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Paul Manafort resigns from Trump campaign — Donald Trump's campaign is still trembling from its shakeup this week. — Trump on Friday announced that campaign chairman Paul Manafort had resigned, two days after the Republican nominee put in place a new leadership structure that appeared to minimize Manafort's role.
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Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns — Trump campaign chairman and chief strategist Paul Manafort resigned on Friday, following a staff shake-up this week that reduced his role in the campaign. — GOP nominee Donald Trump confirmed the resignation in a statement Friday morning …
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Paul Manafort Quits Donald Trump's Campaign After Tumultuous Run — Paul Manafort, installed as the chief strategist for Donald J. Trump's campaign after the firing of his original campaign manager, handed in his resignation on Friday morning. — Mr. Manafort left after a major shake …
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Trump advisers waged covert influence campaign — WASHINGTON (AP) — A firm run by Donald Trump's campaign chairman directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine's ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor …
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Regretful Trump pivots 107 days late — Three and a half months after sealing the Republican nomination, Donald Trump pivoted to contest the general election on Thursday night, expressing regret for his past failures to “choose the right words” and delivering one of the most comprehensive …
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Trump blasts ‘rigged’ Clinton system in first general election TV ad — Donald Trump's campaign rolled out its first general election ad Friday, part of a buy totaling nearly $5 million in battleground states where he is currently trailing Hillary Clinton. Its message: Trump will keep …
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Donald Trump Steps Out of Character to Voice Unexplained Regrets — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Donald J. Trump on Thursday expressed regret for making statements that have “caused personal pain,” a rare display of contrition that followed the shake-up of his campaign's leadership this week.
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Trump releases first general election ad
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Trump: Sometimes you say the wrong thing
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Hillary Clinton Told F.B.I. Colin Powell Advised Her to Use Private Email — Pressed by the F.B.I. about her email practices at the State Department, Hillary Clinton told investigators that former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had advised her to use a personal email account
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Report: Clinton told FBI Colin Powell advised her to use personal email
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Clinton's foundation to alter donations policy if elected
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Clinton to FBI: Powell said to use private email
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Smoking Gun Memo Could Bolster Voting Rights Case Against North Carolina — North Carolina's Republican Party has had an interesting response to a recent appeals court ruling that said a number of voting restrictions passed by the state's GOP legislature were enacted with the intent …
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Trump's ugly and dishonest new TV ad shows he isn't changing a thing
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Republicans Worry a Falling Donald Trump Tide Will Lower All Boats
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Former Breitbart Staffer to Powerhouse Politics: Bannon Ran Meetings That Sounded Like White Supremacists Talking — A former Breitbart News spokesman slammed Donald Trump's new campaign chief executive, Stephen Bannon, for allegedly using racist rhetoric during editorial meetings at Breitbart …
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How One Family's Deep Pockets Helped Reshape Donald Trump's Campaign
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Breitbart editor planned secret anti-Trump campaign to take down reporter
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Dog dies after shielding infant from fire — Firefighters rescue child from second floor of home — An 8-month-old infant is in serious condition after a fire late Sunday in Baltimore. — The girl is alive today thanks to an act of heroism and a heart-breaking loss for her family.
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The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm — On Monday, a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA. Based on never-before-published documents provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden …
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Naked Donald Trump statues pop up in several cities — Naked, life-size statues of Donald Trump — are being unveiled Thursday in several U.S. cities. — The statues were erected by the anarchist collective Indecline and are set to appear in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle.
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Ryan Lochte is everything the world hates about Americans — MORE FROM: — This was late one night — actually, early one morning — in the summer of 2004, at a bustling tavern in Plaka, the social heart of Athens during the Olympics. We could see the Parthenon from our table …
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U.S. Concedes $400 Million Payment to Iran Was Delayed as Prisoner ‘Leverage’ — The State Department conceded for the first time on Thursday that it delayed making a $400 million payment to Iran for several hours in January “to retain maximum leverage” and assure that three American prisoners were released the same day.
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US says $400M to Iran was contingent on release of prisoners
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State Dept. confirms $400 million Iran payment conditioned on hostage release
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Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Takes $100,000 for Charity, Gives $0 — The alt-right icon promised to give scholarships to white men, but almost a year later he still hasn't filed with the IRS or handed out a penny. — Months after he was supposed to give away more than $100,000 …
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GOP preps tough perjury case against Clinton — House Republicans are doubling down in their effort to bring perjury charges against Hillary Clinton — over her testimony last year to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. — GOP lawmakers have claimed that the Democratic presidential nominee broke …
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Hackers targeted Trump campaign, Republican Party groups: sources — Hackers targeted the computer systems of presidential candidate Donald Trump and Republican Party organizations as well as Democratic Party networks, sources familiar with investigations into the attacks said.
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Cruz's Image Among Republicans Tanks After GOP Convention
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