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Sanders meets with Obama, Reid ahead of final contest — (CNN)Hillary Clinton became the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee this week — but for her challenger Bernie Sanders, the fight is not quite over. — The Vermont senator declared Tuesday night that he intends …
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Hillary Clinton's Truth Problem — The day after she sealed the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton took a victory lap of the nation's top newsrooms and delivered the most predictable and practiced comments. She honored her mother. She trashed Donald Trump. She wooed Bernie Sanders' supporters.
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President Barack Obama endorses Hillary Clinton in video — (CNN)President Barack Obama endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a web video Thursday. — “I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office,” Obama said in the video.

Sanders supporters warn Obama: Don't try to stop Bernie — Bernie Sanders' supporters have some advice for President Barack Obama: Back off. — Thursday morning in the Oval Office, Obama will take his not-so-subtle campaign to ease Sanders out of an active campaign directly to the senator himself.
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Obama offers a formal endorsement of Clinton; president also meets with Sanders — President Obama offered his formal endorsement of Hillary Clinton with a video Thursday and plans to campaign with the former secretary of state in Wisconsin next week, efforts aimed at speeding …
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President Obama endorses Hillary Clinton
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Bernie Sanders to Campaign Through DC Primary, but Vows to Work With Hillary Clinton
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Sanders signals the end is near
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Trump continues to Violate Campaign Rule No. 1
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Clinton Welcomes Obama's Support, Saying ‘It Just Means So Much’
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Sanders pledges to work with Clinton after meeting with Obama
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Warren has concerns about being Clinton's VP: report
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Obama Endorses Hillary Clinton, and Urges Democrats to Unite
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Bernie Sanders to Campaign Through DC Primary but Vows to Work With Hillary Clinton
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The black hole within Donald Trump — I'm no advice columnist, and normally I wouldn't use this space for relationship counseling, but here's a small bit of wisdom that I've offered to a few friends over the years and that might be useful to Republicans in Washington.
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There Are More White Voters Than People Think. That's Good News for Trump. — One of the biggest reasons Donald Trump is considered to be a long shot to win the presidency is the diversity of the country. — As Joe Scarborough of MSNBC put it, “There are not enough white voters in America …
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Elizabeth Warren to Call Donald Trump A “Loud, Nasty, Thin-Skinned Fraud” in Upcoming Speech
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PAUL RYAN To Campaign for Hillary Clinton on “Face the Nation” - Trash Trump as Racist
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Warren: Trump is a ‘loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud’
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Donald Trump's ground game — (CNN)Donald Trump — who made a fortune in part by lending his name to business ventures on which he left a light touch — appears poised to take a similar approach to building his ground game. — The presumptive GOP nominee has argued he can put as many as 15 states …
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Today in 'Donald Trump's Campaign Is a Garbage Fire' — I love the smell of garbage in the morning. Smells like <s>victory</s> massive defeat. — If Donald Trump were an otherwise normal candidate — with a reasonable knowledge of public policy and no pronounced affection for authoritarian rulers …
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Appeals Court Upholds ‘Concealed Carry’ Restrictions — Federal court in California says Americans have no guaranteed right to carry concealed guns in public — Americans have no Second Amendment right to carry concealed guns in public, a federal appeals court in California ruled on Thursday …
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9th Circuit Court of Appeals Says No Right to Concealed Gun Carry
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High school valedictorian reveals undocumented status in speech … McKINNEY, Texas — There is no easy way to prepare for what Larissa Martinez did last week. — The valedictorian at McKinney Boyd High School crafted her words and sentences carefully before making the speech at her graduation.
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Student who graduated top of her class causes outrage after bragging that she has a 4.5GPA …
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Texas Valedictorian, Scholarship Recipient Under Fire for Tweeting She's Undocumented
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Turns out dating is really hard if you support Trump — Lifelong Republican David Goss, 35, was hanging out with his conservative friends in February when he came up with the idea of TrumpSingles.com, a dating website for supporters of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
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Student may be punished for insulting vegetarian — School allowed to give detention to student who told another sixth-grader that “vegetarians are idiots.” — MONTGOMERY - A school district is allowed to discipline a sixth-grader for bullying because he made disparaging remarks about a classmate's vegetarianism.
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Morning Joe dishes on Trump, Zucker — Joe Scarborough is mastering the art of dealing Donald Trump the derision Trump loves to rain on others. — The “Morning Joe” co-host, former Florida congressman and longtime Friend of Donald found himself under fire during the early months …
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Welcome to Larry Page's Secret Flying-Car Factories — With Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk, the Google co-founder looks to the skies. — Three years ago, Silicon Valley developed a fleeting infatuation with a startup called Zee.Aero. The company had set up shop right next to Google's headquarters …
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Joe Biden Writes An Open Letter To Stanford Survivor — The vice president, in an open letter sent to BuzzFeed News, said “a lot of people failed” the Stanford sexual assault survivor and that she will “save lives” thanks to the powerful message she read to her assailant in court.


Roseanne Barr: ‘We would be so lucky’ if Trump won — Comedian Roseanne Barr is rooting for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — to win the general election over likely rival Hillary Clinton — “I think we would be so lucky if Trump won,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.
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