Hillary fights two battles as Bernie wins another Democratic primary
Hillary
Clinton lost West Virginia Tuesday night to rival Bernie Sanders,
continuing her slog through the Democratic primary even as she spent the
past week fending off attacks from presumptive GOP nominee Donald
Trump. The former secretary of state has a near-lock on the Democratic
nomination, but continues to lose states to Sanders, who hammers on her
as a creature of Wall Street at his rallies that still draw thousands of
supporters. Trump, meanwhile, now clear of any GOP rivals, has spent
the past week directing all his considerable fire at her.Read More ...
Key Republicans swing behind Trump; he takes 2 primaries
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Key Senate Republicans voiced optimism Tuesday about Donald
Trump's presidential prospects in November, the clearest signal yet to
the GOP rank and file to unite behind him and turn their energy against
Democrat Hillary Clinton. But it was uncertain whether the doubters
could be quieted.Read More ...
Warrant: Minnesota doctor saw Prince, prescribed drugs
A
Minnesota doctor saw Prince twice in the month before his death —
including the day before he died — and prescribed him medication,
according to contents of a search warrant that were revealed Tuesday ...Read More ...
'Database error' mistakenly includes white nationalist on Trump list of Calif. delegates
LOS
ANGELES (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign said Tuesday that a computer
problem resulted in a prominent white nationalist being mistakenly
included on a list of his potential California delegates, an
embarrassment for a candidate who has been criticized before for being
too slow to distance himself from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.Read More ...
16 West Point cadets in raised-fist photo won't be punished
NEW
YORK (AP) — Sixteen black West Point cadets who posed with raised fists
for a pre-graduation picture that sparked debates on race and proper
behavior in uniform won't be punished for the gesture, the U.S. Military
Academy said Tuesday.Read More ...
3 dead including suspect in stabbing attacks at mall, home
Two
people were killed and four others wounded in stabbing attacks at a
home and a shopping mall in Massachusetts before an off-duty law
enforcement officer shot and killed the suspect, authorities said. ...Read More ...
The best, worst and most awkward moments from the 2016 Republican primary
The battle for the GOP presidential nomination had no shortage of strange exchanges. Perhaps not surprisingly, more than a few of them involved Jeb Bush.
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Facebook denies anti-conservative bias, censorship
Facebook
on Tuesday denied allegations that it scrubs its site of news articles
by and about political conservatives, amid outrage over the claims. "I'd
come on shift and I'd discover that CPAC (Conservative Political Action
Conference) or (former presidential candidate) Mitt Romney or (radio
talk show host) Glenn Beck or popular conservative topics wouldn't be
trending because either the curator didn't recognize the news topic or
it was like they had a bias," the individual told Gizmodo anonymously.Read More ...
Jon Stewart: Donald Trump ‘is a man-baby’
Jon Stewart had the pulpit of “The Daily Show” to satirize the rise of Donald Trump. “Are you eligible to run if you are a man-baby?” Stewart asked David Axelrod during a live taping of Axelrod’s podcast, “The Axe Files,” in Chicago on Monday. "When I watch her campaign, it reminds me of … Magic Johnson’s talk show,” Stewart said, referring to the NBA Hall of Famer’s short-lived stint on syndicated television.
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Report: Bullying is a serious public health problem
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Zero-tolerance policies are ineffective in combating bullying,
an independent government advisory group says in urging schools to take a
more preventative approach that includes teaching tolerance to address
this "serious public health problem."Read More ...
Utah's First-in-Nation Fetal Pain Law Perplexes Doctors
Utah's first-in-the-nation requirement that fetuses receive anesthesia or painkillers before some abortions has taken effect, but doctors say it's unnecessary and impossible to comply with
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Amazon Is Going to Battle With YouTube
YouTube's large userbase and vibrant creator culture will be tough to overcomeRead More ...
Obama to make historic visit to Hiroshima
President
Obama will visit Hiroshima when he travels to Japan this month for a
summit of key industrialized nations, the White House announced Tuesday.
It will be the first visit to the city by a sitting president since
World War II, but the Obama administration said he will not apologize
for the decision to destroy that city with an atomic bomb. “He will not
revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb at the end of World War II.
Instead, he will offer a forward-looking vision focused on our shared
future,” explained Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser.Read More ...
Has the U.S. abandoned American Robert Levinson in Iran?
The author of a new book on Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who has been missing in Iran since 2007, says the U.S. government is covering up evidence about the role Iranian intelligence officials played in apprehending him and likely holding him captive for the past nine years.
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Canadian oil production trickles back as wildfire threat eases
By
Liz Hampton and Nia Williams EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) - Oil sands
companies around the Canadian energy center of Fort McMurray began to
restart operations on Tuesday after an out-of-control wildfire forced a
week-long shutdown. Top provincial and industry officials said
production in much of the region should ramp up soon. Facilities north
of Fort McMurray that had been shuttered largely because of heavy smoke
rather than fire were seen as likely to come back on line in a matter of
days in many cases.Read More ...
Study: No scientific basis for laws on marijuana and driving
Six
states that allow marijuana use legal tests to determine driving while
impaired by the drug that have no scientific basis, according to a study
by the nation’s largest automobile club that calls for scrapping those
laws. The study commissioned by AAA’s safety foundation said it’s not
possible to set a blood-test threshold for THC, the chemical in
marijuana that makes people high, that can reliably determine
impairment. As a result, drivers who are unsafe may be going free while
others may be wrongly convicted, the foundation said.Read More ...
London mayor slams Trump's 'ignorant' view of Islam
LONDON
(AP) — London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump's
"ignorant" view of Islam, after the Republican presidential contender
suggested Khan could be exempted from a proposed temporary ban on
Muslims entering the United States.Read More ...
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