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Newsweek: Puerto Rico and Clinton's popular-vote dreams

Can Puerto Rico fulfill Hillary Clinton'ss dreams of being the winner of the popular vote? (The math says, "No We Can't.")

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Records shed light on career of McCain's father

This Sept. 2, 1945 black-and-white file photo provided by the McCain Presidential Campaign shows Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain's father and grandfather on the bridge of the submarine tender USS Proteus, in Tokyo Bay a few hours after WWII had ended. It was the last time father and son saw each other. The son was 34 and a submarine commander. His crew had just brought a surrendered Japanese sub into the bar. His father had just relinquished command of a carrier task force and had attended the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri that morning. He died of a heart attack several days later. After a youthful indiscretion/elopement, John S. McCain Jr.'s papers show his path quickly straightened out, and he went on to earn the same four-star rank as his illustrious father, Adm. John S. "Slew" McCain Sr.


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Top Dems push for quick end to campaign

A top Democrat says that party leaders intend to push for a quick end to the grueling presidential nomination battle, as supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton planned a rally in Washington in a last-minute effort to save her faltering candidacy.

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McCain starts defining Obama

In this May 19, 2008, file photo Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., talking with  reporters during a news conference in Savannah, Ga., accused Democrat Barack Obama of inexperience and reckless judgment for saying Iran does not pose the same serious threat to the United States as the Soviet Union did in its day. The Republican nominee-in-waiting is increasingly uttering campaign trail criticisms of his expected Democratic rival, and did so again late Wednesday, May 28. Who is Barack Obama? John McCain will happily tell you — his version.


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NYT: McCain's path from Navy to D.C.

** FILE ** This photo provided by the Library of Congress shows John McCain, front right, with his squadron in 1965. McCain, a former Navy fighter pilot, was captured by the Vietnamese, tortured and imprisoned for more than five years. He was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross Medal, Prisoner of War (POW) Medal. (AP Photo/Library of Congress, File)  ** NO SALES **In John McCain’s quick transition from prisoner of war to politician, a turning point was the year 1981, when he turned down an admiral’s star to make a run for Congress.


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