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  • U.S. Politics

  Ted Cruz wants 'El Chapo' to pay for Trump's U.S.-Mexico wall

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  Ted Cruzmay have just found a way to pay forDonald Trump’s border wall. On Tuesday, the Texas Republican introduced a bill that proposes to use $14 …

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  • Audits

  After scathing UC audit, California leaders look to stop recent tuition hike

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  Some high-profile California politicians from both political parties are angrily asking the University of California to block or reverse its recent …

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  • United States

  Fossils suggest first Americans were in San Diego 130,000 years ago. Cue the 'Encino Man' jokes.

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  A cache of prehistoric fossils first discovered 25 years ago appear to suggest that the first humans to arrive or live in North America were, at one …

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  • World Politics

  Just how close was Trump to pulling U.S. out of NAFTA? This close.

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  President Donald Trump on Wednesday tempered his threat to pull the United States out of NAFTA after an eleventh-hour phone call with leaders from …

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  • U.S. Politics

  Four things Obama said are wrong with U.S. politics today

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  A lot has happened since Barack Obama left the White House, so it should surprise no one that in the former president’s return to the spotlight …

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  Does Ivanka Trump deserve to be booed for defending her father?

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  At a summit in Berlin Tuesday to discuss female entrepreneurship and empowerment, first daughter Ivanka Trumpfound herself defending her father as she …