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Squeaker in Kentucky primary, Clinton claims victory
Hillary Clinton leads Democratic rival Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Kentucky primary, but the race remained too close to call Tuesday night. Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes told CNN, "I do believe Kentucky will remain in the win column" for Clinton. When pressed by the network, she agreed with its description of it as an "unofficial win." Clinton didn't wait for it to be made official before she declared victory.
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Sanders wins Oregon
Bernie Sanders won the Oregon primary on Tuesday, securing the support of the Pacific Northwest state's liberal wing and aiding his quest to bring the fight against Hillary Clinton to the Democratic convention. Little polling was done in the state prior to the primary, with most of it showing a slight Clinton lead. But the state's demographics and voting largely mirror Washington State, where Sanders won by more than 50 points.
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Clintons paid $6.7 million for speeches in 2015
Hillary Clinton released a financial disclosure form on Tuesday evening revealing that she and her husband earned over $11 million last year from paid speeches and book royalties. The documents show that the Clintons made a combined $6.7 million in paid speeches during 2015. They said Hillary Clinton earned $1,475,500 from six paid speeches in the three months of 2015 before she launched her campaign, and President Bill Clinton brought in the rest.
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Brian Cates, conservative blogger. 
@drawandstrike
What's funny about this is that Rhodes couldn't wait until he was out of the White House to start bragging about how he'd punk'd everybody.
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Trump: Acting 'presidential' would have sunk me
Donald Trump is attributing his success in the Republican primary to his boisterous and oftentimes controversial style of campaigning, and said he probably wouldn't have gotten this far if he had acted "presidential." "Overall, I have to be very happy with the outcome," he said in a Fox interview with Megyn Kelly that aired Tuesday evening. "And I think if I didn't conduct myself in the way I've done it, I don't think I would have been successful."
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Megyn Kelly confronts Trump regarding his 'bimbo' tweets
Megyn Kelly confronted Donald Trump over his re-tweeting of accounts that referred to her as a "bimbo." "We have an unbelievable bond," Trump said of his Twitter followers. "But you re-tweet some of those," Kelly interjected, referring to the nastier social media users who've attacked her on behalf of the real estate mogul. "It's not just the fans." "Yeah, but not the more nasty ones," Trump said. "You would be amazed at the ones I don't re-tweet."
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| On this day 1,020 years ago, an army led by the German Count Emicho of Leningen perpetrated the massacre of 800 Jews in the city of Worms. The count, who claimed to have been visited in person by Jesus Christ, was in the process of plundering various Jewish communities in order to finance a crusade. The civil authorities of the region were too weak to stop him, despite orders to do so from Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. Some Jews of Worms took refuge in the palace of the local bishop, but Emicho's mob managed to break in after an eight-day siege and slaughter them anyway. This was one of several such anti-Semitic attacks within Europe (and not even the bloodiest) that helped shape the modern, negative view of the Crusades. But Emicho never actually reached the Holy Land. On his way there, his army was defeated and shattered by the newly crowned King Coloman of Hungary. |
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Editorial: Venezuela is 'democratic socialism' in action
Venezuela is on the brink of ruin, and it is providing a good real-time reminder for younger Americans about the ills of socialism.
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The House scuttled a vote on whether women would become subject to the draft. Do you think it's a good idea to make women register with the Selective Service? Should there be a draft at all in the U.S.?
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Rand Paul easily wins his primary
Kentucky Republicans nominated Sen. Rand Paul for a second term in their primary Tuesday. While Paul won the GOP nomination over the opposition of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and most other party leaders in 2010, on Tuesday night he faced no serious competition. The libertarian-leaning lawmaker's relations with McConnell have improved over the last six years. Yet he had hoped to be vying for a higher office this year. Paul sought the Republican presidential nomination. He was competitive in the earliest polling but he ended up dropping out after a disappointing finish in Iowa.
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Rhodes not leaving until 'very last day' of Obama's tenure
Ben Rhodes, one of President Obama's top foreign policy strategists and chief media spinner, said Tuesday that he has no intention of leaving his post, as many Republicans want, despite the blow-up he created when he boasted of creating an "echo-chamber" in Washington to sell the Iran nuclear agreement. Rhodes on Tuesday declined to say whether he regrets the interview with the New York Times magazine in which he made the comments, but instead gave a long-winded response and indicated he would remain in his post until the very end of Obama's presidency.
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Six Clinton aides set for depositions
A conservative group will interview the first of six former aides to Hillary Clinton Wednesday as it pushes a federal judge to allow it to question the former secretary of state herself. Judicial Watch, which has sued the State Department over its slow response to Freedom of Information Act requests, published a deposition schedule Tuesday that included upcoming meetings with Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan, three of Clinton's closest staffers at the State Department. The nonprofit will also question Bryan Pagliano, the Clinton aide who set up a private server in Clinton's home.
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Woodward jokes about 'Bill, Hillary, Chelsea' on Mount Rushmore
Famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward is very popular on the speaking circuit, not just for his Watergate scalps but also for his stories of interviewing presidents and wannabe presidents. One story in his arsenal is about Hillary Rodham Clinton's reaction to former President George W. Bush telling Woodward that he doesn't think about his legacy. "History, we won't know. We'll all be dead," Bush had said. Woodward told a National Association of Realtors meeting that Clinton was irked by those words, suggesting she would be more in control of her biography.
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Emissions fall 'with or without' Obama climate plan, feds say
The U.S. will continue to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with or without the Obama administration's far-reaching climate rules, the Energy Information Administration noted Tuesday in its first analysis of the final version of the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of President Obama's climate change agenda. "CO2 emissions are lower in [the Annual Energy Outlook 2016] reference case than [in the 2015] reference case, even without the Clean Power Plan," an outline of the final report released Tuesday reads. The main reason is that cheap natural gas is rapidly replacing coal as America's main source of electricity.
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Gohmert: FBI will stay silent on Clinton
"[FBI] Director [James] Comey is a pretty straight-up guy, and I don't think he'll pull any punches," Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday. "But I could also see him avoiding a controversy by just saying, 'here's all the evidence, it's not our job to indict, that's up to the attorney general.'"
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White House aims to force firms to pay more overtime
The Obama administration finalized a rule Tuesday intended to force businesses to pay more overtime, doubling the annual salary a worker must make before he can be automatically exempted from the legal requirement to be paid time and a half beyond 40 hours in a week. The new annual salary threshold of $47,500, up from about $23,700, would extend overtime coverage to 4.2 million additional workers beginning Dec. 1. Business groups have complained loudly about the rule, arguing that the economy is still too fragile to be increasing labor costs and that small companies in particular will not be able to afford the added expense.
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