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• Political Prediction Market: Clinton's odds rise again

  07-11-2016 23:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's odds of winning the presidency rose from 78% last week to 91% Monday before Election Day, according to CNN's Political Prediction Market.
  
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• Clinton and Trump chase last-minute support on election eve

  07-11-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amanda Becker and Emily Stephenson GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.,/RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - The U.S. presidential campaigns neared their end on Monday in the same angry tone they began, with Republican Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton a "phony" and the Democrat accusing him of splitting the country, as a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll pointed to a strong chance of her winning. Clinton and Trump raced through several battleground states in a last-ditch attempt to encourage their respective supporter
  
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• U.S. banks gird for Brexit-style tumult following Tuesday's election

  07-11-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bank preparations ahead of the election reflect their experience following Britain's shock vote to leave the European Union in June, when the S&P 500 fell 3.6 percent the day after the poll. Morgan Stanley told staff to consider using stop-loss orders, an automated trading mechanism that sells an investor's position as soon as a stock hits a preset level, if the election result causes trading volumes and volatility to spike.
  
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• Where and how to find CNN on Election Day

  07-11-2016 23:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  For this election like none other, CNN is available like never before.
  
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• This NASA astronaut voted from space

  07-11-2016 22:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  From infinity and beyond, he found a way to vote.
  
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• Democrats see FBI controversy hurting chances in U.S. Congress races

  07-11-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Democrats said on Monday they feared their chances of winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives may have been ruined by the FBI's surprise announcement last month that Hillary Clinton's emails were again playing a role in a federal investigation. Voters will go to the polls on Tuesday to choose Democrat Clinton or Republican Donald Trump for president, but also to fill 34 U.S. Senate seats in the 100-chamber body and all 435 House seats. Bo
  
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• Reality Check: No assassination attempt

  07-11-2016 22:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Following a scuffle at a Donald Trump rally Saturday night in Reno, Nevada, several of the Republican candidate's supporters, as well as some of his staff took to social media to proclaim that someone had tried to assassinate him. Here's what really happened.
  
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• No, you can't vote by text message

  07-11-2016 22:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  No, you cannot vote in the US presidential election by text message.
  
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• Clinton, Trump in final sprint to finish line

  07-11-2016 22:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are poised to fight late into the night Monday as they barnstorm across battleground states on the final full day of campaigning.
  
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• FBI agents, lawmakers hammer Comey over Clinton emails inquiry

  07-11-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey was under attack from some of his own agents and members of Congress on Monday over his handling of an inquiry into Hillary Clinton's emails, but the White House was remaining supportive, for now. In stunning fashion, Comey has injected the Federal Bureau of Investigation, meant to be politically neutral, into the thick of the 2016 U.S. presidential race, making a series of announcements on the inquiry. The latest was on Sunday, wh
  
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• Economist-YouGov poll: Clinton leads Trump by 4 points

  07-11-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton led Republican Donald Trump by 4 percentage points in an Economist-YouGov opinion poll of likely voters released on Monday, one day before the election. The poll of 3,677 likely voters, conducted from Friday to Monday, showed Clinton with 45 percent support and Trump with 41 percent support in a four-way race, Economist-YouGov said in a release. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 1.7 percentage points. (Reporti
  
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• Clinton has 90 percent chance of winning: Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation

  07-11-2016 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Maurice Tamman NEW YORK (Reuters) - With hours to go before Americans vote, Democrat Hillary Clinton has about a 90 percent chance of defeating Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to the final Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project. The former secretary of state was leading Trump by about 45 percent to 42 percent in the popular vote, and was on track to win 303 votes in the Electoral College to Trump’s 235, clearing the 270 needed for victory, the surv
  
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• Janet Reno's career punctuated by highs, lows

  07-11-2016 22:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Janet Reno lived a historic life.
  
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• Trump reflects on his bid: 'It's been some campaign'

  07-11-2016 21:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump reflected Monday on the movement that has propelled his candidacy, and let loose on the stump as during his last full day of campaigning ahead of Election Day.
  
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• U.S. banks gird for Brexit-style tumult following Tuesday election

  07-11-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bank preparations ahead of the U.S. election reflect their experience following Britain's shock vote to leave the European Union in June, when the S&P 500 fell 3.6 percent the day after the poll. Morgan Stanley told staff to consider using stop-loss orders, an automated trading mechanism that is meant to sell an investor’s position as soon as a stock hits a preset level, if the election result causes trading volumes and volatility to spike. The bank also told advisers in its wealth man
  
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• Indiana Democrats accept fault for misleading voter texts

  07-11-2016 21:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Indiana Democrats took responsibility Monday for a get-out-the-vote flub that left local officials looking into allegations of voter disenfranchisement.
  
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• Trump Jr. defends retweeting false assassination attempt claim

  07-11-2016 21:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump Jr. on Monday defended spreading misinformation by retweeting false claims his father had survived an assassination attempt, saying in a radio interview that he was simply following news in real time and that he doesn't delete tweets.
  
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• #MyVote: 50 stickers, 50 states and you

  07-11-2016 21:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Other that exercising your American right, getting a little sticker is definitely the best part of voting. We're trying to get stickers from all 50 states, so we need YOU [Uncle Sam point] to share yours.
  
