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Donald Trump Wins Arkansas, Ted Cruz Takes Second

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump won Arkansas on Super Tuesday, a state where he was neck and neck in the polls with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). KATV and the Associated Press declared Trump the winner at roughly 35 percent of the vote. Sen.

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Arsonist Allegedly Targets Bill Clinton’s Birthplace

Police in Hope, Arkansas, believe an arsonist set fire to former President Bill Clinton’s childhood home on Friday. According to Hope Police Department Chief J.R. Wilson, early Friday morning a motorist spotted the fire at the Clinton Birthplace National Historic Site.

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More States Move to End Federal Flow of Funds to Planned Parenthood

Despite the Obama administration’s threat against terminating federal funding of Planned Parenthood, more states are cutting Medicaid funds to the nation’s largest abortion provider following videos that have exposed top medical directors of the organization engaged in the harvesting of body parts of aborted babies for potential sale to biomedical companies.

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AR Man Arrested for Allegedly Bilking $592k from Feeding Program

On Wednesday, in Little Rock, an Arkansas man was arrested for fleecing a government summer feeding program out of hundreds of thousands of dollars meant to feed hungry children. A U.S. district court stated that Michael R. Lee, 24, bilked the Arkansas Department of Human Services out of $592,041.

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Duggars Clarify Sexual Abuse Allegations, Family Did Go to Police

On Wednesday, Fox News’s Megyn Kelly exclusively interviewed the Duggars—an Arkansas family that rose to national fame in 2004 with a television show on TLC, “19 Kids and Counting.” But the family has been in the news recently after a tabloid released a sealed police report, revealing sexual abuse allegations within the family.

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Media Fail: Arkansas Passes Religious Liberty Bill

A religious liberty bill similar to the one causing a phony uproar in Indiana this week was just passed by Arkansas lawmakers Tuesday and serves as yet another sign of the left-wing mainstream media’s waning power to intimidate and bully.

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Arkansas Follows Indiana, Approves Religious Liberty Bill

Despite the criticism surrounding Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s religious liberty law, lawmakers in Arkansas just passed a similar bill. On the other hand, lawmakers in both North Carolina and Georgia are on the defensive about their own pending religious liberty legislation.

The Post reported that a similar measure in North Carolina would “make no sense,” according to Gov. Pat McCrory who made the statement during a radio interview and added he would not sign any such legislation.

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