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Protester gets punched at Trump rally. Trump: “Maybe he deserved to get roughed up” — Yesterday, at a Donald Trump rally in Birmingham, AL, a local activist named Mercutio Southall Jr. started shouting “Black Lives Matter!” as Donald Trump spoke. What followed was a physical altercation between Southall …
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Donald Trump: My Fans Were Right To Beat Up Black Protester — After his supporters beat up a Black Lives Matter protester on video, Donald Trump suggested that they may have done the right thing. — The protester, a black man, reportedly started chanting Black Lives Matter at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturay.
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Trump doubles down: Thousands in NJ cheered on 9/11 — GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump is doubling down on comments that thousands of people in parts of New Jersey with large Arab populations cheered on 9/11. — Trump said at a rally on Saturday in Birmingham …

Black activist punched at Trump rally — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A white man punched and attempted to choke a black protester who was thrown on the ground at a Donald Trump rally here on Saturday morning, as an onlooker yelled, “Don't choke him! Don't choke him!”
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Trump advocates waterboarding enemy combatants
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Donald Trump: Open to Independent Bid if GOP Doesn't Treat Him ‘Fairly’
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Black protester attacked at Donald Trump rally called ‘monkey’ and other racial slurs, he says
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Cancel the Debate! CNN Caught Selectively-Editing Trump's ‘Muslim’ Comments
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Donald Trump Says He Would Bring Back Waterboarding
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Majority of Americans Feel Like ‘Stranger in Own Country’
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Donald Trump Calls for Surveillance of ‘Certain Mosques’ and a Syrian Refugee Database
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Poll: Trump retakes lead, Cruz surges in IA; Rubio second in NH — Donald Trump has returned to the lead in Iowa while Ted Cruz has now surged past Ben Carson into second place. Carson has slipped from a first-place tie into third. — While Iowa's Republicans generally feel Trump is ready …
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Trump leads, Carson second as GOP voters favor change over experience
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Louisiana Just Voted to Give a Quarter of a Million People Health Care — Republican Sen. David Vitter lost his bid to be the next governor of Louisiana on Saturday, and it wasn't even close. The two-term senator lost the runoff election to Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards by double digits …
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John Bel Edwards beats David Vitter to become Louisiana's next governor — State Rep. John Bel Edwards, a relatively unknown Democrat from a rural Amite, will be the state's next governor after toppling Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., in one of the biggest political upsets in the state's history.
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John Bel Edwards, Democrat, Defeats David Vitter in Louisiana Governor's Race
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Edwards beats Vitter in Louisiana governor's race
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Hillary's hypocrisy — It's an odd world. Glamour magazine recently named the former Bruce Jenner as its Woman of the Year. In all respectable circles, she is of course now recognized as Caitlyn Jenner, after coming out as a woman. In this context, coming out is simply to be understood as an act of self-declaration.
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The Objectification of Muslims in America — The first Muslims who came to the United States were likely African slaves. Later, in the middle of the 19th century, Muslims emigrated from the territories that would become Syria and Lebanon and settled in places like Ohio and Michigan.

Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier. — TWENTY-FOUR years ago this month, my wife and I married in Barcelona, Spain. Two weeks after our wedding, flush with international idealism, I had the bright idea of sharing a bit of American culture with my Spanish in-laws by cooking a full Thanksgiving dinner.


Five Syrians Stopped at Laredo International Bridge One — Five more Syrians have been stopped at a Laredo port of entry on Friday. This brings the total number of Syrians seeking to enter the US through our city this week up to 13. — According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security …
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