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• Clinton leading Trump by 2 points in McClatchy-Marist poll

  04-11-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 2 percentage points in the White House race, according to a McClatchy-Marist poll released on Friday. The poll of 940 likely voters conducted Nov. 1-3 showed Clinton with 46 percent and Trump at 44 percent. It has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points. A September McClatchy-Marist poll showed Clinton with 48 percent and Trump at 41 percent. (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Mohammad
  
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• Clinton leads Trump by 4 points in Washington Post: ABC News poll

  04-11-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 4 percentage points in a four-war race for the Nov. 8 election, according to a Washington Post-ABC News opinion poll of likely voters released on Friday. Clinton had 47 percent support compared with Trump's 43 percent in the poll conducted from Monday to Thursday, the Post said. It said Clinton's lead was up from 3 points in the previous day's poll but still "within the range of sampling error
  
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• Clinton leads Trump by 2 points in Fox News poll

  04-11-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 2 percentage points in a four-way race, according to a Fox News opinion poll released on Friday. The poll of 1,211 registered voters was conducted Tuesday to Thursday and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2-1/2 percentage points, Fox News said. Clinton had 45 percent support and Trump 43 percent. Clinton was up by 3 points a week ago and by 6 points in mid-October, Fox News said. (Reporti
  
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• Bridgegate verdict shines spotlight on Christie's role in Trump transition

  04-11-2016 23:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  With the conviction Friday of two former aides to Chris Christie on charges related to the Bridgegate scandal, the spotlight on Christie is also shining on his role in the Donald Trump campaign -- especially as chairman of Trump's transition team.
  
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• Arizona ballot collection practice can continue, appeals court says

  04-11-2016 23:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A divided federal appeals court dealt a victory to Arizona Democrats Friday by agreeing to put on hold the state's so called "ballot collection" law.
  
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• Federal judge warns Trump campaign on voter intimidation in Ohio

  04-11-2016 23:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A federal judge Friday warned Donald Trump's campaign and Republican operative Roger Stone against any "voter intimidation" activity in Ohio, the result of one of several cases brought by Democrats before Election Day.
  
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• Obama: FBI can't be politicized

  04-11-2016 23:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama said Friday that investigators and prosecutors can't be "politicized" or "used as a weapon to advantage either side."
  
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• Clinton's charity confirms Qatar's $1 million gift while she was at State Dept

  04-11-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new donations from foreign governments. Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's husband, and sought to meet the former U.S. president in person the following year to present h
  
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• Philadelphia transit agency seeks court order to end strike

  04-11-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The union representing the 4,700 striking workers vowed to fight the petition for a back-to-work order "tooth and nail," calling the agency's action a "pointless" legal maneuver that would only distract from talks aimed at settling the dispute. The petition, filed in the state Court of Common Pleas by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), asks for a preliminary injunction that would compel the striking union members to return to work immediately. The transit agency requ
  
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• North Carolina counties must restore voters to rolls, judge rules

  04-11-2016 23:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A federal judge in North Carolina granted a preliminary injunction to the NAACP on Friday, holding that residents whose voter registrations were canceled in recent months because of a so-called "individual challenge law" must have their voter registration restored.
  
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• DHS 'very concerned' about Election Day confusion from a cyber breach

  04-11-2016 22:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The US government is "very concerned" by the possibility of a cybersecurity incident causing confusion on Election Day, according to Department of Homeland Security officials who briefed reporters about efforts to monitor online threats.
  
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• Ohio judge orders Trump campaign to avoid voter intimidation

  04-11-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in Ohio ordered Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign on Friday not to intimidate voters, in a victory for Democrats who sought to prevent Election Day harassment in one of the nation's most politically competitive states. The order also deals a blow to a Trump-allied "exit poll" that aims to mobilize supporters to ask voters whether they had cast a ballot for the Republican real-estate mogul or Democrat Hillary Clinton. On
  
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• Obama rebukes supporters for shouting down Trump protester

  04-11-2016 22:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama rebuked a crowd of Hillary Clinton supporters Friday after they shouted down a man holding a Donald Trump sign.
  
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• State Department puts out final cache of Clinton emails before Election Day

  04-11-2016 21:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The State Department issued what is likely to be its final release of emails from Hillary Clinton's private server before Election Day.
  
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• Arizona ballot collection law on hold until after election: court

  04-11-2016 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday put an Arizona voting law on hold until after the election, handing Democrats a victory in an intensifying state by state legal contest over access to the polls. Arizona earlier this year passed a law which restricted advocates' ability to collect absentee ballots. Plaintiffs in the case, including the Democratic National Committee, argued the law is unconstitutional because it unfairly impacted the ability of minorities to vote.
  
