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• Polls: Clinton leads in New Hampshire, tied with Trump in Nevada

  26-10-2016 23:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton has a 9-point lead in New Hampshire and is tied with Donald Trump in Nevada, according to two new polls out Wednesday of the battleground states.
  
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• Republicans may be on verge of losing U.S. Senate majority: aides

  26-10-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican Party's two-year run in the majority of the U.S. Senate is at serious risk and may well end on Nov. 8, senior congressional aides said on Wednesday, blaming Donald Trump as a drag on down-ballot Republican candidates. With 13 days to go before elections, several Senate aides from both parties privately warned of trouble for Republicans. "Things are not good ... the Senate is gone," said one Republican aide who asked not to be identified in o
  
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• What (more) we've learned about Clinton's circle, Neera Tanden from email hack

  26-10-2016 23:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When it comes to the Hillary Clinton brand, as she once wrote, it takes a village.
  
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• LAPD investigating Trump's Hollywood star vandalism

  26-10-2016 23:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Los Angeles police are looking for the man who destroyed Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star with a sledgehammer and a pick ax.
  
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• Clinton's best surrogate is the other Obama - USA TODAY

  26-10-2016 23:31 via usatoday.com
  
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  WASHINGTON — As the approval ratings for presidential candidates go lower, the first lady's go high. Michelle Obama, the reluctant campaigner who can't wait to move out of the White House, has suddenly become Hillary Clinton's secret weapon, capturing ...
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• Trump calls for '21st century' Glass-Steagall banking law

  26-10-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday called for a "21st century" version of the 1933 Glass-Steagall law that required the separation of commercial and investment banking, a change the Republican Party also supported in its 2016 policy platform. Trump gave no details about his banking plan other than to say he would prioritize "helping African American businesses get the credit they need." Democrat Hillary Clinton's husband, former president Bill Clinton, s
  
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• Defense Secretary: Forces ready in 'weeks' for battle to retake ISIS capital

  26-10-2016 23:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday it will be only a matter of weeks before the US and its allies are ready to drive ISIS from Raqqa, its symbolic capital in Syria.
  
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• Ex-congressman: 'If Trump loses, I'm grabbing my musket'

  26-10-2016 23:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Rep. Joe Walsh appeared to call for armed revolution Wednesday if Donald Trump is not elected president.
  
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• Trump vows to fight Israel's enemies in Jerusalem pitch

  26-10-2016 22:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In a video message to supporters in Israel, Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to "make America and Israel safe again" and said his administration would "stand side-by-side with the Jewish people."
  
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• Khizr Khan: Trump doesn't understand the grief of a Gold Star mother

  26-10-2016 22:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Khizr Khan, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention about his Muslim-American son who was killed in the Iraq War, said Donald Trump doesn't understand the grief of his wife, a Gold Star mother.
  
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• CNN Poll of Polls: Clinton lead holds steady

  26-10-2016 22:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's lead in the national horserace has held steady despite some flashes of tightening in state polls over the last week, according to CNN's most recent Poll of Polls.
  
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• The Most Awkward Dinner Party of the Year

  26-10-2016 22:43 via nytimes.com
  The carefully orchestrated seating arrangement on the dais of the Al Smith dinner offers an annual ranking of who’s who among New York’s power brokers.
  
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• US changes vote on UN resolution against Cuba embargo

  26-10-2016 22:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's been a fall ritual in New York for a quarter century. Holiday shopping, the city's marathon, and the US voting against the rest of the world at the UN over Washington's Cuba embargo.
  
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• Days before election, Trump touts new Washington hotel as example of business success

  26-10-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With just over two weeks to go until the U.S. election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump touted his newest hotel venture on Wednesday, citing it as an example of his business success and ability to "get things done" for the American people. Trump's 11th-hour detour from the campaign trail to plug his business acumen drew criticism from some of his fellow Republicans, but the former reality TV star said the project showed what
  
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• Clinton will hold election night rally in New York City: campaign

  26-10-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will hold her election night rally in New York City, the campaign said on Wednesday. The Clinton campaign is headquartered in New York's Brooklyn borough, and Clinton served two terms as a U.S. senator for the state, from 2001 to 2009.
  
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• Top executive behind Dakota Access has donated more than $100,000 to Trump

  26-10-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Liz Hampton and Valerie Volcovici HOUSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top executive at the company behind the embattled Dakota Access Pipeline has donated more than $100,000 to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump since June, according to campaign finance disclosure records. The donations by Kelcy Warren, chairman and chief executive officer at pipeline operator Energy Transfer Partners, support the candidate seen by many as more likely to promote the U.S. oil and gas industry than h
  
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• Trump to Bash: That's 'a very rude question'

  26-10-2016 21:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  With less than two weeks until the 2016 presidential election, CNN's Dana Bash asked Donald Trump about where, and how, he's spending his final days as a candidate.
  
