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• Debate official's advice to moderators: It's not about you

  17-09-2016 23:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The moderators of the upcoming presidential debates should take a backseat approach when it comes to intervening between the candidates, the co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates said Saturday.
  
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• Warren: Trump has 'dark and ugly soul'

  17-09-2016 23:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren tore into Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on the campaign trail Saturday for lying about President Barack Obama's citizenship and hinting at violence against his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
  
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• No, Hillary Clinton did not start the 'birther' movement

  17-09-2016 23:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After more than five years of touting "birther" conspiracy theories, Donald Trump on Friday finally conceded a simple truth: "President Barack Obama was born in the United States."
  
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• 'Entourage' star Grenier lends star power to ocean preservation

  17-09-2016 23:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After spending eight years on the HBO television hit "Entourage," a show that promoted conspicuous consumption and immediate gratification, actor and ocean conservation advocate Adrian Grenier is now promoting the exact opposite: a "wholistic lifestyle and culture change," where people are committed to protecting the planet and building the future world in which they want to live.
  
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• To help Pence, playing the role of Tim Kaine is ... Scott Walker?

  17-09-2016 22:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is playing Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine in debate preps with Mike Pence, a source familiar with the GOP vice presidential hopeful's efforts told CNN Saturday.
  
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• Pence releases letter proclaiming 'healthy lifestyle'

  17-09-2016 21:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Saturday released a letter from his doctor that describes a "healthy lifestyle" and no major medical issues for the Republican vice presidential hopeful.
  
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• Robert Gates: Trump 'beyond repair'

  17-09-2016 20:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Robert Gates criticized both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on their preparedness to handle US foreign policy -- but the former defense secretary reserved his harshest language for the Republican nominee, who he said is "beyond repair."
  
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• Republican VP candidate Pence in 'excellent' health: doctor

  17-09-2016 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence released a letter from his doctor on Saturday declaring Donald Trump's running mate was in "excellent" health. "You are medically able to maintain your high level of professional work and your physical activity programs without limitations," wrote Michael Busk of the St. Vincent Health, Wellness and Preventative Care Institute in Indianapolis. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has released a note from his doctor saying
  
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• Trump's surreal Friday, from press row

  17-09-2016 18:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A manufactured storyline. A promise of a "major statement." And an ulterior motive.
  
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• Revalued: The Standoff Between Big Oil and Big Corn

  17-09-2016 18:47 via nytimes.com
  The policy debate over the decade-old federal Renewable Fuel Standard is largely a battle between two giant competing industries: ethanol and petroleum.
  
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• Congo elections commission petitions high court for poll delay

  17-09-2016 17:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amedee Mwarabu KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's elections commission on Saturday petitioned the Constitutional Court for a postponement of presidential elections, formally confirming a poll delay that has created a dangerous political impasse. President Joseph Kabila's term in office in Africa's top copper producer expires in December and he is barred by constitutional term limits for running again. The opposition has accused Kabila, who came to power in 2001 following the
  
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• Clinton and Trump raise money for presidential transition

  17-09-2016 15:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Staffers for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are already working to plan their future administrations. But first, they are raising some cash.
  
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• Why Democrats are anxious

  17-09-2016 15:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's reversal on the "birther" controversy is shifting attention -- at least for the moment -- from a a major shift in the presidential race.
  
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• Senate Democrats turn to red states in hope of winning majority

  17-09-2016 15:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Democrats, worried about their chances in key battlegrounds of Ohio and Florida this fall, are increasingly setting their sights on three red states to bring them back to the majority.
  
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• France's Le Pen says she is 'candidate of the people,' eager for presidential vote

  17-09-2016 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ingrid Melander FREJUS, France (Reuters) - Far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen on Saturday said she was eager for France's presidential election campaign to start, portraying herself as the "candidate of the people" and mocking her opponents' primaries as cockfights. Opinion polls consistently show the anti-immigration, anti-EU Le Pen making it to the second round of the 2017 election. "I'm very relaxed, impatient to start this presidential campaign," Le Pen told reporters.
  
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• Race tightens in projected U.S. Electoral College vote: Reuters/Ipsos

  17-09-2016 13:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - An election analysis conducted in the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project shows that the race has tightened considerably over the past few weeks, with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump projected to win Florida, an essential battleground state, if the election were held today. The project, which is based on a weekly tracking poll of more than 15,000 Americans, shows that the 2016 presidential race could end in a photo finish on Nov. 8, with the
  
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• Obama to decide on cuts to US nuclear arsenal in October - The Guardian

  17-09-2016 12:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Obama to decide on cuts to US nuclear arsenal in October
  The Guardian
  Nuclear disarmament was one of the signature ambitions of Obama's first months in office. In a speech in Prague in April 2009, he pledged US commitment “to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons”. However, he approaches the end ...
  
