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The Perfect G.O.P. Nominee
They already have a 1-percenter who will be totally fine in the Oval Office, someone they can trust to help Wall Street, boost the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, cuddle with hedge funds, secure the trade deals beloved by corporate America, seek guidance from Henry Kissinger and hawk it up — unleashing hell on Syria and heaven knows where else.
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Where Did the Carter White House's Solar Panels Go?
One of the 32 solar-thermal panels that captured energy on the roof of the White House more than 30 years ago landed this week at a science museum in China
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Prisons watchdog backs social media pilot scheme for inmates
Prisoners should be allowed to use social media or Skype to keep in touch with relatives from behind bars under a pilot scheme, a watchdog has suggested.It was one of a number of measures recommended in a review of inmates' contact with family and
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Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is a Celebration of Slavery
No one seems to be aware that our national anthem literally celebrates the murder of African-Americans.
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5 Points On The Nightmare Paul Ryan Faces Even If The GOP Keeps The House
While Democrats are signaling they're playing to win back the House, most forecasters still see a flip of the lower chamber to be a long shot. But that doesn’t mean Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and the other GOP leaders committed to steering the party away from the recent dysfunction have any reason to breathe easily. An election that preserves Republican control of the House but shrinks GOP’s margins significantly will exacerbate the challenges Ryan was already facing in navigating a fractured party.
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Rubio, Wasserman Schultz win Florida primaries, CNN projects
Sen. Marco Rubio will win the Florida GOP Senate primary, according to a CNN projection Tuesday night.
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GOP leaders must pick a poison on shutdown
OPINION: Republican hardliners are making life very difficult for Speaker Paul Ryan and his allies.
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U.S. Companies Tout Climate Policies, Fund Climate Skeptics
U.S. companies that have expressed the most fervent public support for President Barack Obama’s environmental agenda are also funding its biggest enemies - the scores of U.S. lawmakers who are climate change skeptics and oppose regulation to combat it, according to a Reuters review of public records.
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Obama Legacy: Quiet but Big Changes in Energy, Pollution
Mostly unnoticed amid the political brawl over climate change, the United States has undergone a quiet transformation in how and where it gets its energy du
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Supreme Court Rejects Michigan Republicans who Fear Trump Effect, Keeping Practice of Straight-Ticket Voting
The Supreme Court , acting in a partisan election dispute triggered by the rise of Donald Trump , has turned down an appeal from Michigan Republicans who sought to eliminate straight-ticket voting for the first time in 125 years.
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Did Donald Trump Bribe the Florida Attorney General?
Pam Bondi, Florida's AG, accepted a campaign donation from the candidate just days before dropping a fraud investigation into Trump University. Was it wrong, or so wrong it's right? Guess what Donald Trump thinks.
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How Donald Trump retooled his charity to spend other people’s money
Trump had found a way to give away somebody else’s money and claim the credit for himself. In tax records, the last gift from Trump was in 2008. Trump spent $20,000 of money earmarked for charitable purposes to buy a six-foot-tall painting of himself.
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Colin Powell's Email To Clinton About Personal Devices Shows Routing Around FOIA Is Business As Usual
Briefly noted in an earlier article about the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's personal email server was the existence of communications that pointed towards FOIA-dodging as a possible factor in her decision to set this...
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This Week in WTF: Latinos for Trump | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS
We met the taco-truck guy before he was the taco-truck guy.
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Why red means Republican and blue means Democrat
The major party color schemes, and the terms “red state” and "blue state" are actually a recent phenomenon.
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Polling Places Become Battleground in U.S. Voting Rights Fight
A Reuters survey found local governments in nearly a dozen, mostly Republican-dominated counties in Georgia have adopted plans to reduce the number of voting stations, citing cost savings and efficiency.
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What’s Really Ailing Hillary
A long time ago, Clinton was far more transparent, emotional and open than she is today. Then the media began slamming her—and didn’t stop.
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Analysis: Trump Tax Plan Would Cost Trillions, Boost Incomes For The Rich
The plan would also help the rich more than the middle class, according to the Tax Foundation. And there's still one huge, $1.5 trillion uncertainty in the plan.
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Refugee Crisis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Last Week Tonight covers an inappropriate analogy for the refugee crisis.
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Democrats are in deep trouble — even if Hillary Clinton wins
Since Obama's election, the Democratic Party has been obliterated at the state level.
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