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On Thursday, USA Today published an in-depth investigation into Donald Trump's 3,500 lawsuits from the last 30 years that revealed yet another area of inconsistency for the presumptive GOP nominee: paying his employees. In the last three decades, USA Today found that Trump has faced at least 60 lawsuits from people accusing him of "failing to pay them for their work," and more than 200 mechanics liens filed by contractors and employees against Trump allege that he owes them money. On top of that... Читать дальше...

Archaeologists may have finally solved the mystery of where Kublai Khan's legendary Yuan dynasty palace once stood. During underground renovations at the Palace Museum in Beijing, experts found "a 3-meter thick rammed earth and rubble foundation" that indicates part of the palace may have once stood where the museum is now located.

Shortly after earning the official endorsement of President Obama for president, Hillary Clinton marveled at how far they'd come since the days of their intense face-offs in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. "We went from being fierce competitors to true friends and I'm very grateful for this endorsement," Clinton told Politico in a phone interview Thursday.

Now this is some modern-day Sherlock Holmes-level sleuthing:

Based on his necktie, it appears Obama taped the Hillary Clinton endorsement on Tuesday (June 7) pic.twitter.com/VVcoKwU570

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 9, 2016

Like Cinderella's glass slipper links her to the ball, the tie links Obama to Tuesday — and, assuming Obama owns more than two ties, it's rather safe to say that the president had his Clinton endorsement ready to roll for awhile. Or at least well before he ever met with Bernie Sanders. Читать дальше...

On Thursday, Barack Obama offered his official endorsement of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president of the United States. "Look, I know how hard this job can be. That's why I know Hillary will be so good at it," Obama said, adding that he doesn't believe anyone has ever been so qualified as her to hold the executive office.

The powerful message a 23-year-old Stanford sexual assault survivor wrote to her accused rapist has been read by millions after it was published by BuzzFeed last week. On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden responded to the unnamed victim in an open letter, saying he was "filled with furious anger — both that this happened to you and that our culture is still so broken that you were ever put in the position of defending your own worth."

After meeting with President Obama at the White House on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told reporters that he looks "forward to meeting with [Hillary Clinton] in the near future to see how we can work together to defeat Donald Trump." The sit-down with Obama happened at Sanders' request, and the president was reportedly hoping to convince Sanders to wind down his campaign in a way that could help the Democratic Party unify around Clinton.

Donald Trump has boasted he will turn traditionally blue states red in November, claiming his campaign is "going to play heavy, as an example, in California." Trump also said his home state of New York could potentially flip for him, despite the fact that the Empire State hasn't voted for a Republican since 1984. But even as Hillary Clinton is well on her way to establishing teams in battleground states, Trump's campaign is still looking to be a rather bare-bones operation, according to sources who spoke with CNN:

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It's been a long election, and after more than a year of non-stop campaign coverage, it's hard to come up with new things to say about the minutiae of the 2016 race. At least, that seems to be the dilemma at CNN, which, while trying to cover the anticipated meeting Thursday between Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Obama at the White House, resorted to analyzing body language as the two walked down the famed colonnade:

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) responded to both President Obama's and Donald Trump's respective foreign policy agendas Thursday by unveiling House Republicans' national security plan. During a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, Ryan outlined the plan, which covers the Iran deal, U.S.-Cuba relations, and Russia — all issues Ryan said the Obama administration has inadequately addressed. The new agenda also offers an indirect rebuke of some of Trump's proposals, noting that the U.S. needs... Читать дальше...

People today may be more tech-savvy than ever before, but they're still not that good at coming up with passwords. The recent Twitter hack that uncovered the login info of more than 32 million users revealed that more than 120,000 of those users are still using the incredibly obvious password "123456."

The United States is less peaceful than 102 other nations and more peaceful than just 59, according to the 2016 Global Peace Index, a worldwide study conducted annually by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace.

