — By Lisa Weismann — Police say the 16-year-old who got his tongue bitten off while sexually assaulting a woman during a home invasion is being charged as an adult. — Antoine Miller has been charged …
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In U.S., 58% Back Legal Marijuana Use — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — PRINCETON, N.J. — A majority of Americans continue to say marijuana use should be legal in the United States, with 58% holding that view, tying the high point in Gallup's 46-year trend. — Americans' support for legal marijuana has steadily grown over time.


‘Back to the Future’ Writer: Biff Tannen Is Based on Donald Trump — Yes, today, October 21st, 2015, is the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to in Back to the Future Part II. The film's architect, Bob Gale, opens up about his prescient film. — There's a very specific analog between Biff Tannen …
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Khloe Kardashian, Lamar Odom Call Off Divorce ... We're Giving Marriage a Second Chance — Khloe and Lamar have jointly gone to court to dismiss their divorce case, because they want to stay husband and wife ... TMZ has learned. — Khloe's lawyer Laura Wasser went before a judge Wednesday morning …
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CNN Hires Bob Beckel Months After Fox Kicked Him to the Curb — He was the token angry liberal on Fox News for many years—until they fired him over ‘personal issues.’ Months later, he's resurfaced at CNN, looking for redemption. — Welcome back, Bob. — Four months after being …
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MYTHBUSTERS TO END WITH FINAL SEASON — Exclusive: Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman react to Discovery's longest-running series concluding in separate interviews — There's no debunking this one: The next season of Discovery's Mythbusters will be its last, EW has learned exclusively.
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Dog shot by Florida City police officer — Animal rescue volunteer says dog shot 3 times in head — Author: Amanda Batchelor, Senior Digital Editor, abatchelor@local10.com — Neki Mohan, Reporter, Anchor, nmohan@Local10.com — FLORIDA CITY, Fla. - — A woman from Florida City …
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