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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidates strained to take advantage of a rare opportunity to step out of…
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — 2016 Republican presidential candidates take the debate stage Thursday night absent their front-runner, billionaire Donald…
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HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — Officers in Connecticut last year fired stun guns at blacks and Hispanics at a higher rate…
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MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump declared he would boycott the last Republican debate before the Iowa caucuses, leading Texas…
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State University says it’s settling a lawsuit with a woman who said she was raped…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Barack Obama is casting the Democratic primary to replace him as a contest between Hillary…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Museum of African American History and Culture is getting a $10 million gift. The Smithsonian…
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FLINT, Michigan (AP) — Ever since the full extent of the water crisis in the city of Flint, Michigan, emerged,…
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DETROIT (AP) — Malia Obama’s high school will have to find another commencement speaker when she graduates this year. Her…
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former Oklahoma City police officer convicted of raping and sexually victimizing eight women on his…
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has used his annual State of the State address to reaffirm his…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A group of demonstrators caused the shutdown of one direction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge…
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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says Flint, Michigan, residents coping with a drinking water crisis “have been…
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NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — Billionaire businessman Donald Trump doubled down Thursday on his questions about Texas Sen. Ted…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Drake is facing off against Kevin Hart on the court. The Canadian actor-rapper and the American…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The income gap afflicting major U.S. cities goes beyond the problem of rising paychecks for those at…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California prison officials say former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips has been found dead in his…
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — Hillary Clinton has secured an endorsement from the nation’s first black attorney general as she…
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President Obama made his final State of the Union address Tuesday night, and as usual, Twitter did not let us down.…