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Anti-Trump Republican Evan McMullin announced he’s launching an independent presidential bid.
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Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer, he’s running as an independent for president in a last-ditch effort by anti-Trump Republicans to upend the nominee’s campaign. Donald Trump for the economy, including lowering taxes and providing more affordable childcare, in a policy speech at the Detroit Economic Club. A former aide to President W. Bush announced for Hillary Clinton,. Jury selection in the trial of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who was charged with perjury and obstruction, began. The family of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed against his Texas school district nearly a year after he was arrested for taking a clock he made to school, which teachers thought was a bomb.

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