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Barack Obama returning from summer vacation ready for busy fall

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President Barack Obama is returning from vacation rested and ready for a busy fall, including pressing Congress for money to protect against the Zika virus and fending off lawmakers’ attacks over the administration’s $400 million “leverage” payment to Iran. Obama also is expected to campaign doggedly to help elect Democrat Hillary Clinton as president. Obama was due at the White House late Sunday after a 16-day getaway to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha.…

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Marco Rubio to campaign with Mike Pence, while keeping distance from Donald Trump

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Marco Rubio is agreeing to appear with Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence, even as the Florida Senator and former presidential candidate keeps his distance from Donald Trump. ABC News reports that after several phone conversations, Pence and Rubio could begin campaigning in Florida within the next few weeks. After ending his presidential bid, Rubio is currently seeking re-election to the U.S. Senate. A statement from the Rubio campaign says that although “Marco has tremendous respect and admiration for Gov. Pence,” no…

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Donald Trump speech will focus on ‘foreign policy realism’

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Donald Trump will declare an end to nation-building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as ‘‘foreign policy realism’’ focused on destroying the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations. In a speech the Republican presidential nominee was scheduled to deliver Monday in Ohio, Trump will argue that the country needs to work with anyone who shares that mission, regardless of other ideological and strategic disagreements. Any country that wants to work with the United States to defeat ‘‘radical…

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Stephen Colbert to air live after Donald Trump – Hillary Clinton presidential debates

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Stephen Colbert, who capitalized on the political conventions with live airings of his late-night show, will do the same for the presidential and vice presidential debates. “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will air live on CBS after the scheduled Sept. 26 and Oct. 19 debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and following the Tim Kaine–Mike Pence debate Oct. 4, the network said Wednesday. Colbert, who is in his first-season transition from his Comedy Central series “The Colbert Report,”…

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Fun facts in the Facebook Lounge at the DNC

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Donald Trump gets more play on Facebook in Florida than Hillary Clinton. But Monica Lee, a data scientist with Facebook, emphasizes that, “we are not breaking this down into negative or positive comments.” That’s  just something I learned while dropping on the Facebook Lounge Thursday afternoon., which was set up at both national conventions this month for media groups to use to broadcast live video, though anybody in the conventions can come by and hang out on a lounge chair if…

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Parts of the Democratic bench get their close-up in Philadelphia

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Although it’s not much discussed much (and absolutely not at this week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia), one reason why Bernie Sanders was so successful this past year in his quixotic bid for president is that he became the only candidate challenging Hillary Clinton that had a message that resonated. But it’s not like there were that many Democrats who even attempted to run against her. That’s because, for the past four years, she’s been the establishment choice in the party, freezing out most…

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NRA ad claims Hillary Clinton is threat to gun rights

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The Latest on the Democratic National Convention (all times EDT): 7:45 p.m. On the same day Hillary Clinton is set to claim the Democratic presidential nomination, the National Rifle Association is coming out with an ad saying Americans’ “right to own a gun for self-defense is at risk in this election.” The group says it plans to begin airing the 30-second ad on Thursday. It features a rape victim who confronted President Barack Obama over gun right at a town…

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