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Endorsement: Hillary Clinton is the only choice to move America ahead — The Arizona Republic editorial board endorses Hillary Clinton for president. — Since The Arizona Republic began publication in 1890, we have never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president. Never.
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Clinton to score another GOP endorsement: former senator John Warner of Virginia — Although he has bucked his party before, Warner has never endorsed a Democrat for president. He will appear in Virginia on Wednesday with Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine.
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Miss Universe ‘fat-shamed’ by Donald Trump was accused of threatening to kill a judge and being an accomplice to a MURDER bid in her native Venezuela — Alicia Machado, from Venezuela, was Miss Universe in 1996 when Donald Trump bought the franchise for the contest
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Shamed and Angry: The Beauty Contestant Donald Trump Mocked for Her Weight — For 20 years, Alicia Machado has lived with the agony of what Donald J. Trump did to her after she won the Miss Universe title: repeatedly shame her for gaining weight. — Private scolding was apparently insufficient.
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BUILD THE WALL! @HillaryClinton's Mentally Ill #AliciaMachado Is Drug Kingpin's Baby Mama, Had Anchor Baby With Him — Donald Trump wants to make America great again but unfortunately Alicia Machado got right in under the wire thanks to an anchor baby she had with a Mexican drug kingpin.


Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado Won't Be Defined by Donald Trump's Fat-Shaming — When Hillary Clinton called out her opponent's sexism at the first presidential debate, she highlighted a woman who had experienced it firsthand. — In the final minutes of the first presidential debate …


Donald Trump Believes His Decade of Bullying Rosie O'Donnell Is Justified
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The Morning After the Debate, Donald Trump Goes on the Attack
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How Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Made Alicia Machado the New Khizr Khan
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On Howard Stern, Trump Called 1996 Miss Universe An “Eating Machine”
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Debate breaks record as most-watched in U.S. history — Monday night was the most-watched debate in American history. — More than 80 million people tuned in to see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off, setting a new record in the sixty year history of televised presidential debates.
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Donald Trump's Online Trolls Turn on Their ‘God Emperor’
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4chan and Reddit bombarded debate polls to declare Trump the winner
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Online polls declare Trump debate winner, despite media consensus for Clinton
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Clinton Won The Debate, Which Means She's Likely To Gain In The Polls

Obama weighs in on the debate
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Ranting Bully Donald Trump Came Unglued in First Presidential Debate
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The real Donald Trump showed up at Hofstra. Republicans must live with it.
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Giuliani: Clinton ‘too stupid to be president’ — Hillary Clinton's decision to stand by her husband and attack former White House intern Monica Lewinsky when news of a sexual relationship between the two broke in 1998 prove that the former secretary of state is “too stupid to be president,” Rudy Giuliani said Monday night.
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Clinton team preps for Trump's Bill attack — NEW YORK — Democrats would love Donald Trump to talk about sex. And it looks as if he will. — As threats emanated from Trump Tower on Tuesday that the Republican nominee was preparing to name-check Bill Clinton's mistresses …


Trump campaign says $18 million windfall followed Monday's debate
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Trump points fingers after shaky debate
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Trump Missed Opportunities Against Clinton in First Debate, Republicans Say
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2003 clip backs up Trump on Iraq War opposition — After all the clamor for moderators to fact-check the candidates during Monday night's presidential debate, Donald Trump flipped the script on Lester Holt by rejecting his assertion Trump backed the war in Iraq - and history backs The Donald.
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Statement by the President on the Death of Former Israeli President Shimon Peres — There are few people who we share this world with who change the course of human history, not just through their role in human events, but because they expand our moral imagination and force us to expect more of ourselves.
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Former Israeli leader Shimon Peres dies aged 93
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McConnell, Pelosi, Ryan seek deal on government funding impasse — Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are trying to hash out an agreement to break an impasse over government funding as the Sept. 30 budget deadline fast approaches.
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U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel — The history of slavery in the United States justifies reparations for African Americans, argues a recent report by a U.N.-affiliated group based in Geneva. — This conclusion was part of a study …
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PAYBACK: Obama Admin Sues Peter Thiel's Palantir for Bogus ‘Racial Discrimination’ — Palantir Technologies co-founder Peter Thiel is evidently paying the price for backing Republican nominee Donald Trump, as the Obama administration has slapped his company with a frivolous lawsuit alleging “racial discrimination” against Asians.
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FOX News Channel Achieves Milestone by Delivering Its Most Watched Quarter Ever in Total Day Viewership — FNC Ranks #1 in Basic Cable in Q3 Primetime and Total Day Viewers — 'The O'Reilly Factor' Tops Q3 Total Viewers; ‘The Kelly File’ Tops Q3 24-54 Demo


Trump Beats Expectations — Hempstead, N.Y. — He was better early, she was better late. Better to be better early. — Donald Trump dominated the first few minutes of Monday's debate by casting Hillary Clinton as the embodiment of Washington politics and the failed policies that have led us to this point.

Statement from Dean Melanie Wilson about Professor's Tweet — Following Professor Glenn Reynolds's tweet and my public response last week, I began an investigation that included an examination of the facts, policies in the university's Faculty Handbook, and the law.
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Big League Trouble: Trump Faces New Questions About His Charity Finances — It's not just where the money went from the Donald Trump Foundation that's drawing scrutiny to GOP nominee. It's also how the money came in. — A new Washington Post report this week presented cases …