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Joe Biden says FBI Director James Comey is ‘a straight guy’

Vice President Joseph R. Biden called FBI Director James Comey a “straight guy,” in spite of being a Republican, who will be fair in his renewed investigation of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s emails. “Look, I’ve found him to be a straight guy,” Mr. Biden told CNN’s Michael Smerconish in an interview released Saturday. “He’s a […]

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Hillary Clinton is helping Senate candidates now so they can help her if she wins the White House

LAKE WORTH, Fla. — Hillary Clinton wanted to share her birthday with a special someone this week in Florida. “One of the best gifts you can give yourselves would be sending Patrick Murphy to the United States Senate!” she told a crowd of supporters here in a college gymnasium. While Clinton has taken care to

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Supreme Court to consider constitutionality of social networking ban for sex offenders

The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it’ll review a North Carolina state law that prohibits convicted sex offenders from using social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Enacted in 2008, the law imposes penalties against individuals on the state’s sex-offender registry caught using “commercial social networking websites” where minors can sign-up as members. Among those

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I broke the news to the Clinton campaign about the new FBI emails probe: Here’s what happened next

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Arizona was supposed to be the biggest news for Hillary Clinton on Friday. Aboard a flight to Iowa, top campaign officials told reporters she would travel to the state in a fourth-quarter gambit to turn it from red to blue. It was the kind of move that could reshape the electoral map, but

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Haaretz writer accused of sexually assaulting US journalist

Earlier this month American Jewish journalist Danielle Berrin accused an unnamed Israeli author of sexual assault, saying he had grabbed her by the head and tried to force her towards him. On Thursday, Haaretz writer Ari Shavit acknowledged that he was the subject of Ms. Berrin”s accusations, but downplayed the incident, calling it an attempt

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Here’s how Hillary Clinton and others reacted after hearing Mike Pence’s plane skidded off a New York runway

It was a scary night for Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence after his campaign plane slid off the runway at LaGuardia Airport on a rainy night in New York City. According to PIX11, the incident happened just before 8 p.m., on a rainy Thursday night, limiting air traffic on Runway 13. Roughly an hour later,

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Putin: Russia Does Not Have ‘Propaganda’ Like the West

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he “regrets” that his country does not have a propaganda machine, but alleged that the West does, Russian daily newspaper Kommersant reports. Putin, whose three terms as president since 1999 have seen a large state takeover of Russian media, used a speech at the annual Valdai Club summit in Sochi

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International, USA

$945,000 grant to JFSSD for Alzheimer’s programs

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) has been awarded more than $945,000 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living, as part of the Administration on Aging’s Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative: Specialized Supportive Services (ADI-SSS) program. The funds allow JFS to fill existing service gaps and

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Georgia voting machine suspected of ‘flipping’ presidential votes

ATLANTA — A voting machine in Bryan County that may have been “flipping” some Georgia voters’ picks for president has been removed from service, after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the problem to state elections officials. The Secretary of State’s Office has expressed confidence in the state’s voting machines. It has launched an investigation into the

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