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• No sleep till November: this election may be the most exhausting one yet - The Guardian

  17-09-2016 12:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian
  No sleep till November: this election may be the most exhausting one yet
  The Guardian
  When Bernie Sanders finally returned home to Vermont this summer, after 15 months flying the country in search of the Democratic nomination, a long-abandoned family car had to be jump-started by his wife, Jane. The general election trail is longer ...and more »
  
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• Table for Three: Table for Three: Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism

  17-09-2016 12:00 via nytimes.com
  The senator and the actress reflect on the coming election, family dynamics and road maps for social change.
  
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• Table for Three: Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism

  17-09-2016 12:00 via nytimes.com
  The senator and the actress reflect on the coming election, family dynamics and road maps for social change.
  
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• Could Russian hackers change the US election result? - Aljazeera.com

  17-09-2016 09:25 via aljazeera.com
  
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  Could Russian hackers change the US election result?
  Aljazeera.com
  President Barack Obama's homeland security adviser said on Wednesday that it would be very hard to hack into America's voting systems in a way that could alter an election outcome. Lisa Monaco said election systems were not connected to the internet ...
  Obama should respond to Russian meddling in the US electionWashington Postall 19 news articles »
  
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• Did Obama fold, or get his revenge on Netanyahu? - Jerusalem Post Israel News

  17-09-2016 09:24 via jpost.com
  
  Jerusalem Post Israel News
  Did Obama fold, or get his revenge on Netanyahu?
  Jerusalem Post Israel News
  The clash between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama stands at the forefront of the most important agreement to be signed here in recent years: the deal for American military aid to Israel for the next ten years. That is ...
  Obama's not-so-landmark deal with NetanyahuNew York Post
  Tel Aviv Diary: Obama Exacts Cold Revenge on NetanyahuNewsweek
  Netanyahu's secret com
  
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• From Women, Skepticism About Marriage and a Hunger for Workplace Equality

  17-09-2016 05:17 via nytimes.com
  Some of the women who took part in a New York Times/CBS News poll were called to talk further about the challenges they face today.
  
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• Young voters wish they could elect Michelle Obama - New York Post

  17-09-2016 04:40 via nypost.com
  
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  Young voters wish they could elect Michelle Obama
  New York Post
  Michelle Obama hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton Friday — only to encounter voters more eager to keep the Obamas in the White House than elect Clinton. “It is so hard to believe that it is less than two months to Election Day and that my ...
  Michelle Obama Makes Ardent Case for Hillary ClintonNew York Times
  Michelle Obama calls out 'birtherism' at campaign stop for ClintonCNN
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• Trump proposes disarming Clinton guards: 'Let's see what happens to her'

  17-09-2016 04:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Stephenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Friday called for disarming the bodyguards who protect his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, and mused about the consequences of such a move by saying "Let's see what happens to her."   The Republican presidential nominee was speaking at a rally in Miami, where he contrasted his supporters, who he said back police and want crime reduced, to Clinton, who he derided as someone who "lives behind walls and raises money from hedge funds." "I
  
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• Trump on disarming Clinton's guards: 'See what happens'

  17-09-2016 03:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Friday wondered aloud what would happen to Hillary Clinton should her Secret Service detail disarm.
  
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• Donald Trump Says Hillary Clinton’s Bodyguards Should Disarm to ‘See What Happens to Her’

  17-09-2016 03:36 via nytimes.com
  The Republican nominee again raised the possibility of violence against his opponent, saying of her Secret Service agents, “Take their guns away.”
  
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• Levinson's family hopes high-level meetings will spur efforts to find him

  17-09-2016 03:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Two children of the longest-held hostage in American history are hoping a series of meetings this week in Washington will renew efforts to find their father nearly 10 years after he disappeared in Iran.
  
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• Michelle Obama Makes Ardent Case for Hillary Clinton

  17-09-2016 03:00 via nytimes.com
  Mrs. Obama made a rare appearance on the campaign trail on Friday to plead with young voters to support Hillary Clinton and extend President Obama’s legacy.
  
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• UN Meeting a Farewell for Obama, and a Dress Rehearsal for Clinton - New York Times

  17-09-2016 02:45 via nytimes.com
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  UN Meeting a Farewell for Obama, and a Dress Rehearsal for Clinton
  New York Times
  WASHINGTON — President Obama will use his final appearance at the United Nations General Assembly next week to extol the benefits of his brand of multilateral diplomacy, even as the gathering will lay bare places where that diplomacy has fallen short.
  Nigerian president apologizes for plagiarizing Obama in speechThe Guardian
  Nigeria's president will punish staff for plagiarizing an Obama speec
  
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• U.N. Meeting a Farewell for Obama, and a Dress Rehearsal for Clinton

  17-09-2016 02:44 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Obama’s last General Assembly as president is a return to the diplomatic stage for his preferred successor, who will meet with world leaders she already knows.
  
