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The heirs of late Walmart founder Sam Walton are backing Hillary Clinton for president. Collectively, the leading members of Arkansas' Walton family have given about $714,000 to the candidate and the Democratic Party during the current election cycle, federal records show. The donations are an example of the longstanding ties between the Walton and Clinton families. It is an awkward situation for the candidate, a former Walmart board member, since most of her allies in organized labor and the broader liberal movement detest the Waltons, mainly because of the company's anti-union stance.

Just heard it from Laura: Henry Kissinger has endorsed HILLARY!

So much for that Clinton endorsement. Former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz announced they won't be endorsing Hillary Clinton afterall Friday afternoon, just hours after Shultz said he was pushing his fellow Republican gray-hair to back the Democratic nominee. "We are not making any endorsement in the current presidential election," the pair said in a joint statement Friday afternoon. "We are dedicated to fostering a bipartisan foreign policy and we will devote ourselves to this effort now and after the election." That comes just hours after a report was published that showed Shultz and Kissinger were mulling...

French President François Hollande endorsed Hillary Clinton in a newspaper article published Thursday, likening Republican Donald Trump’s nativist bombast to anti-immigrant movements across Europe. Hollande said “the best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected” in the article, published Thursday in France’s Les Echos newspaper. The socialist president also said electing Trump “would complicate relations between Europe and the U.S." and agreed with the notion that it would be dangerous.

For the past painful year, the Republican presidential contenders have been bombarding Americans with empty propaganda slogans and competing, bizarrely, to present themselves as the least experienced person for the most important elected job in the world. Democratic primary voters, on the other hand, after a substantive debate over real issues, have the chance to nominate one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history. Hillary Clinton would be the first woman nominated by a major party. She served as a senator from a major state (New York) and as secretary of state — not to...