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Paul Ryan: ‘I do not want to be considered’ for president

The House speaker will address calls for him to seek the presidency.

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Bernie Sanders and his boosters are intensifying their courtship of convention delegates who could determine the winner of the Democratic nomination this year, prompting some party leaders and supporters of front-runner Hillary Clinton to claim harassment.
The House speaker sought to end speculation about the prospect that he could usurp the presidential nomination from the remaining Republican candidates.
Responding to backlash against the state’s new law banning anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people, he signed an executive order that he said “expanded” employment policy to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Matthew Heimbach is 25, college educated and "infected with this hatred," a former teacher said. For those who have been tracking his rise, the video raised new worries.
The astrophysicist and a Russian tycoon are putting $100 million toward Breakthrough Starshot, which will develop a light-propelled nanocraft to explore to our nearest star system.
Andy Beshear said Gov. Matt Bevin violated state laws when he cut $41 million from eight public universities and 16 community colleges.
More than 200 women have filed briefs to the justices detailing how ending their pregnancies changed their lives.
Hillary Clinton uses a misleading measure of trafficked guns to blast her opponent.
Zipcodes in New York, Washington, D.C., and the Bay Area were particularly well-represented — cities that the writer, Charles Murray, calls the “power centers of contemporary America.”
Lola was only a mutt adopted from a shelter. But her owners want the Georgia Supreme Court to declare that the dog, who died after a stay in a kennel, wasn't worthless.
Melissa Fitzgerald made the rare Hollywood-to-D.C. shift to work in veterans advocacy.
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