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• 36 years of election nights on CNN

  07-11-2016 21:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A taste of 9 election nights past on CNN. From Governor Ronald Reagan's win in 1980, to President Obama's re-election in 2012.
  
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• U.S. voters look to game election system by 'trading' ballots

  07-11-2016 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sophy Warner wanted to vote for third-party U.S. presidential candidate Jill Stein. Through the website "Trump Traders," the 20-year-old biology student at Cleveland State University got in touch with Marc Baluda, 44, a Republican corporate lawyer in California who opposes Trump's candidacy and planned to vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Clinton campaign sends legal warning on ads claiming she's 'under investigation'

  07-11-2016 21:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign sent cease-and-desist letters to broadcasters advising that they shouldn't air ads from pro-Donald Trump PACs that include the claim that Clinton is "under investigation by the FBI."
  
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• Supreme Court won't restore court order against Trump over poll-watching in Ohio

  07-11-2016 20:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court Monday denied an emergency request filed by Democratic lawyers to reinstate a federal court order barring the Trump campaign from engaging in activities that Democrats allege could lead to voter intimidation in Ohio.
  
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• Viewers guide: Who will control the Senate?

  07-11-2016 20:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The battle for control of the Senate is so close that going into Election Day, there are at least eight races virtually tied, leaving in doubt which party will control the chamber for the next two years.
  
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• U.S. top court rejects Democrats in Ohio voter-intimidation dispute

  07-11-2016 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to reimpose new restrictions in Ohio on partisan poll watchers that Democrats had sought to prevent Election Day voter intimidation, handing a victory to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The justices left in place Sunday's decision by a federal appeals court that had thrown out restrictions imposed by a judge on Friday on people who monitor voting activity, saying they may not interrogate voters wit
  
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• Live election coverage

  07-11-2016 20:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Livestream, live updates and analysis from the final moments of the 2016 campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Watch live coverage of election night in America here and on CNN on November 8.
  
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• Banks gird for Brexit-style tumult following U.S. election

  07-11-2016 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bank preparations ahead of the U.S. election reflect their experience following Britain's shock vote to leave the European Union in June, when the S&P 500 fell 3.6 percent the day after the poll. Morgan Stanley told staff to consider using stop-loss orders, an automated trading mechanism that is meant to sell an investor’s position as soon as a stock hits a preset level, if the election result causes trading volumes and volatility to spike. Traders expect U.S. stock prices to swing by
  
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• Clinton on final day of the campaign: It's time to 'heal'

  07-11-2016 20:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton began her closing message of the 2016 campaign Monday, asking Americans to look ahead to the work that needs to be done after Election Day.
  
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• U.S. expresses concern over Nicaragua's 'flawed' election

  07-11-2016 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States is "deeply concerned" by the flawed electoral process in Nicaragua, a State Department spokesman said on Monday, a day after former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega clinched a third consecutive term as president of the Central American country. "The United States is deeply concerned by the flawed presidential and legislative electoral process in Nicaragua, which precluded the possibility of a free and fair election on (Sunday)," spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement.
  
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• Only Breitbart Confident Among Rightwing Sites

  07-11-2016 19:33
  
  The maps in the last two articles (here and here) were all taken from those which were highlighted by 270towin.com. We decided to check the AltRight, and thereabouts, to see if the far right had different maps. We could not find any for The Washington Examiner or Newsmax. But we only needed six to be […]
  
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• Current Electoral Map Projections, Part Two

  07-11-2016 19:23
  
  Here are the other six maps from 270towin.com. You can see all twelve maps together at their site. But we decided to separate them, and see what each of the map authors had to say. The first is from the Rothenberg and Gonzales Ratings. In this tightening race, Trump’s Electoral College map is still daunting: […]
  
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• Ryan downplays effect of Comey letter in final election stretch

  07-11-2016 19:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan said the latest bombshell letter from FBI Director James Comey issued over the weekend clearing Hillary Clinton of any wrongdoing in the bureau's email investigation wouldn't have any major impact in Tuesday's election.
  
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• Clinton, Trump gear up for final day of campaigning

  07-11-2016 19:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are poised to fight late into the night Monday as they barnstorm across battleground states on the final full day of campaigning.
  
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• Election Day forecast: Rain possible for a few key states

  07-11-2016 19:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  "Pleasant" and "calm" are two words that haven't been used to describe the 2016 presidential election. But they should characterize the weather across much of the country on Election Day.
  
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• Ana Navarro: I'm voting for Hillary Clinton -- and against Donald Trump

  07-11-2016 19:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  I didn't want to write this. I avoided making a decision as long as I could. I schlepped my absentee ballot all over the country for almost four weeks. I would periodically take it out of the envelope, look at it, shake my head in disgust, and put it back in my suitcase.
  
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• Ana Navarro: I'm voting for Clinton -- and against Trump

  07-11-2016 19:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  I didn't want to write this. I avoided making a decision as long as I could. I schlepped my absentee ballot all over the country for almost four weeks. I would periodically take it out of the envelope, look at it, shake my head in disgust, and put it back in my suitcase.
  
