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• Giuliani: Clinton 'too stupid to be president'

  27-09-2016 23:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani blasted Hillary Clinton as "too stupid to be president" because she stayed with her husband after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
  
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• Carson, Beal groups make this week the general election's costliest

  27-09-2016 23:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Spending by super PACs tied to Donald Trump friends such as Ben Carson and banker Andy Beal will help make this week the general election's most expensive yet.
  
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• Obama nominates career diplomat as U.S. ambassador to Cuba

  27-09-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated career diplomat Jeffrey DeLaurentis to be the first U.S. ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years. Obama's appointment of DeLaurentis, who has been the top American official at the U.S. embassy in Havana since relations with the communist-ruled island were restored last year, sets up what is expected to be a fierce confirmation battle in Congress during a presidential election year. (Reporting By Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Jonat
  
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• Reporter's Notebook: I Muted Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton During the Debate. I Still Knew the Score.

  27-09-2016 23:20 via nytimes.com
  The idea was simple: to test the theory that what presidential candidates say during debates is less important than what they look like while they’re saying it.
  
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• 'Bridgegate' witness says Governor Christie knew of lane closures

  27-09-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Ax NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was aware of a politically motivated scheme to close lanes at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 as it was unfolding, a key prosecution witness testified on Tuesday at the criminal trial of two former Christie associates. David Wildstein, a former executive at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who masterminded the plot, told jurors in Newark federal court that he and Bill Baroni, another Port Authority executi
  
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• GOP lawmakers run from Trump on Alicia Machado comments

  27-09-2016 22:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The first presidential debate broke viewing records Monday, but a number of key Senate Republicans getting grilled over Donald Trump's Miss Universe comments say they either weren't watching or don't have an opinion on one of the night's signature moments.
  
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• Senate Democrats block government funding bill over Flint aid

  27-09-2016 22:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Democrats blocked Tuesday a Republican bill to fund the government and battle Zika because it did not include money for Flint, Michigan, to address the city's drinking water crisis.
  
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• Exclusive: FBI probes hacks targeting phones of Democratic Party officials - sources

  27-09-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating suspected attempts to hack mobile phones used by Democratic Party officials as recently as the past month, four people with direct knowledge of the attack and the investigation told Reuters. The revelation underscores the widening scope of the U.S. criminal inquiry into cyber attacks on Democratic Party organizations, including the presidential campaign of its candidate, former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton. U.S. officia
  
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• Pelosi mocks Trump's debate performance -- and his hair

  27-09-2016 22:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The top House Democrat on Tuesday mocked Donald Trump's debate performance -- and his hair.
  
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• Jeb Bush to lecture at Harvard this fall

  27-09-2016 22:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Jeb Bush will be a guest lecturer at Harvard University this fall, focusing on education in "a number of multi-day visits" this semester, the John F. Kennedy School of Government announced Tuesday.
  
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• Federal judge limits some Election Day voter registration in Illinois

  27-09-2016 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Timothy Mclaughlin CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal judge in Illinois on Tuesday blocked same-day registration at polling places in the state's most populous counties, saying a law enacted last year disproportionately favored urban voters over their rural counterparts. The ruling resulted from a federal court lawsuit brought in August by a group aligned with a conservative think tank challenging a state law allowing Election Day voter registration at polling places in counties with populations o
  
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• Trump tweets he raised $13 million in 24 hours in online donations

  27-09-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he raised $13 million in 24 hours from online donations. Trump, who has struggled to convince traditional Republican donors to back his campaign, has turned to online donations from supporters to fund his campaign for the Nov. 8 election. In August, Trump raised $90 million, trailing Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton, who raised $143 million in the same month. (Reporting by Ginger Gibson;
  
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• Factbox: Clinton's policies on economy, Islamic State, other issues

  27-09-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has pledged to raise taxes on the wealthy, preserve the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and provide a path to citizenship for undocumented workers. Here are the proposals the former secretary of state has made as part of her argument that she is best qualified to occupy the Oval Office: ECONOMIC POLICY Clinton has said the rich, not the middle class, would see their taxes go up. Clinton has also called for an additional 4 percent tax on those mak
  
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• Factbox: Trump's policies on immigration, economy, other issues

  27-09-2016 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to build a wall on the border with Mexico, boost spending on the military and slap trade tariffs on China. Here are those positions and others the real estate developer, who has never held elective office, has put forward to convince the American people that he should be the next U.S. chief executive: ECONOMIC POLICY Trump has proposed collapsing the current seven income tax brackets to three with rates of 12 percent, 25 percent an
  
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• Gingrich's advice for Trump

  27-09-2016 21:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has some tips for Donald Trump before the next presidential debate.
  
