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• Senate Republicans lean on Ryan to keep majority

  08-09-2016 23:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Facing steep odds to keep their majority in November, Senate Republicans are leaning on House Speaker Paul Ryan for help even though he repeatedly emphasizes his biggest political responsibility is preserving the large GOP majority in the House.
  
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• Clinton criticizes Trump for remarks on security briefing, Putin

  08-09-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jeff Mason WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slammed Republican rival Donald Trump on Thursday for talking about things he learned in classified intelligence briefings and for praising Russia's Vladimir Putin as a better leader than President Barack Obama. Speaking to reporters the day after a New York security forum featuring separate appearances by the two candidates, Clinton also criticized the businessman for saying U.S. generals had bee
  
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• Gabon opposition leader challenges vote as mediation mission postponed

  08-09-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's opposition leader lodged a constitutional court challenge on Thursday against a presidential election he narrowly lost, hoping to overturn a result whose validity has been questioned at home and abroad. Former foreign minister Jean Ping lost the Aug. 27 election to President Ali Bongo by fewer than 6,000 votes, an outcome that sparked days of riots in which at least six people were killed. Ping's spokesman said in a statement he would s
  
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• Private Equity Tries to Chip Away at Dodd-Frank With House Bill

  08-09-2016 23:05 via nytimes.com
  The House is expected to pass a bill that will loosen the information that the industry must report to regulators about the nature of its investments.
  
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• Trump touts overhaul of 'weak' pool, 'tired' tennis court in deposition

  08-09-2016 23:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump touted his work overhauling one of his South Florida golf clubs in a newly released deposition he gave just two months before he entered the race for the White House.
  
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• Failed hostage rescue attempt in Afghanistan

  08-09-2016 22:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A few days after an American and and Australian were kidnapped from American University in Kabul last month, US Special Operations Forces from SEAL Team 6 attempted to rescue them but failed to find them at the location they went to, according to three administration officials.
  
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• News Analysis: Donald Trump’s Remarks Show He’s Mistaken on Sexual Assault in Military

  08-09-2016 22:51 via nytimes.com
  In defending his suggestion that the integration of women led to assaults, Mr. Trump exposed a faulty understanding of a complex issue and of the military justice system.
  
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• Pence: 'Inarguable' that Putin is stronger than Obama

  08-09-2016 22:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday defended his running mate's statement that Vladimir Putin is a stronger leader than President Barack Obama, calling it "inarguable."
  
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• ‘Super PAC’ Backing Hillary Clinton Pulls In Largest Fund-Raising Haul Yet

  08-09-2016 22:46 via nytimes.com
  Priorities USA Action raised $21.6 million in August, in the wake of the parties’ nominating conventions, leaving it with $41.4 million in cash on hand.
  
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• Trump tells voters again he opposed the Iraq war -- but he didn't

  08-09-2016 22:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Thursday once again sought to convince the public that he opposed the Iraq War by pointing to statements he made after the US had already invaded the country.
  
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• Officials dismiss possibility of US election hacking

  08-09-2016 22:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Federal officials are dismissing the idea that hackers could manipulate US elections through a cyberattack of election systems and voter databases.
  
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• Chelsea Clinton engages in rare gaggle with reporters

  08-09-2016 22:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Chelsea Clinton engaged in a rare gaggle with reporters Thursday, praising her mother, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, in a short Q&A.
  
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• Trump says he was against Iraq war despite Howard Stern interview

  08-09-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday said he was against the Iraq war all along despite telling radio interviewer Howard Stern in 2002 that he favored it. Trump used the start of a speech about education at a charter school in Cleveland to push back at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's statement that his position on Iraq is pretty much like her own: She voted for the 2003 war as a U.S. senator from New York but has since disavowed the v
  
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• With No Edge on the Economy, Clinton and Trump Focus Elsewhere

  08-09-2016 22:16 via nytimes.com
  While voters tell pollsters that the economy is their most important concern, the candidates are focusing on other issues, like changing demographics.
  
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• CNN/ORC poll: High expectations for Clinton ahead of first debate

  08-09-2016 22:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Americans say they expect Hillary Clinton to outperform Donald Trump when the two take the stage for the first presidential debate in less than three weeks, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
  
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• U.S. lawmakers to press AOL for Powell's State Department emails

  08-09-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers said Thursday they will seek to recover the missing emails of Colin Powell from his time as U.S. secretary of state by going directly to AOL Inc, whose email service he used for his work. The decision came a few minutes after U.S. State Department officials testified in a hearing that the department never contacted AOL to recover the missing records, despite repeated requests by the National Archives and Records Administration over the last y
  
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• What last night's forum taught us about Trump and Clinton

  08-09-2016 21:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One thing is now clear: Voters face the starkest choice in generations about America's place in the world and how it leads.
  
