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Transcript: Bernie Sanders speech in Burlington, Vermont — Election days come and go. But political and social revolutions that attempt to transform our society never end. They continue every day, every week and every month in the fight to create a nation of social and economic justice.
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Sanders loses convention leverage — BURLINGTON, Vt. — Leverage: it's the one thing Bernie Sanders' advisors and aides consistently point to when asked why, exactly, he's formally staying in the Democratic primary race that he's lost to Hillary Clinton. — But it's the one thing he's …

Jeff Weaver: Sanders campaign is not lobbying superdelegates
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Republicans, Democrats Interpret Orlando Incident Differently — PRINCETON, N.J. — Republicans and Democrats have starkly different interpretations of what the recent mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub represents. While 79% of Republicans view it primarily as an act of Islamic terrorism …
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MEDIA DIRTY TRICKS: CBS, NBC Manipulate Polling Data to Show Hillary with Lead Over Trump
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Orlando shooter texted wife during attack, source says — The Orlando shooter and his wife exchanged text messages during the Pulse nightclub rampage, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told CNN. Around 4 a.m., about two hours after he started the attack and while holed …
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Gun store owner: We called FBI before Orlando shooting — JENSEN BEACH, Fla. — The co-owner of a Florida gun store says his employees contacted law enforcement before the Orlando shooting after gunman Omar Mateen attempted to purchase body armor and ammunition.
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51 U.S. Diplomats Urge Strikes Against Assad in Syria — WASHINGTON — More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration's policy in Syria, urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government …
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U.S. State Department Officials Call for Strikes Against Syria's Assad
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The Self-Immolation of theRepublican Party — The Darwin Awards is a popular website that “commemorates individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives. Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner …
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Can Trump turn it around? — Republicans are divided about how Donald Trump — can dig himself out of the hole that his campaign is in, but they agree on one point: the first step is admitting he has a problem. — GOP insiders fear that Trump, whose yearlong run for the presidency …
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More Companies Opt to Sit Out Trump's Coronation in Cleveland — Wells Fargo, UPS, Motorola Solutions, JPMorgan and Ford are among previous sponsors that won't give this year. — zachmider — A growing number of prominent U.S. corporations are opting to drop or scale back their sponsorship …
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Pelosi: Trump is unifying Dems — Democrats get more unified every time Donald Trump — speaks, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday. — “Keep on talking,” she encouraged the presumptive Republican nominee. — In the twilight of a long and often contentious Democratic primary …
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Poll: Americans split on Trump's proposed Muslim ban
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One Year of Donald Trump's Campaign: The Times He's Flip-Flopped
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Cut the Thread — “Trust me, he's only hanging on by a thread.” — “Patience, my friend, patience . . . we need just one more episode.” — “My colleagues are close to the breaking point.” — This is what one hears—this is what I've heard …


Alleged killer of British MP was a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi National Alliance — Thomas Mair, alleged killer of British MP Jo Cox, was a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. — Jo Cox, a member of the Labour Party in the British Parliament …
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Trump's poll ratings in a historic hole — In 2016's race to the bottom, Donald Trump is going to find out if you can become president when two-thirds of Americans don't like you — and a majority can't stand you. — Recent polls have showed Trump's unfavorable rating spiking again, after a brief improvement last month.


An Unlikely Savior Emerges to Help Endangered Republicans: George W. Bush — After eight years of largely abstaining from politics, former President George W. Bush is throwing himself into an effort to save his party's most vulnerable senators, including several whose re-election campaigns …
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Shunned, Stared at, Still for Trump: The Holdout in Hillary Clinton's Town — CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — First came the grimaces — the disbelieving eyes trained upon his shirt, his lawn signs, his car window stickers broadcasting a local betrayal. — Then his teenage son refused to drive …
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Donald Trump is getting schlonged — Have you seen the polls lately? It's incredible. Everybody was saying, all of Trump's supporters were saying, they were telling me, they said, Hillary is toast. Trump was going to win win win. Now I'm looking at polls, and he's like going down down down all of a sudden.
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West Coast Marines under investigation for alleged threat to gay bars — Two active-duty Marines are under investigation in connection to a social media post purportedly threatening to attack gay bars following Sunday's deadly mass shooting in Florida. — The California-based …