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Hillary Clinton has been known to make huge sums in speaking fees, but Thursday’s reported payment may sound like she was short-changed. Clinton was paid $25,000 to speak at Rutgers University about being targeted as a woman in politics, the upcoming elections and the Trump administration, among other topics, NJ.com reported. But the money she made seemed to be considerably less than some other high-profile guests who've spoken at the New Jersey school. For example, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, of “Jersey Shore” fame, was paid $32,000 for her Rutgers appearance in 2011. Students paid for her appearance using money from the...

Eleven days ago, President Obama took the opportunity at Georgetown University to defend the government’s 50-year experiment in anti-poverty welfare programs. The president claimed: It is a mistake for us to suggest that somehow every effort we make has failed and we are powerless to address poverty. That’s just not true. First of all, just in absolute terms, the poverty rate, when you take into account tax and transfer programs, has been reduced about 40 percent since 1967.

New Seattle vote counts released at 3:43 p.m. today show the proposal to build a 14-mile city monorail trailing by three votes. There are 92,435 ballots in favor of a monorail and 92,438 against. Remaining to be counted are perhaps 1,000 to 2,000 "special ballots," which include those ballots given to people who couldn't reach the right polling place on Election Day or who are legal voters but could not be located in voter logs kept at the polls. There are around 6,000 such ballots in King County as a whole. Another update is due tomorrow, with official final counts...