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• Clinton, Dems haul in $154M in September

  01-10-2016 22:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  September marked Hillary Clinton's best month for fundraising, with more than $154 million raised, the campaign said Saturday.
  
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• 9/11 widow files lawsuit against Saudi Arabia

  01-10-2016 22:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Stephanie DeSimone was two months pregnant when her husband, Navy Cmdr. Patrick Dunn, was killed in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
  
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• Pastors take to pulpit to protest IRS limits on political endorsements

  01-10-2016 22:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Pastors across the country are taking to their pulpits this Sunday to protest an Internal Revenue Service law that they say limits their religious freedom.
  
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• Clinton gives frank take on Sanders supporters

  01-10-2016 21:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton expressed sympathy earlier this year for Bernie Sanders supporters who "are living in their parents' basement" who were attracted to his "false promise" because they are "children of the Great Recession."
  
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• Ivanka Trump debuts in television ad for her father

  01-10-2016 20:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ivanka Trump, the poised 34-year-old daughter long considered one of her father's best surrogates, is starring in a new television ad in what is an overt effort by Donald Trump to win over female voters.
  
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• Female reporter: Trump called me the c-word

  01-10-2016 20:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter alleged Saturday that Donald Trump called her the c-word back in the 1980s.
  
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• Kerry in leaked audio: "I lost the argument" for use of force in Syria

  01-10-2016 18:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Secretary of State John Kerry's frustration with the failure of American diplomacy was on display as he defended US efforts to help end the five-year civil war in Syria during a meeting last week with a group of Syrian civilians, according to an audio recording obtained by CNN.
  
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• Clinton campaign seizes on Trump cameo in Playboy video

  01-10-2016 18:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign Friday night is seizing on a report surfacing Donald Trump's cameo in a Playboy video 16 years ago.
  
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• DHS Confirms Hackers Targeted Election Systems in 20 States - Fortune

  01-10-2016 17:41 via fortune.com
  
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  DHS Confirms Hackers Targeted Election Systems in 20 States
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  Comey has stated that the FBI is investigating “just what mischief is Russia up to in connection with our election.” The spectre of tampering with voter registration systems might seem less disturbing than hackers changing votes or vote counts (voting ...
  Wary of Election Hacks, U.S. Urges States to Get Security HelpBloomberg
  Official: No 'manipulation' of data seen in election hacksPhys.Org
  More than 20 sta
  
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• Ty Dolla $ign gets political in new album 'Campaign'

  01-10-2016 15:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ty Dolla $ign wants to make America "wavy" again.
  
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• Trump finally hits the big-money jackpot

  01-10-2016 15:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump, at long last, has won them over.
  
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• GOP Admits Obama Judge Count Is More Important Than Fixing Judicial Crises - Huffington Post

  01-10-2016 15:05 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  GOP Admits Obama Judge Count Is More Important Than Fixing Judicial Crises
  Huffington Post
  What matters to him, he confirmed this week as Congress left town until after the November elections, is the number of judges the Senate gives to President Barack Obama. Obama has had a difficult time getting his judge nominees confirmed since he first ...and more »
  
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• A fact-check of Trump's stump speech

  01-10-2016 14:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In one stump speech last month in Fort Myers, Florida, Donald Trump offered up at least four big whoppers.
  
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• Trump vows he won't say it, then he does

  01-10-2016 14:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Cicero, Swift ... and Donald Trump?
  
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• Trump promises he won't say it, then he does

  01-10-2016 14:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Cicero, Swift ... and Donald Trump?
  
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• 10 things you didn't know about the 'Notorious RBG'

  01-10-2016 14:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- the 83-year-old liberal legal icon -- drops a hint in a book set for release this week: she may not be planning to go anywhere, anytime soon.
  
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• German government believes Trump would ravage U.S. economy: Spiegel

  01-10-2016 13:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Germany's economy ministry believes a Donald Trump presidency would severely damage the U.S. economy, according to an internal memorandum reported by Der Spiegel magazine on Saturday. The ministry expects "shrinking gross domestic product, fewer jobs and higher unemployment," in the United States if the Republican candidate were to implement his campaign pledges, the magazine cited the memo as saying. Trump, a billionaire businessman seeking his first public office, has proposed tax cuts worth $
  
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• Trump on Clinton: 'I can be nastier than she ever can be'

  01-10-2016 06:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump is turning up the heat on his attacks against Hillary Clinton about her husband's past infidelities after a rocky week for his campaign.
  
