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Not so fast: Defeated anti-Trump delegates vow trouble during the convention
There's been talk of some Trump foes walking out of the convention if they feel they've been treated unfairly, a spectacle top Republicans want to avoid. "Now is the time for our party to unite and focus our efforts on defeating Hillary Clinton and making America great again for all Americans". Graham has said he will not vote for Trump in November's election. [Full Article...]
Mike Pence: I accepted Trump's VP offer to stop Clinton
During the course of Pence's 900 or so words, Trump interrupted him quite often during the 2,160-word diatribe. In contrast Reagan, a Hollywood actor, was governor of California before he was elected president. Pence sidestepped and said , "I think this is a good man who's been talking about the issues the American people care about". Governor Mike Pence has certainly come across as a pos... [Full Article...]
Pokemon Go fans banned from playing the game at Auschwitz memorial
Players are also stalking the Arlington National Cemetery, the burial ground for the nation's war dead. As the players of " Pokemon Go " have to look for the characters of the game on the outside world, some places become instantly a PokeStop. [Full Article...]
Boos, jeers as Democratic convention opens
It was included in a news release headlined "Kaine Mutiny?" in which 88 percent of Sanders delegates responding deemed Clinton's choice unacceptable. "Bernie Sanders is about America and about making America a better place to live", Flores said . [Full Article...]
Funerals begin for Dallas police officers
Groups including the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana sued the Baton Rouge Police Department in federal court on Wednesday, alleging that police violated protesters' rights to freedom of speech and assembly guaranteed by the US Constitution's First Amendment. [Full Article...]
Alaska party spokesman: No plant in Sanders camp
Senator Bernie Sanders in his presidential primary battle with Hillary Clinton. Marcia Fudge , member of the US House of Representatives for Ohio's 11th congressional district, was announced on Sunday as a new convention chair. And of course Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, suggested that the Russian government was behind the hacking, in an apparent effort to help Donald Trump. [Full Article...]
For the Bernie Sanders Army, the Fight Isn't Over
Then, in New Hampshire, the Vermont senator trounced Clinton. At various moments, shouts of "Bernie! Bernie!" rang out during some speeches and hundreds of people in the packed out crowd wore Sanders campaign themed clothes. But the tension was on full display as the convention programs got underway. Mr Sanders said Mrs Clinton must be elected President based on her ideas and her leadership. [Full Article...]
Trump Blasts Ted Cruz for 'Not Honoring the Pledge' After Convention Speech
Speaking to the New York Times , Mr Trump said the U.S. would only come to the aid of allies if they fulfilled their obligations to America. Trump was introduced by his daughter Ivanka, who announced a childcare policy proposal that the campaign had not mentioned before. [Full Article...]
#NeverTrump Is Over, and Donald Trump Will Be the Republican Nominee
The movement to stop Donald Trump from gaining the Republican presidential nomination prior to the party's convention has been crushed by a vote. "This is not a sure thing for Donald Trump ". Trump", said one of the state's rules committee members, Christine Serrano-Glassner. But Trump opponents accuse Priebus and the campaign of ignoring the concerns of grass-roots activists and quickly cutt... [Full Article...]
Erratic winds fan fire near Los Angeles
On the ground, 900 firefighters battled the flames and the area's rugged terrain, with its steep hillsides and treacherous ravines. A drone was seen flying above flames, according to U.S. The fire has already destroyed more than a dozen structures. So far 18 residences were confirmed destroyed in the blaze that started Friday afternoon and quickly tore through drought-ravaged brush that hadn't... [Full Article...]
Trump takes lead over Clinton in two polls as Democrats' convention opens
Elizabeth Warren, on the ticket, as well as internal Democratic National Committee emails disclosed by WikiLeaks that suggested the party plotted to undermine Sanders during the primary. Sanders is expected to speak at the convention Monday night. "And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that", she said. Over the previous year, she has come under pressure from Sanders and his liberal support... [Full Article...]
Bavarian bomber pledged allegiance to Islamic State
After a Syrian refugee committed a suicide bombing in the southern German city of Ansbach on Sunday, the fourth terror attack in Germany in the course of one week, some German citizens are comparing their new reality with life in Israel. [Full Article...]
Elizabeth Warren takes center stage at DNC
During the Democratic primary campaign, those voters broke overwhelmingly for Bernie Sanders. And she called for Sanders supporters to get in line with Clinton. He said he intends to be arrested "a couple of times" during the convention. Sanders supporters were already dismayed last week when Clinton passed over liberal favorites like US Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA to select the more mode... [Full Article...]
California Delegates Converge In Philadelphia For DNC
Sanders delegate Nadine Gallagher of Oklahoma City said she still isn't comfortable supporting Clinton and said it remains to be seen who she will support in the general election. "Sanders, his supporters, and the entire Democratic Party for the inexcusable remarks made over email", the statement said. He said the Sanders campaign had not contacted his group to encourage them to not protest. [Full Article...]
Activists say 'All Lives Matter' misses the point
In another moment, she sent a text to her two young nephews to be mindful of how they act around police. In a comment to one of my friends on Facebook, I defended why individuals prefer to say "All Lives Matter". "It doesn't care about the 90 percent of blacks that are killed by other blacks". "If we're going to, in good faith, ask for our lives to stop being taken and for our blood to stop be... [Full Article...]
Marblehead resident heading to national GOP convention
The process for them to do so was to gain to the support of one quarter of the rules committee, but they fell far short of doing so. It's black outfits today for the mourners of the passing of the #NeverTrump movement. Night 4: Mr. Tebow; Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee; Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma; Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman; Gov. [Full Article...]
One killed, almost a dozen injured in Germany blast
Bavaria Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the man had tried to commit suicide twice before. The incident took place near an open-air music festival in Ansbach. Ansbach police could not immediately be reached for further comment. "Given the current evidence, there is no indication that this was a terrorist attack", a police statement said. [Full Article...]
Hundreds march in Seattle to protest police shootings
An estimated 200 people marched through downtown Seattle protesting fatal police shootings of black people. Those with darker skin, nonetheless, face significant social and economic constraints compared with whites in addition to a dramatically higher rate of conflicts with police. [Full Article...]
'He's the people's nominee' - Ivanka sings Donald Trumps' praises at Republican Convention
Mr Trump presented a bleak view of America under siege from illegal immigrants, threatened by Islamic State militants, hindered by crumbling infrastructure and weakened by unfair trade deals and race-related violence. When the crowd chanted "Lock her up!", he told them: "Let's defeat her in November". Trump went on to dispute, lengthily, Cruz's claims that the businessman insulted his wife and... [Full Article...]
RNC 2016: Republicans reject dump Trump effort
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's selection as the vice presidential nominee and Republicans' hatred of Hillary Clinton will bring most Republican voters to the polls to cast their ballots for Trump-Pence. Cuccinelli said he would win enough support - 28 of the rules committee's 112 members - to be allowed votes on several of his proposals by the full convention. [Full Article...]