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Trump's outrageous claim that ‘thousands’ of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks — GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You raised some eyebrows yesterday with comments you made at your latest rally. I want to show them, relating to 9/11. … TRUMP: “It did happen. I saw it.”
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Washington Post's Fact Checker Doesn't Read the Washington Post — I wrote earlier today about the liberal media attacking Donald Trump's statement that on 9/11, “thousands and thousands” of American Muslims in Jersey City celebrated the successful terrorist attacks.
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Christie on Trump's claims about New Jersey after 9/11: 'I don't recall'
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When the Press Attacks Donald Trump, the Truth Is Optional [Updated]
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Donald Trump Again Insists He Saw Celebrations in New Jersey on Sept. 11
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Trump: ‘Thousands’ in Jersey City cheered on 9/11 (VIDEO)
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Christie on Trump saying ‘thousands’ in N.J. cheered on 9/11: 'I don't recall that'
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The Note: Trump on Terrorism
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We Found Where Donald Trump's “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From — So today, this happened. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (yes, him again) re-tweeted the following blatantly racist graphic: … Not only is this racist, it's completely false.
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Trump takes heat for tweet about black murder rates — Donald Trump is taking heat on social media for a Sunday afternoon tweet of statistics purporting to show that the vast majority of murdered black people in the U.S. are killed by other black people. — The tweet was apparently Trump's response …
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Donald Trump retweeted a very wrong set of numbers on race and murder
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Donald Trump embraces open racism.
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Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government — Broad criticism, but positive performance ratings in many areas — Overview — A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation's elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar.
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The Daily 202: Why Vitter's last-minute Syrian refugee gambit failed
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John Bel Edwards calls Medicaid expansion ‘among the highest priorities’
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Telling the Truth About ISIS and Raqqa — On Saturday night, five young Syrians slouched into a dive bar in New York and ordered drinks. When the bartender asked if off-brand vodka was O.K., they had to smile. They were all exiles from Raqqa, the provincial city in northern Syria that ISIS …
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Pfizer and Allergan to Merge in $155 Billion Inversion Deal — Merger will move one of the top names in corporate America to a foreign country — Pfizer Inc. and Allergan PLC said Monday that they would merge in a so-called inversion deal worth up to about $155 billion that would create the world's biggest drug maker by sales.
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ObamaCare's imploding even without repeal — It's looking like ObamaCare won't survive even if Congress can't manage to repeal it. — The nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, said last week that it's losing too much — $425 million — from policies sold on the health exchanges, and may have to pull out by 2017.
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Donald Trump Steals From His Attacks on Jeb Bush to Hit Hillary Clinton's ‘Stamina’ — Donald J. Trump has, over the last few days, been road-testing a new criticism of Hillary Rodham Clinton — that she is too low-energy to be president. — After using that line of argument …
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Clinton Leads Trump in Trust to Handle Terrorism
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Muslim UC student says she was attacked because of her religion — 'I'm terrified to cross the street now,' woman says — A Muslim woman is speaking out after she says she was called a terrorist and almost run over by an angry man in Clifton Monday night.
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Ben Carson, author of book about the Constitution, incorrectly states that Thomas Jefferson crafted it — It's a common misconception that Thomas Jefferson participated in drafting the United States Constitution in 1787. But as Republican presidential candidate and retired pediatric …
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Richard Dawkins says UK cinemas should screen the Lord's Prayer — Vociferous critic of religion says anyone thin-skinned enough to be offended by church advert deserves to be offended — The Church of England has received unlikely backing from the biologist and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins …
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Ex-Benghazi investigator sues Trey Gowdy for discrimination and defamation — A former investigator for the House Benghazi Committee filed a federal lawsuit against the committee Monday, opening a new chapter in legal skirmishes over the Benghazi attacks and subsequent investigations.
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The Opportunist — On the morning of October 10th, Marco Rubio, Florida's junior senator, mounted a small stage at the Elks Lodge in Boulder City, Nevada, a popular retirement spot near Las Vegas. In his twenties, as an obscure Republican state legislator, Rubio exhibited such innate political skill …