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Little Is Off Limits as Donald Trump Plans Attacks on Hillary Clinton — Donald J. Trump plans to throw Bill Clinton's infidelities in Hillary Clinton's face on live television during the presidential debates this fall, questioning whether she enabled his behavior and sought to discredit the women involved.
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Clinton: I'd put Bill ‘in charge of revitalizing the economy’ — Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton — is beginning to hint at what role her husband, former President Bill Clinton — , could have in her administration if elected president. — At a campaign stop in Fort Mitchell …
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Inside Donald Trump's Plans to Attack the Clintons — Donald J. Trump plans to attack the character, honesty and authenticity of Hillary and Bill Clinton in the months ahead, in hopes of increasing their unpopularity among voters and deflecting attention from his vulnerabilities.
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Bill Clinton Would Be ‘In Charge of Revitalizing the Economy,’ Hillary Clinton Says
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Even supporters agree: Clinton has weaknesses as a candidate. What can she do? — Hillary Clinton's declining personal image, ongoing battle to break free of the challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders and struggle to adapt to an anti-establishment mood among voters this year have become caution signs …
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Clinton team looking for a VP who will be fighter, excite Sanders supporters — Hillary Clinton is considering a running mate who could make a direct appeal to supporters of Bernie Sanders, bridging a generational and political divide, according to four people close to the campaign.
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Wendell Pierce of ‘The Wire’ Arrested After Fight Over Bernie Sanders
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Nevada Dems: Who Caused the Chaos?
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Here's what happened at Saturday's dramatic Nevada Democratic convention
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The Note: More Troubles for Trump — NOTABLES —PRIEBUS — TRUMP HAS ‘REWRITTEN THE PLAYBOOK’: While presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump faced more scrutiny this week for not releasing his tax returns, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said Trump has “rewritten the playbook” …
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Inside Donald Trump's '91 Apology for Pretending to Be His Own Spokesman - How Marla Maples Shamed Him Into Fessing Up — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump flatly denied Friday that he posed as his own spokesman during a June 26, 1991, phone call to then-PEOPLE reporter Sue Carswell …
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Pro-Clinton super PAC to start airing general election ads on Wednesday
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Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew — While millions of Republican primary voters have chosen Donald Trump as the party's nominee, Bill Kristol and a small but well-heeled group of Washington insiders are preparing a third party effort to block Trump's path to the White House.
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Former Trump girlfriend hits back at ‘upsetting’ NYT cover story — The New York Times' article published Saturday with the headline “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private” begins with an anecdote from a woman named Rowanne Brewer Lane, who as a 26-year-old model …


Trump warns of poor relationship with Cameron over PM's refusal to withdraw ‘divisive, stupid and wrong’ comment — Donald Trump has issued a warning to David Cameron that the two may not have a good relationship if Mr Trump becomes the next US president. — The US Republican presidential hopeful …
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It can't be good if Donald Trump is US President
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Man Receives First Penis Transplant in the United States — A man whose penis was removed because of cancer has received the first penis transplant in the United States, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. — Thomas Manning, 64, a bank courier from Halifax, Mass., underwent the 15-hour transplant operation on May 8 and 9.
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Exclusive: In Koch World ‘Realignment,’ Less National Politics — On a frigid Tuesday in February, a team of top political operatives from the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the umbrella group that controls political activities for the sprawling donor network led by billionaire industrialists Charles …


Glenn Beck, Anti-Trump Conservatives to Meet with Facebook's Zuckerberg — On Wednesday, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg will hold a meeting with “leading conservatives,” embattled The Blaze head Glenn Beck, and former George W. Bush Administration official and co-host of Fox News Channel's The Five Dana Perino …
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Mark Zuckerberg to host Glenn Beck at Facebook
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Clinton's Crimes and Comey's Choice — FBI Director James Comey knew he had to make a decision that would change his life, and maybe the history of his country, as he surveyed the piles of papers spread out in his office. The Deputy Director in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton …


Grassley's court maneuver threatens his legacy, reputation — In late February, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley was taking increasing fire for his refusal to hold hearings to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He dismissed questions about the impact the public uproar might have on his legacy.
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Trump's Asymmetric Warfare — It has been somewhat fascinating and sometimes fun to watch Elizabeth Warren do battle with Donald Trump in alternating salvos of tweets, but in the end I fear that this approach of trying to “beat a bully,” as Warren put it in one of her tweets, is a futile effort.
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Shark bite in Boca Raton: Woman taken to hospital with nurse shark attached to her arm — A nurse shark bit a woman on the beach Sunday afternoon in Boca Raton. — Sun Sentinel … Privacy Policy — A 23-year-old woman bitten by a small nurse shark was taken to the hospital Sunday afternoon …
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Rebuking Trump, Obama Tells Graduates Walls Won't Solve Ills — President Barack Obama on Sunday urged college graduates to shun those who want to confront a rapidly changing world by building walls around the United States or by embracing ignorance, as he delivered a sharp and barely concealed critique of Donald Trump.
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Obama Swipes at Trump, but Doesn't Name Him, in Speech at Rutgers
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Trump, false promises and the economy — “It's the economy, stupid!” That was Democratic strategist James Carville's famous bottom line on the 1992 presidential election. — Fast forward to 2016 and once again it looks like “It's the economy, stupid.” — , the likely Democratic nominee …