Unconventional #1: The GOP’s veep problem, Cruz’s scheme to sink Trump in California, Sanders’ strange superdelegate shift (and more!) Posted: 12 Apr 2016 11:34 AM PDT Unconventional is Yahoo News' guide to the ins and outs of this year's crazy presidential conventions. The GOP's 2016 "veepstakes" is likely to be weirder than anything we've seen before. If none of the candidates arrive at the convention in Cleveland with a majority of delegates (for the first time since 1984) and no candidate manages to cobble together a majority on the first ballot either (for the first time since 1952), it will means chaos, maneuvering and multiple rounds of presidential balloting — which in turn almost guarantees that the GOP's 2016 vice presidential candidate will be chosen in one of five very odd ways.
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Trump, Clinton hold double-digit leads in New York Posted: 12 Apr 2016 06:43 AM PDT The frontrunners maintain large leads heading into their respective New York primaries next week, recent polls show. According to the results of a NY1/Baruch College poll released Monday, Trump has a commanding 43-point lead in his home state, with 60 percent support among likely GOP primary voters compared to just 17 percent for Ohio Gov. John Kasich and 14 percent for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. A new NBC/WSJ/Marist survey also released Monday shows the real estate mogul leading Kasich by 33 points (54 percent to 21 percent) and Cruz (18 percent) by 36.
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North Carolina softens anti-transgender law Posted: 12 Apr 2016 02:52 PM PDT The state moved to curtail a law targeting gay and transgender people, but stopped short of ending limits to public bathroom access.
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Flint's latest conundrum? Too little water being used Posted: 12 Apr 2016 03:02 PM PDT Flint residents have grown accustomed to using bottled water and avoiding the faucet.
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House Speaker Ryan rules out presidential bid Posted: 12 Apr 2016 12:31 PM PDT He tells the GOP, "Count me out."
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Obama gives U.S. women’s soccer an assist in pay dispute Posted: 12 Apr 2016 01:14 PM PDT Barack Obama welcomes the U.S. Women's National Team to the White House last year. Barack Obama welcomed the U.S. women's soccer team to the White House to celebrate their World Cup championship, saying they had achieved "payback" for prior defeats. On Wednesday, he waded into the battle over the considerable difference in pay between men and women players.
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N. Koreans: Brutal work abroad better than life back home Posted: 12 Apr 2016 12:18 AM PDT One North Korean who worked abroad says that as a waitress in China, she was forced to put up with male customers who groped her and tried to get her drunk. Two others recall the frozen bodies of their ...
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Democrats look for political advantage on Equal Pay Day Posted: 12 Apr 2016 12:23 AM PDT Tuesday marks Equal Pay Day, a symbolic event dramatizing how much longer it takes a woman to earn as much as a man — and an annual opportunity for Democrats to lambast Republicans for inaction on the ...
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Music producer David Gest dies in London at 62 Posted: 12 Apr 2016 02:16 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — David Gest, a music producer, reality TV star and former husband of Liza Minnelli, was found dead Tuesday at a London hotel. He was 62.
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Democracy Spring protests at the Capitol Posted: ![Democracy Spring protests at the Capitol Democracy Spring protests at the Capitol](http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QkyKl5DWLkiCvRU_eiI63A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PTEzMA--/http://40.media.tumblr.com/650457e52d06fc721ead184e38ba04ca/tumblr_inline_o5it2crKmA1tdnzlz_1280.jpg) Voting rights reform demonstrators stage a sit-in at the Capitol, in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2016, urging lawmakers to take money out of the political process. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) |
The Mysterious 28 Pages on 9/11 That Everyone’s Talking About Posted: 12 Apr 2016 03:15 AM PDT The White House is coming under renewed pressure to declassify 28 pages of a congressional report on the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackings before President Obama leaves office next year. The debate over the pages, which allegedly indicates that the 19 Saudi Arabian nationals who carried out the deadly attacks received some kind of support from the government in Riyadh, has ebbed and flowed ever since the report was published in 2002. The controversy has flared up again ahead of President Obama's upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia for an April 21 summit with the Gulf Cooperation Council.
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