Boehner backs Trump despite policy disagreements
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former House Speaker John Boehner is getting behind Donald Trump, despite disagreeing with Trump's stands on banning Muslims from entering the United States, tearing up trade deals and other issues. Boehner says the billionaire businessman is the presumptive Republican nominee for president - "whether people like it or not." And Boehner is…
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Zimmerman gun appears to have been removed from auction website
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) - An online auction for the gun that former Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin appeared to have been halted Thursday, with the weapon's listing removed from the auction site. It was not immediately clear why the website, GunBroker.com, took down the listing. The…
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Federal judge rules in favor of Missouri Planned Parenthood
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A federal judge has ruled in favor of a Columbia, Missouri, Planned Parenthood clinic after the state tried to revoke its abortion license. U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey in a Wednesday ruling said the Department of Health and Senior Services likely bowed to political pressure and unfairly revoked the clinic's…
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Top Obama aide pushes diversity in national security corps
Susan Rice says minorities still make up less than a fifth of senior U.S. diplomats, and less than 15 percent of top military and intelligence officials
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Sanders won West Virginia primary but still trails Clinton
Sanders still needs to win 66 percent of the remaining primary and caucus delegates if he hopes to close the deficit
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