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Many disgruntled U.S. Democratic Party supporters of Bernie Sanders say their opposition to the TPP deal has emerged as one of the significant reasons they refuse to automatically throw their support behind Hillary Clinton as the party’s presidential candidate. CBC | World News

On July 22, the DNC was shaken up thanks to revelations from Wikileaks that included emails and voicemail recordings showing an unfair bias against Bernie Sanders. Now, Wikileaks says that there will be more information released about elections in the future, according to a July 26 interview with Julian Assange. “Get big money out of politics and restore democracy” is ...

The Republican presidential nominee said that the 30,000 missing emails from Clinton’s private email server would reveal “some beauties” and made an extraordinary plea for a foreign power to locate them. CBC | World News

Scientists have made the rare discovery of a whale species, which lives in the Bering Sea between Japan and Alaska. CBC | World News

John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate president Ronald Reagan in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster, is set to be released soon, after spending 35 years at St. Elizabeth’s hospital, a government run psychiatric institution, where he has been in custody since the 1981 shooting. John Hinckley Jr.’s attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan was the culmination ...

While a majority of young voters wanted Britain to stay in the European Union, some young Brexiteers now find themselves caught in an unwanted perception that they voted to leave the EU over concerns about immigration. CBC | World News

Prosecutors have dropped the remaining charges against Baltimore police officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray, bringing an end to the case without a conviction. CBC | World News

The Republican National Convention delivered the bump Donald Trump needed in the polls. But it will only matter if it survives the convention bump Hillary Clinton is likely to get by her party’s convention this week. CBC | World News

The Democratic Convention is under a gentle but persistent siege as peaceful protests from a variety of democratic and liberal groups, seek recognition of their causes. Clean energy groups protested on Sunday, with easily 5000 protesters, perhaps more. Green-minded activists feel neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party is paying attention to their pleas to protect the earth. Protesters ...

Two bomb blasts claimed by ISIS hit the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli near the Turkish border on Wednesday, killing at least 44 people and injuring 170 others, state television reported. CBC | World News