Hillary Clinton admitted Wednesday that some donors to her family's nonprofit, the Clinton Foundation, may have "slipped through the cracks" in "one or two instances" of disclosure. Her comments came in response to Donald Trump's charge Tuesday that during Clinton's tenure at the State Department, "the Russians, the Saudis, and the Chinese all gave money to Bill and Hillary and got favorable treatment in return."

A mummified 2,500-year-old "Siberian ice maiden" is set to go on public display in a museum near her original burial site despite many who believe her body carries a dangerous curse.

Former Jeb Bush super PAC adviser Mike Murphy has a simple explanation for why the former Florida governor didn't survive in the 2016 presidential election: He just simply wasn't cut out for today's "Kardashian World."

President Obama is champing at the bit to get out and campaign for the Democratic nominee, as is abundantly clear in his new appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. "The role I'm going to be playing in this process is to remind the American people that this is a serious job. This is not reality TV," Obama said.

Boxer Muhammad Ali's Muslim funeral service Thursday is an event 10 years in the making. Long before news broke last Friday that the boxing great had died at age 74 of septic shock, Reuters reports that his family, as well as Ali, were already planning a funeral that would honor his Muslim faith.

As Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders' fight for the Democratic nomination winds toward a close, the pair of candidates leaves behind them a surprisingly friendly primary — perhaps the most gracious ever, at least in terms advertisements. According to Kantar Media, of the 206,528 ad spots Clinton and Sanders aired between them this year, not a single one was determined by analysts to be "negative."

If President Obama wants to successfully encourage Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to support Hillary Clinton, he's going to have to word his pitch very carefully. Politico reports Sanders supporters are already bristling at the suggestion that Obama might try to push Sanders "to end the fight prematurely" in their meeting Thursday. "The president is not Senator Sanders' boss. We've got to get this straight here," Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator and a Sanders supporter, told Politico. "There's respect that's for the commander in chief .

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 18,000 on Wednesday, as rising oil prices hit their highest point in nearly a year and helped push all three major stock indexes to their highest levels in months. Mining and machinery companies led the way on the third straight day of gains. Global stocks sank on Thursday, however, as investors sought safer investments and pushed European government bond yields to record lows. Stock futures pointed to a lower open in the U.S.

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President Obama is meeting with Bernie Sanders on Thursday, and White House aides say Obama will nudge him to get behind Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee. Sanders, who says he will keep fighting into the July convention, is facing mounting pressure to drop out — two of his top supporters in Congress joined other Democrats on Wednesday in urging him to end his campaign now that Clinton has the delegates she needs to lock up the nomination. "We have our nominee," said Sen. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump's frenemy number one is without a doubt former Florida congressman and Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough — at one time accused of being dangerously friendly with Trump, but now happy to reveal the deeply vulnerable side of America's foremost "bully."

"There's nobody hated more in this nation than Christians," Pastor Richie Clendensen said in her sermon at the Christian Fellowship Church in Benton, Kentucky, on Sunday, according to Rachel Zoll at The Associated Press. "Welcome to America's most wanted: You." Clendensen's sentiments are broadly shared by America's evangelical Christians, who have seen their influence and political clout shrink dramatically in the past 12 years, most visibly on same-sex marriage. But that's just the latest wedge... Читать дальше...

Bernie Sanders is meeting President Obama in the White House on Thursday, then Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and holding a campaign rally at RFK Stadium ahead of next Tuesday's Washington, D.C., primary. At the White House meeting, which Sanders requested, Obama will gently and respectfully prod Sanders toward recognizing Hillary Clinton's victory, and harnessing his campaign to support her and defeat Donald Trump, the White House said.

You asked for this, Republicans.

Did you really think that Donald Trump was going to "pivot" to something? Did you really think you could "manage" him? Did you really think he would suddenly turn into Mitt Romney once he got 1,237 delegates? It's the classic trick: The mark has to think that he's in on the con.

Remember when racism in politics was about "dog whistles"? Everyone is acting as though Trump has crossed some invisible line by saying that a Latino American citizen who... Читать дальше...