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• Trump campaign aide draws accusations of sexism

  07-11-2016 18:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A Donald Trump campaign aide is facing accusations of sexism on the eve of Election Day.
  
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• Clinton and Trump chase last-minute support on U.S. election eve

  07-11-2016 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amanda Becker and Emily Stephenson PITTSBURGH/SARASOTA (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump crisscrossed the United States on Monday, racing to sway undecided voters and to get their supporters to vote in a tight presidential contest that opinion polls show narrowly favoring Clinton. With only one day left before Election Day, the Clinton campaign was boosted by Sunday's unexpected announcement by FBI Director James Comey that the agency stood by its July decision
  
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• Trump mocks hip hop as 'talking'

  07-11-2016 18:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Monday mocked hip-hop music as he once again criticized the performance Jay Z and Beyonce delivered at a rally for Hillary Clinton, asking whether it was "talking or singing."
  
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• Gov. Bill Weld: America deserves better

  07-11-2016 18:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Gov. Bill Weld, Libertarian VP candidate, explains what he and running mate Gary Johnson bring to the voters on Election Day.
  
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• Hate speech seeps into U.S. mainstream amid bitter campaign

  07-11-2016 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Note: paragraph 2 contains language that may offend some readers) By Peter Eisler KOKOMO, Indiana (Reuters) - The lettering is crude, scrawled in black spray paint on the sidewalk in front of Karen Peters’ neatly kept home in the quiet, working class neighborhood where she’s lived most of her life. "KKK Bitch.” The racially charged graffiti appeared in mid-October on cars, homes and telephone poles in the small city of Kokomo, Indiana. Many victims, like Peters, were African A
  
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• Facebook partners with news outlets for Election Day live video blitz

  07-11-2016 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook said on Monday it would partner with 50 broadcast stations, print and online publications for an Election Day live video blitz, as the social media company aims to build on the momentum of its popular Facebook Live video streaming service. The move comes as Facebook and rival sites like Twitter increasingly embrace live video to draw in users and boost traffic.
  
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• Early voting data suggests Clinton lags in North Carolina compared to 2012

  07-11-2016 18:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The political consensus is virtually unanimous: If Hillary Clinton wins North Carolina, Donald Trump has to win every other competitive state to take the White House.
  
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• Clinton closes campaign with straight to camera 2-minute ad

  07-11-2016 17:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton will appear in millions of households the night before Election Day with a straight-to-camera ad aimed at driving home a more hopeful message to persuadable voters.
  
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• Christie: No 'recollection' of retribution against Fort Lee mayor

  07-11-2016 17:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is speaking out following Friday's verdict in the Bridgegate case, saying he has "no recollection" of discussing traffic issues related to lane closures on the George Washington Bridge.
  
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• Monmouth poll: 6-point Clinton lead over Trump day before U.S. election

  07-11-2016 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton led Republican Donald Trump by 6 percentage points among likely U.S. voters in a Monmouth University poll released on Monday, a day before the U.S. presidential election. The survey of 802 registered voters found 50 percent backed Clinton while 44 percent supported Trump, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points, the university said in a statement. Its last poll released on Oct. 17 found Clinton up
  
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• Clinton's pantsuits inspire flashmob video

  07-11-2016 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton's signature colorful pantsuits got a shout-out from dozens of women who staged a flashmob in support of the Democratic presidential candidate in Washington D.C. Dressed in red, black, blue and pink pantsuits, the group danced on Friday to "Salute" by British girl band Little Mix for a YouTube video organized by Clinton supporters called "DC Power Pantsuit Flashmob". Organizer Jamie Poslosky said she came up with the idea because she was feeling depressed by the bitter
  
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• Clinton and Trump race for support on eve of U.S. election

  07-11-2016 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH/SARASOTA (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump crisscrossed the country on Monday as they raced to sway undecided voters in a tight U.S. presidential race that has Clinton with a narrow lead according to opinion polls. With only one day left before Election Day, the Clinton campaign was boosted by Sunday's unexpected FBI announcement that it stood by its July decision not to press any criminal charges in an investigation of Clinton's email practices. A Fox N
  
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• Obama continues to back FBI Director Comey - White House

  07-11-2016 16:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama is still confident in FBI Director James Comey's ability to the lead the FBI, the White House said on Monday. Comey has faced intense criticism for his handling of a probe of Democrat Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state. "The president views Director Comey as a man of integrity, a man of principle," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters in a briefing.
  
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• Justice Department to monitor Tuesday's election in 28 states

  07-11-2016 16:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Personnel from the U.S. Justice Department's civil rights division will be deployed to polling sites in 28 states to monitor Tuesday's election, five more than it monitored in the 2012 election, the department said on Monday. Most of those states will receive Justice Department staff who have no statutory authority to access polling sites as a result of a 2013 Supreme Court decision that struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act, curtailing the department's ability to deploy election observers
  
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• 5 states consider legalizing marijuana

  07-11-2016 16:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  On this election day, voters in five states will get to decide whether marijuana should be legal to use recreationally.
  
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