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WHAT HILLARY STAFFERS KNEW...AND WHEN THEY KNEW IT … Weiner was at home with their son Jordan, tweeting non-stop, and with little real work beyond occasional media appearances. At one point in the summer of 2015 he took up a job with a PR firm. It ended when some of the partners left in disgust.
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Here's An Open Letter To Comey From The Teen Who Allegedly Got Sexts From Weiner — “I thought your job as FBI Director was to protect me.” — with the teenage girl who allegedly got indecent messages from Anthony Weiner. — Her story has received renewed attention since FBI Director …
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Teen Who Allegedly Got Weiner Sexts “Upset” With Comey — The 15-year-old exclusively told BuzzFeed News she is upset with the FBI for not informing her that her case became tied to the use of Hillary Clinton's private email server. — The teenage girl who allegedly received indecent messages …
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What Clintonworld Thinks About the Latest Abedin-Weiner Scandal — “If Weiner hadn't taken pictures of his weiner, we wouldn't be in this thing.” — “It's a real headache,” one top Hillary Clinton adviser told me earlier this week, referring to the recent discovery of potentially classified e-mails …
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Teen who allegedly got explicit texts from Weiner slams FBI
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Last Slide Next Slide — Two metro-area police officers were shot and killed in apparent “ambush style” attacks early Wednesday. — Police from Urbandale and Des Moines departments responded to a report of gunfire at the intersection of 70th Street and Aurora Avenue at about 1:06 a.m.
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Scott Michael Greene was convicted in combative 2014 encounters … Scott Michael Greene, the 46-year-old suspect in the killings of two police officers early Wednesday, apparently had previous encounters with Urbandale police officers, according to court records about a man with the same name and date of birth as the suspect.
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Iowa Police Arrest Suspect in ‘Ambush’ Killings of 2 Officers
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Iowa police shootings: Confederate flag incident at stadium under scrutiny
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Officers identified in deadly shootings
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WATCH LIVE: Greenville officials address church burning, vandalism — GREENVILLE, MS (Mississippi News Now) - — Tuesday night after 11 p.m. authorities responded to a call about a church burning in Greenville. — A local black church, Hopewell M.B. Church, was not only burned …
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A Black Church Burned in the Name of Trump — A black church in Greenville, Mississippi, was set on fire on Tuesday night. Fire fighters arrived to find Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church “heavily engulfed in flames,” Mayor Errick Simmons said in an interview; the fire took nearly an hour to contain.
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Historically Black Church In Mississippi Set Ablaze, Vandalized With ‘Vote Trump’

Police: ‘Vote Trump’ vandalism, fire at Mississippi church a hate crime
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Obama on FBI: We don't operate on innuendo — FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to members of Congress related to Hillary Clinton's emails — (CNN)President Barack Obama made his first public comments about the FBI decision to disclose its new review into emails …
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Obama Criticizes F.B.I. Director: 'We Don't Operate on Incomplete Information' — WASHINGTON — President Obama criticized the decision by his F.B.I. director to alert Congress on Friday about the discovery of new emails related to the Hillary Clinton server case, implying …
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Post-ABC Tracking poll finds race tied, as Trump opens up an 8-point edge on honesty — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are tied in the new Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll which finds Trump now holds an edge on which candidate is honest and trustworthy.
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Clinton, Trump tied in latest national poll
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White nationalists plot Election Day show of force — Neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin plans to muster thousands of poll watchers across all 50 states. His partners at the alt-right website “the Right Stuff” are touting plans to set up hidden cameras at polling places in Philadelphia and hand …
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A hard peace — After four years of litigation funded by a billionaire with a grudge going back even further, a settlement has been reached. The saga is over. — As the most unpalatable part of the deal, three true stories—about Hulk Hogan, the claim by Shiva Ayyadurai that he invented email …
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Donald Trump Voters, Just Hear Me Out — This is my last column until after the election, so I'd like to address the people least likely to read it: Donald Trump voters. Who knows? Maybe I'll get lucky and a few of them will buy fish wrapped in this column, and they'll accidentally peruse it!
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From Roe to Trump — On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court …
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Early Voting a Poor Predictor of Final Results — As we wind down this election, we begin to hear the familiar chime: The election is over and/or can be predicted because of what we see in the early vote. Don't buy it. While we might be able to make some broad projections based upon early voting …
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Video shows Trump with mob figure he denied knowing — A newly uncovered video appears to contradict Donald Trump's claim that he never knew a high-stakes gambler who was banned from New Jersey casinos for alleged ties to organized crime. — The reputed mob figure, Robert LiButti …
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Cotton: Clinton Foundation one of world's largest money-laundering schemes — (R-Ark.) tore into the Clinton Foundation on Tuesday, comparing it to an illegal money-laundering operation. — Asked on Hugh Hewitt's radio show about a Wall Street Journal report that four FBI offices …
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Obama criticizes FBI's Comey on Clinton email probe
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Jon Stewart tears into Trump at NY event — It's possible Jon Stewart misses his old job — or at least the part where he got to make fun of Donald Trump — The former “Daily Show” host repeatedly mocked the GOP presidential nominee at a Tuesday event, specifically scoffing at his claims …

Monmouth University Polling Institute — Pennsylvania — Clinton Has Smaller Lead; McGinty Ahead in Senate Race — West Long Branch, NJ - Hillary Clinton maintains the lead in Pennsylvania, although by a smaller margin than one month ago. The Monmouth University Poll finds she currently …
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New CNN / ORC polls suggest new strength for Trump, Clinton rise in Florida — Washington (CNN)Both the Clinton and Trump campaigns have hit the ground hard in Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Pennsylvania, and new CNN/ORC polls across the four states paint a picture of a tight race to the finish in critical battlegrounds.
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Justice Department official gave Clinton camp ‘heads up’ about testimony — A Justice Department official with close ties to Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta sent him a “heads up” last year to warn that lawmakers might question witnesses about the presidential candidate's private emails …
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U.S. militia girds for trouble as presidential election nears — Down a Georgia country road, camouflaged members of the Three Percent Security Force have mobilized for rifle practice, hand-to-hand combat training — and an impromptu campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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For release at 2:00 p.m. EDT — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and growth of economic activity has picked up from the modest pace seen in the first half of this year.
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