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• Clinton criticizes Trump for comments on security briefing, Putin

  08-09-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jeff Mason WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slammed Republican rival Donald Trump on Thursday for talking about things he learned in classified intelligence briefings and praising Russia's Vladimir Putin as a better leader than U.S. President Barack Obama. Speaking to reporters after a New York security forum featuring separate appearances by the two candidates, Clinton also criticized the businessman for saying U.S. generals had been "redu
  
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• Trump laments departure of 'brilliant' Mexican finance minister

  08-09-2016 21:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump bemoaned Thursday the resignation of Mexico's finance minister, praising Luis Videgaray as someone who could have made "wonderful deals" with the United States.
  
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• China loomed over Obama's final pivot to Asia

  08-09-2016 21:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Of President Barack Obama's dozens of foreign swings, perhaps none have brought him to more dissimilar back-to-back stops than his journey this week through China and Laos.
  
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• Gabon opposition leader challenges election result in court

  08-09-2016 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's opposition leader lodged a challenge to the presidential election result at the constitutional court on Thursday, hoping to overturn his defeat in a vote whose validity has been questioned at home and abroad. Jean Ping lost the Aug. 27 election to President Ali Bongo by fewer than 6,000 votes, a result that sparked days of riots in which at least six people were killed. "Ping's demand is for a recount of the votes in the province of Hau
  
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• Hillary Clinton talks to Humans of New York: 'I can be perceived as aloof or cold'

  08-09-2016 21:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton spoke candidly in an interview published Thursday about perceptions that she can sometimes come off as "cold or unemotional," describing her struggle as a young woman to control her emotions without seeming "walled off."
  
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• Trump says he was against Iraq war all along, disputes Clinton

  08-09-2016 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday said he was against the Iraq war all along despite Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's charge that he supported it. Trump used the start of a speech about education at a charter school in Cleveland to push back at Clinton's statement that his position on Iraq is pretty much like hers: She voted for the 2003 war as a U.S. senator from New York but has since disavowed the vote. At an NBC forum on Wednesday night, Clinton pointed to a 2002 int
  
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• Donald Trump and Allies Raised $90 Million in August, Trailing Hillary Clinton

  08-09-2016 21:06 via nytimes.com
  The fund-raising matched Mr. Trump’s pace from earlier in the summer but left Mrs. Clinton with a commanding advantage in cash on hand.
  
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• Pfizer CEO says Clinton plan to curb drug prices would hurt consumers

  08-09-2016 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pfizer Inc's chief executive on Thursday said recent proposals by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to curb "unjustified" U.S. drug prices would dampen investment in innovative new drugs and ultimately hurt consumers. "(They) would be very negative for innovation," Ian Read said in webcast from the annual Wells Fargo healthcare conference in Boston.
  
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• No new trial for ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell

  08-09-2016 21:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they will not retry former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on public corruption charges, and will drop charges against his wife Maureen McDonnell.
  
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• Ryan trashes Putin but won't call out Trump for praising him

  08-09-2016 20:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan, pressed about Donald Trump's praise of the strongman Russian leader, trashed Vladimir Putin, but wouldn't criticize the GOP presidential nominee.
  
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• ‘What Is Aleppo?’ Gary Johnson Asks, in an Interview Stumble

  08-09-2016 19:42 via nytimes.com
  On “Morning Joe,” Mr. Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate, indicated that he really was not aware of the Syrian city engulfed in civil war.
  
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• Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton: Where They Stand on Education

  08-09-2016 19:20 via nytimes.com
  The two candidates on Common Core standards, school choice and the rising cost of college tuition.
  
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• ‘What Is Aleppo?’ Gary Johnson Asked. Let Us Explain.

  08-09-2016 19:16 via nytimes.com
  An American presidential candidate asked what Aleppo is on national television. Some of the basics about what’s going on there.
  
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• Armenian prime minister resigns, party nominates Gazprom executive

  08-09-2016 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan tendered his resignation on Thursday saying the country needed fresh policies, after his government struggled with an economic slowdown and protests in the capital earlier this year. Artak Zakaryan, a deputy from the ruling Republican Party, told reporters Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan has accepted Abrahamyan's resignation. Experts say the new government is likely to be temporary and the final configuration will
  
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• Gabon says African Union's mediation mission is delayed

  08-09-2016 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's political crisis deepened on Thursday after the postponement of a planned mission by the African Union (AU) to mediate between two opposing candidates who both claim to have won last month's presidential election. Election results announced last week showed incumbent Ali Bongo beating his main rival, Jean Ping, by fewer than 6,000 votes in the oil-producing West African nation, sparking days of riots in which at least six people were ki
  
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• Johnson: 'What is Aleppo?'

