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• Lady Gaga: Melania Trump campaigning for anti-bullying is 'hypocrisy'

  06-11-2016 23:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Pop artist Lady Gaga has joined the chorus of those criticizing Melania Trump days after the would-be first lady gave a speech decrying bullying online.
  
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• Dollar jumps against yen, euro as FBI clears Clinton

  06-11-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. dollar jumped in Asia on Monday after the FBI said a review of newly discovered emails did not change the agency's conclusion that no charges were warranted in the case of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Markets have tended to see U.S. presidential contender Clinton as the status quo candidate, and news favoring her bid often boosts risk appetite. Dealers said safe-haven bonds were likely to soften on the news once trading got fully under way, while Asian stock markets
  
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• U.S. dollar jumps in Asia as FBI clears Clinton

  06-11-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. dollar jumped in Asia on Monday after FBI Director James Comey said a review of newly discovered emails did not change the agency's conclusion that no charges were warranted in the case of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Markets have tended to see Democratic contender Clinton as the status quo candidate for U.S. President and news favoring her bid often boosts risk appetite. In a letter to Congress, Comey said on Sunday the agency had completed its review of the new ema
  
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• FBI clears Clinton in latest email review two days before election

  06-11-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alana Wise and John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI said on Sunday it still believed no charges were warranted against Democrat Hillary Clinton after finishing its review of newly discovered emails related to her private server, lifting a cloud over her presidential campaign two days before the U.S. election. FBI Director James Comey made the announcement in a letter to Congress on Sunday, saying the agency had not changed its conclusions from July that no criminal charges were warr
  
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• FBI: Review of new emails doesn't change conclusion on Clinton

  06-11-2016 21:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Sunday the agency hasn't changed its opinion that Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges after a review of new emails.
  
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• FBI tells Congress it has not changed conclusion on Clinton emails

  06-11-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey told Congress on Sunday a recent review of newly discovered emails did not change the agency's conclusion reached in July that no charges were warranted in the case of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. U.S. Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz said in a tweet that Comey had informed him of the conclusion. Comey's letter to Congress informing it of the newly discovered emails had thrown Clinton's presidential race against Republic
  
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• Lynn Sweet: On deadline, there's no gender

  06-11-2016 21:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Lynn Sweet, the Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, said Sunday that when it comes to reporting on Hillary Clinton, female journalists are not biased compared to their male colleagues.
  
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• Georgia senators will consider Clinton high court nominees: report

  06-11-2016 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Georgia's two Republican senators broke with members of their party, saying they would consider Supreme Court nominees put forward by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton if she wins the presidency, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Sunday. The comments from U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, who is up for re-election on Tuesday, and U.S. Senator David Perdue came after Republican Senators John McCain and Ted Cruz suggested they might block any of
  
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• U.S. appeals court removes new voter-intimidation rules in Ohio

  06-11-2016 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won a legal battle on Sunday when a U.S. appeals court in Ohio removed new restrictions on partisan poll watchers that Democrats had sought to prevent Election Day voter intimidation. The rules overturned by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals would have imposed greater penalties on people who harass voters during Tuesday's election. Voter intimidation already is prohibited under U.S. law but Democrats have pus
  
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• Nancy Pelosi backs California's legal pot proposition

  06-11-2016 19:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday she plans to vote in favor of a California proposition to legalize marijuana.
  
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• First on CNN: Obama blasts GOP for talking Clinton impeachment in new radio ad

  06-11-2016 19:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama is taking aim at congressional Republicans in a radio ad in support of down-ballot Democrats, criticizing them for talking about impeaching Hillary Clinton and pledging to block her Supreme Court nominees.
  
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• Podesta on Clinton's server woes: 'At least we now know why Cheryl didn't want her to run'

  06-11-2016 19:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman suggested the problems raised by Clinton's use of a private email serving during her tenure as secretary of state was the reason one of Clinton's closest advisers did not want her to mount a presidential campaign, according to emails stolen by hackers from John Podesta and published by WikiLeaks.
  
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• Jump in Florida, Nevada early voting could reap Latino gains for Clinton

  06-11-2016 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Luciana Lopez MIAMI (Reuters) - The man answering a volunteer's knock on the door in the Kendall section of Miami-Dade County on Saturday was emphatic: Not only would he vote but “esperamos que la presidenta gane" - Spanish for "we hope Madam President wins." Volunteers across Florida made a last-minute push to get voters to the polls this weekend with early voting ending on Sunday ahead of Election Day on Tuesday, pitting Republican Donald Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton, or "la
  
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• Clinton focuses on pushing turnout headed into Election Day

  06-11-2016 19:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton will barnstorm the eastern United States in the closing days of the campaign, looking to spur turnout in states that rely almost exclusively on Election Day voting.
  