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• DHS: 18 states seeking help securing elections

  27-09-2016 21:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told a Senate hearing Tuesday that 18 states have taken up his agency's offer to help improve cyber security for their election systems, in the wake of suspected breaches blamed on Russian hackers.
  
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• FBI believes cellphones of some Democrats targeted by hackers: sources

  27-09-2016 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FBI investigators believe foreign hackers have targeted mobile phones used by a small number of Democratic Party figures, possibly including elected officials, four political and government sources said on Tuesday. Two sources said investigators believe that, like hackers who earlier attacked the central data servers of key Democratic Party organizations, the mobile phone attacks were carried out by hackers connected to the Russian government. One source said that some of those whose phones were
  
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• Obama to appear in Clinton ads

  27-09-2016 21:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Eager to motivate his own base of supporters to vote in this year's contest, President Barack Obama will begin appearing in more advertising for Hillary Clinton, the White House said Tuesday.
  
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• After debate, Obama says Trump 'worries' him

  27-09-2016 20:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the presidential debate showed Donald Trump "doesn't have the preparation, the temperament or the core values of inclusion and making everybody have opportunity that would take our country forward."
  
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• A modest bump for Clinton in online wagering hours after debate

  27-09-2016 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's probability of winning the White House got a modest bump in online betting markets on Tuesday, a day after her debate with Republican Donald Trump. The price for a contract favoring Clinton on the popular PredictIt betting market was up 2 cents from Monday's post-debate closing and implied a 68 percent probability that she would win the Nov. 8 election. Although during the debate Clinton was as high as 70 per
  
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• Appeals court hears high-stakes challenge to Obama's clean power plan

  27-09-2016 20:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ten judges on a powerful federal appeals court in Washington heard three and a half hours of arguments Tuesday morning concerning a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's legacy on the environment: the Clean Power Plan.
  
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• House to vote on contempt resolution for former Clinton aide this week

  27-09-2016 20:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters the House will vote this week on a resolution holding Bryan Pagliano, the former Hillary Clinton aide who helped set up her private email server, in contempt of Congress.
  
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• The Trump-O'Donnell feud: A timeline

  27-09-2016 20:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Donald Trump-Rosie O'Donnell feud is back in the 2016 spotlight.
  
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• Day after debate, Clinton gloats and Trump fumes

  27-09-2016 20:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As soon as the first debate of the 2016 presidential election was over, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were quick to claim victory.
  
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• Trump-Clinton debate seen by record 80.9 million TV viewers: CNN

  27-09-2016 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some 80.9 million Americans watched the first presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump on television, setting a new viewer record for such events, CNN said on Tuesday. The figure includes the approximately 45 million who watched the 90-minute debate on the four main TV networks, as well as millions more who watched cable channels, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and other smaller outlets, CNN said. The figures, which are not final, beat the 80.6 million record set by
  
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• U.S. established working group to stop Middle East migrant smugglers

  27-09-2016 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told a Senate panel on Tuesday the United States was cracking down on Middle Eastern migrants illegally crossing the southern U.S. border. Johnson, FBI Director James Comey and National Counterterrorism Center Director Nicholas Rasmussen all were pressed on a range of security issues by the Homeland Security Committee, including migration, cyber hackers manipulating voting systems and recent bombings in New York City and New Jersey.
  
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• Rosie O'Donnell responds to Trump debate attack

  27-09-2016 19:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Donald Trump-Rosie O'Donnell feud is back in the 2016 spotlight.
  
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• Debate breaks record as most-watched in U.S. history

  27-09-2016 19:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Monday night was the most-watched debate in American history.
  
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• How Clinton found her stride on gender

  27-09-2016 19:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After 30 years in the spotlight, Hillary Clinton finally found the balance on gender that has bedeviled her throughout her career during the debate at Hofstra Monday night.
  
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• Ryan defends Trump, dodges on Machado comment

  27-09-2016 19:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan dodged Tuesday when asked about Donald Trump's criticism of a former Miss Universe, trying instead to put the focus on Hillary Clinton following the first presidential debate.
  
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• Paul Ryan defends Trump, dodges on Machado comment

  27-09-2016 19:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan dodged Tuesday when asked about Donald Trump's criticism of a former Miss Universe, trying instead to put the focus on Hillary Clinton following the first presidential debate.
  
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• Former official testifies: Christie told about lane closures as they happened

  27-09-2016 19:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was informed about the lane closures at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 as they were happening, according to the testimony Tuesday from a former Port Authority executive.
  
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• Obama on debate: Trump lacks necessary 'preparation,' 'temperament'

  27-09-2016 18:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the presidential debate showed Donald Trump "doesn't have the preparation, the temperament or the core values of inclusion and making everybody have opportunity that would take our country forward."
  
