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Hillary Clinton's Email Was Probably Hacked, Experts Say — When the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said on Tuesday that his investigators had no “direct evidence” that Hillary Clinton's email account had been “successfully hacked,” both private experts and federal investigators immediately understood …
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MORE IN HILLARY CLINTON — The State Department didn't respond …
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Lynch says DOJ will not pursue charges against Clinton
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Opinion Hillary Clinton didn't go where David Petraeus and Scooter Libby did
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AG Loretta Lynch declines to press charges against Clinton
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Most Disagree with Decision Not to Indict Clinton
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State: Some classified markings in Clinton emails were ‘human error’
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Mediaite, Hot Air and The Daily Caller

WH rejects call to block Clinton from receiving classified briefings
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Hot Air

Another Clinton ‘scandal’ goes poof
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Clinton Emails: DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State
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Here's Why Hillary Clinton Email Scandal Didn't Rise To Level Of ‘Gross Negligence’
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Comey to testify on Clinton email probe Thursday
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The Donald Trump I Know — My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite. — It's that simple, really. Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic and he's not a racist. Despite the best efforts of his political opponents and a large swath of the media to hold Donald Trump accountable for the utterances …
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In a Defiant, Angry Speech, Donald Trump Defends Image Seen as Anti-Semitic — Donald J. Trump on Wednesday offered a defiant defense of his campaign's decision to publish an image widely viewed as anti-Semitic — saying he regretted deleting it — and vigorously reaffirmed his praise of Saddam Hussein, the murderous Iraqi dictator.

Trump, Saddam and why people mistrust the media
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Observer publisher: 'Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic and he's not a racist'
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Hillary Clinton's Atlantic City speech is her answer to Donald Trump's populism
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Corker withdraws as potential Trump running mate — Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has recently emerged as a finalist in the search for Donald Trump's running mate, told The Washington Post in an interview Wednesday …
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Ernst all but withdraws from Trump veepstakes — Joni Ernst all but removed herself from Donald Trump's vice presidential search, telling POLITICO in an interview that she wants to help Trump become president but that she's focused on Iowa and the Senate, where the freshman senator said she's “just getting started.”
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New Video Emerges of Alton Sterling Being Killed by Baton Rouge Police — Footage provided to The Daily Beast shows Alton Sterling being repeatedly shot by police officers after he was pinned to the ground. — BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — New cellphone video provided to The Daily Beast shows Alton Sterling …
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'He's got a gun! Gun': Video shows fatal confrontation between Alton Sterling, Baton Rouge police officer — Alton Sterling, a 37-year old man who sold CDs, was shot and killed by a Baton Rouge police officer Tuesday morning outside a convenience store on North Foster Drive after …
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CNN Reports That 10 Women Have Contacted Law Firm About Treatment Under Roger Ailes — JIM SCIUTTO (GUEST HOST): Long time Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson is suing her former boss and chairman of the network Roger Ailes, alleging a pattern of sexual harassment.
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Gretchen Carlson of Fox News Files Harassment Suit Against Roger Ailes
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BREAKING: Ex-Fox Anchor Gretchen Carlson Files Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Roger Ailes
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21st Century Fox launching ‘internal review’ at Fox News following Gretchen Carlson lawsuit

Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sues Roger Ailes for sexual harassment
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Sanders booed by House Democrats — Sen. Bernie Sanders is still talking like a guy who's running for president. But frustrated House Democrats — who booed him at one point during a morning meeting — say it's time to stop. — With the Democratic convention just weeks away …
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Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Campaigns in Talks for Possible Endorsement Next Week
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Hillary Clinton Expanding College Plan to Offer Free Tuition to Millions
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Clinton to propose 3-month hiatus for repayment of student loans
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Anti-Donald Trump Forces See Convention Coup as Within Reach — Backing of 28 Rules Committee members would allow a full vote on unbinding delegates — Months after Donald Trump appeared to seal the Republican nomination for president, anti-Trump forces still have one last chance to force …
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Trump raises $51 million with GOP in June, including $26 million for his campaign — Donald Trump raised more than $26 million for his campaign and another $25 million in conjunction with the Republican National Committee in June, a hefty haul that his campaign hopes will put to rest anxieties …
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Donald Trump's Much-Improved Fundraising Haul
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Trump announces $51 million fundraising in June
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Exclusive: Marvel's New Iron Man Is a Black Woman — Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis talks the creation of Riri Williams, who will take over for Tony Stark — There's a new Iron Man. Well, Iron Man for now. She's still working on the name. The events at the end …
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Pilot captures incredible nighttime thunderstorm photo over the Pacific Ocean — This is one of the most striking thunderstorm photos we've seen. — Taken from a plane at the moment of a lightning flash, it illustrates both the ferocity of a turbulent atmosphere and the beauty of Mother Nature.
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Source: Chelsea Manning hospitalized after apparent suicide attempt — (CNN)Former U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning was hospitalized Tuesday, the result of what a source told CNN is believed to be a suicide attempt. — Manning was taken to a local hospital near the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks …
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Group drops $2,000 on Senate floor to protest GMO bill … Members of the Organic Consumers Association threw money from the Senate gallery onto the floor on Wednesday to protest a vote on a bill to block states from issuing mandatory labeling laws for foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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Eric Trump: My father gives ‘millions and millions and millions’ to charity — Eric Trump, the son of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, said in an interview Wednesday that his father gives “millions and millions and millions” of his own money to charity …
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Cruz Shakes Up Senate Office, Expands Political Operation — Two new nonprofits and staff changes are designed to strengthen the Cruz machine for another run. — Ted Cruz has been conspicuously silent since his return to Capitol Hill from the campaign trail, but the gears, as always, are turning.
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