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BRITAIN: “Leave” Side Takes Lead In New Brexit Polls

Reuters reports: The campaign for Britain to leave the European Union has taken a 4-5 percentage point lead ahead of a June 23 referendum, according to online polls by ICM and YouGov, sending sterling toward three-week lows against the U.S. dollar. The swing toward “Out” with less than three weeks to go comes as both sides step up their campaigning …

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Hillary Slams Trump’s Racism In New Ad [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Hillary Clinton’s campaign unveiled its latest ad against Donald Trump on Monday, highlighting comments from notable Republicans publicly rebuking their party’s presumptive nominee for his comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel. The video opens with a clip of Trump’s interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper last Friday in which the Manhattan real-estate magnate rejected the notion that his criticism of …

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Media Accounts Get Hacked

At least they didn’t get his Facebook account. Via Gizmodo: First the hackers came for Katy Perry. Now they’ve come for someone who should know better than to use the same password on multiple sites: Mark Zuckerberg. Turns out he’s as dumb as the rest of us. Zuck’s Twitter and Pinterest (though, crucially, not Facebook) accounts were hacked over the …

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Bob The Drag Queen Promotes PrEP [VIDEO]

Via Pink News: The newest winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Bob the Drag Queen, is urging people to take the anti-HIV medication, PrEP. The Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) drug Truvada can reduce people’s chances of being infected with HIV by up to 99 percent, if taken daily. In the latest HIV Beats video by the #endHIV campaign, Bob says: “Oh hey! …

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Janet Porter Flops With “Nationwide” Target Protests

Anti-LGBT activist Janet Porter flopped with ReaganBook, she flopped in her bid for the Ohio Senate, and this weekend she flopped again as it appears that only a handful of Target stores saw protesters for her “nationwide” event on Saturday. At this writing I’m only finding news accounts of protests at three of Target’s 1782 locations. Two of those protests …

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John Oliver Forgives $15M In Medical Debt [VIDEO]

TIME reports: The debt-buying industry has lead to some unscrupulous practices among debt collectors and debt collection proceedings are clogging up courts across the country with lawsuits, the vast majority of which go unanswered. Many debt collectors also seem to have little respect for consumers and simply do whatever is necessary to make more money. So Oliver did the only …

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David French: I’m Not Running For President

In his own words at the National Review: Here is a sentence I never thought I’d type: After days of prayer, reflection, and serious study of the possibilities, I am not going to run as an independent candidate for president of the United States. I gave it serious thought — as a pretty darn obscure lawyer, writer, and veteran — …

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Hillary Wins Puerto Rico Primary [VIDEO]

The Associated Press reports: Hillary Clinton overwhelmed Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary on Sunday, putting her within striking distance of capturing her party’s nomination. After a blowout victory Saturday in the U.S. Virgin Islands and a decisive win in the U.S. territory, Clinton is now less than 30 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to win the …

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Sanders To Backers: Please, No More Violence [VIDEO]

From the Washington Post: Bernie Sanders made a direct appeal to supporters in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” imploring them not to engage in violence after a week in which protesters — some apparently loyal to the Democratic underdog — attacked Donald Trump backers in California. “Any person who is a Bernie Sanders supporter, …

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