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Ted Cruz loses an endorsement!!!
Morgan WITHDRAWS @TedCruz endorsement: "I've made a grave mistake—misread Ted's character!" #dtmag @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/sApaFWBPvH — Gary Forbes (@gqforbes) 28 марта 2016...
Hillary Clinton Calls on Sen. Chuck Grassley to ‘Step Up and Do His Job’
Hillary Clinton blasted Republican lawmakers today for not holding a hearing for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. She called on Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to “step up and do his job.” “He should hold a hearing, and he should schedule it...
FBI breaks into San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone without Apple’s help, ending court case
The U.S. Justice Department announced Monday it has successfully accessed data stored on the iPhone that belonged to the San Bernardino gunman without Apple's help, ending the court case against the tech company. The surprise development effectively ends a pitched court battle between Apple and the Obama administration. The...
States’ rights advocates eye convention to bypass Congress, amend Constitution
What if a supermajority of states could override a federal law or Supreme Court ruling? That’s just one idea being proposed by advocates of a “convention of states” to amend the U.S. Constitution. "The American people are mad and they’re looking for a way to say, ‘No more,’” said...
Cruz, Kasich Walk Back Vows to Support Trump as Nominee
Early in the presidential primary process, the Republican candidates each signed a pledge that they would support their party’s eventual nominee. It was designed to rein in Donald Trump, who was threatening a third party bid. But now, as it looks increasingly likely that the nominee will in fact be Trump, the...
California raises minimum wage to $15 an hour
About a dozen cities have approved bumps in their minimum wages to $15, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and several other municipalities in California. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed a $15 pay floor for New York City starting in 2019 and across the state by 2021. A plan is already in place to hike...
Chicago teen featured in anti-violence PSA is shot
A 13-year-old Chicago boy who was featured in an anti-violence public service announcement last year is recovering at a local hospital after being shot in the back last week. Fox 32 reported that Zarriel Trotter was walking near his home in the Austin neighborhood on the city's West Side when he became caught up in...
2016 Republican candidates: Where are they now?
In the zombie apocalypse, the dead rise to roam the earth. In the final days of the 2016 primary campaign, departed candidates are crawling from their political graves to haunt living candidates. It's a time-honoured tradition for vanquished presidential aspirants to be wooed by winning campaigns looking to benefit from...
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz continue arguing over spouses
Make America Awesome, a PAC opposing Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, has run Facebook ads for Utah users ahead of the state’s caucus. The ad, seen above, features a photo from Melania Trump’s GQ photoshoot taken shortly before her marriage to Trump. The ad is aimed at increasing turnout among...
15 years, 4 trials: NY husband tried for wife’s murder again
For the fourth time since Michele Harris disappeared in 2001, her estranged husband Calvin Harris will go on trial for murder in upstate New York. Prosecutors have persisted through overturned convictions and a mistrial in a high-profile case with no body, no weapon and — after 15 years — no resolution. Jury...
Trump says the GOP is a disgrace
Donald Trump blasted reports that Sen. Ted Cruz will pick up extra delegates in Louisiana weeks after the state’s primary, The Hill reports. Said Trump: “Welcome to the Republican Party. What’s going on in the Republican Party is a...
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz continue clash over spouses
Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas traded insults on Easter Sunday morning over recent smears against their wives, while Mr. Trump ruled out creating internment camps for American Muslims and said he would study a proposal to allow delegates to bring guns to the Republican National Convention. Appearing on rival...