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Trump Not Running for President: ‘Decision Does Not Come Easily Or Without Regret’ — ABC News' Michael Falcone, Jennifer Wlach, Sara Just and Devin Dwyer report: — After a roller-coaster flirtation with a presidential bid, Donald Trump bowed out of the 2012 contest in true Trump fashion on Monday …
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CNN:
Full release: — “After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency. This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country.
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Trump not running for president — (CNN) - Real estate mogul and television celebrity Donald Trump, who generated a media publicity blitz by saying he might run for president in 2012, announced Monday that he will instead remain a businessman. — “After considerable deliberation and reflection …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Trump won't run for president in 2012
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New York Post:
Donald Trump will not run for Republican presidential nomination
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Sean Daly / New York Post:
Big Trump news due today
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP Rep. Ryan swipes at Gingrich: ‘With allies like that, who needs the left?’ — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) took a swipe Monday at Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich after the former House Speaker criticized hiss proposed Medicare reforms. — “With allies like that, who needs the left?”
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Gingrich reaction: Republicans livid, accuse former speaker of hypocrisy in attack on Ryan — This morning Republicans are just beginning to assess the damage that former House Speaker and current presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has done to the GOP budget plan currently before Congress.
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Paul Volpe / The Caucus:
Gingrich Seeks to Clarify Comments on Individual Mandate — Newt Gingrich has acknowledged that his tendency to spout off like a political analyst might get him into trouble on the campaign trail. — On Monday, the former speaker of the House sought to explain away just that kind …
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich Blasts House GOP's Medicare Plan
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Santorum slams Gingrich, defends Ryan
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Ryan Defends Medicare Privatization As Strengthening ‘Welfare For Those Who Need It’
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Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Newt Gingrich Releases Video In Which He Opposes Mandate He Defended Yesterday
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Jroot / newt.org:
Newt: I oppose the Obamacare mandate. Period.
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New York Times:
Judge Denies Bail to I.M.F. Chief in Sexual Assault Case — Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, was ordered on Monday to be held without bail over allegations that he had sexually assaulted a maid in a $3,000-a-night suite at a Midtown hotel.
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New York Post:
French gals burned by pol ‘in heat’ — He's un animal. — IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn acted like a “chimpanzee in heat” during a creepy previous grab-and-grope with a French journalist — an incident with eerie similarities to his alleged attack on a Manhattan hotel maid Saturday, according to an explosive interview.
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ABCNEWS:
IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn Charged With Rape, Sexual Abuse, Unlawful Imprisonment — International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn allegedly forced a New York City hotel housekeeper to perform oral sex and submit to anal sex, in addition to allegedly attempting to rape her …
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Wall Street Journal:
As Debt Limit Reached, Agreement Still Far Off — The U.S. government is expected to hit the $14.294 trillion debt ceiling Monday, setting in motion an uncertain, 11-week political scramble to avoid a default. — The Treasury Department plans to announce Monday it will stop issuing …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WWRD (What Would Reagan Do) on the debt limit
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Geithner tells Congress the US has reached $14.3T debt limit
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A Requiem for Huckabee — Most candidates for the highest office in the land spend months, if not years, currying favor with the rich and powerful: glad-handing at fund-raising dinners, schmoozing in mansions, pressing the flesh in Aspen and Manhattan and Nob Hill. — Not so Mike Huckabee.
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David Frum / CNN:
With no Huckabee, who in GOP will stand for jobs, middle class?
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Paul Krugman:
What's In A Name? — Urk. Politico: … It's not misleading! I know that serious people are supposed to be shocked, shocked at the Democrats calling the Ryan plan a plan to dismantle Medicare — but that's just what it is. If you replace a system that actually pays seniors' medical bills …
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The Politico:
Democratic analysis: GOP's 2010 win short-lived — President Obama's successful targeting of Osama bin Laden, nearly a decade after 9/11, has provided him a much needed boost and set in stark relief the differences between the two Parties on the central dimensions of leadership, competence, resolve, and results.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
President Obama polls well despite jobs fears
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Ian Sample / Guardian:
Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story' — In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the cosmologist shares his thoughts on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence — A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a “fairy story” for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Gay CNN Anchor Sees Risk in Book — Don Lemon, the weekend prime-time anchor for CNN, was on the air on Sunday night this month when the news broke that President Obama would address the nation at the unusual hour of 10:30 p.m. — By the time the news network was confirming the reports …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Exclusive: Private letter from CIA chief undercuts claim torture was key to killing Bin Laden — CIA chief Leon Panetta has written a private letter to Senator John McCain that offers the most detailed answer yet to questions about the relationship between torture and Osama Bin Laden's death …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Herman Cain sounds off on race, a debate win, and the need to simplify government — Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork — STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. - Herman Cain's handsome glass-walled office overlooks the first fairway of the Eagle's Landing Country Club in this exurb of Atlanta …
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MTV:
M-Bone's life in photos. — At about 10:30 p.m. PT Sunday night, police were called to the 400 block of North La Brea in Inglewood. When police arrived on the scene, they found Talbert seated in the driver's seat of a black unspecified vehicle with at least two gunshot wounds to the head.
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