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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 …


Maps Show Where Bloomberg Aides Thought He Would Be Competitive
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Michael Bloomberg Says He Won't Run for President in 2016
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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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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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Graham: We should have kicked Trump out of the party — Republicans should have expelled Donald Trump from the Republican Party, Lindsey Graham said Monday. — The former presidential candidate told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that the New York billionaire's rhetoric toward immigrants has exacerbated …
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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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At Current Rate, Trump Might Not Get to 1,237 Delegates
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The Republican ‘establishment’ made Donald Trump's nomination possible
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New anti-Trump ad highlights his bad BLEEP language
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Mitt Romney Records Phone Message for Marco Rubio's Campaign
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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.
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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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Poll: 61% of Israeli Jews Say Donald Trump Good for Israel
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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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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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Trump cracks down on protesters — CONCORD, N.C. — Donald Trump's rally here began with the candidate asking all attendees to raise their hands and take an oath to vote for him, while extended barriers cordoned off the press and plainclothes private intelligence officers scoured the crowd for protestors.


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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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 …

Clinton, Sanders go down to the wire in Michigan — Appearing for the first time in two years on a Fox News broadcast, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton joined challenger Bernie Sanders Monday evening in a town hall forum at Detroit's Gem Theatre. The hour-long event …
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Sanders to Clinton: 'Excuse me, I'm talking' … had one of their sharpest exchanges of the Democratic presidential campaign to date during Sunday's debate in Flint, Mich., when the Vermont senator cut his rival off for interrupting him. — “Excuse me, I'm talking,” Sanders said after Clinton tried …
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Sanders Tells Clinton: 'Excuse Me, I'm Talking' in Arguably Sexist Debate Exchange
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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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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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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.


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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27 giant profitable companies paid no taxes — Death and taxes are supposed to be two certainties of life. But a few companies have at least escaped the taxes part. Investors, though, don't seem all that impressed. — There are 27 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 …
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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 …