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Tech Company: We Will Put Up $10 Million For Bernie-Trump Debate — WASHINGTON — A technology investment company has offered to put up the $10 million for charity that Donald Trump said on Thursday would be needed to hold a debate with Bernie Sanders. — [Update at 4:38 p.m. …
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Donald Trump backs out of debate with Bernie Sanders — Donald Trump will not participate in a debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said Friday. — In a statement, Trump slammed Sanders, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and the Democratic nominating process …
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Die-Hard Bernie Sanders Backers See F.B.I. as Answer to Their Prayers — ANAHEIM, Calif. — Senator Bernie Sanders may be trailing Hillary Clinton by hundreds of delegates, and Mrs. Clinton may be treating the Democratic nomination as hers, but Julie Crowell, a stay-at-home mother …


‘Mr. Trump, What Are You Afraid Of?’ Sanders Responds After Donald Backs From Debate — Donald Trump backed down from much-hyped hypothetical debate he wanted to have with Sen. Bernie Sanders. — Trump, who has now secured enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination, said that …
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DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON DEBATING BERNIE SANDERS
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Sanders camp: Maybe Trump is ‘chickening out’ of debate
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Fellow Liberals, Let's Stop Doing These Things
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Young Turks host offers $1M for Trump, Sanders debate
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Donald Trump's Campaign Stumbles as It Tries to Go Big — BISMARCK, N.D. — A constant stream of changes and scuffles are roiling Donald J. Trump's campaign team, including the abrupt dismissal this week of his national political director. — A sense of paranoia is growing among …
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Nominee or not, why is Trump still smacking Republicans around?
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Welp... Hillary doesn't know how to use a computer — We're told that Hillary Clinton is the smartest, most qualified and most capable person to ever run for President. Ever. … Let's face it, we're lucky that she's even lowering herself to the demeaning process of having to earn votes in the presidential election.
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Feds fight to prevent Clinton deposition in email case — The Obama administration is trying to prevent former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — from being deposed in an ongoing open records case connected to her use of a private email server. — Late Thursday evening …
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Libertarian ‘dream ticket’ in peril as Weld bombs in Orlando — ORLANDO, Fla. — It was supposed to be a stroke of genius: Gary Johnson, the 2012 Libertarian nominee for president and the party's leading contender in 2016, announced that William Weld, the two-term former Republican governor of Massachusetts …
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Report of Partial findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposure) — Abstract — The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) has carried out extensive rodent toxicology …
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Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study
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Donald Trump under oath: Trump University's promises crumble — The ads for his university were classic Donald Trump — Trump stares into the camera and proclaims: — “We're going to have professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific people, terrific brains, successful.
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At 96, Dr. Heimlich finally uses his life-saving technique — When he heard that a resident was choking, Perry Gaines, maître d' for the Deupree House dining room, ran toward the table. — Gaines has been trained in the Heimlich maneuver and has performed it at least twice …
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Obama in Hiroshima calls for ‘world without nuclear weapons’ — Hiroshima (CNN)Barack Obama on Friday became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, where he called for a “world without nuclear weapons” during his remarks at the city's Peace Memorial Park. — Obama visits Hiroshima
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Brian Williams: U.S. Is ‘The Only Nation to Have Used’ Nuclear Weapons ‘In Anger’
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Trump Withheld Alimony From Marla Maples When She Threatened His Presidential Ambitions — “Our purpose was to send a message that she was playing close to the fire. That should slow her down,” Trump's lawyer said at the time. — Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Images
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World's scariest school run? Chinese children tackle 800-metre cliff — Children as young as six from Atuler village in Sichuan province have to scale a huge rockface using rickety ladders — Authorities in south-west China have vowed to come to the aid of an isolated mountain village …
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Chinese Detergent Ad Draws Charges of Racism — A Chinese laundry detergent commercial has spurred outrage online, with many social media users accusing it of blatant racism. — In the commercial for Qiaobi laundry detergent, an Asian woman shoves a detergent pod into the mouth of a black worker …
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We Found It — The Most Racist Ad Of 2016
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Trump's California Drought Plan: “We're Going To Start Opening Up The Water” — The Republican presidential candidate suggested California should stop “taking the water and shoving it out to sea.” The comment suggests he'd divert water away from wetlands and toward farms. — Chris Carlson / AP


Carson: Trump starting to believe in ‘greater power’ — is starting to believe in “a greater power” and is praying more often. — Trump's former presidential rival, a key surrogate and possible vice presidential pick, told The Hill on Friday that he believes Trump is becoming more spiritual.
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VIDEO: Democrat State Rep Barbara Norton Attacks Declaration Of Independence On House Floor — HB 1035, a bill by Rep. Valarie Hodges that would have mandated that schoolchildren in Louisiana be taught the Declaration of Independence, sailed through the House Education Committee with a 6-2 vote.
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Donald Trump has exposed Marco Rubio — In the late stages of his doomed presidential campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio declared that the front-runner for his party's nomination was “a con artist.” But it turns out that Donald Trump wasn't the only GOP presidential candidate pulling the wool over people's eyes.


Bernie Sanders Gets In Snippy Exchange With California Radio Hosts — “All right, look, if you don't like government, my friend, that's fine,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in a contentious interview on the John and Ken Show on KFI radio. — David Mcnew / AFP / Getty Images
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Police Separate Pro-Trump and Anti-Trump Groups in San Diego — Police in riot gear were called in to separate Donald Trump protesters and supporters Friday afternoon after they clashed outside a rally for the presumptive Republican nominee in San Diego, California.
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