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Poll: 6-in-10 oppose bills like the North Carolina transgender bathroom law — Washington (CNN)Americans broadly oppose laws that would require transgender people to use facilities that correspond with their gender at birth rather than their gender identity, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll …
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Towleroad and Joe.My.God.
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Showdown looms over North Carolina's bathroom bill — (CNN)It's deadline day for North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory. — The U.S. Justice Department sent his office a letter Wednesday claiming that the state's controversial bathroom law is in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
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Hot Air

‘I think he could come apart’ — Mark Salter, the most prominent and most defiant Republican to announce his support of Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, thinks the 2016 campaign could literally — no joke — drive the billionaire developer insane. — Salter, one of McCain's top aides during …
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Raw Story


Democrats gird for fight with Trump in U.S. Rust Belt states — CLEVELAND/NEW YORK - Bracing for a general election fight with Donald Trump, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and her allies are putting resources into industrial states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania to try …
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Hillary Clinton Is A Progressive Democrat, Despite What You May Have Heard
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New York Times


Obama itches for Trump fight — President Obama can't wait to take on Donald Trump — Obama has been largely sidelined in the presidential contest, a last-year officeholder with high approval ratings who has repeatedly shown he likes to spar with political foes.
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Heat Street
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The GOP's electoral-map problem is not about Trump. It's about demographics.
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Outside the Beltway and Booman Tribune

Head of the Class — Last week, Donald Trump became the leader of the Republican Party.
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Prairie Weather


High school yearbook misidentifies Muslim student as ‘Isis Phillips’ — A high school yearbook is supposed to be a keepsake, but for a Muslim student in Rancho Cucamonga it will be a painful reminder of being misidentified as “Isis Phillips” in a photo that showed her smiling and wearing a hijab.
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KTLA, myfox8.com, Slantpoint and Fox News Insider
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I'm Voting Trump, Warts and All — I stand by all my criticisms of the New Yorker, but the stakes for the country are too great to elect Clinton. — Some of my fellow Republicans have declared they will never, under any circumstances, vote for Donald Trump.
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New York Times and Althouse
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GOP operatives on the prowl for secret Clinton transcripts — Republican operatives are scouring the country for transcripts, notes or secret recordings of Hillary Clinton — 's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs in hopes of finding damaging material for the general election.
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Political Wire
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How We Advocated for the Iran Deal — In recent years, few things have been as exhaustively debated or written about than the Iran deal. — That debate reignited this week after a long article about me included a section about the Iran deal. There are many issues raised in an article of this length …
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Washington Post, Mediaite, Politico and The Last Tradition


London's Iconic Red Buses To Declare ‘Glory To Allah’ — Britain's largest Islamic charity says it wants to “break down barriers” and portray Islam positively by launching a new advertising campaign which will slap the phrase “glory to Allah” on the side of London buses.


I Am Going To Vote For Trump Though It Makes Me Want To Projectile Vomit — I intend to vote for Donald Trump, and just typing those words makes me throw up a little. Make that a lot, and for distance. Yeah, I know Trump is a clown, but so is Hillary Clinton, and while he's sort …
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Hot Air
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Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service — Social media firm cuts access to Dataminr, a service used to identify unfolding terror attacks, political unrest — Twitter Inc. cut off U.S. intelligence agencies from access to a service that sifts through the entire output …
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The Verge, Business Insider, Mashable and New York Magazine


Trump, who once opposed minimum-wage hike, says he would ‘like to see an increase’ — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in television interviews broadcast Sunday that he would like an increase in the minimum wage and that it is best that such a change happen at the state level.
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Lee Zeldin promotes Donald Trump and their shared history
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NY State of Politics

Cashing in: Illegal immigrants get $1,261 more welfare than American families, $5,692 vs. $4,431 — Illegal immigrant households receive an average of $5,692 in federal welfare benefits every year, far more than the average “native” American household, at $4,431, according to a new report on the cost of immigration released Monday.
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Scared Monkeys, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit


Why liberals love to fantasize about moving to Canada (and how to do it for real) — Maybe, at first, you were joking. Maybe you've caught yourself since then wondering if it would truly be such a bad idea. — After all, America may well elect Donald J. Trump president in November.
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alan.com


The Latest Strategy To Prevent Women From Getting A Safe Abortion — A number of states have unleashed a new strategy to further restrict a woman's legal right to end a pregnancy: Ban the safest way to perform a second-trimester abortion. — Called Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) …
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alan.com

Congress says no Puerto Rico bailout, but tax deal beat it to the punch — Lawmakers say they absolutely, positively will not bail out Puerto Rico, but here's the thing: The federal government already is bailing out Puerto Rico. — The Obama administration effectively has been providing …
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Washington Post and The Hill