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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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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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Paul Manafort Thrown From Trump Crazy Train
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Trump releases first general election ad
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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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Clinton's State Department Blew $6 Billion In Contracts, And We're About To Learn Why — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may soon have to answer questions about an estimated $6 billion in contract mismanagement, fraud and incompetence that happened under her watch at the Department of State.

Powell has ‘no recollection’ of Clinton email dinner conversation
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Clinton Told FBI Colin Powell Recommended Private Email: Sources
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Donald Trump Slams President Obama for Vacationing Instead of Visiting Flood-Ravaged Louisiana — Donald Trump today slammed President Obama for not interrupting his vacation to visit Louisiana after deadly flooding in Baton Rouge and parts of Lafayette. — While speaking with volunteers …
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Trump Visits Louisiana Flood Victims as Hillary Rests and Obama Vacations
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Trump's ugly and dishonest new TV ad shows he isn't changing a thing — THE MORNING PLUM: — Last night, Donald Trump delivered a speech in which he spoke in soothing tones about the need to unify the country and expressed “regret” about any remarks that have caused “personal pain,” …
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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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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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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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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 Justice Department Is Done With Private Prisons. Will ICE Drop Them Too? — The Justice Department's announcement on Thursday that it would seek to end the use of private contractors to run its federal prisons was a monumental one that quickly sent private prison stocks plunging …
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Half-Indian man escorted out of Trump rally — Charlotte (CNN)A man who identified himself as half-Indian was escorted out of a Donald Trump rally on Thursday out of concern that he was a protester, but the man insisted he was a Trump supporter and said he feels that he was racially profiled.
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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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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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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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Trump supporters far less confident than Clinton backers that votes will be counted accurately — In a campaign marked by skepticism toward the political process, only about half of all registered voters (49%) are “very confident” that their vote will be accurately counted in the upcoming election.
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FEC Adopts Interim Verification Procedure for Filings Containing Possibly False or Fictitious Information — WASHINGTON - The Federal Election Commission today announced an interim procedure staff will follow to verify information in filings from the 2016 election cycle that appear to be unlawfully false or fictitious.
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