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Poll: Most Texans oppose Donald Trump’s plan to build a border wall

AUSTIN, Texas — A majority of Texans oppose GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s signature idea to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, even as immigration is most often cited by Texans as the biggest issue facing the state. Those were among the top findings of a new survey released Wednesday by the Texas Lyceum, […]

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American trust in news media falls to lowest level in history: Gallup poll

A major pollster has some stark news: “Americans’ trust and confidence in the mass media ‘to report the news fully, accurately and fairly’ has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32 percent saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. This is down eight percentage

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Women earn less in Obama’s White House than they did 2 years ago

Last month, on Women’s Equality Day, the White House pledged it was committed to closing the gender pay gap. “Equal pay has been an administration priority since President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law as his first piece of legislation,” the White House said in an August statement. “Policies that ensure

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Bill Clinton beats back controversies as he tackles political ‘road rage’

NORTH LAS VEGAS — With Hillary Clinton still recuperating from pneumonia, it fell to her husband to rally voters at a community college here Wednesday in the battleground state of Nevada. “She did it for me a long time,” former President Bill Clinton told the crowd. “It’s about time I showed up and did it

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How Climate Change Threatens National Security

This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A coalition of 25 military and national security experts, including former advisers to Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, has warned that climate change poses a “significant risk to U.S. national security and international security” that requires

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Clinton to resume campaigning Thursday after bout with pneumonia

Hillary Clinton will resume campaign travel on Thursday following a break as she recovered from pneumonia, according to a campaign spokesman. The Democratic presidential nominee remained at home on Tuesday, said spokesman Nick Merrill. “She has spent the day catching up on reading briefings, making calls, and she watched President Obama’s speech in Philadelphia on

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Colin Powell worried about Hillary Clinton’s health, according to hacked emails

Yes, former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s hacked emails show that he thinks Donald Trump is a “national disgrace,” but they also reveal his concerns about Hillary Clinton’s health. According to the leaked emails, Mr. Powell and Democratic mega-donor Jeffrey Leeds chatted about Mrs. Clinton’s health in March 2015. “Not sure, but she has launched

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‘Deplorables’ comment hurting Hillary Clinton in the Rust Belt: Polls

It seems as though some in Ohio took offense to Hillary Clinton’s comments over the weekend that half of Donald Trump’s supporters can be grouped into a “bucket of deplorables.” Mr. Trump tops Mrs. Clinton by 5 percentage points in a Bloomberg Politics poll of the state, one of his largest margins in the Rust

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Former Mexican president says Trump presidency could lead to World War III

WASHINGTON — Former Mexican President Vicente Fox amped up his criticism of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday night, describing the real estate mogul as an international threat who, if elected, could possibly provoke another world war. “This guy is a menace,” Fox said in an interview Tuesday night. “He is a threat. He

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Eric Schneiderman opens investigation of Donald J. Trump Foundation

The Democratic attorney general of New York who has opened investigations of climate fraud against oil companies picked a new target Tuesday – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday afternoon that he was concerned that the Donald J. Trump Foundation was breaking

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John Koskinen: Conservatives begin impeachment process for IRS commissioner

House conservatives pulled the trigger Tuesday on the process to begin impeachment of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, rejecting appeals from fellow Republicans and from the commissioner himself to set the matter aside and prompting President Obama to call the effort “crazy.” Rep. John Fleming, Louisiana Republican, made the move, kicking off a process that will

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