Ugly, bloody scenes in San Jose as protesters attack Trump supporters outside rally and other top stories.

• Ugly, bloody scenes in San Jose as protesters attack Trump supporters outside rally

  

  Outside Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's rally in San Jose, Calif., on June 2, his supporters were chased down, punches were thrown and "Make America Great Again" hats were set alight. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) SAN JOSE, Calif. —Protests outside a Donald Trump rally in downtown San Jose spun out of control Thursday night when some demonstrators attacked the candidate’s supporters. Protesters jumped on cars, pelted Trump supporters with eggs and water balloons, snat..

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• Ronald Reagan was Donald Trump, until he was president

  

  Though there are important differences, the parallels between Reagan's political life and Trump's are downright chilling, from their media careers to the way that the press and their own party establishment viewed them. Both positioned themselves as outsiders (Reagan, absurdly, ran successfully as a political outsider while he was the sitting president of the USA, and painted his opponent as the Beltway insider). Both offered economic platforms that didn't hold up to even the most cursor..

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• Activists in Henderson wore orange, demonstrated against gun violence - Las Vegas Review

  

  Henderson’s Cornerstone Park was bathed in orange Thursday evening as several dozen members of Moms Demand Action and other Las Vegas Valley residents donned the color to promote gun safety and commemorate gun violence victims and survivors.Thursday was National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and the chapter met in the park to promote its Be Smart Campaign, created to encourage parents to ask about the presence of loaded firearms in a house. Be SMART aims to reduce the number of unintentional shoo..

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• AP FACT CHECK: Trumped-up charge on 'Obamacare' premiums

  

  In this June 1, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wears his hat during a rally at the Sacramento International Jet Center in Sacramento, Calif. Trump is suggesting that the Obama administration, for political reasons, plans to keep consumers in the dark about premium increases for 2017 under the president’s health care law. But the administration says next year’s sign-up season is going ahead on schedule; insurers say they’ve seen no indication of a delay. (AP Photo/..

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