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Gold Star father Khizr Khan endorses Democratic congressional candidate Jason Crow
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The Gold Star father who came under attack from Donald Trump last year after offering to lend the Republican presidential candidate a copy of the Constitution sent out a fundraising email Friday for Jason Crow, a Democratic running in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District. “Jason Crow is someone who goes where the fight is,” wrote Khizr…
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Unfriended? Divisive presidential campaign roils Facebook
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Some friends don’t let friends talk politics anymore on Facebook. Others are on “unfriending” sprees. And some, such as Adolfo Olivas of Hamilton, Ohio, have decided to just shut down their accounts, as the divisive presidential campaign causes a deluge of news feeds amid photos of smiling kids’ first day of school and what’s on…
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Charting a road to 270, Clinton sets out most efficient path
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Hillary Clinton doesn’t appear all that interested in making scenic stops on her state-to-state quest to become president. The Democratic nominee is instead programming her GPS to take her on the quickest route to collect the 270 Electoral College votes she needs to win the White House. With three months until Election Day, Clinton’s campaign…
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Pence defends military mom’s right to criticize Trump
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Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence defended a military mom’s right to criticize Donald Trump’s comments about the Muslim parents of a slain U.S. Army veteran during a campaign stop in Nevada, and then lashed out at the media’s coverage of the controversy at the next. Pence quieted a crowd that was booing a woman…
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Gold Star families to Trump: Apologize for comments to Khans
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Their sons were killed in Iraq about a week apart. So when Karen Meredith heard the grieving parents of a decorated Muslim Army officer being belittled by Donald Trump, she cried. Meredith said she hadn’t wept over her son’s death for a long time, but the Republican presidential nominee “ripped the wounds right open again.”…