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• 'Bridgegate' witness says Governor Christie backed lane closures

  27-09-2016 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was aware of and supported a plan to close lanes at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 in an act of political payback, a key prosecution witness testified Tuesday at the criminal trial of two former Christie associates. David Wildstein, a former executive at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, told jurors in Newark federal court that he and Bill Baroni, another Port Authority executive, discussed the lane closure with Christie before a memorial ser
  
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• Clinton delivers in first debate

  27-09-2016 18:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton showed up at the debate of the century and delivered.
  
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• US: ISIS did not use mustard agent in base attack

  27-09-2016 18:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The American-led military coalition against ISIS said Tuesday that a final laboratory test of the weapon ISIS fired at a US-Iraqi base in northern Iraq last week did not contain a mustard agent as earlier believed.
  
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• TV audience for Trump-Clinton debate likely to approach 80-million record: media

  27-09-2016 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The television audience for the first U.S. presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump looks set to approach 80-million viewer record for such events set in 1980, early Nielsen data cited by U.S. media suggested on Tuesday. The Hollywood Reporter said preliminary Nielsen data showed that some 45.8 million Americans watched the debate on ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC. "This puts the debate on track to smash that 2012 total and very likely approach an all-time high," T
  
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• As Trump and Clinton debate foreign policy, Syria barely gets a mention

  27-09-2016 17:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The circus of politics can often be a distraction from actual policy -- and last night's debate proved no exception when it came to the subject of foreign affairs.
  
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• Cruz 'happy to help' Trump campaign

  27-09-2016 17:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is willing to lend a hand to Donald Trump, he said Tuesday.
  
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• Clinton swipes at Trump over microphone complaint

  27-09-2016 17:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In Hillary Clinton's eyes, Donald Trump knows he lost Monday night.
  
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• Gabon president Bongo sworn in after disputed poll

  27-09-2016 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Edward McAllister LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon President Ali Bongo was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday and called for unity at a low-key ceremony following a razor-thin election victory whose integrity was questioned by international observers. Bongo's victory by less than 6,000 votes has drawn unwelcome scrutiny on the president, whose family has ruled the oil-producing state in Central Africa for 49 years. France called for a recount and the European Union said it detected anomalies i
  
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• U.S. established working group to stop Middle Eastern migrant smugglers

  27-09-2016 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told a Senate panel on Tuesday that his agency established a working group in recent months to crack down on smuggling groups bringing Middle Eastern migrants across the southern U.S. border. Johnson said the group is focused on the smuggling networks that are moving migrants from the Middle East, whose numbers have risen in the past year.
  
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• Split Decision on Who Won the Debate

  27-09-2016 17:15
  
  Going into last night’s debate, there was a lot of anticipation and anxiety, since Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are basically tied in the polls. Several sources have said that debates don’t decide elections, only ever moving the needle about three points. And even that usually dissipates by election day. However, in so close a […]
  
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• Campaign manager on infidelity question: Clinton 'ready for anything'

  27-09-2016 17:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook said the Democratic candidate will be prepared if Donald Trump mentions her husband's past affairs at the next debate.
  
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• Pence appears at odds with Trump on climate change

  27-09-2016 17:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's and his running mate appeared to be on different pages Tuesday on whether climate change is man made.
  
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• Mike Pence appears at odds with Trump on climate change

  27-09-2016 17:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's and his running mate appeared to be on different pages Tuesday on whether climate change is man made.
  
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• Newt: 'Hillary Clinton is no Bill Clinton'

  27-09-2016 16:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Newt Gingrich thinks the current Clinton running for president is nothing like the last one.
  
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• Disputed Gabon poll may harm 'global citizen' Bongo

  27-09-2016 16:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emma Farge DAKAR (Reuters) - Last week while Gabon was awaiting a court ruling on a disputed election result, a U.S. think tank held a black tie dinner in Manhattan at which President Ali Bongo had been meant to receive a "Global Citizen Award". Facing a dispute at home over the poll with rival Jean Ping, Bongo declined the invite by the Atlantic Council to be lauded along with other award winners for "exceptional and distinctive contributions to strengthening the transatlantic relationship."
  
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• Campaign manager: Trump does not believe climate change is man made

  27-09-2016 15:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's campaign manager said Tuesday the candidate does not believe climate change is man-made, a day after his previous statements on the issue were scrutinized at the first presidential debate.
  
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• Trump's debate sniffs take off on social media

  27-09-2016 15:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican White House candidate Donald Trump stole the social media spotlight during Monday night's U.S. presidential debate on at least one count - what Twitter users branded his #Trumpsniffle. The wealthy businessman sniffed repeatedly as he faced off against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in their first debate, giving rise to the hashtag and a surge of interest on social media what might be causing his nose to run. Parody accounts, Donald's Sinuses (@Tru
  
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