Are Hillary’s big speaking fees being used to help fund her campaign?
Recently filed campaign finance reports may shed light on how Hillary Clinton is using some of the money she collected from her hefty speechmaking fees from Wall Street banks and other special-interest groups: She is plowing an increasingly large amount of her funds, $560,983 as of last month, back into her presidential campaign. Since then, the reports show, Clinton has kicked another $282,162 into her campaign, with payments to her campaign committee, Hillary for America, averaging about $90,000 a month.
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U.S. officials: The more we learn about Zika, scarier it is
They urge more money for mosquito control and to develop vaccines and treatments.
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Virginia governor vetoes electric chair bill
Gov. Terry McAuliffe has proposed keeping secret the identities of pharmacies that supply lethal-injection drugs for executions, instead of changing the law to force inmates to die in the electric chair if there are no available drugs.
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San Antonio district fires officer who body-slammed girl
The district said the officer's misstatements about what happened were revealed by the video.
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Paul Ryan is running for something. But what?
It looks like Paul Ryan is running for the post of Mr. Republican. Whether he hopes that involves winning the party’s presidential nomination – and when – is less clear. The hallway talk we’re referring to is the result of a lengthy piece in Sunday’s New York Times that dubs Speaker Ryan the GOP’s “mirage candidate.” It doesn’t directly say that the Wisconsin member of Congress is positioning himself as a shiny savior for a deadlocked 2016 Republican National Convention.
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Judge clears Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' copyright case for trial
A trial is needed to determine if the song copies its opening notes from a song performed by the rock band Spirit, a federal judge has ruled.
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Dueling rallies held over North Carolina LGBT rights law
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Hundreds rallied Monday to defend a North Carolina law limiting protections for lesbians, gays and transgender people, using cheers and a booming public address system to drown out a smaller counter-protest across the street.
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US Navy Officer Accused of Spying for China and Taiwan
A Taiwan-born United States Navy officer who has been charged with espionage said he "always dreamt about coming to America, the 'promised land,'" according to an article in which he recounted his naturalization ceremony when he was 14 years old. Lt. Commander Edward Lin is accused of spying for both China and Taiwan, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News today. Lin, a Taiwanese-born flight officer assigned to a Naval reconnaissance unit, was arrested 8 months ago, has been charged with espionage, officials said.
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NYC mayor: Hillary Clinton’s plan for Wall Street reform more progressive than Bernie’s
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says Hillary Clinton’s plan for Wall Street reform is more progressive than those of any candidate in the 2016 presidential race — including the one outlined by her Democratic challenger, Bernie Sanders. “Her plan actually goes after the problems we see today,” de Blasio told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric on Monday.
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Paris-Brussels attacks network a 'supercell' of extremism
PARIS (AP) — The number of people linked to the Islamic State network that attacked Paris and Brussels reaches easily into the dozens, with a series of new arrests over the weekend that confirmed the cell's toxic reach and ability to move around unnoticed in Europe's criminal underworld.
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Donald Trump’s children feel ‘very, very guilty’ that they won’t be voting for him in New York
Eric and Ivanka Trump have campaigned extensively for their father, Donald. But they are not registered Republicans, so they can't vote in next week's New York primary
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Twitter executive live-tweets and live-streams SWAT standoff outside his L.A. home
Nathan Hubbard, the company's head of global media and commerce, heard gunshots outside his daughter’s window around 2:00 a.m., and promptly started tweeting.
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Sanders campaign tries to have it both ways on superdelegates
Even as it decries the cronyism of the superdelegate system, the Sanders campaign is lobbying aggressively for those superdelegates, including in primary states he didn't win.
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Kerry calls Hiroshima tour 'gut-wrenching,' says all should visit
John Kerry became the first U.S. secretary of state to pay respects at Hiroshima's memorial to victims of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack.
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