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GOP Congressman Doesn't Know If He'll Back Trump, Clarifies He Won't Back Clinton — “So, I think like a lot of Americans, we are gonna have to begin to spend the summer studying the candidates and decide who's best for the future of the country.” — BRIAN BLANCO / Reuters — w.soundcloud.com
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Will Donald Trump drive Miami Cuban Americans from GOP? New poll says yes
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Trump surrogate admits on live TV: 'He's going to have to prove that he's not Adolf Hitler'
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Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'
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Trump ‘fine’ with Obama's WH Correspondents' Dinner smackdown
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Florida poll: Republican ‘brand damage’ bolsters Clinton — Whether it's Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential nominee looks like a sure loser to Hillary Clinton in Florida because of the Republicans' lack of popularity with crucial voting blocs in the state …
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Why Rubio hasn't endorsed Cruz — Marco Rubio won't be endorsing Ted Cruz during the Republican presidential primary, but he's likely to back the Texas senator at a contested convention — if it gets that far. — The de facto plan, Rubio's backers say, is designed to help Cruz.
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Ohioans Want Kasich To Drop Out — PPP's newest Ohio poll finds voters in the state are getting sick of John Kasich's Presidential campaign. Only 38% think he should stay in the race, compared to 49% who think it's time for him to drop out. Those numbers have shifted substantially …
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Cruz Scolds Boy After Child Tells Him ‘You Suck’ At Indiana Rally [VIDEO] — La Porte, IN-Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said a kid growing up in his household would have been spanked if they acted out the way a boy did towards him Sunday during a rally. The pre-teen boy was escorted out by local law enforcement …
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Watch Carly Fiorina do a face-plant off a stage while Ted Cruz ignores her — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Nothing could more perfectly capture Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) campaign than Carly Fiorina falling face-first off the stage in Indiana. — After a short speech talking …
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Cruz to young heckler: You'd get spanked in my house
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Craig Wright revealed as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto — Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. — His admission ends years of speculation about who came up with the original ideas underlying the digital cash system.
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Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing and Significance
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Heidi Cruz responds to people who call her husband the Zodiac Killer — CARMEL, Ind. — Heidi Cruz knows her husband, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) is not the Zodiac Killer, no matter what people online say. — Heidi spent Monday morning traveling across Indiana in support of her husband's presidential campaign.
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He once hoped for the GOP nomination, now Jim Gilmore can't even get elected delegate to convention — Jim Gilmore may be a former governor, state attorney general, Republican National Committee chairman and presidential candidate. But he couldn't get elected as a delegate to his party's national convention.
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New Hampshire GOP cancels vote on blocking Trump allies from convention posts
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Ken Cuccinelli will not run for Virginia governor in 2017, he says
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America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny … Illustration by — As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato's Republic. It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I first read it in graduate school.

Bernie's Bad End — This is really depressing: Sanders claiming that there will be a contested convention, and suggesting that the nomination fight was rigged. Can someone tell Bernie that he's in the process of blowing his own chance for a positive legacy?
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The real obstacle to voter turnout in Democratic primaries: caucuses
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Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security — If you sense that airport security lines are getting longer — much longer — you're definitely not alone. — A combination of fewer Transportation Security Administration screeners, tighter budgets, new checkpoint procedures …
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Senate takes 2016 sabbatical — Senate Republicans have left town for another recess with their yearlong claim that the Senate is “back to work” an increasingly tough sell to voters. — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has worked painstakingly to craft an identity that's distinct …
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After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight — Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but a study of them helps explain why they could not keep all of that weight off. — Danny Cahill stood, slightly dazed, in a blizzard of confetti as the audience screamed and his family ran on stage.
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Hulu Is Developing a Cable-Style Online TV Service — New subscription service would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels — Hulu is developing a subscription service that would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels, people familiar with the plans said …
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The Model American — In July of 2002, two years before Donald Trump became engaged to the Slovenian model Melania Knauss, he visited her native country for three hours. The couple had been in London. At around 8 P.M. on a Monday night, they landed at Ljubljana's Brnik airport in Trump's Boeing 727.


Colorado court overturns fracking bans — Colorado's highest court overturned two cities' bans on hydraulic fracturing Monday, ruling that state law preempts them. — The state's Supreme Court cited the main state law regulating oil and natural gas drilling and found that lawmakers clearly intended …
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The Hell After ISIS … Falah sabar heard a knock at the door. It was just before midnight in western Baghdad last April and Falah was already in bed, so he sent his son Wissam to answer. Standing in the doorway was a tall young man in jeans who neither shook Wissam's hand nor offered a greeting.


An iPad Misplaced at the Airport Takes Its Own Vacation — Last month, Shelby Bonnie's iPad vanished from his carry-on bag somewhere at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after a red-eye flight from San Francisco. He figured he would never see it again.
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DPS closes 94 schools due to teacher sickout — Detroit Public Schools closed 94 of its 97 schools on Monday, citing the Detroit teachers union's call for a districtwide sickout amid concerns about the weakening finances of Michigan's largest school district.
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