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Trump escalates attack on Bill Clinton — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is reviving some of the ugliest political chapters of the 1990s with escalating personal attacks on Bill Clinton's character — centered on past accusations of sexual assault — amid a concerted effort …
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Sanders wins greater say in Democratic platform; names pro-Palestinian activist — Sen. Bernie Sanders has chosen a well-known advocate for Palestinian rights to help draft the Democratic Party platform this year, after party leaders gave the longshot but deeply popular candidate unusual …


HILLARY CLINTON POISED TO DEFEAT BERNIE SANDERS IN CALIFORNIA'S PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, SURVEYUSA POLL SHOWS — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are seen in undated file images. — KABC — Hillary Clinton is well positioned to defeat Bernie Sanders in California's presidential primary …
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Washington Post, Hot Air and Political Wire


Sanders: Democratic convention could be ‘messy’ — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bernie Sanders predicted Monday that the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia could be “messy” as he pushed the party to adopt his progressive agenda, but added: “Democracy is not always nice and quiet and gentle.”
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Political Wire and Politico


Clinton Declines To Participate In Fox News Dem Debate — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has reportedly declined to participate in the Fox News debate that her opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has agreed to. — “We have declined Fox News' invitation to participate in a debate in California.
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Sanders names Cornel West, Keith Ellison to DNC platform committee
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Donald Trump's New Attack Ad Features Bill Clinton Accuser Juanita Broaddrick
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Analysis Two white-haired politicians — Bernie Sanders and Bill Clinton — call a California truce
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Washington Post

Trump video raises sexual assault charges against Bill Clinton
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Media Matters for America, TPNN and Correct The Record

Trump passes Clinton for the first time in famed average of national polls
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Clash Daily

A Look At What's Behind Donald Trump's Climb in New National Poll
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Politico and Daily Wire

Clinton declines Fox News debate with Sanders
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Washington Post and The Daily Caller


Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe under federal investigation for campaign contributions — Washington (CNN)Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department's public integrity unit, U.S. officials briefed on the probe say.


VA secretary: Disney doesn't measure wait times, so why should VA? — Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Monday compared the length of time veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length of time people wait for rides at Disneyland, and said his agency shouldn't use wait times …
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Disney Fires Back After VA Secretary Compares Wait Lines for Veterans to Theme Park Rides
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Long wait times for vets? VA secretary says that's the wrong question.
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NY1 News


Response to Chairman John Thune's letter on Trending Topics — Last week we met with Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee John Thune to describe our investigation in response to anonymous allegations of political bias in our Trending Topics feature and to discuss the preliminary results of our work.
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Woman trying to prove ‘vegans can do anything’ among three dead on Everest. Two more missing and thirty sick or frostbitten. — 29,029. — That's how many feet in the air the peak of Mount Everest towers over Nepal, and the world, in its gleaming white brilliance.
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4 climbers die in 4 days on Mount Everest
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Bernie Sanders' Campaign Drops Tommy Chong as Intro Speaker Hours Before L.A. Rally — EMAIL ME — “It was an insult,” the comic actor says. — Tommy Chong is in disbelief after he was disinvited by the Bernie Sanders campaign from introducing the presidential hopeful hours before a rally in East Los Angeles.
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller


In Trump's World, Newt Gingrich Is King — and Maybe VP — The two men are kindred spirits in more ways than one. — He has an uncanny ability to dominate the media and shape a narrative, and he harnessed the anger and anxiety of lower-middle-class whites to reshape the Republican party.
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Newt Gingrich Rips Mitt Romney's ‘Pathetic’ Anti-Trump Effort
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Judge halts Ohio law that blocked funds for Planned Parenthood — A federal judge in Cincinnati temporarily blocked the implementation of a state law that would have effectively de-funded 28 Ohio Planned Parenthood clinics, in a ruling on Monday. — U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett granted …
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Obama Hits Highest Job Approval Since Second Inauguration — As the race to succeed President Barack Obama rages around him, the man who currently sits in the Oval Office has hit his highest approval rating since his second inauguration, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows.
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Politicus USA

Machine Bias — There's software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it's biased against blacks. — ON A SPRING AFTERNOON IN 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid's blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter.


Bernie insults voters: He must drop notion that everyone who disagrees with him is corrupt or a dupe — Sanders refuses to admit he lost, instead sticking to the idea that he wasn't given a fair shot by the voters — The Bernie Sanders campaign has injected a lot of welcome aspects …
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Slate, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story


Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast — I don't eat breakfast. It's not that I dislike what's offered. Given the choice of breakfast food or lunch food, I'd almost always choose eggs or waffles. It's just that I'm not hungry at 7:30 a.m., when I leave for work.

Trump ‘Christian Policy’ Adviser Is A ‘Prophet’ Who Stopped A Tsunami, Says AIDS Is Result Of ‘Unnatural Sex’ — Mario Bramnick, an official with the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, told Time magazine last week that Donald Trump has taken on Frank Amedia of Touch Heaven Ministries …
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Liberal Advocacy Group Comes Out Against Obama's Big Overtime Rule — U.S. PIRG says it will face a choice between paying staffers more or working them less. Which is the whole idea. — Labor Reporter, The Huffington Post — A network of left-leaning public-interest groups has come …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money

Ryan: Trump could win, but I'm not ‘betting’ on it — Paul Ryan loves the word “unity,” but his definition of that term differs sharply from Donald Trump's vision of a smiling speaker at his side, mouth shut and domesticated — just like Chris Christie. — Ryan, who made peace with Trump earlier …
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The Big Uneasy — What's roiling the liberal-arts campus? — At Oberlin, it started in December, when the temperatures ran high, although the weeping willows and the yellow poplars that had flared in the fall were bare already. Problems had a tendency to escalate.


Glenn Reynolds: When leaders cheat, followers ... follow — The trust that underlies a law-abiding society is rotting away thanks to double-dealing in Washington. — The state is “a gang of thieves writ large,” economist Murray Rothbard is said to have remarked.
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Michelle Fields Signs On to #NeverTrump ‘News’ Blog Huffington Post — WASHINGTON, DC — Former associate Michelle Fields announced Sunday night that she is joining the left-wing Huffington Post website to cover the Donald Trump campaign. — Fields' move completes the 180-degree transition …
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