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In New Fox Poll, Trump Loses Against Hillary, Comes in Last Among GOP Candidates Michael Cantrell March 1, 2016 1 I don’t recall seeing an election cycle this brutal and divisive — thanks in large part to the passions stirred up from eight years of Obama and an angry electorate — as people who once aligned with one another are now at each other’s throats over who the GOP candidate should be. While there’s lots of good arguments being made for most candidates — except Kasich because there’s absolutely no good reason that guy should be leading anything — what...

Rima Fakih's beauty pageant sash declares that she is Miss USA, but journalists want to find other labels for her. Questions about Fakih's ethnic and religious identity have been nearly as frequent as questions about photos of her dancing against a stripper's pole. "I'd like to say I'm American first, and I am an Arab-American," Fakih said. "I am Lebanese-American, and I am Muslim-American." Fakih, 24, was born in Lebanon, but her family moved to New York when she was 7 years old. She later moved to Michigan, where she went to college. The rarity of a woman born in...