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Trump Answers Fans' Questions in Reddit AMA — Republican nominee Donald Trump visited Reddit tonight as part of an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, and fielded questions from his most ardent supporters on the web. — Trump has been an Internet phenomenon since announcing his candidacy in 2015 …
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The Democrats just fell for Trump's Russian email-hack bait — Trump: I hope Russia finds ‘the 30,000 emails that are missing’ — Grand Theft Convention. — No, that's not a new video game. But it is what we just saw Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump do to the Democrats …
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Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton's Missing Emails — DORAL, Fla. — Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he hoped Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton's email, essentially encouraging an adversarial foreign power's cyberspying on a secretary of state's correspondence.
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Trump: I Was ‘Being Sarcastic’ When I Asked Russia To Release Clinton Emails — In an interview that aired Thursday morning on “Fox and Friends,” Donald Trump said he was not being serious when he called on Russia to find and release emails deleted by Hillary Clinton.
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Full text: President Obama's DNC speech — Remarks as prepared for delivery. — Hello, America. — Twelve years ago tonight, I addressed this convention for the very first time. — You met my two little girls, Malia and Sasha - now two amazing young women who just fill me with pride.
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Donald Trump vs. America: The GOP presidential nominee explicitly asks Russia to violate our national security — Trump's call for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's email is insane, and Republicans have to answer for it — It's not often you see a major-party presidential candidate invite …


ANALYSIS: Hope Is Handed Off, as Obama Makes Way for Hillary Clinton
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Trump on Dem attacks: ‘I take it a little bit personally’
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Read Vice President Joe Biden's DNC speech transcript
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Transcript: President Obama's Democratic National Convention speech
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Biden tweets for first time in 492 days
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Why Trump Fails—and Clinton Passes—the Commander-in-Chief Test
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4 Ways Donald Trump Is Living Rent-Free In The DNC's Head
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What Trump's tax returns could reveal about Russia
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President Obama Tells DNC ‘America is Already Great’ and 'We Don't Look to Be Ruled'
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Donald Trump's Call for Russia to Hack the U.S. Might Be a Felony
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Donald Trump's falsehood-laden press conference, annotated
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Tim Kaine Says He ‘Never Expected to Be Here’ in Accepting VP Role
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WikiLeaks releases hacked DNC voicemails — Another shoe has been dropped by Wikileaks. — On the night President Obama and Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine were scheduled to speak to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the anti-secrecy whistle-blower group released hacked voicemails of top Democratic officials.
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WikiLeaks releases hacked DNC voicemails — WikiLeaks on Wednesday released a number of voicemail message recordings that were purportedly stolen from the Democratic National Committee (DNC). — The voicemails come a week after the site published a trove of emails from the DNC that many believe were stolen by Russian hackers.
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Bernie Sanders to Return to Senate as an Independent
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The Democrats' well-deserved WikiLeaks blowback
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Melania Trump's Website, Biography Have Disappeared From The Internet — The apparent scrubbing job comes after speculation over whether she earned an undergraduate degree, as previously claimed. — National Political Reporter, The Huffington Post — The professional website of Melania Trump …
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Melania Trump website scrubbed from internet — Melania Trump's professional website was recently deleted from the internet, according to The Huffington Post. — The deletion comes amid questions from the media about her degree in architecture from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
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Some readers unconvinced by our True rating for White House slave claim — On the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, we rated Michelle Obama's statement that the White House “was built by slaves” as True. — As we wrote in our fact-check, “Strictly speaking …
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How Abigail Adams Proves Bill O'Reilly Wrong About Slavery
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Championing Optimism, Obama Hails Clinton as His Political Heir — PHILADELPHIA — President Obama delivered a stirring valedictory address at the Democratic convention Wednesday night, hailing Hillary Clinton as his rightful political heir and the party's best hope to protect democracy from …
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Former CIA director questions Trump's loyalty to the US: report … Former CIA Director Leon Panetta on Wednesday questioned Donald Trump — 's loyalty to the United States, according to CNN's Christiane Amanpour. … Panetta told the network it was “totally outrageous” …
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Light streaks across night sky, generating a frenzy — A streak of light burst across the night sky late Wednesday, generating a frenzy and prompting questions: — Was it a meteor or meteor shower? A fireball or smoldering satellite? — From witness accounts, the glowing trail was spotted in Nevada …

Did Donald Trump's Executives Violate the Cuban Embargo? — Cuba has only one 18-hole golf course: the government-run Varadero Golf Club, about two hours east of Havana. Built on the 1930s estate of chemicals magnate Irénée du Pont, it was refurbished in the 1990s …