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Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’  —  IRVING — Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday.

House conservatives warm to McCarthy as Speaker  —  With Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) job in doubt, House conservatives have been holding internal talks about a new leadership coalition that could include Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as Speaker and more conservative members occupying lower rungs on the leadership ladder.

Former Romney Adviser Stuart Stevens on Loss, the GOP's Race Problem, and Why Trump Won't Win  —  “For Donald Trump to win, everything we know about politics has to be wrong.  And I don’t think it is.”  —  Shares  —  Stuart Stevens is the type of Renaissance man seemingly conjured …

Conservatives need to say what we are thinking: Donald Trump is a madman who must be stopped.  Failure to speak out against Trump is an endorsement of Clinton.  —  We do need to Make America Great Again.  We do need to burn down Washington.  We do need to eradicate political correctness.

Cable TV News Binges on Trump Coverage  —  CNN, more than rivals, focuses on the candidate; all get a ratings boost  —  Cable news can't get enough of Donald Trump.  —  Since announcing his run for president in June, the real-estate developer and reality-TV star has dominated coverage of the 2016 race …

Steve Rannazzisi, Comedian Who Told of 9/11 Escape, Admits He Lied  —  When the comedian Steve Rannazzisi has explained his success, which includes seven seasons starring on a popular TV show, “The League,” and a one-hour special this Saturday on Comedy Central, he has frequently attributed …

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AAP Reports Own Shrinking Market Share, Media Mistakes It for Flat US Ebook Market  —  In the 18 months between February 2014 and September 2015, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), whose 1200 members include the “Big Five”:  —  Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette —

Study: 53 percent of Jeb Bush's tax cuts would go to the top 1 percent  —  Jeb Bush's tax plan would cut individual income taxes for almost all Americans, but would not do so equally.  In fact, according to a new analysis from Citizens for Tax Justice, more than half the dollar value …

Trump, Sanders, Corbyn, Syriza, and Scottish Nationalists  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Donald Trump, the brash, often incoherent leftist-turned-Republican, leads all polls for the GOP presidential nomination.  Jeremy Corbyn, the socialist buddy of Hamas who wants …