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Voters in three states go to the polls with Ohio's late cancellation

Super Tuesday III featured voters from three - not four - states heading to the polls, with Ohio's governor forcing a last-minute postponement of the primary due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.




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Joe Biden wins Florida, Illinois AND Arizona

Joe Biden easily won Florida, Illinois and Arizona over Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, further cementing his position of probable 2020 Democratic nominee over the democratic socialist.




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Bernie Sanders will 'assess his campaign' after Joe Biden sweeps Illinois, Florida and Arizona 

Sanders' campaign manager said the socialist will be having 'further conversations.' The next primaries are three weeks away. Biden took Florida, Illinois and Arizona easily on Tuesday.




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Bernie Sanders snaps when reporter asks if he'll continue 2020 presidential run

Bernie Sanders got salty with a reporter on Capitol Hill Wednesday when asked about the future of his 2020 presidential campaign.




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Tulsi Gabbard quits her long-show Democratic presidential bid and endorses Joe Biden

Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that she was suspending her presidential campaign and would support Joe Biden - leaving just Biden and Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic race.




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Biden goes off on Trump's coronavirus response - as #WhereIsJoe trends among Sanders supporters  

Joe Biden reappeared on the virtual campaign trail Friday, hosting a press call for select outlets so he could lash out at President Trump's coronavirus response.




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Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, Joe Biden, and Michelle Obama 'attend' DJ D-Nice's quarantine dance party

The Bronx DJ went from 200K to 1M Instagram followers following his 10-hour live set dubbed 'Homeschool at Club Quarantine' on Saturday night




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Senator calls for rethink to avoid postponing November presidential election due to coronavirus

Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wants to expanded absentee balloting and a rethink of how Americans vote in November to avoid delaying the contest due to coronavirus concerns.




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Joe Biden rejects another Democrat debate with Bernie Sanders

Joe Biden suggested he was done debating Bernie Sanders during a virtual press conference with reporters Wednesday.




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Biden DENIES sexually assaulting member of his Senate staff in 1993

Joe Biden's campaign came to his defense Friday over sexual assault claims an ex-staffer has been making in the press this week.




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Late Night With Seth Meyers to return with an interview with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders

He last appeared in a full in-studio episode of his late night chat show over two weeks ago, but he 'went back to work (ish)' this week for new editions from home as the pandemic rages on.




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How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went from scrubbing scrubbing toilets to leading 'The Squad'

New biography AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Lynda Lopez, gives an inside look of AOC's rise to Congress, out June 2.




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Emily Ratajkowski is 'devastated and disheartened' that Bernie Sanders officially dropped out

Emily Ratajkowski is very upset that Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday he was dropping out of the race for the White House.




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Poll: Trump is handling coronavirus better than Biden if he were president but Obama would be better

Voters believe Donald Trump is responding to the coronavirus outbreak better than Joe Biden would if he were president, a poll released Wednesday revealed.




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Cardi B is furious young voters did not show up to support Bernie Sanders in his presidential bid

The Grammy-winning artist, 27, took to Instagram Live and chastised her fans who didn't show up at the polls to support the Democratic senator from Vermont.




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Democrats urge Obama to get campaigning for Biden with Sanders out

Now that Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the presidential race, some Democrats are eager to see President Obama jump into the race and endorse his former vice president, Joe Biden.




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AOC calls Joe Biden's Medicare olive branch to progressives 'almost insulting'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she's never spoken to Joe Biden - nor has his campaign reached out to the progressive congresswoman, who was a surrogate for Bernie Sanders.




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Barack Obama reportedly convinced Bernie Sanders to drop out of Democratic primary

Barack Obama played a significant role in convincing Bernie Sanders to bow out of the Democratic primary, paving the way for Joe Biden to seal the nomination uncontested.




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Elizabeth Warren endorses Joe Biden saying 'empathy matters'

Elizabeth Warren endorsed Joe Biden for president on Wednesday, following Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders as the Democratic Party coalesces around their nominee.




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Cardi B tells Bernie Sanders she doesn't 'feel like it's safe to go outside' amid COVID-19

The Grammy-winning artist, 27, chat with former presidential candidate in a long-form interview on Instagram Live Tuesday.




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Rosario Dawson is taking care of her parents in LA rather than quarantining with 'love' Cory Booker

The 40-year-old Sundance Jury Prize winner and the 50-year-old politician celebrated their first anniversary of dating on October 13




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Wyoming Democrats cancels in-person caucuses amid coronavirus concerns

The Wyoming Democratic Party was forced to cancel its in-person caucuses and scale back voting to mail-in only amid coronavirus concerns.




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Joe Biden hints at signing up to more of the Green New Deal

Joe Biden indicated jr will incorporate more of the Green New Deal after he scored a key environmental endorsement and works to appeal to Bernie Sanders voters.




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Bernie Bros are furious over Tara Reade's sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden

Senator Bernie Sanders' (left) fiercest backers are furious the Democratic Party over its silence in the face of sexual assault allegations made by Tara Reade (top right) against Joe Biden (bottom right).




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Chris Matthews admits his exit was justified two months after he was ousted

In first interview since his departure from MSNBC, Matthews says his departure was justified. Bassett thanked Matthews via Twitter for confirming his story and 'owning up'.




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Unofficial White House gift shop is selling $100 coronavirus commemorative COINS

Collectors can look back on this stain on human history by becoming the proud owners of a limited first edition coin from The White House Gift Shop.




