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She Was Raped at 22. As a Rape Survivor, she speaks out.

Oct. 22, 2007, when Amanda Collins was just 22 years old, her life would change forever. “I lived through the worst fear that I had had up until that point,” says Collins, who’s now a mother of three,  “What happened was that while I was a student at the University of Nevada Reno, I was brutally raped.” Nine years later,  Collins’ convicted rapist is now sitting on death row for raping and killing another victim in Nevada.

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Why is College So Expensive?

VIDEO: Why is college tuition so high? Why are so many students in so much debt? Is it the fault of colleges, the government, or both? And can anything be done? Get the answers in this short video.

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Hillary Clinton’s Plan for Guns – Making a Constitutional Right Impossible to Exercise

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Latin Times: Alicia Machado Is ‘Venezuela’s Most Scandalous Beauty Queen’

Click here: Alicia Machado Is ‘Venezuela’s Most Scandalous Beauty Queen’ After Trump, Drug Lord Controversy

LATIN TIMES: …”Machado has become the beauty queen that most Venezuelan’s would rather forget. Since being crowned Miss Universe in 1996, the beauty queen has been in and out of the headlines.“Without a doubt, she is the most scandalous beauty queen in Venezuela’s history,” Orlando Suarez, a renowned entertainment reporter in Venezuela, told the publication.

Machado has been linked to attempted murder, being romantically involved with Mexican drug lord Jose Gerardo “El Indio” Alvarez, posing naked for Playboy twice and lastly, being engaged in an alleged sexual encounter caught on TV by the Spanish reality show “La Granja” in 2005.”

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Obama DOJ drops charges against Libyan Arms dealer who had threatened to expose Hillary Clinton

Click here: Libyan Arms dealer had threatened to expose Hillary Clinton’s talks about arming anti-Qadhafi rebels.
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Can You Trust The Press?

VIDEO: Is the press trustworthy? Can we believe what reporters and journalists tell us? Judith Miller, Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the New York Times, explains why Americans’ trust in the news media has fallen, and why that matters.

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Hillary supporter Spray Paints Graffiti on Trump Hotel in Washington D.C.

VIDEO: Man recorded spray-painting Black Lives Matter graffiti on entrance to Donald Trump’s new hotel in Washington D.C., Friday, 30 Sep 2016.

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Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance

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NY Times Avoids Taxes in 2014, & claims BIG refund, while reporting on Trump’s 1995 taxes

Click here: As Forbes reports – In 2014, The New York Times paid no taxes and got an income tax refund of $3.5 million even though they had a pre-tax profit of $29.9 million in 2014. In other words, their post-tax profit was higher than their pre-tax profit. The explanation in their 2014 annual report is, “The effective tax rate for 2014 was favorably affected by approximately $21.1 million for the reversal of reserves for uncertain tax positions due to the lapse of applicable statutes of limitations.” If you don’t think it took fancy accountants and tax lawyers to make that happen, read the statement again.

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LEAKED AUDIO – Hillary Clinton Mocks Bernie Sanders Supporters saying, “They are Living in their Parents’ Basement”

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“Some are new to politics completely. They’re children of the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents’ basement. They feel they got their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves. And they don’t see much of a future.” says Hillary Clinton about Bernie Sanders supporters.