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Trump: Transgender people can use whatever bathroom they want — Transgender people should be able to use whatever bathroom they want, Donald Trump said Thursday. — “Oh, I had a feeling that question was going to come up, I will tell you. North Carolina did something that was very strong.
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Donald Trump was asked about anti-transgender bathroom bills. His answer was ... correct. — On Thursday, Donald Trump was asked about laws that discriminate against a minority group. But it didn't go how you might think. — Trump was asked about North Carolina's anti-LGBTQ law …
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Donald Trump Comes Out Against North Carolina's ‘Very Strong’ Bathroom Bill
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Trump Blasts North Carolina Law, Says Caitlyn Jenner Should Pee Where She Wants
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Britain issues warning for LGBT travelers visiting North Carolina and Mississippi
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Donald Trump joins TODAY Show for live town hall, answers voters' questions
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Greta: The Gov't Is Needlessly ‘Dividing the Country’ with Harriet Tubman $20 — Fox's Greta Van Susteren ended her show tonight by going on a mini-rant about how the government is “dividing the country” by putting Harriet Tubman on the $20. — Wait, what?
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Conservatives Aren't Taking The Harriet Tubman News Well — Hours after the Treasury Department announced its plans to revamp a number of U.S. paper bills with depictions of African American and female civil rights icons, conservatives started criticizing the move as “politically correct” and “unnecessary.”
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Greta Van Susteren: ‘Stupid’ to put Tubman on $20 bill — Fox News host Greta Van Susteren said the decision to replace former President Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman was “stupid” and creating an “unnecessary fight” in the country.
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Washington Monthly, National Review and Politico

Trump on Harriet Tubman $20: ‘Pure political correctness’ — Donald Trump blasted the Treasury Department's decision to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20 bill, adding Thursday that Tubman is “fantastic” and that she should go on the “$2 bill” or another denomination.
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Harriet Tubman Is a Great Choice, Not a Politically Correct One
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Trump: Tubman on the $20 bill is ‘pure political correctness’
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Women will be on Hillary Clinton's vice president list — NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton's short list of vice presidential options will include a woman, a top campaign official said in an interview — creating the possibility of an all-female ticket emerging from the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
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What Is Sanders's Endgame? — Hillary Clinton's commanding victory …
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Bernie Sanders Is a Democrat for Life, Says Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver
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New York Had the Second-Lowest Voter Turnout So Far This Election Season
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Independent Journal …, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week, The Atlantic and Vox


Prince Dead at 57 — DEAD AT 57 — EXCLUSIVE — The artist known as Prince has died ... TMZ has learned. He was 57. — Prince's body was discovered at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota early Thursday morning. — Multiple sources connected to the singer confirmed he had passed.
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ESPN — at long last — has fired Curt Schilling, and we're all better for it — Curt Schilling's firing has been a work in progress for many months. — ESPN could have gotten rid of him at the end of the 2015 baseball season for his tweet equating “Muslim extremists” with the Nazi regime in Germany …
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Curt Schilling, ESPN Analyst, Is Fired Over Offensive Social Media Post — Curt Schilling, a former All-Star pitcher and one of the highest-profile baseball analysts on ESPN, was fired from the network Wednesday, a day after he drew intense criticism for promoting offensive commentary on social media.


Palin Blasts ESPN, Posts Her Own Anti-Trans Meme After Schilling Firing
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Politico


Donald Trump Plans to Adopt More-Traditional Campaign Tactics — GOP front-runner says his campaign is evolving; coming soon are policy addresses, teleprompters and a speechwriter — Donald Trump, after notching a big win in New York, is planning to roll out significant changes in his campaign …
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The Loophole That Could Cost Donald Trump the Nomination
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How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk — Throughout her career she has displayed instincts on foreign policy that are more aggressive than those of President Obama — and most Democrats. — Hillary Clinton sat in the hideaway study off her ceremonial office in the State Department …
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Washington Post, The American Conservative and The Week


Chyna Dead — WWE Legend Dies ... ‘Possible Overdose’ (PHOTO UPDATE) — WWE legend Chyna — real name Joanie Laurer — has died ... and officials are investigating as a possible overdose, TMZ Sports has learned. — We've learned she was in her apartment in Redondo Beach, CA …
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The smug style in American liberalism — There is a smug style in American liberalism. It has been growing these past decades. It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence — not really …
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Hot Air and The American Conservative


Enough with the Hillary cult: Her admirers ignore reality, dream of worshipping a queen — Clinton voters overlook money lust, shadowy surrogates, sociopathic policy shifts, horrific overseas record. Why? — What is it with the Hillary cult? — As a lifelong Democrat …
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Althouse


Hanna: GOP's extremism will make it lose — Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barneveld, said Tuesday that his party has no hope of capturing the White House this year because its primary process favors those with “extreme” views while marginalizing moderate candidates.
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Kasich: 'My Republican Party doesn't like ideas'
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