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Republican Leaders Map a Strategy to Derail Donald Trump
If aggressive efforts to deny Mr. Trump the presidential nomination fail, the party leaders say they will try to field an independent candidate for the general election.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Border Wall (HBO)
Donald Drumpf wants to build a wall on the U.S-Mexico border. Is his plan feasible?
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Flint burglary where water files stored ‘an inside job,’ police chief says
Mystery still surrounds an unsolved December break-in at an executive office inside City Hall where Flint water files were kept. By Molly Young.
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How to inoculate people against Donald Trump's fact bending claims
Donald Trump has been known to spread misinformation. This gives us a great opportunity to hone our critical thinking skills.
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Phoenix mayor seeks federal probe of election
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton wants the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether Maricopa County elections officials illegally put fewer presidential primary polling locations in poor or minority-heavy areas.
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Utilities Are Playing Dirty In Florida To Kill Solar Energy Disruption In The Cradle
Facing a future where competition is rampant, customers pay less money, and solar users actually get paid for driving power back to the grid gives any entrenched utility executive heartburn. Fortunately for them, we live in an era where buying state law and tricking consumers into rooting against their own best self interests is easier than ever before. By Karl Bode.
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What happened in Arizona wasn’t an accident: When states make voting impossible, it’s for a very clear reason
Arizona residents were forced to wait hours on line in order to vote in this week's primary. Some were turned away. VIDEO
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Indiana Governor Signs Abortion Bill With Added Restrictions
The bill signed by Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana bans abortions motivated solely by objections to the fetus’s race, gender or disability.
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Republicans Sour on Way Election Process Is Working
Thirty percent of Americans say the presidential election process is working as it should, down from 37% in January. The decline is driven mainly by Republicans' increasingly cynical views of the process.
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Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law Requires an Education Campaign, Which the State Hasn’t Funded
The controversial law is about to get its inaugural use in a major statewide vote, Wisconsin’s April 5th primary. By Sarah Smith.
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The $2.5 Billion U.S. Power Line That No State Can Stop
A $2.5-billion transmission line carrying wind power to the U.S. Southeast is coming -- whether state regulators there like it or not. By Jonathan Crawford and Jim Polson.
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Despite The Math, Bernie Sanders Has Already Won
Bernie Sanders won sweeping victories Saturday and more are sure to come over the next couple months. Can he win the nomination? And is that what really even matters?
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Oh Grandmother, what a big gun you have: The NRA rewrites classic fairy tales
Imagine a world where the characters from your favorite childhood fairy tales and fables are armed. Hansel with a hunting rifle. Or Little Red Riding Hood's granny with a shotgun. That world now exists on the National Rifle Association's NRA Family website, which partnered with author Amelia Hamilton "to present her twist on those classic tales" - a series that has infuriated gun-control advocates, some of whom called it "absolutely sick."
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Supreme Court's Tie Vote Upholds Public Employee Fees for Unions
The Supreme Court announced a tie vote today in what labor law experts had called a "life-or-death" case for public employee unions.
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Inside the FBI Investigation of Hillary Clinton's E-Mail
FBI director Jim Comey first investigated the Clintons 20 years ago
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The End of Welfare as We Know It
By the numbers, welfare reform was a success. More than 13 million people received cash assistance from the government in 1995, before the law was passed. Today, just 3 million do. “Simply put, welfare reform worked because we all worked together,” Bill Clinton, who signed into law welfare reform, or the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times in 2006.
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Here’s another way politicians are screwing you over
This could get very expensive for some states. By Nick Stockton.
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The Revival of Segregation in Mississippi
My father grew up in the pre-integration South, and when I was young, he would occasionally tell me stories about the horrors of segregation… By Mark Joseph Stern.
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33 state Democratic parties launder $26M from millionaires for Hillary
Collusion between the Clinton Campaign and the DNC allowed Hillary Clinton to buy the loyalty of 33 state Democratic parties last summer. Montana was one of those states. It sold itself for $64,100…
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Congressional Fundraising (HBO)
Lawmakers have to raise money to keep their jobs, but a surprising amount of their job now consists of raising money. John Oliver sits down with Congressman Steve Israel to discuss the costs of political spending.
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