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Sanders touts Clinton in surprise visit to NY delegates
ET., which is expected to culminate when the delegates officially nominate Hillary Clinton as their party's nominee for president. I was involved in voter registration. "As Party Chair, this week I will open and close the Convention and I will address our delegates about the stakes involved in this election not only for Democrats, but for all Americans", Wasserman Schultz added. [Full Article...]
North Miami Cop Was Aiming At Autistic Man, Not Charles Kinsey
A high-ranking officer, Commander Emile Hollant , has been suspended for apparently making conflicting statements about the shooting to investigators. City officials identified Alleda Friday during a press conference. Like Becerra's son, he said people with autism often flap their hands when upset or repeat words that have been spoken to them. [Full Article...]
Not so fast: Defeated anti-Trump delegates vow trouble during the convention

Mike Pence: I accepted Trump's VP offer to stop Clinton

Pokemon Go fans banned from playing the game at Auschwitz memorial

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

Trump Blasts Ted Cruz for 'Not Honoring the Pledge' After Convention Speech

#NeverTrump Is Over, and Donald Trump Will Be the Republican Nominee

Erratic winds fan fire near Los Angeles

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

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...]