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Trump's Chicago rally called off for safety reasons amid chaos
U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump canceled a rally scheduled for Friday night in Chicago after the event turned into a chaotic scene with thousands of attendees split into opposing camps of supporters of the Republican front-runner and protesters inflamed by his candidacy.
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Googling Candidates' Names Now Exposes All Their Campaign Funding Data
Campaign finance is a world of special interests, dark money, bad information and spin doctoring. But Google is going to help us shine a little more light on where all that funding is coming from. As of Tuesday morning, Google is integrating campaign finance data right into search, so all you have to do is punch in a candidate's name, scroll down and you'll get an elementary breakdown of where that candidate's funds have come from so far in this election.
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A King in His Castle: How Donald Trump Lives, From His Longtime Butler
Everything seemed to sparkle at the Mar-a-Lago estate here on a recent afternoon. The sun glinted off the pool and the black Secret Service S.U.V.s in the circular driveway. Palm trees rustled in a warm breeze, croquet balls clicked and a security guard stood at the entrance to Donald J. Trump’s private living quarters. “You can always tell when the king is here,” Mr. Trump’s longtime butler here, Anthony Senecal, said of the master of the house and Republican presidential candidate.
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Trump Predicts (Promises?) Riots If the Nomination Is Taken From Him at the Convention
"I think you would see problems like you've never seen before. I think bad things would happen."
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Jeb Bush confirms that Republican opposition to Trump isn’t about his racism at all
Bush endorsed Ted Cruz a day after Cruz backed racial profiling of Muslims. By Dylan Matthews.
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Donald Trump will win in a landslide. The mind behind ‘Dilbert’ explains why
'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams is a longtime student in the powers of persuasion, and he believes Trump has been 'pitch-perfect' so far in deploying those powers. By Michael Cavna.
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Donald Trump Hates Women
It’s the one position he’s never changed. By Franklin Foer.
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KING: Trump manager's assault charge shows double standard
The charges, while appropriate, reveal a whole host of despicable disparities that deserve ample mention.
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I Know Why Poor Whites Chant Trump, Trump, Trump
From the era of slavery to the rise of Donald Trump, wealthy elites have relied on the loyalty of poor whites. All Americans deserve better. By Jonna Ivin.
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College Kids Aren’t the Only Ones Demanding ‘Safe Spaces’
The much-ridiculed fear of ideas on campuses is just a parody of mainstream political discourse in America. By Matt Taibbi.
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The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet
The 2016 presidential election could be the most scandal-plagued match-up since James Blaine’s allegedly corrupt business deals squared off against Grover Cleveland’s alleged illegitimate child in 1884. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is poised to win the nomination, bringing with her a train-car’s worth of baggage. But the Republican front-runner is at least as saddled with controversy as Clinton is—and while many of the Clinton cases involve suspicion...
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This Diary of the Future Shows What Life Under Trump Could Be Like
Internment camps, free-speech crackdowns, back-alley abortions—it's all stuff Trump has promised. President Trump was sworn in yesterday. Today, his first order of business is an executive order banning all Muslims from entering the United States. The measure includes tourists, visiting students, workers and even non-citizen family members of United States citizens. Universities are furious to be losing an estimated 100,000 students per year and the business community has announced...
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You may hate Donald Trump. But do you want Facebook to rig the election against him?
While the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency is a terrifying one, perhaps this is scarier: Facebook could use its unprecedented powers to tilt the 2016 presidential election away from him – and the social network’s employees have apparently openly discussed whether they should do so. As Gizmodo reported on Friday, “Last month, some Facebook employees used a company poll to ask [Facebook founder Mark] Zuckerberg whether the company should try ‘to help prevent President Trump in 2017’.”
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The Day the Republican Party Died
Where were you the night Donald Trump killed the Republican Party as we knew it? Trump was right where he belonged: in the gilt-draped skyscraper with his name on it, Trump Tower in Manhattan, basking in the glory of his final, definitive victory. “I have to tell you, I’ve competed all my life,” Trump said, his golden face somber, his gravity-defying pouf of hair seeming to hover above his brow.
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Trump's Wall Threatens 111 Endangered Species
Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act requires any construction project, “permitted, funded, or licensed by any federal agency” to request information on which endangered species are present in the areas of project. To the best of our knowledge, Donald Trump has filed no such request for his proposed border wall. So we did that for him.
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Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton down
It now seems all but certain that the presidential election will see Donald Trump face off against Hillary Clinton. We find ourselves at the tail end of a brief period of clarity. For the past few months, virtually everyone outside of the 40 percent of Republican primary voters who carried him to victory has agreed that Trump is not fit to be president.
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Donald Trump's Economic Plans Would Destroy the U.S. Economy
On Thursday, Donald Trump's tweet about tacos was only the second-most-alarming message he sent to potential voters. Less open to humorous interpretation was his threat to default on U.S. debt in the event of a recession. "I've borrowed knowing that you can pay back with discounts," he told CNBC. "I would borrow knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal.”
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Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private
Interviews reveal unwelcome advances, a shrewd reliance on ambition, and unsettling workplace conduct over decades.
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling defends Trump's right to be 'offensive', 'bigoted', even Voldemort
Harry Potter author JK Rowling defends Donald Trump's right to be offensive at a literary event in New York, after last year saying he was worse than her fictional villain, Voldemort.
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Elizabeth Warren: Donald Trump can NEVER be the President
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke at the Center for Popular Democracy's annual gala on May 24, 2016. She discussed Donald Trump rooting for the 2008 housing market crash, his plans to dismantle Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform, and his decision not to release his taxes.
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