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Live Election Results and Estimates: Georgia's Sixth Congressional District — Dem. — 63,302 — 9% reporting (19 of 208 precincts) — The race between Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel is largely seen as a referendum on the first months of Donald J. Trump's presidency.
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Georgia's Special Election Comes to a Nail-Biting Finish — ATLANTA — Tuesday's runoff between Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District will decide what has become the most expensive House campaign in history — and quite possibly the most consequential special election since Watergate.
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Jon Ossoff's Georgia special election loss shows Democrats could use a substantive agenda — Jon Ossoff's narrow loss in the Georgia House special election seat will come as a crushing emotional blow to Democrats even though it hardly dooms their hopes to take back Congress next year.
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Georgia special election runoff: live coverage — Election Day is finally here in Georgia's 6th Congressional District, the closely watched special election runoff to fill the House seat left open by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel …


Live updates: Handel celebrates following win in Georgia's 6th District — Georgia is sending its first Republican woman to Congress. — News outlets began declaring Karen Handel the winner of Georgia's 6th District U.S. House seat at roughly 10 p.m. Tuesday evening …


Who Financed the Georgia Sixth, the Most Expensive House Election Ever — Tuesday's special election in Georgia is the most expensive in history, with candidates and outside groups spending roughly $55 million in the battle for the longtime Republican-held district in suburban Atlanta.
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Republican Karen Handel wins Georgia House special election, CNN projects — Atlanta (CNN)Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in a high-stakes special election for a Georgia House seat on Tuesday, denying Democrats their first major victory of the Donald Trump era.


Ossoff chose civility and it didn't work. How do Democrats beat Trump?
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Election Results: Republican Wins U.S. House Seat in South Carolina
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GOP's Karen Handel Beats Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia
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Follow the Georgia 6th District runoff results
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Karen Handel Wins Georgia Special Election, Fending Off Upstart Democrat
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Georgia's high-stakes congressional runoff comes down to the wire.
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Squad dashcam video - Yanez case (WARNING: Graphic content) — Squad dashcam video of July 6, 2016 traffic stop of Philando Castile. — WARNING: Graphic content. — Evidence presented by Ramsey County Attorney's Office in State of Minnesota versus Jeronimo Yanez.
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Case file in Philando Castile shooting released, dashcam video shows shooting
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Video footage shows Minn. traffic stop that ended with Philando Castile's death
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Video of Police Killing of Philando Castile Is Publicly Released
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The Latest: Trump said to plan announcement on Comey tapes — The Latest on the investigation into Russia's actions in the U.S. election and possible ties to Trump campaign associates (all times EDT): — A Washington lawyer has confirmed that he's representing Attorney General Jeff Sessions but is not offering any more specifics.
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The White House Press Briefing Is Slowly Dying
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‘He loves rallies’: Trump looks beyond Washington to get a boost
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Shocker! Daniel Day-Lewis Quits Acting (EXCLUSIVE) — Senior Film and Media Editor @BrentALang — Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, widely considered one of the preeminent actors of his generation, is retiring from acting, Variety has learned. — The 60-year-old star …
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Eric Holder joins the anti-Trump resistance — and mulls a presidential campaign of his own … LOS ANGELES — More than two years after leaving the Obama administration, former Attorney General Eric Holder is reentering the political fray. — His goal: to lead the legal resistance …


Senate Republicans Haven't Seen Their Health Bill Either — Collins, Flake and Toomey not ready to offer support for plan — McCain says he hasn't ‘met any American’ who has seen the bill — Senate Republicans may be asked to vote on a controversial health-care bill next week …
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Health plans slam Medicaid cuts in emerging Senate bill
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Senate Medicaid spending limits may lose moderate Republicans
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Despite Concerns About Blackmail, Flynn Heard C.I.A. Secrets — WASHINGTON — Senior officials across the government became convinced in January that the incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had become vulnerable to Russian blackmail. — At the F.B.I., the C.I.A. …
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Former Patriots and Chiefs tackle Ryan O'Callaghan comes out as gay — O'Callaghan had always planned to commit suicide after football, until Kansas City Chiefs staffers stepped in. — Editor's note: This story contains conversation and description of suicide.
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Going on Fox News cost me my job, professor claims | Carter — Essex County College suspended Lisa Durden, an adjunct professor and political commentator, after she appeared on the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News. (Photo supplied by Lisa Durden) — bcarter@starledger.com,
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Leaked recording: Inside Apple's global war on leakers — SECRECY AT APPLE — Former NSA agents, secrecy members on product teams, and a screening apparatus bigger than the TSA. — A recording of an internal briefing at Apple earlier this month obtained by The Outline sheds new light …
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Trump seeks sharp cuts to housing aid, except for program that brings him millions — President Trump's budget calls for sharply reducing funding to programs that shelter the poor and combat homelessness — with a notable exception: It leaves intact the type of federal housing subsidy that is paid directly to private landlords.
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'I'm Right Here!' Sean Spicer Says While Toiling to Find Successor — WASHINGTON — The opportunity to take over behind the White House briefing room lectern would be the apex of a political operative's career in any other presidency, a path to riches, fame and power.


David Brooks Didn't Do the Reading. Look What Happened. — And now he's rewriting the Whitewater history to absolve himself. — Moral Hazard, the Irish setter owned for photo-op purposes by New York Times columnist David Brooks, searched the Young Fogies Club in midtown Manhattan …
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‘A magical experience’: Beautiful images capture rare bioluminescent plankton off the coast of Wales — Photographer Alyn Wallace captured these stunning images of rare bioluminescent plankton in the sea at Three Cliffs Bay in Swansea this week. — “I had to pinch myself this morning,” he wrote on Facebook.


Tim Cook told Trump tech employees are ‘nervous’ about immigration — Tech employees are “nervous” about the Trump administration's approach on immigration, Tim Cook says. — Behind the scenes at the White House tech CEO meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook told President Donald Trump …
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GOP hangs on to South Carolina House seat — Republican Ralph Norman is projected to win the South Carolina House special election, keeping the seat in Republican hands. — The Associated Press projected that Norman, a former state lawmaker, will win against Democrat Archie Parnell, according to the Associated Press.
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In a Bering Sea battle of killer whales vs. fishermen, the whales are winning — In the Bering Sea, near the edge the continental shelf, fishermen are trying to escape a predator that seems to outwit them at every turn, stripping their fishing lines and lurking behind their vessels.


Bodyguard for well-known alt-right figure stabbed several times in Santa Monica — A man who works as a bodyguard for a nationally known figure popular among the alt-right was stabbed multiple times in Santa Monica on Saturday night following a dispute in a parking lot, police said.
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