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• Rubio, Heck assist with car crash in West Virginia

  01-10-2016 05:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Joe Heck, two Republicans in two key Senate races, pulled over Thursday night traveling back from an event to help with the aftermath of a multi-car crash.
  
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• Gingrich rebukes Trump for late-night Twitter rant

  01-10-2016 05:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a top ally of Donald Trump, criticized the GOP nominee Friday night for his overnight Twitter rampage against Hillary Clinton and her campaign.
  
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• Clinton campaign downplays remarks on nuclear policy

  01-10-2016 05:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign is downplaying hacked audio in which she expressed doubt about whether the United States should go ahead with a $1 trillion plan to modernize its nuclear forces.
  
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• White House strikes reference to 'Jerusalem, Israel'

  01-10-2016 05:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In Middle East diplomacy, even the smallest errors can carry weight.
  
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• Clinton improves edge over Trump in new national poll

  01-10-2016 04:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A new national poll taken after Monday's presidential debate shows Hillary Clinton improving her standing over Donald Trump.
  
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• Weld 'not sure anybody is more qualified than Hillary Clinton' to be president

  01-10-2016 04:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Libertarian vice presidential hopeful Bill Weld said Friday that he's "not sure anybody is more qualified than Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States," the latest misstep in what's been a painful week for the third-party ticket.
  
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• Donald Trump Opens New Line of Attack on Hillary Clinton: Her Marriage

  01-10-2016 02:53 via nytimes.com
  In an interview, Mr. Trump said he was reconsidering whether he would back Mrs. Clinton if she became president.
  
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• US calls Philippines President's Hitler comments 'troubling'

  01-10-2016 02:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The US rebuked the Philippines President for likening himself to Adolf Hitler but stressed Friday that the strong relationship between the two countries would not be affected by the controversial leader's rhetoric.
  
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• As America Sleeps, Donald Trump Seethes on Twitter

  01-10-2016 02:40 via nytimes.com
  In the predawn hours on Friday, the Republican presidential nominee took to Twitter to continue his attacks on both Hillary Clinton and Alicia Machado.
  
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• Video of Trump acknowledging business losses released

  01-10-2016 02:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Video of Donald Trump acknowledging that his now-famous comments calling Mexicans "rapists" harmed his business interests is set to be released Friday afternoon.
  
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• Actually, a Malfunction Did Affect Donald Trump’s Voice at the Debate

  01-10-2016 01:46 via nytimes.com
  The Commission on Presidential Debates said a technical malfunction affected the volume of Mr. Trump’s microphone in the debate hall.
  
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• Trump demands Obama promise not to pardon Clinton

  01-10-2016 01:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Friday challenged President Barack Obama to pledge not to issue a presidential pardon to Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while leading the State Department.
  
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• Obama's Political Bank Run - Wall Street Journal

  01-10-2016 00:52 via wsj.com
  
  Wall Street Journal
  Obama's Political Bank Run
  Wall Street Journal
  To summarize this fiasco: The feds leak a giant settlement number of $14 billion against an already shaky European bank to make the Democrats look tough on banks only weeks before an election. ... Does it even matter in Barack Obama's Washington?
  US seeks pre-election settlement of bank mis-selling claimsCNBC
  Merkel, Obama did not discuss Deutsche Bank in Thurs call - BerlinReutersall 2,444 news articles »
  
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• In Deposition, Donald Trump Says Illegal Immigration Led to Nomination

  01-10-2016 00:35 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Trump made the comments while being questioned as part of his lawsuit against the celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian for backing out of a restaurant in Washington.
  
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• Trump says comments on Mexicans good for restaurant business: documents

  01-10-2016 00:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump said he believed his assertion last year that Mexicans crossing the border illegally are "rapists" bringing crime were "pretty mainstream" and should have attracted customers to his new Washington restaurant, according to court records BuzzFeed News published on Friday. "I've tapped into something and I've tapped into illegal immigration," the Republican presidential candidate said in a June 16 deposition for a lawsuit against a celebrity chef who dropped out of the restaurant ventu
  
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