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Hillary Clinton Phones In Sympathies to Louisiana Flood Victims

Several hours after GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence began their tour on the ground of the flood ravaged state of Louisiana, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton literally phoned it in from an unknown location … other than Louisiana.

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Trump Arrives in Louisiana to Tour Flood Damage

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Friday morning to tour the flood damaged state where at least 13 have been killed and 30,000 have been forced to leave their homes.

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Brother Informed FBI About Iranian Refugee Who Joined ISIS

Dr. Jabbar Fazeli told the Bangor Daily News on Wednesday that he informed the FBI in 2014 that his brother Adnan, an Iranian refugee resettled in the United States by the federal government in 2008, had returned to the Middle East to fight for ISIS.

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U.S. Government-Accepted Iranian Refugee Joined ISIS Army

A man who was certified by the U.S. government as an official refugee, and who was supported by a taxpayer-funded group to settle in the United States, flew out of the United States in 2013 to join the ISIS Islamic army.

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Utah May Be in Play as Prominent Mormons Oppose Trump

Utah has not voted for a Democratic candidate for president since 1964, when Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater there by a 55 percent to 45 percent margin, on his way to a 486 to 52 Electoral College landslide.

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Early Trump Backer DesJarlais Wins GOP Congressional Primary

With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, DesJarlais beat Starrett 52 percent to 43 percent. For DesJarlais, who won a 2014 primary challenge from State Senator Jim Tracy by less than 100 votes, the nine percent margin over Starrett was not a nail-biter.

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Revolving Door Sends Millions to Refugee Resettlement Agency Run by Former Clinton and Obama Appointees

A revolving door in the Democratic administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama has sent millions of dollars in federal funding to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants [USCRI], which is led by two former directors of the Office of Refugee Resettlement [ORR], the federal office that selects the voluntary agencies [VOLAGs] who get lucrative federal contracts to resettle refugees.

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Multi-Drug Resistant TB Spikes 75 Percent in Massachusetts

The number of cases of very dangerous, multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) reported in Massachusetts spiked 75 percent in 2015, to seven cases, up from four in 2014, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

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Howard Dean Revives the ‘Dean Scream’ for Hillary at DNC

Howard Dean, the physician, former governor of Vermont, and failed presidential candidate, replayed his infamous “Dean Scream” — that effectively ended his president run in 2004 — to encourage the delegates at the Democratic National Convention to help make Hillary Clinton president.

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Elizabeth Warren Delivers Anti-Trump Tirade at DNC

“The system is rigged,” Elizabeth Warren claimed, sticking to her stump speech, ignoring news of the “rigging” of the Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton over Sen. Bernie Sanders exposed in the Wikileaks of 20,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee.

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City of Cleveland a Big Winner from GOP Convention

CLEVELAND, Ohio–Who knew Cleveland was cool?

The day after the Republican National Convention ended with GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump emerging as the clear political winner, many of the 50,000 visitors who attended the event are leaving with a positive impression of another winner: the city of Cleveland itself.

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6,000 Police Officers From 13 States, D.C., Guarded GOP Convention in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio–Two thousand five hundred police officers from more than a dozen states joined five hundred of Cleveland’s finest and three thousand federal law enforcement officers to provide security at the Republican National Convention here this week, according to local media reports.

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‘Torchbearer’ Starring Duck Commander Phil Robertson Debuts at RNC in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Torchbearer, a film about the need for Christians to engage in “spiritual warfare” and fight political battles in a time when America faces an existential crisis, debuted domestically at a special screening held here on Thursday, the fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention.

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Since 2010, Refugees Have Not Been Screened for HIV Prior to Arrival in US

Even though all refugees are encouraged to participate in an initial domestic medical screening that does include HIV testing within 90 days of entering the country, no one knows how many HIV positive refugees have arrived in the United States in the subsequent six and a half years, since participation in these screenings is voluntary and a significant percentage of refugees simply choose not to be screened.

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Club for Growth Lauds Trump for Selecting Pence as VP

“Mike Pence would be an outstanding Vice-President,” Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in a statement after Trump tweeted that he has selected the Republican governor from Indiana as his running mate. Until now, the Club has been one of the real estate billionaire’s fiercest critics.

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Three Foreign-Born Cases of Multi-Drug Resistant TB in Nashville, Tennessee

All told, in the six years between 2010 and 2015, seven cases of MDR TB were diagnosed in the state of Tennessee, including the three Nashville cases. The Tennessee Department of Health confirms that two of these seven cases of MDR TB were refugees, four were foreign-born but not refugees, and one was U.S.-born.

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Six Refugees in Wisconsin Diagnosed with Multi-Drug Resistant TB Since 2014

As Breitbart News reported previously, twenty-one additional refugees in Wisconsin were diagnosed with active TB during the same time period, making the Badger State the refugee TB capital of the country, at least among the handful of states that have so far reported that data.

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Colorado Increases Number of Refugees Diagnosed With Active TB to Sixteen

The admission comes one month after Breitbart News reported ten recently arrived refugees in Colorado were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB). Between 2011 and 2014, 16 out of 7,754 refugees were diagnosed with active TB at the time of their initial medical screening.

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Tennessee State Legislator Sues AG Over Investigation

NASHVILLE, Tennessee–State Representative Jeremy Durham (R-Franklin) is suing Tennessee Attorney General Herb Slatery and Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) over an ongoing investigation into conduct he says is not legally authorized.

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Vermont Admits Seventeen Refugees Diagnosed With Active TB

That brings the total of refugees the Vermont Department of Health now admits have been diagnosed with active TB between 2003 and June 30, 2016 to seventeen. Since only 6,300 refugees have arrived in Vermont over the past twenty-five years, these new statistics reveal a third-world level of active TB among the refugees currently residing in the Green Mountain State.

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