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North Carolina

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Justice department threatened to withhold education funding over its transgender legislation

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Ted Cruz 2

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Lost Indiana primary suspended his campaign

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Bison

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Obama declared the bison the national mammals

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U of Missouris Tim Wolfe

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President resigned, racism in school

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China and Taiwan meeting

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Taiwan says they are free, China says Taiwan is with them

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Keystone XL pipeline

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Canada pulled the request to build the pipeline

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Twister game

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Incorporated in the world toy hall of fame

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Hamilton

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Awarded the tony award for most awards

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Apple

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Worst selling of phones ever

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Dennis hastert

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Former speaker of the house resigned about ten years ago. Arrested for sexual assault

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Jared goff and Carson wentz

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Goff went number 1 and Carson number 2 for he draft

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Ted Cruz and John kasich

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Dropped out of the election

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Xbox 360

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Announced it will no longer produce it

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Prince

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Famous singer died at age 57 in his home

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Terry redlin

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Famous painter dies at age 74

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MN/ND drunk driving laws

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Supreme court is challenging Minnesota and North Dakota drunk driving laws

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Harriet Tubman

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Leader of the Underground Railroad is being put on the 20 dollar bill

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Jennifer aniston

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Voted most beautiful woman

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Chyna

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Famous WWE wrestler died at age 45

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Canada Doctor

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Assisted suicide will kill you if you’re going to die

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Saudi Arabia role in 911

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28 pages blacked out press is trying to get them to release them

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Kobe Bryant

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Retired from the NBA

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Golden state warriors

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Broke the Chicago Bulls record for 73 to 9 wins

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Stairway to heaven

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Being sued that they stole the song from a 90s band

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UND hockey

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Won the division 1 hockey title for the 8th time

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American idol

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Ended it 15 season run

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Merie haggard

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Died at age 70 and came out and sang blue collar songs

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Donald trump

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Went to town hall and answered a question about portion of the wrong thing to a hypothetical question

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Jamar Clark

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Are young African-American that was shot in Minneapolis by police they didn’t charge the police officer

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Villinova

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One national title by knocking out a three-pointer to win

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Rolling Stones

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They played in Cuba for free first time there

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Merrick garland

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Nominee for the Supreme Court

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Trump rally in Chicago

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Protesters Who were paid came and started fights

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Wounded warrior project

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Top CEO resigned because they were spending money on other things besides the project

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Obama/Cuba

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First time for president to go to Cuba since 1959

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Putin/Syria

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Withdrawing most of his troops and is hoping peace can be made

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Maria sharapova

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Famous tennis player failed drug test

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George Martin

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5th member of the Beatles died at age 90

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Mitt Romney

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Said Donald Trump should not be nominated for president

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Erin Andrews

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Sued Marriott for 75 million and got 55 million

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Donald trump/kkk

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Formal KKK member endorsed him now they want to destroy the KKK

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Nancy regan

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Died at age 94 and was one of the most powerful First Ladies

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Peyton manning

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Retried with Denver broncos and owns most of the major passing records

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EPA/coal fired plants

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Supreme court put in regulations to make it hard for coal power plants to comply

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Happy birthday to you

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Questioning who owns the rights for it putting it into public domain

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Chipotle

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Recently closed business for mandatory training for all employees because of food poisoning

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Jason maszer

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33-year-old who was killed in a domestic dispute

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Antonin Scalia

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What’s Supreme Court Justice died at age 79

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Mike yeo

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Fired as MN wild head coach

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Women/military draft

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Whether or not women are going to be included in the draft

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Year of the monkey

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Chinese lunar calendar

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Super Bowl 50

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24 to 10 Denver won Peyton’s last game maybe

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Cold play

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Sang at half time

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Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz

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Hillary and Bernie tied for the Democrats and Ted Cruz one for the Republicans

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Clinton emails

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22 of the emails on private email server were private

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Zika virus

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It is from south Africa affects pregnant woman and make babies heads smaller

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Facebook and Instagram

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No more selling guns on these sites

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Sarah palin/Donald trump

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Pailin came out and endorsed trump, she is very popular to church, Trump lost Iowa

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EPA/flint Michigan

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EPA was called because water in Flint Michigan has lead in it and could be deadly

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Glen Frey

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He is the founder of the rock band the Fagles dies at age 67

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Obama gun executive orders

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Obama signed executive orders of gun control

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North Korea hydrogen bomb

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North Korea detonated a hydrogen bomb

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David Bowie

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Rockstar died at age 69 from cancer

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Ted Cruz

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Cruz has been raising in poles but may not be eligible for president

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Jaquan el chopo Guzman

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Caught in Mexico

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Making of a murderer

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Became a network sensation a guy and his kid killed women and supposedly the cops were crazy

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NDSU

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Bison have won the FCS 5 times in a row

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Wisconsin sportsmanship rules

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Fans going to games can’t shout or chant certain things

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William bill del monte

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Died last week at age 106 last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

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St Luis Rams

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Moved to LA

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Lincoln memorial

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Somebody donated 18 million to renovate it

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Apple vs FBI

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FBI asks that Apple break into the software of the terrorists phones but Apple said they can’t

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Harper lee

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Died at age 89 famous author of to kill a Mockingjay

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SD bathroom laws

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If you are transgender use the bathroom of your birth

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Jeb bush

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Dropped out of President race in SC

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Guantanamo bay

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Prez wants to close it before he leaves

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NJ governor Chris Christie

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Dropped out of election and is now supporting Donald trump

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Spot light

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Won academy award for best picture

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