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• Conflicting Policy From Trump: To Keep, and Remove, Tax Cut

  17-09-2016 02:41 via nytimes.com
  After publicly backing away from his proposed tax cut for small businesses, Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides told a small-business group that he still supported the plan.
  
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• Trump shifts on Cuba, says he would reverse Obama's deal

  17-09-2016 02:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump said Friday that he would reverse the deal President Barack Obama struck to reopen diplomatic relations and re-establish some trade with Cuba unless the Cuban regime meets his demands to restore political freedoms and free political prisoners.
  
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• Donald Trump's 'birther' game

  17-09-2016 02:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Just as Donald Trump gained on Hillary Clinton this week, he returned to his old ways of self-sabotage.
  
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• Trump on Clinton's guards: 'Take their guns away, see what happens to her'

  17-09-2016 02:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Friday wondered aloud what would happen to Hillary Clinton should her Secret Service detail disarm.
  
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• US Air Force grounds F-35 fighter jets

  17-09-2016 02:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The US Air Force said Friday it has grounded 10 of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, just over a month after they were declared "combat ready."
  
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• Can President Obama Release Donald Trump's Tax Returns? - snopes.com

  17-09-2016 01:57 via snopes.com
  
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  Can President Obama Release Donald Trump's Tax Returns?
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  While it seems likely that President Obama could obtain and release Donald Trump's tax returns, whether he could so legally is not so certain. Under Section 6103g of the Internal Revenue Act of 1954, the President may submit a request for the IRS to ...
  Obama 'Unlikely' to Order Release of Trump's Tax Returns, White House SaysABC News
  White House: Obama 'rather unlikely' to order release of Trump tax returnsPolitico (
  
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• Trump would undo Obama's Cuba moves unless religious freedom allowed

  17-09-2016 01:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Friday that if elected he would seek to reverse President Barack Obama's moves to open relations with Cuba unless the leaders there allowed religious freedoms and freed political prisoners. "The next president can reverse them, and that I will do unless the Castro regime meets our demands," Trump said at a rally in Miami, which has a large Cuban population. (Reporting by Emily Stephenson; Editing by Leslie Adler)
  
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• Trump finally backs off Obama birth claim, falsely says Clinton started it

  17-09-2016 01:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday abandoned his false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States after spending five years peddling conspiracy theories that the country's first African-American president started life as a foreigner. Trump, who has won back some ground in opinion polls and made the White House race more competitive after he went through a summer slump, made his announcement in an at
  
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• U.S. presidential debate rules out third party candidates

  17-09-2016 00:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party hopeful Jill Stein have failed to quality for the first planned U.S. presidential debate on Sept. 26, the Commission on Presidential Debates said on Friday. The commission, citing the averages the various candidates have achieved in selected polls, confirmed that Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton had met the criteria. It also said that the vice presidential running mates of the two leading candidates were th
  
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• Popular Michelle Obama courts young people for Clinton

  17-09-2016 00:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jeff Mason FAIRFAX, Va. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign deployed a popular surrogate on Friday to gin up enthusiasm amid young voters who could be critical to victory on Nov. 8: Michelle Obama. The U.S. first lady and wife of President Barack Obama, who won the White House in 2008 and 2012 with high levels of support from young voters, told a crowd of students in Virginia that they could mean the difference between a Clinton win or a loss to Republican n
  
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• Poll Finds Most Voters Embrace Milestone for Women, if Not Hillary Clinton

  17-09-2016 00:30 via nytimes.com
  The survey found that women think that more progress has been made toward ending sexism than racism in society, but they perceive that men still hold advantages.
  
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• Trump finally backs off Obama birth claim, falsely accuses Clinton of starting it

  17-09-2016 00:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday abandoned his false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States after spending five years peddling conspiracy theories that the country's first African-American president started life as a foreigner. Trump, who has won back some ground in opinion polls and made the White House race competitive again after he went through a summer slump, made his announcement in an a
  
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• New RNC rule allows donors to give $100K more to Trump

  17-09-2016 00:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republicans are lifting the maximum amount that their wealthiest donors can contribute to the presidential race even higher, a late effort to expand their financial warchest to keep pace with a Democratic big money machine, a Republican National Committee official told CNN.
  
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• Bill to Shield International Art Loans Gains in Senate

  17-09-2016 00:01 via nytimes.com
  The legislation, which opponents contend protects stolen works while they’re being exhibited in the United States, will head to the full Senate for a vote.
  
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