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• 'Game of Thrones' author isn't writing. He's campaigning for Clinton

  06-11-2016 19:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Everyone is watching it, and they never shut up about it. It feels like it will never end, and there constant last-minute surprises. It's a story about violence, power and sex -- all entirely divorced from reality.
  
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• Trump, Clinton focus on crucial states in campaign's final days

  06-11-2016 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign on Sunday predicted a strong turnout among key groups such as Hispanics and African-Americans, while advisers to Republican Donald Trump said the large crowds at his rallies showed enthusiasm that could help deliver a win at the polls on Tuesday. Both candidates on Sunday were to campaign heavily in key swing states including Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. "If they thought Michigan was in the bag, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama would not
  
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• Trump's path to White House lined with false, misleading statements

  06-11-2016 19:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump is straining to stay on message as he delivers his closing pitch to voters in the final days before the election.
  
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• How the campaigner-in-chief is affecting the battle for the Senate

  06-11-2016 18:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The late campaign roles of President Obama and King James, the fight for the military vote and the role a surge in Latino voting plays in a key Senate race: It's all a part of our Inside Politics forecast.
  
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• Kaine says Clinton is the 'underdog'

  06-11-2016 18:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton has more money, a much longer political resume, a better-organized campaign than Donald Trump and a lead in national polls.
  
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• Pence: Christie's role not changing despite Bridgegate

  06-11-2016 17:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence says New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will still lead Donald Trump's transition team despite the swirling Bridgegate controversy.
  
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• Podesta: FBI leakers should 'shut up'

  06-11-2016 17:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta says members of the FBI who have shared information about the agency's investigation of her private server should "shut up."
  
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• Conway deflects on Trump camp's claims of assassination attempt

  06-11-2016 16:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway called a situation at a Trump rally in which the Secret Service intervened Saturday "scary."
  
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• Libertarian Bill Weld: Clinton has gotten 'a pretty raw deal'

  06-11-2016 16:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Libertarian vice presidential nominee Bill Weld once again stuck up for Hillary Clinton, just days before his third-party bid finally faces off against her at the polls.
  
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• NBC-Wall Street Journal poll has Clinton leading Trump by four points

  06-11-2016 15:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a four-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the final NBC-Wall Street Journal poll released on Sunday. The NBC-Wall Street Journal poll showed Clinton leading Trump by 44 percent to 40 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson was at 6 percent and Green Party Candidate Jill Stein had 2 percent.
  
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• Franken: FBI's Comey should face Senate hearings

  06-11-2016 15:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Al Franken called Sunday for the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on FBI Director James Comey's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private server.
  
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• Pence: Both sides would accept clear outcome to U.S. election

  06-11-2016 15:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence on Sunday pledged Donald Trump's campaign would accept a "clear outcome" to the U.S. presidential election but said both campaigns reserved legal options if there was a disputed result. "The campaign has made it very clear that a clear outcome, obviously, both sides will accept.
  
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• Emotions run high in final days of the campaign

  06-11-2016 15:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Voters aren't just choosing the next president on Tuesday. They're mercifully putting the most emotionally draining and overwrought campaign in decades out of its misery.
  
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• Iowa poll: Trump up 7 points over Clinton

  06-11-2016 15:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 7 points in Iowa, according to a Des Moines Register poll of likely voters released Saturday evening.
  
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• Reality Check: Whoppers of the campaign

  06-11-2016 14:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As the 2016 Presidential election winds down, we look back fondly (?) on the biggest whoppers of the general campaign.
  
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• Final reckoning approaches for Obama's high court nominee

  06-11-2016 14:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several intriguing scenarios could unfold after Tuesday's U.S. election to break the deadlock over filling a Supreme Court vacancy that has provoked a bitter nine-month standoff between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans. Obama nominated U.S. appeals court judge Merrick Garland on March 16 to replace long-serving conservative justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. 13. The Republican-led Senate, in a move with little precedent, has refused to
  
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• Paul Ryan: The choice facing America

  06-11-2016 13:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  This election offers a fundamental choice: between staying on the path of decline, or a way that offers more freedom for every single American, says Paul Ryan.
  
