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The Risk I Will Not Take — Americans today face a profound challenge to preserve our common values and national promise. — Wage stagnation at home and our declining influence abroad have left Americans angry and frustrated. And yet Washington, D.C., offers nothing but gridlock and partisan finger-pointing.
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Michael Bloomberg Will Not Enter Presidential Race — Michael R. Bloomberg, who for months quietly laid the groundwork to run for president as an independent, will not enter the 2016 campaign, he said Monday, citing his fear that a three-way race could lead to the election of a candidate …
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Cruz to Unveil Senate Endorsements This Week — Ted Cruz's colleagues may loathe him, but they seem to have found somebody else they dislike more. With the prospect of Donald Trump's nomination looming over the GOP, Cruz is set to unveil endorsements from more than four senators this week …
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Trump Is Too Poor for a Third-Party Run — Donald Trump is not going to run as a third-party presidential candidate, even if he's denied the Republican nomination. — There, I said it. — I'm not saying whether it would be a good idea for the GOP to deny him the nomination if he gets …
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Michael Bloomberg won't mount a presidential bid
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Judge dismisses attempt to kick Ted Cruz off New York ballot
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After last night, is there any way realistically that Trump doesn't win Florida?
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Sanders's comment on white people and poverty creates social media stir … stumbled on a question at Sunday's debate over whether white Americans can empathize with blacks, stating that white people don't know what it's like to be poor. — “When you are white, you don't know what it's …
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Hillary Clinton's Lead Pipe Answer ‘Made Me Vomit In My Mouth,’ Flint Questioner Says — Neither Clinton nor Bernie Sanders was aggressive on lead pipe removal. — Flint resident Lee-Anne Walters didn't like Bernie Sanders' response to her question about lead pipes during Sunday night's Democratic presidential debate in Flint.
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Sanders to Clinton: 'Excuse me, I'm talking'
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Sanders Tells Clinton: 'Excuse Me, I'm Talking' in Arguably Sexist Debate Exchange
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Bernie's top strategist: 'Maybe they're going to put him on the ticket'
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Sanders: 'What You're Really Talking About Is Ending Gun Manufacturing in America. I Don't Agree With That'
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Storylines to Watch in Tuesday's 2016 Presidential Primaries and Republican Caucuses
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Some Rubio advisers say get out before Florida — Washington (CNN)A battle is being waged within Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's campaign about whether he should even remain in the Republican presidential race ahead of his home state primary on March 15, sources say.


Seeing Trump as vulnerable, GOP elites now eye a contested convention … PARK CITY, Utah — The presentation is an 11th-hour rebuttal to the fatalism permeating the Republican establishment: Slide by slide, state by state, it calculates how Donald Trump could be denied the nomination.
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New anti-Trump ad highlights his bad BLEEP language
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Donald Trump's 47 Percent Moment — Last week, Mitt Romney, the twice-failed GOP presidential candidate, delivered a speech that blasted Donald Trump, the current Republican front-runner, calling the tycoon “a phony, a fraud” and citing Trump's “dishonesty” and his “bullying, the greed …
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Trump, Kasich in Tight Ohio Race — PPP's newest Ohio poll finds a very close race on the Republican side- with Donald Trump slightly ahead but perhaps more reasons within the numbers to think that John Kasich will end up winning the state. — Trump leads with 38% to 35% for Kasich, 15% for Ted Cruz, and just 5% for Marco Rubio.
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Newt: Romney speech ‘vitriolic and nasty’
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Rebecca Bradley's Published Writings Reveal Opinions That Cross Line Into Hate Speech — One Wisconsin Now Uncovers State Court Justice's ‘Venomous’ Homophobia, Calls for Her Resignation
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Wisconsin Justice Apologizes For Student Columns Going Off On ‘Queers’ And AIDS
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Rebecca Bradley in 1992: ‘Queers’ with AIDS, addicts merit no sympathy
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At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Commiserate, Plot To Stop Trump — Karl Rove shared focus group findings that give hope to the GOP establishment. — Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post Senior Enterprise Editor, The Huffington Post Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post
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More Latinos Seek Citizenship to Vote Against Trump — DENVER — Donald J. Trump's harsh campaign rhetoric against Mexican immigrants has helped him win a substantial delegate lead in the Republican primary, but it is also mobilizing a different set of likely voters — six of them alone in the family of Hortensia Villegas.


US air strike ‘kills 150 Somali militants’ — A US air strike has killed more than 150 al-Shabab militants in Somalia, the Pentagon says. — Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the strike hit a training camp where a “large-scale” attack was being planned. — “We know they were going to be departing …
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U.S. Strikes Kill 150 Shabab Fighters in Somalia, Officials Say
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Naked Woman Seen Dancing Atop 18-Wheeler Following Crash on Houston Highway — A woman undressed and climbed on top of a big rig on a major highway in the Houston area Monday. — The incident, which was captured on video, took place after a pedestrian had apparently been struck on Highway 290 …

Why Nancy Reagan Didn't Want Ronald to Run for a Second Term — President Ronald Reagan was running for a second term, and Nancy Reagan was worried. The president's tight little circle of White House advisers and political strategists were confident as long as Reagan's Democratic opponent …
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Nancy Reagan's children speak out on her death
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Probe into Secret Service-photographer altercation at Trump rally — The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general is investigating an incident last week in which a Secret Service agent apparently body-slammed a Time magazine photographer during a Donald Trump campaign rally in southwest Virginia …
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Lust for Destruction — When people try to make sense of this topsy-turvy, norm-busting election year, one of the key mistake they make is to assume that the dynamics that operate for Donald Trump in the Republican primary will operate in a general election. They won't.
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Trump challenged over ties to mob-linked gambler with ugly past — Robert LiButti, top left, and Donald Trump, right. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News, photos, state of New Jersey, William Thomas Cain/Getty Images, Ron Galella/Getty Images) — The daughter of a reputed New Jersey mob figure …