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• At rally for Clinton, Obama speaks up for protester supporting Trump

  04-11-2016 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama chastised supporters at a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in North Carolina on Friday as tensions spiked when a supporter of Republican opponent Donald Trump stood up and began shouting. Obama was interrupted when a white-haired white man in a beret and suit jacket with what appeared to be military patches stood up with a Trump sign and started yelling. Obama repeatedly told the at-capacity crowd jammed into a gym at Fayetteville State University
  
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• Clinton, Cuban: Trump will do what's best for his bank account, not the country

  04-11-2016 21:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, joined by billionaire investor Mark Cuban, questioned Friday whether Donald Trump would put his financial interests over the well-being of the United States.
  
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• Clinton, Trump take sharply different views on U.S. jobs growth

  04-11-2016 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amanda Becker and Emily Stephenson PITTSBURGH/ATKINSON, N.H. (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump differed sharply on the economy in the final stretch of their race for the White House on Friday, with Clinton praising the latest U.S. jobs report while Trump dismissed it as a fraudulent disaster. With four days left in a tight contest, the candidates hammered each other as unfit to be president as they made a late push for votes in battleground states that could dec
  
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• She's a transgender nominee for the US Senate. And she's from Utah.

  04-11-2016 20:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Misty K. Snow is an unlikely candidate for the US Senate.
  
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• Kansas judge strikes state's dual voter registration system

  04-11-2016 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - A state judge on Friday struck down a Kansas voter registration system that would have prevented people from voting in state and local elections unless they show proof of U.S. citizenship. The judge ruled that the loss of voting rights for more than 18,000 Kansas residents "far outweighs" the risk posed by potential voter fraud, as the state mentioned only about two dozen people who may have attempted to improperly register to vote over the last 13 years. "Whenever the laws of a stat
  
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• Trump leads in another Utah poll, McMullin second

  04-11-2016 20:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump is holding steady with a lead in Utah, a state that at one point recently appeared to complicate his path to the White House.
  
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• Bill Clinton felt 'bad' for Melania Trump over vow to combat cyberbullying

  04-11-2016 20:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former President Bill Clinton expressed disbelief Friday that Melania Trump would denounce cyberbullying given how much her husband antagonizes others on Twitter.
  
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• Battleground Ohio is coveted territory in election race

  04-11-2016 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - As a perennial swing state and one that yields 18 electoral college votes, Ohio has long been coveted territory for U.S. presidential candidates who pour piles of cash every election cycle into wooing its voters. Since the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln just three presidents, and no Republican contender, have gone to the White House without winning the "Buckeye State." During this year's Republican party primaries, Donald Trump's pro-coal mining, anti-free t
  
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• North Carolina Republican office painted with anti-Trump message

  04-11-2016 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Editors note: Attention to language in the second paragraph that some readers may find offensive.) (Reuters) - A local North Carolina Republican headquarters was spray-painted with an anti-Donald Trump message early on Friday, the second time in a month that a party office in the state has been defaced. A vandal sprayed the door and walls of the Alamance County Republican Party headquarters in Burlington with the words "Fuck Trump" and painted over the word "Republican" on a sign at the office
  
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• Insight: Emails show how Republicans lobbied to limit voting hours in North Carolina

  04-11-2016 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House initially misidentified Obama's location in a transcript of his remarks) By Julia Harte ASHEBORO, N.C. (Reuters) - When Bill McAnulty, an elections board chairman in a mostly white North Carolina county, agreed in July to open a Sunday voting site where black church members could cast ballots after services, the reaction was swift: he was labeled a traitor by his fellow Republicans. "I became a villain, quite frankly," recalled McAnulty at a state board of elections meeting in Se
  
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• Obama commutes dozens more lengthy sentences

  04-11-2016 20:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama on Friday shortened the sentences of 72 federal inmates, the vast majority serving lengthy prison terms for non-violent drug crimes.
  
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• Watch these 11 critical counties on election night

  04-11-2016 19:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Critical Counties is a CNN series exploring 11 counties that chief national correspondent John King identifies as key in the 2016 US election.
  
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• Sununu: Was Bill Clinton's 'woman' comment about Hillary?

  04-11-2016 19:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu took a jab Friday at Bill and Hillary Clinton while discussing the former president's denial of a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
  
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• Law enforcement monitoring election security threats

  04-11-2016 19:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Federal and New York law enforcement officials are monitoring intercepted conversations among al Qaeda adherents overseas about targeting three different states -- New York, Texas and Virginia -- according to one local and one federal law enforcement official.
  
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• Trump's mind readers try to win him voters

  04-11-2016 19:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In a non-descript office in central London, young analytical minds are hard at work crunching thousands of pieces of data about every American adult.
  
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• U.S. public can expect increased security presence: official

  04-11-2016 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. authorities remain concerned about homegrown violent extremists and the public will continue to see increased security in public places, a Department of Homeland Security official said on Friday amid security concerns four days before the U.S. presidential election. "Our concern that violent extremists could be inspired to conduct attacks inside the U.S. have not diminished," the official said on condition of anonymity.
  
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• What is the Electoral College, and why is 270 important?

  04-11-2016 18:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  There are few founding institutions in the United States less well-understood than the Electoral College, the somewhat mysterious body of officials who formally elect the nation's president every four years.
  
