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Bernie Sanders' campaign sues DNC — Bernie Sanders' campaign on Friday sued the Democratic National Committee for suspending its access to the national voter database, saying the move threatens to undermine the Vermont senator's presidential run. — Even as the campaign admitted its staffers …
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DNC penalizes Sanders campaign for improper access of Clinton voter data — Officials with the Democratic National Committee have accused the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders of improperly accessing confidential voter information gathered by the rival campaign of Hillary Clinton, according to several party officials.
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Sanders Campaign Sues Democratic Party After Data Breach — Senior adviser Tad Devine accuses party leaders of “grinding our campaign to a halt” in an appearance on Bloomberg Politics' With All Due Respect. — michaelcbender — jeneps — AndyNewsNowInDC
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Sanders sues Democratic Party — Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) presidential campaign filed a lawsuit Friday evening in federal court against the Democratic National Committee, following the suspension of his campaign from the DNC's voter database. — Earlier in the day …
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DNC Data Breach: What Happened and What It Means for Bernie Sanders' Campaign — A Bernie Sanders campaign staffer has been fired after allegedly accessing data from the Hillary Clinton campaign, Sanders campaign officials said. — What the Sanders Campaign Is Saying
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Franklin Pierce/Herald poll: Cruz, Rubio, Christie surge toward front-runner Trump; Hillary climbs back in NH — A pack of more proven GOP contenders led by U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz is surging closer to Donald Trump in New Hampshire, while Democrat Hillary Clinton has clawed …
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Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders Bristle at Holding Debates on Weekends
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Data Security and Privacy
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Sanders Campaign Threatens Lawsuit Against DNC For Blocking Data Access
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Hillary Clinton's dream debate is one nobody watches
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Bernie Sanders campaign accesses Hillary Clinton data, gets suspended from DNC voter files
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Marco Rubio explains why he skipped vote, swipes at Rand Paul — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, on Friday defended his decision to skip a major vote in the Senate that afternoon to fund the government through September, and he took a swipe at a GOP rival who called on him to resign from Congress.
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Rick Perry Praises Cruz, Rips Trump And Rubio In Iowa Radio Interview
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Rubio misses spending bill vote
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Congress clears $1.8 trillion tax and spending bills
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The Republicans in Congress Are Surrendering to Obama
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Conservative Ire Grows Over Marco Rubio's Past on Immigration
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Paul: Rubio should resign over missed Senate votes
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Hagel: The White House Tried to ‘Destroy’ Me — In an exclusive interview, Chuck Hagel said the Obama administration micromanaged the Pentagon, stabbed him in the back on the way out — and still has no strategy for fixing Syria. — Jet-lagged from a long overseas trip …
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President Obama Grants Commutations and Pardons
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President Obama commutes sentences of about 100 drug offenders
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Obama Commutes Sentences of 95 Prisoners and Pardons Two
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Trump Lead Grows Nationally; 41% of His Voters Want to Bomb Country From Aladdin; Clinton Maintains Big Lead — PPP's newest national Republican primary poll finds Donald Trump holding his largest lead yet in the wake of Tuesday night's debate. He's at 34% to 18% for Ted Cruz …
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Poll: 30 percent of GOP voters support bombing any Arab sounding nation — even the fictional land of Aladdin
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Donald Trump left Joe Scarborough stunned after being asked about Vladimir Putin killing journalists — During a Friday-morning interview with Donald Trump, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was baffled by the Republican front-runner's embrace of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The Trump Pattern — Again and again over the last six months …
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Systemic Change Needed After Faulty Times Article — Mistakes are bound to happen in the news business, but some are worse than others. — What I'll lay out here was a bad one. It involved a failure of sufficient skepticism at every level of the reporting and editing process …
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The New York Times Just Memory-Holed This Devastating Obama Admission — A story published by the New York Times late Thursday night caused some major media waves. The story, which was written by reporters Peter Baker and Gardiner Harris, included a remarkable admission by Obama …
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FDA proposes tanning bed age restrictions and other important safety measures … For Immediate Release — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced important proposed steps to protect public health by preventing the use of sunlamp products (also commonly known as indoor tanning beds) …
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Progressive PR Firm Closes Down Over Sexual Harassment And Assault Allegations — The group represented some of the biggest progressive organizations. — WASHINGTON — FitzGibbon Media, a prominent progressive public relations firm, abruptly shut down on Thursday amid allegations …
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SCHADENFREUDE ALERT! Major Progressive PR Firm Melts Down In Sex Scandal
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College Professor, Students Sport Yellow Jewish Stars to ‘Protest Islamophobia’ — A University of San Diego professor and her students have raised eyebrows in the pro-Israel community after they led a protest this week against anti-Muslim rhetoric by wearing yellow Jewish star badges …
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Mideast Christians Deserve U.S. Refuge
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Congress Votes To Fund Nearly 300,000 Visas For Muslim Migrants In One Year — The House passed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)'s $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, negotiated with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). A majority of House Republicans voted for the measure, which fully funds Obama's refugee …
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How old-fashioned logrolling produced Congress' massive budget deal
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New York pizza parlor owner admits to recruiting for ISIS — The owner of a Rochester, N.Y., pizza parlor pleaded guilty on Thursday to trying to recruit people to join Islamic extremists in the Middle East. — The man, 31-year-old Mufid Elfgeeh, used the Internet to find potential supporters …
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