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Trump denies mocking journalist who has disability, demands an apology — Donald Trump has been accused of using this moment during a Nov. 24, 2015, rally in South Carolina to mock a reporter who has a disablity that limits flexibility in his arms. (Reuters)
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Donald Trump Says His Mocking of New York Times Reporter Was Misread
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The Ecstasy of Donald Trump
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Trump-Mania? — David Frum took up the cause of proposing yet another plan for how “the establishment” can bring down Donald Trump. His suggestion is that the driving force behind Trump-mania is immigration, and so they should call out Trump …
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GOP in panic over Trump
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“It's Alive. It's Alive ...” — Read the editorial …
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He said, 'All right, let's do this.' Then he jumped the White House fence. — A man draped in an American flag was taken into custody Thursday afternoon after he jumped the fence of the White House while the first family was inside celebrating Thanksgiving.
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President Obama Compares Syrian Refugees to Mayflower Pilgrims, Administration Says States Can't Block Them
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Video Is Never Enough … On October 20, 2014, a white Chicago Police Department officer named Jason Van Dyke fired 16 shots at a black Chicago resident, a 17-year-old named Laquan McDonald. Van Dyke started shooting McDonald while he had his back turned on the officer, and he continued firing after McDonald had fallen to the ground.
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Protesters for Laquan McDonald Plan Chicago March to Disrupt Black Friday
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Black Friday brawls break out across the country, including several ugly incidents at Walmart and food court melee — VIDEO — Call it Black-eye Friday. — Brawls broke out at Walmart retail stores and other shopping centers across the country on Thursday evening, the official start of “Black Friday.”
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FBI using elite surveillance teams to track at least 48 high risk ISIS suspects — With as many as 1000 active cases, Fox News has learned at least 48 ISIS suspects are considered so high risk that the FBI is using its elite tracking squads known as the mobile surveillance teams or MST to track them domestically.
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EXCLUSIVE: FBI warns NY police about anti-Islam Arizona man who may be headed to state to confront Muslim group — After tracing the cross-country movements of a menacing anti-Muslim rabble-rouser from Arizona, the FBI took the unusual step of issuing an alert to New York law enforcement agencies to look out for him, sources said.
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Black Tape at Harvard Law — Cambridge, Mass. — IN a grand corridor of Harvard Law School, framed professors' photographs hang on a wall. A week ago, someone put slivers of black tape over the faces of most of the African-American professors. I am one of those whose photograph was marked.
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The 2016 ballot wars begin — Voting doesn't begin for another two months but some presidential candidates have already failed their first big ballot test - actually getting on the ballot in all 50 states. — The business of getting a candidate's name on the ballot is a costly and complex endeavor …
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Bloomberg: U.S. climate ‘crazies’ are being forced to accept reality — Bloomberg: U.S. climate ‘crazies’ forced to accept reality — (CNN)The realities of climate change will force American deniers — or “crazies” — to accept reality, Michael Bloomberg told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an interview that will air Friday.
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‘Teaching Children About World Religions and Ethics Could Help CounterIslamophobia’: A Response — a response to — Teaching Children About World Religions and Ethics Could Help Counter Islamophobia — Dr. O'Donnell tells us that teaching about world religions and ethics …


One dead after shooting at Biloxi Waffle House … BILOXI — A Waffle House customer shot and killed an employee after she told him to put out a cigarette at the U.S. 90 business in the early-morning hours Friday, police said. — Biloxi police Sgt. Donnie Dobbs said the 52-year-old employee …
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