Friday, June 10, 2016

Friday's Headlines: Trump doesn’t have a national campaign. So the GOP is trying to run one for him.

At Romney summit, anti-Trump Republicans ponder party's future; Top Democrats line up to support Clinton as Sanders hints at exit; Warren to meet with Clinton this morning, fueling VP speculation; 'We're horrified': At Stanford, the impact of a sexual assault is searing; After more than $1.6 billion in U.S. aid, Iraq's army still struggles;
 
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Trump doesn't have a national campaign. So the GOP is trying to run one for him.
The Trump campaign has yet to build out its headquarters or national staff, ending the primaries with just 70 employees compared with 732 on the payroll for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. His backstop is the Republican Party.
At Romney summit, anti-Trump Republicans ponder party's future
Romney's guests also include some Trump allies, such as Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
 
Top Democrats line up to support Clinton as Sanders hints at exit
President Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorsed Hillary Clinton, efforts aimed at unifying the Democratic Party around its presumed nominee.
 
Warren to meet with Clinton this morning, fueling VP speculation
Scoop: Clinton and Warren meeting is a big deal.
 
'We're horrified': At Stanford, the impact of a sexual assault is searing
The sentence for Brock Turner riveted the country this week. On Stanford University's campus in the days before commencement, the case overshadowed everything.
 
After more than $1.6 billion in U.S. aid, Iraq's army still struggles
Two years after the Islamic State seized Mosul, many of the military's problems remain chronic and threaten to undermine even the narrowly focused goals of the U.S. and allied training effort.
 
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In the matter of Paul Ryan
 
Don't listen to GOP leaders. The economy's not so bad.
 
The party of Lincoln is dying
 
Here's why Trump's foreign policy terrifies neocons
 
As Euro 2016 kicks off, France grapples with race on the soccer field
 
What's Trump hiding by refusing to release his tax returns? Here are some ideas.
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Official: U.S. to start strikes on Taliban, advise regular Afghan soldiers again
After recommendations from the new top U.S. general in Afghanistan, American forces will soon be able to conduct airstrikes on the Taliban and once more accompany conventional Afghan troops on missions, according to a Pentagon official.
$1,300 to take one test? Medical students are fed up.
Medical students have a median debt of $180,000, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, and some are questioning the expensive steps they must take to become physicians.
Facing crime wave, Brazil to deploy 85,000 soldiers and police to guard Olympics
Just two months before Rio hosts the Olympics, a dramatic increase in violent crime and street robberies are causing anguish among residents.
A woman's desperate email reveals the high toll of Obama's low-cost wars
As one deadly bombing in Iraq shows, even the most surgical of strikes can result in unintended consequences.
Who wrote that op-ed? The New York Times isn't sure.
The newspaper has sparked an international incident by publishing an op-ed article about South Sudan under the byline of a foreign official who never agreed to it, according to his supporters.
How a scorned industry of lenders plans to keep the 400 percent loan around
As regulators try to crack down on payday lending, some of the biggest firms are eyeing longer-term loans with similarly high interest rates or thinking of ways to take business from smaller companies.
Trump stacks up pretty well against American literature's fictional dictators
COLUMN | Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here" and Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" anticipate a Trump-like leader -- and challenge how we would respond.
 
     
 
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