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One of America’s weirdest congressional districts has just been trashed by the Florida Supreme Court
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state legislature must redraw at least eight congressional districts, including the 5th, that had been gerrymandered to favor the GOP.
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Paul Ryan: Threat of Government Shutdown Is Real Unless Dems Back Down
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) warned on Thursday that the threat of another government shutdown is real unless President Obama and the Democrats end their opposition to a GOP budget plan that boosts defense spending while capping domestic programs.
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Google’s AI had nightmares about the GOP presidential candidates. This is what it saw.
A new low in the history of computer-human relations.
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Hawaiian Natives have been waiting since 1920 for promised land
More than 29,000 on list for acreage set aside for ranches and homes while corporations jump ahead in line.
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Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo Rips Donald Trump Via Twitter Following Second Prison Break
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Scott Walker Joins Race as Fighter for the Right
In joining the 2016 presidential campaign, he promises to bring to the U.S. the brand of tough-minded conservative politics that drove his rise in Wisconsin.
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Fascinating maps show where and why men die early and women survive
The surprising reasons why women outnumber men in parts of the U.S.
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Trump 'creates ratings,' his longtime advisor says
Michael Cohen, special counsel to Donald Trump, addresses news media coverage of his boss and says the candidate is
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The Bernie Sanders Surge Is About Bernie, Not Hillary
“The recent rise of Bernie Sanders,” wrote Vox’s Jonathan Allen last week, “points as much to [Hillary] Clinton’s vulnerability as Sanders’s strength.” Allen went on to argue that Joe Biden should …
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Goldman Bankers Are Jeb Bush’s Top Backers for White House
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What Does the Planned Parenthood Video Actually Show?
A secretly recorded conversation with the group’s medical director ignites a heated debate over its handling of fetal tissue. By David A. Graham.
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Move Over, Hillary! Victoria Woodhull Was the First Woman to Run for U.S. President
Hillary Clinton may have announced her candidacy via YouTube recently, but 143 years before her, another woman ran for president.
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Texas Won’t Give Birth Certificates to Children of Undocumented Women
State officials have refused to give an untold number of Texas-born children birth certificates due to their parents’ immigration status, according to a lawsuit that was filed earlier this year...
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Is American Government in Decay?
Francis Fukuyama and other critics misinterpret democratic messiness as existential crisis. By Adam White.
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Hedging bets in 2016: Some donors give to Bush and Clinton
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Huffington Post to Cover Trump as an Entertainer, Not a Politician
The decision by Huff Post to dump Trump into entertainment section draws cheers and jeers.
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The Inside Story of the Crony Court that Deep-Sixed the Scott Walker Probe
Yesterday, Scott Walker caught a break when the Wisconsin Supreme Court, on a party line vote, shut down a criminal investigation of his 2012 recall election campaign. The inquiry, called “John Doe” investigation, was led by a Republican special prosecutor on behalf of five Wisconsin county district attorneys who were probing whether Walker had broken state campaign finance laws...
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18th July 1940 - FDR nominated for unprecedented third term
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedented third term. Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms.
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It’s not just Fox News: How liberal apologists torpedoed change, helped make the Democrats safe for Wall Street
Center-left pundits have carried water for the president for six years. Their predictable excuses all ring hollow. By Thomas Frank. (January)
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Mr. President, on behalf of an ungrateful nation, thank you
I’ve never written a column like this. Readers rarely believe it, but I am not on any political team. Generosity toward the high and mighty isn’t among my few virtues. But this needs to be said: Americans are lucky to have Barack Obama as president and we should wake up and appreciate it while we can.
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