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Scott Brown to endorse Trump — MILFORD, N.H. — Former Massachusetts senator Scott P. Brown, a moderate Republican who two years ago ran for Senate in New Hampshire, will endorse Donald Trump at a rally here Tuesday night, one week before the state's presidential primary.
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Why Trump Lost Iowa — Evangelicals come through for Cruz. — West Des Moines, Iowa — All of the televisions in the Sheraton ballroom at Donald Trump's caucus watch party were turned to CNN when the news arrived a little after 9:00 p.m. local time. With 97 percent of precincts reporting …
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Donald Trump Comes Out Of Iowa Looking Like Pat Buchanan — On Monday, Iowa voters did something that Republican “party elites” had failed to do for more than seven months: They rejected Donald Trump. — Trump received 24 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses, placing him closer …
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Sarah Palin talks about Trump's Iowa loss and whether they've discussed running together — DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ® flew out of Iowa on Tuesday after traveling there to campaign with presidential hopeful Donald Trump. — Yahoo News spoke to Palin …
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Trump breaks 15-hour Twitter silence — Ted Cruz's first-place finish in the Iowa caucuses Monday silenced Donald Trump for more than 15 hours. — By 11 a.m. Monday, Trump had declared to his millions of Twitter followers, “WE WILL FINALLY TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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5 takeaways from the Iowa caucuses
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Here's what to expect in the New Hampshire Republican primary
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Republican Establishment Finds Measure of Comfort in Trump Defeat
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Marco Rubio emerges as champion of battered Republican establishment
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Christie belittles Rubio as ‘the boy in the bubble’
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Donald Trump Isn't Real
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Can Marco Rubio Save Republicans From Themselves?
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Ted Cruz Wins Republican Caucuses in Iowa
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Consequences of Iowa: Trump still strong, new life for Rubio, long-term trouble for Sanders
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Trump fever has broken. Cruz out-organized him. Here's what's next
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Sometimes, Iowa Democrats award caucus delegates with a coin flip — In a couple Democratic caucus precincts Monday, a delegate was awarded with a coin toss. — It happened in precinct 2-4 in Ames, where supporters of candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton disputed the results …
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Why a ‘Virtual Tie’ in Iowa Is Better for Clinton Than Sanders — Bernie Sanders is right: The Iowa Democratic caucuses were a “virtual tie,” especially after you consider that the results aren't even actual vote tallies, but state delegate equivalents subject to all kinds of messy rounding rules and potential geographic biases.


Coin toss broke 6 Clinton-Sanders deadlocks in Iowa — and Hillary won each time — While it was hard to call a winner between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders last night, it's easy to say who was luckier. — The race between the Democrat presidential hopefuls was so tight …

Statement from IDP Chair on Tonight's Historically Close Caucus Results — DES MOINES—IDP Chair Dr. Andy McGuire released the following statement on tonight's 2016 Iowa Democratic Precinct Caucuses: — “Tonight we saw an historically close Iowa Democratic Caucus that featured …
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Bernie Sanders wants raw vote count released after tight finish in Iowa caucuses — Dramatic clash with Hillary Clinton for Democratic presidential nomination is sign public want change, says leftwing senator — Bernie Sanders has called on the Democratic party to release a raw vote count …
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How Iowa went wrong for Hillary Clinton — DES MOINES - Monday night was Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign in miniature - it began with high hopes of a doubt-eradicating victory and ended with that same old anxiety, an inch beyond the jaws of an underdog.
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Sanders campaign reviewing Iowa caucus totals, says actual result may never be known
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Sanders rally chant: 'She's a liar!'
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Hillary Clinton Declared Winner of Iowa Caucuses
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Clinton takes Iowa, beating back Sanders' strong challenge
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The surprising success of Bernie Sanders's insurgency should be a wake-up call to the Democratic establishment
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Clinton's lucky quarter: Democratic frontrunner wins 6 coin tosses in narrow Iowa caucus victory
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Caucus turnout: Robust, record-setting and surprising
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AP calls Iowa Democratic caucuses for Clinton
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Sanders: We may look into a recount
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Cruz Beats Trump in Iowa; Clinton Edges Out Sanders in Historically-Close Caucus
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Cruz apologizes for spreading rumor about Carson dropping out — Iowa Republican caucus winner Ted Cruz on Tuesday apologized to fellow candidate GOP presidential Ben Carson for spreading a rumor that the former neurosurgeon had dropped out of the race. — “Last night when our political team saw …
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Ben Carson Accuses Ted Cruz of Dirty Tricks at Iowa Caucuses — Ben Carson was incensed as the results of Monday night's Iowa caucuses rolled in, accusing the winner of spreading falsehoods about him at caucus sites. — Carson's team claimed that Ted Cruz's campaign deliberately sent emails …
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BREAKING=> Carson Accuses Cruz Camp of FOUL PLAY - Told Voters Carson Was Dropping Out — WITH PROOF!
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Carson heading home to Florida to get ‘a fresh set of clothes’
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Carson: Cruz ‘Dirty Tricks’ Ruined My Chances In Iowa!
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Woman Who Gets Waferless KitKat Demands Lifetime Supply — A woman is demanding a lifetime supply of KitKats after she bought a packet of the chocolatey treats without any wafer. — Saima Ahmad, 20, a law student from Enfield, north London, purchased a multipack of eight KitKat bars from a supermarket for £2 last month.


A Note to Readers — The Intercept recently discovered a pattern of deception in the actions of a staff member. The employee, Juan Thompson, was a staff reporter from November 2014 until last month. Thompson fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts …
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FBI joins Flint drinking water investigation — The FBI is now investigating the contamination of Flint's drinking water, a man-made public health catastrophe, which has left an unknown number of Flint children and other residents poisoned by lead and resulted in state and federal emergency declarations.
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