WASHINGTON — Seeking to avert a 2016 disaster, the Republican National Committee on Wednesday challenged every GOP presidential candidate to sign a pledge not to undertake a third-party bid under any circumstances.
The challenge, confirmed by multiple campaigns, is aimed squarely at Donald Trump.
While he is leading the packed ...
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He's called "the people's sheriff." That would be Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr., whose heroic career in law enforcement spans more than three decades. He's been sheriff for Milwaukee since 2002; during last year's election, he won 79 percent of the vote. His sterling career takes an interesting ...
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"It's outrageous! It's outrageous!"
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Seeks worldwide agreement on climate change
President Obama this week raised the stakes in the fight against global warming, laying out a challenge to other nations and saying the world will have failed if it does not reach a comprehensive agreement on climate change later this year.
During a speech ...
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"Respect and pride in our law enforcement must be restored in this state and nation."
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My father was a journalist. Growing up, I remember how excited I would get when visiting the printing house of the newspaper he worked for. I loved everything about the large, industrial printers — the noise they made, their fading bluish color and especially the smell of freshly printed papers. That romantic era ended with the dawn of the Internet. Read More
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House and Senate lawmakers hoping to avert a government shutdown, pass a long-term highway bill and vote on Iran's nuclear ambitions this fall are squeezing in another item that has bedeviled Congress for years — settling on a bipartisan rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law that can ...
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In just a few weeks, I'll be onstage with the man who spearheaded the creation of Apple's friendly, futuristic retail stores. Ron Johnson spent more than a decade as the company's senior vice president of retail operations, a decade that saw the launch of the first Apple Stores and their rapid expansion. (He was also an executive at Target and, after Apple, had a… Read More 
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Donald Trump said Wednesday that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush could set an example in the 2016 GOP nomination race by speaking English — not Spanish.
In an interview with the Breitbart News Network, Mr. Trump countered the claim Mr. Bush made speaking in Spanish this week that the New ...
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"It's not just Black Lives Matter, we've got lots of groups that want to yell and scream."
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I could try to tell you about Clips. I could explain how it was created by startup Fly Labs, or I describe how it makes it easy to combine clips on your iPhone into a single video, then add music, voiceover and effects. But you know what sounds more fun? Going to the park with CEO Tim Novikoff, helping him to shoot some footage and watching him edit it all together with Clips. So… Read More 
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The White House on Wednesday celebrated the news that 34 senators now have publicly said they'll back President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, a development that virtually ensures that the agreement will survive in Congress.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the ...
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"Look at all the press you've attracted."
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Exhausted and starving animals that have been trapped at a flooded zoo in the Russian city of Ussuriysk for days are finally being evacuated by rescuers. A avalanche of water tore through the zoo when a river in busted its banks. A lion and three bears have been airlifted to safety So far, but many ...More
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More than 300,000 dead veterans are still listed as actively trying to sign up for health care at the Department of Veterans Affairs — part of a massive 860,000-claim backlog that the department still hasn't been able to clear up, an inspector general said in a report Wednesday that described ...
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"I saw him do it."
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"We ate our food and asked for the check. To our surprise a sweet American couple next to us had already paid for it."
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While Uber and TaskRabbit have become household names, and the on-demand economy continues to boom, the problem of worker classification continues to bedevil companies in the on-demand marketplace. For new startups looking to enter this exciting landscape, there are many lessons that can be learned from the demise of companies like Homejoy, as well as from companies like Instacart and Luxe… Read More 
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CHALMETTE, La. (AP) - St. Bernard Parish President Dave Peralta has pleaded not guilty to 22 criminal charges in Chalmette.
Nola.comThe Times-Picayune reports (http://bit.ly/1NNLfef ) that the plea was entered at a Wednesday arraignment.
The St. Bernard Parish indictment includes 11 malfeasance in office charges, six abuse of power charges, ...
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According to AdAge, our corporate overlords Verizon will be introducing a new logo this week. Proving that we have little or nothing to do with AOL or Verizon really, this was also news to us. Let's have a look. Here's the existing logo: Here's the new logo that AdAge says will be unleashed on Thursday and is being shown off internally: Google launched its own new logo… Read More 
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Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change recently revealed the UN's true purpose in the implementation of Sustainable Development on a global scale: "This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change ...More
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The parents of a San Francisco woman who was fatally shot by a man in the country illegally may have difficulty with their attempts to hold the city legally liable for their daughter's death, legal experts say.
The parents of Kathryn Steinle filed a wrongful death ...
Instabridge, the WiFi sharing community and mobile app, appears to be on somewhat of a roll, including (and perhaps unsurprisingly) finding a lot of traction in developing markets where the draw to Wi-Fi over cellular data is particularly prevalent. All of which hasn't gone unnoticed by investors. Read More 
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Pummeled by the sheer volume of court cases demanding release of some of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, the Obama administration said late Tuesday it will ask the federal district court in Washington to combine all 16 of the requests into one case.
At least six federal judges are ...
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