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: I too bear the emotional scars of a car crash

AMANDA PLATELL: My mum got the phone call every parent dreads. It was a policeman, telling her that her oldest child, Michael, and I had been involved in a serious car crash.




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Are YOU posh enough to wear a powerband?

AMANDA PLATELL: Of late, no posh girl worth her pink Himalyan salt has stepped out without a £300 piece of croissant-shaped fabric (prices can rise to an eye-watering £900) atop their shining heads.




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AMANDA PLATELL says the train passenger who complained about Gazza's kiss has been short-changed

AMANDA PLATELL: England football hero Paul Gascoigne was cleared by a jury of sexually assaulting a woman on a train after 'innocently' kissing her to make her feel better.




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AMANDA PLATELL: Flea in the ear of those who told Phoebe Waller-Bridge to 'cash in on her looks'

AMANDA PLATELL: Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge was told when she graduated from Rada to capitalise on her winsome aristocratic looks.




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AMANDA PLATELL: Emily Maitlis showed the female of the TV species is far deadlier than the male

The power of an iron fist in a velvet glove was shown to perfection by Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in her interview with Prince Andrew, writes AMANDA PLATELL.




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Courage of the brave souls on London Bridge triumphed over evil

AMANDA PLATELL Those brave souls who risked their lives running towards the assassin were good, selfless people interested in only saving the lives of others.




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AMANDA PLATELL: Family TV shows have lost the X factor

AMANDA PLATELL: More attention is now given to Cowell's scowl, Amanda Holden's nipples and Alesha Dixon's barely clad thighs than to the real stars - the ordinary folk following their dreams




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: You're brave, Greta, but not as brave as this lot

AMANDA PLATELL: Standing defiant and alone on a rocky outcrop on the cover of Time Magazine, she looks out over a world in peril that she is seeking to save.




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: JK Rowling is as brave as Harry Potter to take her fight to the gender trolls 

AMANDA PLATELL Was J.K. Rowling channelling her fearless hero Harry Potter when she took on the trans rights lobby?




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AMANDA PLATELL: No tears or tantrums here, Kate Middleton has become the Royals' crown jewel 

AMANDA PLATELL: Of all the pictures published in this tumultuous week for the Royal Family, one stood out for me.




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AMANDA PLATELL: Just squash Ant McPartlin under your foot, Lisa - and forget him! 

AMANDA PLATELL: Ant has treated you appallingly. But every tweet you post keeps you nailed to the cross of this broken marriage. You have to break away.




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AMANDA PLATELL: On civil partnerships

AMANDA PLATELL: It was a bracing moment when I read that the Church of England, my Church, declared that loving, long-term couples in civil partnerships should not have sex.




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AMANDA PLATELL: Jennifer Aniston is defying age with beauty - but it cannot mask her secret sorrow

AMANDA PLATELL: Jennifer Aniston appears on a magazine cover wearing tiny Yves Saint Laurent leather hotpants a supermodel might struggle to get away with - and we gape in awe.




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AMANDA PLATELL: It's hard to forget Boris Johnson's philandering

AMANDA PLATELL: I was struck by one thought after Carrie's Instagram announcement: I cannot imagine how Marina, his loyal wife of 27 years, must have been feeling, nor their four adult children.




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Boycotting Amber Rudd at Oxford University just makes me see red 

PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Students had cancelled the event because of Ms Rudd's links to the Windrush scandal, in which Britons of Caribbean heritage were wrongly deported.




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AMANDA PLATELL on the tragic death of Britain's youngest coronavirus victim aged just 13 

AMANDA PLATELL: One week ago, Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, 13, was at home with his mum, six brothers and sisters, doing what we're all doing, watching TV, isolating at home.




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AMANDA PLATELL: Our royals have never been so crucial to us - nor Harry and Meghan so irrelevant

AMANDA PLATELL: Can it be only a few months ago that the Monarchy was facing down Megxit, in what appeared to be one of its worst existential crises since the abdication?




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Heroine, 97, who helped crack Enigma code is a shining example of selflessness

PLATELL'S PEOPLE: What a shining example of selflessness we have been given this week from a woman who is among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus plague.




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AMANDA PLATELL: Britain must not become a nation of snitches on neighbours

AMANDA PLATELL: We have always been a nation of curtain twitchers. But, who'd have thought nearly 200,000 people would report their neighbours for breaking lockdown rules?




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Vulgar LA mansion is a stain on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

AMANDA PLATELL: We learned that they have chosen as their LA hideaway, a Tuscan-style mansion amid 14 acres in a gated community in one of the most sought-after areas of Hollywood....




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ANDREW PIERCE: Keir Starmer gets help he could do without

ANDREW PIERCE: Lord Adonis has called Sir Keir Starmer, Labour MP for ember of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras, Labour's 'only hope' and has urged people to join 'ASAP' and vote for him.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Chuka Umunna counts £30k cost of his Lib Dem switch 

ANDREW PIERCE: If Chuka Umunna lost in Streatham, which he represented since 2010, he would have been paid £33,500 redundancy with the first £30k tax-free.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Suspended Labour peer Lord Lea of Crondall's four-letter shame 

ANDREW PIERCE: The Labour Party suspended Lord Lea of Crondall last week after the House of Lords' standards watchdog found he sexually harassed two women working in Parliament.




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ANDREW PIERCE: No. 10's Dilyn bow wows the Garrick crowd

ANDREW PIERCE: How long before Dilyn the dog is standing in for Boris Johnson at Prime Minister's Questions? I ask because the Jack Russell-cross is back in the spotlight.