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2016 presidential election

  • President Obama’s Brother Endorses Trump for President 

    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has reportedly secured the vote of President Barack Obama’s half brother, Malik Obama, Reuters reports. Malik Obama told Reuters that he supports Trump’s policies, particularly his focus on security, and he also likes the nominee’s straightforwardness. “He appeals to me, and also I think that he is down to earth…

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  • Loretta Lynch Officially Announces That DOJ Will Not Press Charges Against Hillary Clinton 

    Hillary Clinton will not face charges in the email scandal, Attorney General Loretta Lynch officially announced Wednesday evening, USA Today reports. The announcement came a day after FBI Director James Comey announced that while Clinton, the former secretary of state, and other State Department employees had been “extremely careless” in handling classified materials, there was…

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  • New York Times Book Review Publishes New Short Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    A new short story by your fave, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is slated to run on the cover of the New York Times Book Review’s July 4 weekend issue, according to a press release. Adichie, an award-winning writer—known for her works Americanah, Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, to name a select few—was commissioned to write the…

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  • Hillary Clinton Has Enough Delegates to Secure Democratic Nomination

    Hillary Clinton has secured commitments from the number of delegates she needs to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, the Associated Press reports. An AP count of pledged delegates and its survey of superdelegates show that Clinton has gained the overall support of 2,383 delegates, which is the number necessary to snatch the nomination. According to…

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