  08-09-2016 18:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson stumbled while answering a question about the Syrian refugee crisis on Thursday, asking "What is Aleppo?" in an interview on MSNBC.
  
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• Trump praises Putin, pans generals

  08-09-2016 18:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said "steadiness" is the most important quality needed for a commander in chief, during a presidential forum on Wednesday.
  
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• Poll: Donald Trump up 3 points in North Carolina

  08-09-2016 18:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump holds a narrow edge over rival Hillary Clinton in North Carolina, according to a new poll, although nearly half of the state's voters think the Democrat will win the presidency.
  
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• African Union's Gabon crisis mediators delay visit as mission leader 'tired': Gabon

  08-09-2016 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - African Union mediators on Gabon's election crisis have delayed until further notice their mission to the country, which was due to have begun on Friday, Gabon's Foreign Minister Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet said on Thursday. Chad's President Idriss Deby is the lead mediator but he returned tired from a G20 summit meeting of the world's top economies in China and so the visit has been delayed, he said. There was no immediate comment from Chad or the African Union. (Reporting by
  
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• Ready to lead?

  08-09-2016 18:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One thing is now clear: Voters face the starkest choice in generations about America's place in the world and how it leads.
  
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• Hillary Clinton: ISIS is 'rooting for Donald Trump'

  08-09-2016 17:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton told an Israeli news channel Wednesday that ISIS is "rooting for Donald Trump," citing an article by a former head of the US National Counterterrorism Center.
  
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• Clinton: ISIS is 'rooting for Donald Trump'

  08-09-2016 17:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton told an Israeli news channel Wednesday that ISIS is "rooting for Donald Trump," citing an article by a former head of the US National Counterterrorism Center.
  
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• Not Smiling Enough? Hillary Clinton Says She Will Stay Serious on Vital Issues

  08-09-2016 17:38 via nytimes.com
  After a top Republican accused Mrs. Clinton of insufficient smiling at a national security forum, she suggested that it was a subject about women in politics that should be pondered.
  
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• Caroline Kennedy: JFK wouldn't have escalated US in Vietnam

  08-09-2016 17:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Would the United States have become mired in the costly Vietnam War had President John F. Kennedy escaped an assassin's bullet in 1963? His daughter says no.
  
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• Clinton unleashes on Trump over national security

  08-09-2016 17:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton unleashed a torrent of attacks against Donald Trump's preparedness to be commander-in-chief Thursday morning, hours after an NBC forum exposed her opponent to criticism on multiple fronts.
  
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• Clinton calls Trump comment on security briefing 'undisciplined'

  08-09-2016 16:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jeff Mason WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton chastised Republican rival Donald Trump on Thursday for hinting about things he learned in classified intelligence briefings, calling it "totally inappropriate and undisciplined." Speaking to reporters the morning after a New York security forum featuring separate appearances by the two candidates, Clinton also slammed the businessman for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin and saying U.S. g
  
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• Trump, Clinton showcase clashing styles and national security instincts

  08-09-2016 16:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One thing is now clear: Voters face the starkest choice in generations about America's place in the world and how it leads.
  
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• For disappeared man's wife, Obama trip yields little

  08-09-2016 16:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In 1975, 14-year-old Barack Obama and 23-year-old Sombath Somphone were both living in Oahu, the future US president starting high school and the Lao exchange student on his way toward a bachelors degree from the University of Hawaii.
  
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• Trump praises Putin, pans US generals as Clinton pivots from email

  08-09-2016 16:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said "steadiness" is the most important quality needed for a commander in chief, during a presidential forum on Wednesday.
  
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• Highlights of Hillary Clinton’s News Conference

  08-09-2016 15:54 via nytimes.com
  Hillary Clinton took questions at a news conference on Thursday on an airport tarmac in New York, one night after a presidential forum on national security issues.
  
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• Obama: Trump's 'wacky ideas' should be challenged

  08-09-2016 15:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama warned Thursday against becoming immune to Donald Trump's more outlandish statements, arguing that the stakes of the US presidential contest were too high for Americans to tune out.
  
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• Gary Johnson: 'What is Aleppo?'

  08-09-2016 15:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson stumbled while answering a question about the Syrian refugee crisis on Thursday, asking "What is Aleppo?" in an interview on MSNBC.
  
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• Democrat Clinton to hold news conference Thursday: campaign

  08-09-2016 15:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will hold a news conference on Thursday morning before departing from White Plains, New York, to campaign in North Carolina, a campaign spokesman said. No specific time for the conference was provided. Clinton, criticized in the past for not being accessible to media, has already spoken to reporters twice on her campaign plane this week as the campaign heads into the final months before the Nov. 8 presidential election
  
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