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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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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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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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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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Manu Raju / Politico:
Fellow Texan John Cornyn won't back Ted Cruz in presidential primary
Fellow Texan John Cornyn won't back Ted Cruz in presidential primary
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Cruz enters race with website challenge
Cruz enters race with website challenge
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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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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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Rebecca Nelson / National Journal:
Ted Cruz Opens 2016 As the Election's Self-Declared Conservative Champion
Ted Cruz Opens 2016 As the Election's Self-Declared Conservative Champion
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Netanyahu pollster: Obama role in election larger than reported — President Obama's role during the Israeli elections was larger than reported, according to a pollster for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party. — “What was not well reported in the American media …
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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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Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
U.S. will not take floor at U.N. rights debate on Israel, Palestinians
U.S. will not take floor at U.N. rights debate on Israel, Palestinians
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida's Patrick Murphy running for Marco Rubio's Senate seat — Florida Rep. Patrick Murphy formally announced his campaign for Senate on Monday, saying he's ready to fight for the highly competitive seat regardless of whether or not Marco Rubio runs for reelection.
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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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Agence France-Presse:
Clinton urges non-partisan attack on economic inequality — Washington (AFP) - Hillary Clinton made an appearance with labor leaders Monday, calling for a non-partisan struggle against economic inequality in one of her last speeches before formally launching her expected bid for the White House.
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Stephen Rex Brown / NY Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: L.I. woman says psych ward doctors believed she was delusional for insisting Obama follows her on Twitter — #IMNOTCRAZY! — A Long Island woman's insistence that President Obama follows her on Twitter made doctors at the Harlem Hospital psych ward think she was delusional …
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Roberta Rampton / Reuters:
Fictional TV presidents more popular than Obama: Reuters-Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - Whether it's the earnest Josiah Bartlet from “The West Wing” or the manipulative Frank Underwood in “House of Cards,” Americans prefer television presidents to their real-life POTUS, President Barack “No Drama” Obama.
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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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