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• How does the Electoral College work, and why is 270 important?

  04-11-2016 18:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  There are few founding institutions in the United States less well-understood than the Electoral College, the somewhat mysterious body of officials who formally elect the nation's president every four years.
  
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• WikiLeaks: Clinton aide criticized Comey in 2015

  04-11-2016 18:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One of Hillary Clinton's top campaign aides raised concerns about FBI Director James Comey almost a year to the day before he dropped a huge surprise on them which shifted the momentum of the presidential race.
  
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• San Diego Catholic church says devil works through Hillary Clinton

  04-11-2016 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - A Roman Catholic church in San Diego told its parishioners the devil works through politicians like Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and warned that voting for Democrats is a "mortal sin," according to local media and the church's website. The Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Old Town made the statements in its weekly leaflet to churchgoers, a copy of which remains on the church's website. "The devil does this through the tactics outlined by Saul Alinsky with
  
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• Fox News anchor: It was 'mistake' to report possible Clinton Foundation indictment

  04-11-2016 18:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Several news outlets have rebutted a report from Fox News stating that an "indictment" is "likely" in an ongoing FBI inquiry into the Clinton Foundation.
  
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• Kaine calls Trump a clown in Spanish: 'Payaso'

  04-11-2016 18:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine may have made history by giving a speech entirely in Spanish Thursday, but an ad-libbed line from the speech is getting more attention: calling Trump a clown in Spanish, "payaso."
  
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• Why John Roberts blocked an execution

  04-11-2016 18:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Here's how much Chief Justice John Roberts cares these days that his branch of government functions as a collegial body.
  
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• Common reflects on Obama's legacy and the silver lining of Donald Trump

  04-11-2016 18:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Amid a contentious presidential election where debates over racism, policy brutality and mass incarceration have taken center stage amid a tense political climate, rapper and actor Common has a message of hope.
  
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• Hillary Clinton’s Moments and Missteps: A Look Back

  04-11-2016 17:58 via nytimes.com
  It has been a long road for the former first lady, senator and secretary of state since she announced her presidential bid more than a year and a half ago.
  
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• Donald Trump’s Moments and Missteps: A Look Back

  04-11-2016 17:58 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Trump has conducted a presidential campaign arguably unlike any other in modern American history.
  
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• Bridgegate case verdict: Former officials guilty on all counts

  04-11-2016 17:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A jury in Newark, New Jersey, has reached a verdict Friday in the trial of two former officials who worked closely with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie surrounding the 2013 lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, commonly known as "Bridgegate."
  
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• Dreading a President Clinton or Trump? How to Try a New Country

  04-11-2016 17:38 via nytimes.com
  If the election is making you consider leaving the United States, expats have a few words of advice on how to travel as if you’re moving rather than going on vacation.
  
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• Examining the candidates' positions

  04-11-2016 17:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ahead of Election Day, CNN's "New Day" is examining where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand on a number of key issues in the 2016 election.
  
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• U.S. authorities warn of al Qaeda threat to election

  04-11-2016 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal officials have warned authorities in New York, Texas and Virginia about an unspecific threat of attacks by the al Qaeda militant group around Election Day, putting local law enforcement on alert the weekend before Tuesday's vote, officials said on Friday. A U.S. government source in Washington said some federal agencies sent bulletins to local and state officials flagging the information but that the threat was relatively low level. The New York Polic
  
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• Their Lives, Up Close: What We’ve Learned About Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

  04-11-2016 17:00 via nytimes.com
  Journalists covering the campaign for The Times have been delving into the lives of Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton. Here are some of our best stories about the candidates’ pasts.
  
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• Clinton and Trump Revealed: Our Best Investigative Reporting on the 2016 Campaign

  04-11-2016 16:57 via nytimes.com
  Journalists for The Times have been able to uncover much about the candidates, often altering the course of the campaign.
  
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• Bridgegate trial: What's next for Chris Christie?

  04-11-2016 16:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Though New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was not on trial in connection with the Bridgegate scandal, the case has thrown into question the political future of the once-rising Republican star.
  
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• Mexico says modeling impact of U.S. election, will act if needed

  04-11-2016 16:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Market volatility ahead of the U.S. election has given Mexico the chance to model how the Nov. 8 vote could affect banks and corporations, Finance Minister Jose Antonio Meade said on Friday, adding that the government was ready to act if needed. The peso currency has been whiplashed by fears of victory for Republican candidate Donald Trump, who has vowed to build a massive southern border wall and threatened to ditch a trade deal with Mexico and Canada if he cannot recast it in the United States
  
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• N.Y. authorities warned of terror threat around U.S. election

  04-11-2016 16:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal officials have warned New York City authorities about possible attacks by the al Qaeda militant group around Election Day, putting local law enforcement on alert the weekend before Tuesday's vote, officials said on Friday. Both the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were given the information, the local agencies said. "We are continuing with the high level of patrols at all of our facilities that we have had in place for some time now,&rdq
  
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