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• Trump mixes business and politics with opening of new hotel

  26-10-2016 21:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump stepped off the campaign trail Wednesday to promote his new hotel here, less than two weeks from Election Day and trailing in the polls.
  
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• Clinton camp wants donors to shift resources to Senate majority

  26-10-2016 21:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign has a message to its big donors: Shift your money down-ticket to win back a Democratic Senate majority.
  
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• Trump says he will dramatically ramp up donations in final stretch of campaign

  26-10-2016 21:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump told CNN Wednesday he is prepared to open up his wallet and donate considerably more to his campaign in the closing days of the race.
  
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• Earnest defends Biden's fighting words against Trump

  26-10-2016 21:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Wednesday defended Vice President Joe Biden over remarks he made last week in saying he wished he could fight Donald Trump.
  
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• Republican hold on U.S. state legislatures could slip in election

  26-10-2016 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Karen Pierog CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Republican Party's grip on U.S. state legislatures could loosen in next month's election as Democrats seek to link Republican candidates to the sinking fortunes of the party's White House candidate, Donald Trump. Republicans, who have dominated control of legislatures since the mid-term election in 2010, currently hold the majority in 67 of the country's 98 partisan legislative chambers, while Democrats have 31. More than 80 percent of the nation's 7,383 s
  
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• Reality Check: Trump on Minnesota's Obamacare problems

  26-10-2016 20:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Two weeks ago, another high-profile Democrat seemed to be criticizing the Affordable Care Act. This week, Donald Trump seized on that criticism.
  
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• Sean Hannity offers to fly Obama to Kenya — and that's not even the craziest part - Washington Post

  26-10-2016 20:47 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Sean Hannity offers to fly Obama to Kenya — and that's not even the craziest part
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  This week, Sean Hannity extended a rather unusual offer to President Obama. If Donald Trump wins the White House, Hannity will be willing to charter a private plane to send the Obama family on a one-way trip anywhere in the world — like, say, Kenya or ...
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• Rand Paul: Polls showing Clinton ahead are 'designed to suppress turnout'

  26-10-2016 20:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican Sen. Rand Paul said on Wednesday that polls showing Hillary Clinton with a lead over Donald Trump are "designed to suppress turnout."
  
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• Mitt Romney: 'Gosh, I kick myself' - CNBC.com - CNBC

  26-10-2016 20:38 via cnbc.com
  
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  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney offered a full-throated defense of conservative economic principles Wednesday, saying that he faults himself for not ...
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• The Uninvited Guest: The 2016 Campaign Crashes the Dinner Party

  26-10-2016 20:35 via nytimes.com
  At dinner parties and other social gatherings, New Yorkers can’t stay away from this third-rail subject of discussion.
  
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• It’s Someone’s Birthday? Yes It Is, Clinton Campaign Says

  26-10-2016 20:29 via nytimes.com
  With Twitter reminders, signs, cake and a “surprise” from Stevie Wonder, the Clinton campaign let everyone know that the candidate turned 69 on Wednesday.
  
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• Republicans may be on verge of losing Senate majority: aides

  26-10-2016 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican Party's two-year run in the majority of the U.S. Senate is at serious risk and may well end on Nov. 8, senior congressional aides said on Wednesday, blaming Donald Trump as a drag on down-ballot Republican candidates. With 13 days to go before elections, several Senate aides from both parties privately warned of trouble for Republicans. "Things are not good ... the Senate is gone," said one Republican aide who asked not to be identified in o
  
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• French Socialists celebrate Mitterrand and slam Hollande

  26-10-2016 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - The same first name and title seemed to be the most that embattled French President Francois Hollande had in common with Francois Mitterrand on Wednesday as he marked the 100th anniversary of his late predecessor's birth. Mitterrand, who exercised iron-fist control over his party and government, finished his first term in 1988 with high popularity ratings thanks to landmark policies that pleased his voters. "Francois Mitterrand knew how to make leftwing voter
  
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• Poll: Clinton builds lead in divided nation worried about Election Day violence - USA TODAY

  26-10-2016 20:00 via usatoday.com
  
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  Poll: Clinton builds lead in divided nation worried about Election Day violence
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  WASHINGTON — As the most caustic campaign in modern American history nears its close, Hillary Clinton has built a formidable lead over Donald Trump approaching 10 percentage points, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. But she faces a deeply ...
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• Poll finds shrinking lead for Clinton in New Hampshire

  26-10-2016 19:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's edge over Donald Trump is dwindling in New Hampshire, a new Monmouth University poll shows.
  
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• Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star vandalized on video

  26-10-2016 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alex Dobuzinskis and Omar Younis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was defaced by a vandal wielding a sledgehammer and a pick-axe on Wednesday in an act captured on video, police said. Los Angeles police expect to arrest someone for the vandalism, which left Trump's name scratched out of the star, the emblem in the middle dislodged and chips missing. A video posted at Deadline.com, a Hollywood media industry website, showed a man wearing a hard-hat and
  
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• Donald Trump Praises Newt Gingrich for His Exchange With Megyn Kelly

  26-10-2016 19:48 via nytimes.com
  “Congratulations, Newt, on last night — that was an amazing interview,” Mr. Trump said. “We don’t play games, Newt, right? We don’t play games.”
  
