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A locked office, getaway car and secret flight: The final steps in picking Clinton’s running mate

It was early evening Friday, when four of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, including campaign chairman John Podesta, snuck out of her campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, using a freight elevator to avoid being seen. The four traveled 15 miles to the airfield in Teterboro, N.J., rather than one of the region’s larger commercial airports, where they

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At convention, Democrats will try to portray Clinton as likable

PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic National Convention, which begins Monday, has one huge goal: Make people like Hillary Clinton. Make her warm, gentle, compassionate. It won’t be easy. Clinton’s negatives have been consistently, historically high. Polls show that most people don’t trust her. Her public image is that of a humorless technocrat comfortable only with briefing

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Kaine debuts as Clinton’s running mate in Miami rally

MIAMI — Tim Kaine made his first appearance as Hillary Clinton’s running mate Saturday, taking the stage at Florida International University with the soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee in bilingual Miami so he could show off his Spanish. “Bienvenidos a todos,” he said. Turning to Clinton, he added: “We’re going to be companeros del alma.” Soul

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Munich gunman was obsessed with mass shootings, police say

MUNICH — The young gunman who paralyzed Germany’s third-largest city and killed nine people before killing himself was obsessed with mass shootings but did not have any apparent link to Islamist militant groups, police said Saturday. As a portrait emerged of the 18-year-old attacker, who had amassed literature about shooting rampages, Munich authorities declared a

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Debut illustrator thrills as book sells at Comic-Con

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photo by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – In the guise of an anonymous sales lady tending a display of books at Comic-Con, Sara Ann Varon watched as people laughed while they thumbed through copies of Bacon and Sausage. Varon was the illustrator of the children’s book written by Gabriel Smith. 

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Rep. Loretta Sanchez implies Obama endorsed Senate rival because they are both black

LOS ANGELES — Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez said in an interview with a Spanish-language television station that she believes President Barack Obama may have endorsed rival Kamala Harris in California’s U.S. Senate race because they are both black, injecting a dose of racial politics into a historic contest that in November will elect the

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Munich Attacker Identified As Iranian-German Teen, 10 Dead

 This article updates previous one Munich Police say the perpetrator of the horrific shooting Friday evening was a German-born man who also held Iranian citizenship. During a press conference, Munich Police chief Hubertus Andra said man who killed 10 people in a shooting rampage at a large shopping mall was an 18-year-old German of Iranian

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Hillary Clinton picks Tim Kaine, Va. senator and former governor, as her running mate

TAMPA, Fla. — Hillary Clinton has tapped Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate, adding a well-liked swing-state moderate with broad governing experience to the Democratic ticket. Clinton’s choice of Kaine, 58, reflects her calculation that voters with doubts about both her and Republican nominee Donald Trump will respond to a doubling-down of her

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Army accepts first two female officers to attend school to become Green Berets

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. | Two female Army officers will make history when they report to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in their first step toward earning the Special Forces tab and becoming Green Berets. The female officers, whom Army officials declined to identify, could attend their first Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) class as early as

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