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• Social media helps U.S. millennial voters register, turnout worries linger

  06-11-2016 13:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the youngest members of the millennial generation became old enough to vote in this year's U.S. presidential election, states and social media platforms poured efforts into online registration, hoping to attract these tech savvy voters who now rival Baby Boomers as the country's largest demographic. With Election Day just two days away, political experts are skeptical that a record number of millennials who signed up to vote will actually result in the 18-34 year-old age group turning out at
  
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• Amid scandal, bluster and insults, Trump closes in on White House

  06-11-2016 13:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supercharging the bluster, hyperbole and media mastery that made him one of the world's best-known businessmen, Donald Trump upended U.S. democratic traditions on a 17-month quest he hopes will lead to the White House. From his grand Trump Tower escalator entrance into the Republican presidential race on June 16, 2015, Trump managed to be simultaneously charismatic and combative, elitist and populist, lewd and pious as he drilled into a lode of polarity and a
  
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• Fending off foes, Clinton blazes a trail with White House in sight

  06-11-2016 13:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton has one of the strongest resumes of anyone ever to run for U.S. president, with stints as first lady, senator and secretary of state, but she is also a polarizing figure and a Washington insider with decades of political baggage. Should Democrat Clinton, 69, defeat Republican Donald Trump, 70, in Tuesday's election, she would become the first woman elected U.S. president, having already been the only first lady to win elected office and the f
  
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• Security hustles Trump from stage after protester displays sign

  06-11-2016 07:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Stephenson and Amanda Becker RENO, Nevada, N.C./PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump was rushed off stage by security agents at a rally in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday night after a false alarm as someone in the crowd shouted "gun" during scuffles with a man who held up a 'Republicans against Trump' sign. The incident occurred as Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton crisscrossed the United States a late push to win over undecided voters and make sure supporters turn out e
  
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• Nevada GOP chair: Polling locations open late so 'certain group' can vote

  06-11-2016 06:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The chairman of the Nevada Republican Party argued Saturday during a rally here for Donald Trump that polling locations stayed open late to accommodate long lines of voters "so a certain group could vote."
  
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• Clinton leads Trump 48-43 percent in Washington Post-ABC tracking poll

  06-11-2016 05:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a five-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the latest Washington Post-ABC Tracking Poll released early on Sunday. In the Post-ABC poll released on Friday, Clinton led Trump by 47 percent to 44 percent. Clinton had an advantage in affirmative support, the poll said, with 55 percent of backers saying they are mainly supporting her, compared with 43 percent of Trump voters. More Trump voters say they “mainly oppose Cli
  
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• Security scare for Trump in frenzied final days of campaigning

  06-11-2016 04:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Stephenson and Amanda Becker RENO, Nevada, N.C./PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump was rushed off stage by security agents at a rally in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday night after a perceived security threat as he and Democrat Hillary Clinton swept across states that could prove decisive in Tuesday's presidential election. Two security agents seized Trump by the shoulders and hustled him backstage as police officers swarmed over a white male in the front of the crowd and held h
  
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• Secret Service says no weapon was found in Trump incident

  06-11-2016 04:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Secret Service said on Saturday night an incident at a campaign event for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Reno, Nevada, began when someone shouted "gun" but no weapon was found. "Immediately in front of the stage, an unidentified individual shouted 'gun.' Secret Service agents and Reno Police Officers immediately apprehended the subject. Upon a thorough search of the subject and the surrounding area, no weapon was found," the Secret Service said in a statement. "A
  
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• Trump rushed off stage at campaign rally

  06-11-2016 02:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Saturday was rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents in the middle of a campaign speech here after an incident in the crowd near the front of the stage.
  
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• Trump hustled off stage in Nevada by security agents

  06-11-2016 02:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Stephenson RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was hustled off the stage by security agents at a campaign event in Reno on Saturday after a perceived threat in the crowd. Two security agents grabbed Trump by the shoulders and rushed him back stage. The threat was unclear, but a man near the front of the crowd was pounced on by other security agents.
  
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• Ghost of Al Gore compels Clinton to stop by New Hampshire

  06-11-2016 01:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's team was confident in a New Hampshire win on October 24 when Clinton campaigned in Manchester with Elizabeth Warren. One aide told CNN that this would be Clinton's last trip to the state.
  
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• Clinton looks to reinforce Michigan as internal polls tighten

  06-11-2016 01:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign, in the waning days of the election, has turned its focus to Michigan, a state that months ago was considered safely in the Democratic nominee's column.
  
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• Democrats take the lead in Florida early voting

  06-11-2016 01:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  With three days before Election Day, Democratic turnout has edged ahead of Republicans for the first time since early voting began in the critical battleground state of Florida.
  
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• Trump continues to knock Mosul offensive, calls leaders 'group of losers'

  06-11-2016 00:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump isn't letting up on his criticism of the offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS. In fact, he doubled down on Saturday, questioning the reasons for the US-backed mission and criticizing US leaders involved in its planning.
  
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• Kaine: Some in FBI 'actively working' to help Trump

  06-11-2016 00:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine suggested Saturday that people within the FBI are "actively working" to help Donald Trump's campaign, his most provocative comments since FBI Director James Comey told Congress the bureau was reviewing emails potentially related to Hillary Clinton's server.
  
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• Poll: Clinton and Trump neck-and-neck in Iowa

  06-11-2016 00:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Iowa is looking like a tossup state heading into Election Day, according to a new poll of the Hawkeye State.
  
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