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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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Michael Bloomberg Says He Won't Run for President in 2016
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Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands — Republicans hoping to halt Donald J. Trump's march to their party's presidential nomination emerged from the weekend's voting contests newly emboldened by Mr. Trump's uneven electoral performance and by some nascent signs that he may be peaking with voters.
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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
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After last night, is there any way realistically that Trump doesn't win Florida?
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Cruz: The Media Is Sitting On Explosive Trump Stories
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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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Bernie's top strategist: 'Maybe they're going to put him on the ticket' — Ask people in Hillary Clinton's world whether they have a secret weapon to help win over voters under the age of old, and many will offer this answer: Bernie Sanders. — All you had to do was watch Sunday night's debate in Flint …
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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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Sanders Tells Clinton: 'Excuse Me, I'm Talking' in Arguably Sexist Debate Exchange
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Democratic Debate Takeaways: Clinton and Sanders Grow Tired of Each Other
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How The Sanders Campaign Sees “Excuse Me, I'm Talking”
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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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Storylines to Watch in Tuesday's 2016 Presidential Primaries and Republican Caucuses
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Trump, Kasich in Tight Ohio Race
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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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Woman in ‘Mystery Machine’ mini van leads police on pursuit — Suspect still at large — REDDING, Calif. - — A Shasta County woman led law enforcement officers on a pursuit in a mini van painted to look like the ‘Mystery Machine’ from the Scooby Doo cartoon.

Newt: Romney speech ‘vitriolic and nasty’ — Newt Gingrich on Monday blasted Mitt Romney's speech denouncing Donald Trump as “vitriolic and nasty,” calling it a sure indicator that the 2012 Republican nominee would never be accepted as a consensus party choice at a hypothetical contested convention this summer in Cleveland.
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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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Ex-ADL chief: Trump's ‘raise your hand’ gambit was deliberate, Nazi-style ‘fascist gesture’ — Abe Foxman calls episode ‘about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America’; says Republican candidate knew exactly what he was doing
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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 …


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.


Americans Really Don't Like Immigration, New Survey Finds — Sixty-one percent say it jeopardizes the nation. — Sixty-one percent of Americans agree that “continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States,” according to a new poll commissioned by management consulting firm …
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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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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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