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Sarah Wollaston: Ex-Conservative MP defects to the Liberal Democrats – Sky News

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The Liberal Democrats have gained another MP after former Conservative Sarah Wollaston joined their ranks. Her move brings the number of MPs representing parliament’s fourth-biggest party up to 14, following swiftly on from the recent election of Janet Dodds in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election. Dr Wollaston, chair of the influential Commons health select committee, said she was “delighted” to be joining a “fantastic team” which was “unequivocally making the case for us to remain at the heart of Europe”. Image: Wollaston was among the MPs who joined The Independent Group in February Welcoming her, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said the pair had “worked together for many months to fight to stop Brexit”. She added the party was “growing” and was the “strongest” option for Remainers. Dr Wollaston had defected with two other Tories , Heidi Allen and Anna Soubry, to The Independent Group in February. At the time, she used her speech to attack the...

City Museum taps former political candidate as sales boss – STLtoday.com

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AP Explains: Is the US Economy Nearing a Recession? – U.S. News & World Report

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Cuomo call for legislation to redefine domestic terrorism as ‘hate-inspired, mass murder by an American’ – New York Daily News

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‘Corey is a political hack’: Lewandowski Senate bid hits backlash in N.H. – POLITICO

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elections Republicans in the state fear Donald Trump will talk up a potential run by his bombastic former aide during a rally Thursday. President Donald Trump’s Thursday evening rally in Manchester, N.H., is ostensibly about ginning up support for his reelection campaign. But the state’s establishment GOP class is worried he’ll use the event to do something else: Talk up Corey Lewandowski’s potential 2020 Senate bid. Story Continued Below Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has relayed concerns about Trump’s controversial former campaign manager to party leadership. Tom Rath, a former New Hampshire attorney general and a prominent Republican in the state, says he’s “not a Corey fan.” Former GOP Sen. Judd Gregg took to the pages of New Hampshire’s biggest newspaper to deride Lewandowski as a “ thug .” And Dave Carney, a longtime New Hampshire-based strategist who’s worked on an array of statewide Republican campaigns, ...

AP Analysis: Moving to Make Immigration Whiter, Wealthier – U.S. News & World Report

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PolitiFact hammered for avoiding ruling on Warren, Harris claim Michael Brown was murdered – Fox News

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The fact-checking website PolitiFact again came under fire for alleged political bias Wednesday after it posted a bizarre article that refused to rule on whether Michael Brown was in fact “murdered” by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo. in 2014, as Democratic presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren falsely claimed last week. In the  article , headlined “The death of Michael Brown, legal facts and Democratic messaging,” PolitiFact correspondent Louis Jacobson acknowledged issues with Harris and Warren’s language, noting that a state grand jury had found Wilson’s use of force to be justifiable. Jacobson also observed that the  Obama administration’s Justice Department separately cleared Wilson of federal civil rights violations, saying “there is no credible evidence that Wilson willfully shot Brown as he was attempting to surrender or was otherwise not posing a threat.” The Obama DOJ additionally concluded that “sufficient credible evidence supports Wi...