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• Donald Trump Praises Newt Gingrich for His Exchange With Megyn Kelly - New York Times

  26-10-2016 19:46 via nytimes.com
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  Donald Trump Praises Newt Gingrich for His Exchange With Megyn Kelly
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  Donald J. Trump interrupted a promotion for his new hotel in Washington to shower praise on Newt Gingrich for confronting the Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Tuesday night, when the former House speaker said in an interview that she was “fascinated with ...
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• Trump touts new hotel in Washington as example of business success

  26-10-2016 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With two weeks to go until the U.S. election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump touted his newest hotel venture on Wednesday, citing it as an example of his business success and ability to "get things done" for the American people. Trump's 11th-hour detour from the campaign trail to plug his business acumen drew criticism from some of his fellow Republicans, but the former reality TV star said the project showed what he could
  
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• Clinton doubts Trump ever read the Constitution

  26-10-2016 19:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that after watching Donald Trump's campaign, she doubts the Republican nominee has ever read the United States Constitution.
  
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• Clinton doubts Donald Trump has ever read the Constitution

  26-10-2016 19:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that after watching Donald Trump's campaign, she doubts the Republican nominee has ever read the United States Constitution.
  
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• Dems Shouldn’t be so Happy About GOP Problems

  26-10-2016 19:23
  
  Donald Trump’s main argument was that he could appeal to blue collar workers, and any Democrats who are disaffected. The idea was to reach out to Democrats and Independents, and to ignore or argue against core Republican issues, such as free trade. After all, where else could those Republicans go? To Hillary? Not likely. The […]
  
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• Early voting numbers show Clinton's strength in Arizona, other battlegrounds

  26-10-2016 18:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign has reason for optimism in several swing states -- and appears to have turned Arizona into a battleground -- as millions of Americans vote early.
  
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• Wolf Blitzer pleads with Trump's campaign manager to dial back attacks on reporters

  26-10-2016 18:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Wolf Blitzer pleaded Tuesday with Donald Trump's campaign manager for her to ask the GOP nominee to dial back his harassment against the media, saying it endangers reporters.
  
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• Poll: Among young Americans, a Clinton edge, but widespread fear for the future

  26-10-2016 18:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A new poll offering a deep dive into the political views of the youngest American voters finds them favoring Hillary Clinton and no less likely to vote than they were in 2012, but younger Americans' outlook on the country's future centers far more on fear than hope.
  
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• 5 reasons Trump is not a repeat of Brexit

  26-10-2016 17:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When Britain voted to leave the European Union in June, Donald Trump quickly cheered the results and later dubbed himself "Mr. Brexit."
  
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• Trump detours off campaign trail to tout new Washington hotel

  26-10-2016 17:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Susan Heavey and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump planned a detour from the campaign trail on Wednesday to formally open a new hotel in what a top aide said would remind voters of his business accomplishments less than two weeks before the election. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, in several television interviews, said the event in Washington would not detract from the campaign's efforts to rally voters before the Nov. 8 election. Trump
  
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• Carter suspends bonus clawbacks California National Guard members

  26-10-2016 17:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Wednesday he is suspending "all efforts to collect reimbursement" from improperly awarded enlistment bonuses given to some member of the California National Guard, following outrage from veterans and their families over attempts to recover the money 10 years after it was disbursed.
  
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• Trump criticized Obama in 2011 for not getting out of Iraq sooner

  26-10-2016 17:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As late as August 2011, Trump took issue with Obama for not withdrawing troops quickly enough. In an interview with CNBC reviewed by CNN's KFile, Trump was asked why he called Obama "incompetent" over his handling of the drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  
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• Giuliani: 'Obamacare is Obama fraud'

  26-10-2016 16:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani called the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature health care law, "Obama fraud" and an example of a "Democratic program" championed by Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Clinton leading among young voters, Harvard poll finds

  26-10-2016 16:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic White House candidate Hillary Clinton is leading among likely voters aged 18 to 29, according to a Harvard University opinion poll released on Wednesday. The former U.S. secretary of state had the support of 49 percent of likely voters, ahead of Republican rival Donald Trump's 28 percent support, a substantially wider lead than Democratic President Barack Obama had over Republican former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney at the same point in 2012. National polls of voters of all ages
  
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• Rudy Giuliani: 'Obamacare is Obama fraud' - CNN

  26-10-2016 15:57 via cnn.com
  
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  Washington (CNN) Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani called the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature health care law, "Obama fraud" and an example of a "Democratic program" championed by Hillary Clinton. "Obamacare is ...
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• DeRay Mckesson explains his Clinton endorsement

  26-10-2016 15:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After months of back and forth with Hillary Clinton, one of the most prominent leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement has formally endorsed her candidacy.
  
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