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David McCabe / The Hill:
Cruz made 2016 announcement speech without a teleprompter — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made his speech announcing that he would run for the presidency without the assistance of a teleprompter, his spokesman said Monday. — Cruz delivered his roughly half-hour announcement speech at evangelical Liberty University in Virginia.
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Has Skeptics at Liberty, and They Use Yik Yak — From Yik Yak to Facebook, Cruz skeptics speak out. — Announcing his presidential bid at Liberty University is giving Ted Cruz something that some candidates dream of: A massive crowd that has to be there.
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Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Just Laid Out The Most Anti-Woman Agenda Yet — When Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced his candidacy for president on Monday, he may have forgotten an extremely important electoral group: women. — In Cruz's formal announcement for president, he lamented the low voter turnout rates for the Evangelical community.
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Andrew Harnik / Washington Post:
Transcript: Ted Cruz's speech at Liberty University — Here is a running transcript of Ted Cruz's address at Liberty University in which he officially announced his 2016 presidential bid. — CRUZ: Good to see you. — Thank you. (APPLAUSE) — Thank you so much, President Falwell.
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Fellow Texan John Cornyn won't back Ted Cruz in presidential primary — Sen. Rand Paul may have fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell's support for his likely 2016 presidential bid. But Sen. Ted Cruz won't have his senior senator from Texas, John Cornyn, behind him.
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
First Draft: Ted Cruz Faces More Questions on Canada Roots — Ted Cruz Faces More Questions on Canada Roots — The name of another country, Canada, has kept coming up whenever Senator Ted Cruz has been mentioned as a candidate for president of the United States. — THE UPSHOT
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New York Times:
Ted Cruz Becomes First Major Candidate to Announce Presidential Bid for 2016 — LYNCHBURG, Va. — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas on Monday formally announced his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, promising a campaign that would be about “re-igniting the promise of America.”
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David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump Goes Birther on Canadian-Born Ted Cruz
Donald Trump Goes Birther on Canadian-Born Ted Cruz
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Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Ted Cruz's new website puts donor credit card information at risk
Ted Cruz's new website puts donor credit card information at risk
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Cruz enters race with website challenge
Cruz enters race with website challenge
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz: I Am THE Conservative Candidate For President
Ted Cruz: I Am THE Conservative Candidate For President
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Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
U.S. will not take floor at U.N. rights debate on Israel, Palestinians — (Reuters) - The United States will not take the floor at the main U.N. human rights forum on Monday during the annual debate on violations committed in the Palestinian territories, a U.S. spokesman told Reuters.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Netanyahu pollster: Obama role in election larger than reported
Netanyahu pollster: Obama role in election larger than reported
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Benjamin Netanyahu scores majority needed to form government
Benjamin Netanyahu scores majority needed to form government
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Wisconsin Voter-ID Law Stands as Supreme Court Rejects Appeal — (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Wisconsin to implement a voter-identification law that opponents say is one of the strictest in the nation. — Rejecting without comment an appeal by civil rights groups …
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. top court rejects challenge to Wisconsin voter ID law
U.S. top court rejects challenge to Wisconsin voter ID law
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court lets Wisconsin voter ID law stand
Supreme Court lets Wisconsin voter ID law stand
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Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Supreme Court declines to take up Wisconsin voter ID case
Supreme Court declines to take up Wisconsin voter ID case
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
In Clinton Emails on Benghazi, a Rare Glimpse at Her Concerns — WASHINGTON — It was a grueling hearing. A month after the September 2012 attack on the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, House Republicans grilled a top State Department official about security lapses at the outpost.
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Reconsidering My August Post on Ferguson and ‘Conflicting Accounts’ — In the heat of a very hot news moment last summer, I criticized a Times story about the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. — Now, with the benefit of hindsight, I want to acknowledge that I misjudged an important element of that story.
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T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Charlottesville police find no evidence in U-Va. sexual assault case — Police say that an investigation has found no evidence to support a discredited Rolling Stone story about a gang rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house on the campus of the University of Virginia. (Reuters)
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Rolling Stone to Publish Review of Disputed Rape Article
Rolling Stone to Publish Review of Disputed Rape Article
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Obamacare is 5 years old, and Americans are still worried about death panels — When Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, they knew it wasn't popular — poll after poll showed pluralities, if not majorities, opposed to the legislation after the bruising national fight that led to its passage.
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
(Not So) Happy Anniversary, Obamacare!
(Not So) Happy Anniversary, Obamacare!
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Harriet Alexander / Telegraph:
Argentine archaeologists find secret Nazi lair in jungle — Stone structures in the remote region of Misiones are thought to be the ruins of a hideout build by Nazis, in case their leaders needed to flee Germany — A team of Argentine archaeologists investigating a series of ruins in the jungle …
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Dustin Volz / National Journal:
Oil Giant BP Drops Membership With ALEC — The oil-and-gas super company is just the latest big firm to leave the conservative group in recent months. — Major oil-and-gas corporation BP announced Monday it is parting ways with the American Legislative Exchange Council, marking just the latest …
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Ayo and Iken:
An Interview With George Zimmerman - March 2015 — In an interview conducted in Orlando by Howard Iken, George Zimmerman discusses his viewpoint on events now that the Justice Department has declined to file charges against him — Duplication without prior permission prohibited.
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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Any Republicans who vote against higher defense spending should be fired — Let's talk a bit about which House Republican incumbents are going to draw primary opponents in 2016. Make a note: Those GOP representatives who vote against upping Pentagon spending this week are at the top of a list …
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ABC News:
PHOTOS — ... and other souvenirs. Nearby are exhibits about ramen in Europe , regional ramen around Japan and historic ramen-making ..... search of ramen's origins. " The food stands include Italian pasta, Vietnamese pho, and dishes from Kazakhstan , China ...
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