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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Rand Paul announces campaign manager for likely 2016 campaign — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday announced the hiring of a campaign manager for his likely 2016 presidential bid, part of an aggressive effort to build a national political team as the race for the White House heats up.
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Tampa Bay Times:
Mitt Romney making Florida push, setting up clash with Jeb Bush — WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, who only days ago signaled he would explore running for president after repeatedly insisting he would not, is making a strong push that includes reaching out to fundraisers in Florida this week. — 1 Month Ago
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Rand Paul looks to steal 2016 spotlight — The potential 2016 presidential hopeful appears eager to return to his role as a conservative firebrand. — M.Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO — Jeb Bush is “a Big Government Republican.” Mitt Romney “had his chance.”
Neil W. McCabe / Gravis:
Iowa poll: Romney leads nascent Iowa field with 21%, Bush at 14%, Walker 10% — The 2012 Republican nominee for president holds a leads a broad field of GOP potential contenders in the Townhall/Gravis poll conducted Jan. 5-7 among 404 registered Republican voters queried.
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James R. Carroll / Courier-Journal:
Ahead of trip, Paul hits Romney as “yesterday's news” — WASHINGTON - About to embark on a three-state trip that includes multiple stops in New Hampshire, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is criticizing Mitt Romney as too liberal for the Republican Party in 2016. — Romney, the 2012 GOP standard …
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Overcrowded Race for the 2016 Republican Nomination — There's an adage in my business that it's not news when a dog bites a man, only when a man bites a dog. — By that reasoning, the political story of the year so far is Paul Ryan's announcement that he will not run for president.
John Dickerson / Slate:
Why Romney Wants to Run
Why Romney Wants to Run
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Romney And The GOP's Five-Ring Circus
Romney And The GOP's Five-Ring Circus
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WCPO:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI says John Boehner's West Chester bartender planned to poison him — Feds: Man said he was Jesus, Boehner was the devil — DEER PARK, Ohio - Ebola, evil voices and the devil. — Those are just a few of the things a Butler County bartender cited as reasons …
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ABC News:
Ohio Bartender Charged With Threatening to Murder John Boehner … An Ohio man has been indicted on charges of threatening to murder House Speaker John Boehner, ABC News has learned. — Michael Robert Hoyt was indicted Jan. 7 on charges of threatening to murder Boehner last October shortly …
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Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Senate to vote on whether climate change is happening — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he will allow the Senate to vote on an amendment asking if they agree that climate change is impacting the planet. — At his weekly press briefing, McConnell said …
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Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
The Insiders: Five things to watch as the 2016 campaigns develop
The Insiders: Five things to watch as the 2016 campaigns develop
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell threatens midnight session over Keystone XL pipeline
McConnell threatens midnight session over Keystone XL pipeline
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Congressman Randy Weber:
Representative Randy Weber Issues Statement on Paris Tweet — Washington, D.C. - Representative Randy Weber (R-Friendswood) released the following statement in reference to a tweet sent out last night: “I need to first apologize to all those offended by my tweet.
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Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
You Know Who Else Went To Paris? Hitler
You Know Who Else Went To Paris? Hitler
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Republican apologizes for Hitler tweet
Republican apologizes for Hitler tweet
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
How Reince Priebus Reinvented The Political Party — In 1972, the year Reince Priebus was born, the political writer David Broder published The Party's Over. Since then, political writers, me included, have been declaring the death of political parties nonstop.
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Rocco Parascandola / NY Daily News:
PBA's Patrick Lynch spurs yelling, shoving among cops over NYPD-City Hall feud — The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association was not so much on Tuesday as some cops shouted down Lynch regarding his demand that Mayor de Blasio apologize over comments related to race and police relations.
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Arsalan Iftikhar / The Islamic Monthly:
Dear Don Lemon: Thanks for Making Me Famous — Apparently, we currently live in a “post-racial” America where a prominent national television news anchor can ask an American Muslim human rights lawyer whether he supports a terrorist organization simply because he happens to be a Muslim.
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Lawyer Thanks Don Lemon: Your ‘Racist Dumb-Ass Question’ Made Me Famous
Lawyer Thanks Don Lemon: Your ‘Racist Dumb-Ass Question’ Made Me Famous
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Lindsay Cohen / KOMO News:
Seattle dog's rush hour ride: on the bus, by herself, weekly — SEATTLE — Public transit in Seattle has gone to the dogs. — Commuters in Belltown report seeing a Black Labrador riding the bus alone in recent weeks. The 2-year old has been spotted roaming the aisles …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
John Thune: No ‘opening’ for a White House run — But the Senate GOP Conference leader and Commerce Committee chairman is plenty busy. — It's often said each senator wakes up, looks in the mirror and sees a future president staring back. But John Thune admits his “window” for a White House run might have closed in 2012.
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Agence France-Presse:
Qaeda in Yemen claims attack on France's Charlie Hebdo — Dubai (AFP) - Al-Qaeda in Yemen has claimed responsibility for the attack on Charlie Hebdo in a video posted online, saying it was “vengeance” for the French weekly's cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. queueing
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Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg:
Prokhorov Exploring Sale of Brooklyn Nets — The Brooklyn Nets are for sale. — Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov retained Evercore Partners to sell the National Basketball Association team he bought in 2010, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Romney Face Tattoo Guy Says He's Not Supporting Romney In 2016 — “You are waiting for him to shoot himself in the foot. It's going to look real good and then — bam something else — he screws it up,” Eric Hartsburg said in an interview with BuzzFeed News. — Eric Hartsburg Facebook
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Keith Laing / The Hill:
DC Metro passenger killed in smoke incident — A passenger on the Washington, D.C., Metrorail subway system was killed on Monday in an incident involving heavy smoke in a train tunnel. — A train on Metro's Yellow Line that was heading toward northern Virginia was filled with smoke …
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Ronald Brownstein / National Journal:
White-Out: Where Democrats Lost the House — In 2009, 76 Democrats represented primarily white working-class congressional districts. Just 15 of them are still in the House today. — Republicans have surged to their largest majority in the House of Representatives since before the Great Depression …
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Ryan Haarer / KUSA-TV:
Lakewood church denies funeral for lesbian woman — LAKEWOOD - A “Dignity in Death” rally was held Tuesday afternoon for a lesbian woman who was denied a funeral at New Hope Ministries in Lakewood last week. — Vanessa Collier's friends say the funeral was canceled by the church 15 minutes …
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