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Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton Emails ‘Endangered U.S.’

Presumptive U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has criticized Hillary Clinton’s use of private email while secretary of state for putting the “entire country in danger.” The threat of criminal charges hanging over Clinton was finally lifted by the FBI Tuesday morning—hours before the presumptive Democratic nominee for president began campaigning with Barack Obama for […]

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USA

Clinton campaign slams ‘offensive’ Max Blumenthal remarks on Elie Wiesel’s death

Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Tuesday rebuked comments by pro-Palestinian Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal, son of longtime aide Sidney Blumenthal, regarding the recent death of Holocaust survivor and political activist Elie Wiesel. “Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,” Jake Sullivan, senior policy adviser to the presumptive Democratic presidential

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Obituaries & memorials, USA

Trump Lauds Saddam Hussein For Being ‘Good’ At Killing Terrorists

Donald Trump has come under fire from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign for praising Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq who was captured by U.S. forces in 2003 and executed by the Iraqi government in 2006. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, during a Tuesday rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, praised the late Iraqi

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Middle East, USA

GOP leaders mull whether to punish House Democrats over gun violence sit-in

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are considering whether to reprimand House Democrats over the 25-hour anti-gun violence sit-in that shut down the chamber last week. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., have been highly critical of the Democratic protest and will be meeting with the sergeant at arms

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Conservatives to oppose no-fly gun bill, derail GOP leaders’ push for action

House conservatives have kneecapped GOP leaders’ attempts to pass a compromise gun-control bill to keep firearms out of the hands of suspected terrorists, saying Wednesday that the chief Republican plan still tramples on Americans’ constitutional rights. Speaker Paul D. Ryan had hoped to push the gun proposal through as part of a broad anti-terrorism package,

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