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UN Human Rights Chief: Donald Trump ‘Dangerous’

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, a Jordanian prince who is also the head of the UN Human Rights Council, said Wednesday that U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would be “dangerous from an international point of view.”

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty)

Twitter Blocks James O’Keefe Before Big Release

Twitter blocked conservative journalist James O’Keefe’s account on Wednesday evening, shortly after he tweeted that he was about to release new video about a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

James O'Keefe (Chip Somodevilla / Getty)

Wikileaks: John Harwood Boasted of Goading Trump at Debate

John Harwood of CNBC and The New York Times, who moderated one of the early Republican presidential primary debates, was not only supportive of Hillary Clinton, but boasted to Clinton campaign chair John Podesta about goading Donald Trump at the debate, according to new emails released Tuesday by Wikileaks.

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Wikileaks: Netanyahu Prefers Hillary — to Obama, not Trump

Hillary Clinton supporters are eagerly circulating a leaked email from last week’s Wikileaks release — a message from former Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat detailing a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which the Israeli leader said that she is “more instinctively sympathetic to Israel than the White House.”

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Rohrabacher Blasts Paul Ryan, GOP Leaders as ‘Cowardly’

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said Monday that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was “cowardly” for announcing that he would not defend Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and would not campaign for his election.

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Wikileaks: Debate Moderator John Harwood Emailed Podesta — Often

John Harwood of CNBC and the New York Times, who moderated one of the Republican presidential primary debates last year, corresponded often with Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, even congratulating her on primary wins, according to emails released by Wikileaks.

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Vegas Fight Night: Third Presidential Debate Will Be Decisive

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bounced back in the second presidential debate Sunday, hammering Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and setting up a decisive third debate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas next Wednesday night.

Donald Trump debate finger (Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty)

CNN, NBC Use Bogus ‘Fact Check’ to Cover for Hillary Clinton on Email Scandal

CNN and NBC both attempted to “fact check” claims made during the second presidential debate about Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, particularly Donald Trump’s claims that she tried to “acid wash” 33,000 emails on her secret private server. And both networks did their best to cover up for Clinton — laughably so.

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Second Debate: CNN Can’t Stop Talking About Breitbart News

Breitbart News was very much on the minds of CNN’s political commentators at Sunday night’s second presidential debate, with senior correspondents describing Donald Trump as having used a “Breitbart strategy” to rebound from the first debate.

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Donald Trump Wins Second Debate; CNN Says It Doesn’t Matter

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was the clear winner of Sunday night’s second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis. However, media commentators, reacting to Trump’s win, said it would not matter.

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NBC’s Chuck Todd: ‘The Presidential Race Is Over’

Chuck Todd, political director of NBC News, reported during Saturday’s broadcast of NBC Nightly News that the presidential race is “over,” that Donald Trump has lost to Hillary Clinton, and the Republican Party can only minimize the damage at best.

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Second Presidential Debate: Five Questions to Expect

Here are five questions that both Trump and Clinton should expect to field, either from the moderators or — in some form — from the participants in the town hall, whose questions will be pre-screened.

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Lawsuit Claims Yahoo’s Marissa Meyer Led ‘Purge’ of Male Employees

A federal lawsuit filed this week by Scott Ard, editor-in-chief of the Silicon Valley Business Journal, claims that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led an illegal “purge” of male employees from the company. Two other female executives are also named as defendants in the suit.

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Loretta Sanchez Does the ‘Dab’ on Kamala Harris at Senate Debate

Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) did the “dab” dance move at the end of her closing statement in Wednesday evening’s debate against California Attorney General Kamala Harris. The two are vying for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA).

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Breitbart/Gravis Poll: Voters Reject Obama’s Internet Surrender

A new Breitbart/Gravis poll released Wednesday shows that more than two-thirds of registered voters oppose President Barack Obama’s surrender of control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to a multi-stakeholder group that includes foreign governments.

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Activists Sue Religious Jews over ‘Kapparot’ Chicken Ritual

Animal rights activists are suing religious Jews in Irvine to stop the tradition of kapparot, an annual ritual in some Jewish communities in which chickens are waved in the air, slaughtered and donated to the poor as atonement for sin in preparation for Yom Kippur.

Kapparot (Jack Guez / AFP / Getty)

Jerry Brown Signs Law to Stop (Only) Anti-Muslim Bullying

Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2845, the Safe Place to Learn Act, which seeks to protect students from anti-Muslim bullying — and no other kind of bullying based on religion.

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