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Ali Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton Joins 2016 Fray on Vaccines — A measles outbreak transforms into the 2016 issue du jour. — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday became the latest potential presidential candidate to weigh in on the merit of vaccines as a 14-state measles outbreak transformed into the 2016 issue du jour.
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Where 2016 GOPers stand on vaccinations
Where 2016 GOPers stand on vaccinations
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Talking Points Memo, Liberal Values, Washington Post, The Stranger … and The Moderate Voice
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Megyn Kelly Speaks Up For Mandatory Vaccination On Fox: ‘Some Things Do Require Big Brother’
Megyn Kelly Speaks Up For Mandatory Vaccination On Fox: ‘Some Things Do Require Big Brother’
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Talking Points Memo, NBC News, CNN, Respectful Insolence, The Huffington Post and Gawker
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Hillary: ‘The science is clear’ on vaccines
Hillary: ‘The science is clear’ on vaccines
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Ben Carson backs vaccinations as ‘safe’
Ben Carson backs vaccinations as ‘safe’
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senator: Don't Force Employees To Wash Their Hands After Using Toilet — In a week packed with news over concerns for public health, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) described his own history of opposing certain health and hygiene regulations, including those that require employees to wash their hands after using the bathroom.
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Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
NC Senator: Starbucks Workers Shouldn't Have To Wash Hands After Bathroom Break — New Sen. Tillis worked when he was a state legislator to push much-needed policies like voter ID legislation, cuts to unemployment benefits, tax cuts for the wealthy, and abortion restrictions.
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Liberaland and Hullabaloo
David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP senator: Let restaurants ‘opt out’ of handwashing after toilet to ‘reduce regulatory burden’
Sam Knight / THE DISTRICT SENTINEL:
Freshman GOP Senator: I'm Okay With Not Forcing Restaurant Workers to Wash Up
Freshman GOP Senator: I'm Okay With Not Forcing Restaurant Workers to Wash Up
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Mediaite and FreakOutNation
Politico:
Supreme Court Obamacare case poses political peril for GOP — The Supreme Court could be months away from blowing a huge hole in Obamacare — and Republicans on Capitol Hill are at odds over how they'll respond if their side wins. — It's the latest example in a long-running quandary for Republicans …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
The Perfect Storm On The Horizon That May Kill The Supreme Court Filibuster
Manu Raju / Politico:
Cruz: Block Lynch until Obama blinks on immigration
Cruz: Block Lynch until Obama blinks on immigration
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Daily Kos, TheBlaze.com, The PJ Tatler and Talking Points Memo
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Public Health Experts Have Estimated How Many Americans Will Die If the Supreme Court Repeals Obamacare
Public Health Experts Have Estimated How Many Americans Will Die If the Supreme Court Repeals Obamacare
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Washington Post and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Justin Sink / The Hill:
President to host ObamaCare enrollees as House votes to repeal
President to host ObamaCare enrollees as House votes to repeal
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New York Times:
Chris Christie Shows Fondness for Luxury Benefits When Others Pay the Bill — As Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey waited to depart on a trade mission to Israel in 2012, his entourage was delayed by a late arrival: Mr. Christie's father, who had accidentally headed to the wrong airport.
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Why Matt Drudge might be more powerful now than ever before — Matt Drudge is currently running a “poll” on his website — it's the Drudge Report if you have paid no attention to politics for the last 17 years — that asks readers to choose their preferred 2016 Republican presidential candidate.
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Obama manager: Watch for Christie, Bush, Kasich
Obama manager: Watch for Christie, Bush, Kasich
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Tough Path Facing Chris Christie and Marco Rubio
The Tough Path Facing Chris Christie and Marco Rubio
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Reuters, CBS Miami, RedState, New Jersey News … and Politico
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
He's got a 'Downton Abbey'-inspired office, but Rep. Aaron Schock won't talk about it. — The Rayburn House Office Building is a labyrinth of beige offices. — And then, there's . . . Rep. Aaron Schock's new digs. — Bright red walls. A gold-colored wall sconce with black candles.
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Who Voted To Defund Public Broadcasting Got ‘Downton Abbey’ Office Redesign For Free
Congressman Who Voted To Defund Public Broadcasting Got ‘Downton Abbey’ Office Redesign For Free
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Mediaite and Balloon Juice
Politico:
How Rand Paul bombed at Koch brothers gathering — His laid-back style turns off big money donors. — “Jeans might work for a younger audience,” said one attendee, “but these are old bulls who put on a tie every day to go to the office.” Getty — Some of the most influential players …
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Laura Smith-Spark / CNN:
UK lawmakers approve ‘3-parent babies’ law — UK lawmakers vote to allow ‘3-parent’ babies 02:01 — Story highlights — London (CNN)Lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favor of a law that sets the stage for the United Kingdom to be the first country in the world to allow a pioneering …
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James Gallagher / BBC:
MPs say yes to three-person babies
MPs say yes to three-person babies
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Nancy Reagan Turned Down Rock Hudson's Plea For Help Nine Weeks Before He Died — On a Sunday evening in July 1985, just hours after arriving in Paris from Los Angeles, Rock Hudson collapsed shortly after checking into the famed Ritz hotel. — Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor in “Giant,” 1956.
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Guardian, Booman Tribune, Joe. My. God. and Raw Story
David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
Poll: Iowa Republicans Side with Obamas After Huckabee's Beyoncé Attack — Iowans may or may not like Beyoncé, but their opinion on one issue involving the singer is clear in a new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll: Mike Huckabee crossed a line when he suggested …
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Des Moines Register, Hot Air, Washington Post, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and National Review
Daily Mail:
Killed for ‘being gay’: ISIS savages blindfolded man and threw him off tower block - then stoned him to death when he SURVIVED the fall — A man has reportedly been blindfolded and thrown off a tower block in Syria for ‘being gay’ before being stoned to death after surviving the fall.
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Spectator, The Gateway Pundit, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Daily Caller
Brett LoGiurato / Fusion:
Young people will hit the polls in 2016, and they want Hillary — Young people are planning to turn out the vote in 2016. And they have a clear choice at this point about who they want to be the nation's next president. — Those are some of the highlights from Fusion's Massive Millennial Poll …
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The Daily Caller and Politico
George Packer / New Yorker:
Why ISIS Murdered Kenji Goto — Why did ISIS execute a second Japanese hostage? Before the beheading of the journalist Kenji Goto, Japan didn't think that it was even in a fight with the Islamic State. All Japan had done was contribute a couple of hundred million dollars in humanitarian aid to countries fighting ISIS.
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Austin Wright / Politico:
DoD spending plan to reignite spats with Congress — GOP to take on Obama at Carter hearing — QUESTION OF THE DAY — WILL UNFUNDED REQUIREMENTS BE BACK? House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry is leaving open (for now) the question of whether he'll follow his predecessor …
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BarbWire.com and ThinkProgress
Jim Clifton / Gallup:
The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment — Here's something that many Americans — including some of the smartest and most educated among us — don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading. — Right now, we're hearing much celebrating …
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