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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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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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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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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Cruz enters race with website challenge — Sen. Ted Cruz's nascent campaign for the White House is running into its first signs of digital trouble. — While the firebrand Texas Republican prepares to announce his bid for the presidency on Monday morning, he does not appear to have control …
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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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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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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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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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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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The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu apologizes to Arabs for voter turnout remark — Prime minister says he never intended to offend when he warned the public that Arabs were ‘voting in droves,’ but Joint List rejects move — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday apologized to the Arab citizens of Israel …
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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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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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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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Larry J. Sabato / Politico:
Why this scandal won't hurt Hillary — History show us that presidential candidates tend to weather controversy better than senators and congressmen. — Lead image by Getty. — Admit it: You love a juicy scandal. We claim to be high-minded and policy-oriented, but our noses are buried …
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ABC News:
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Rolling Stone to publish review of campus rape article soon — Columbia University's review of Rolling Stone's disputed article about a college gang rape will be published in the magazine in early April. — The article, “A Rape on Campus,” horrified readers when it was published last November.
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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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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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The Two River Times:
Brian Williams Lends Support at Mater Dei Prep Fundraiser — News Anchor Brian Williams, second from right, poses with classmates from the Class of 1977 at the Save the Seraphs Gala and Gift Auction to benefit Mater Dei Prep on Saturday, March 21, 2015. From left to right,they are …
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Derrick Rose / WHAS-TV:
Encounter with officer ends in tears, smiles and viral photo — LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) — At the Rodes City Run, there are no losers; not even the person who finishes dead last. Asia Ford wears that badge with a smile as long as the race itself. — The annual event is just one leg of her life's journey.
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
‘In Islam, they are all rotten apples’: Ex-Muslim's call for religion's reboot — There was a time when author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali believed it all: that, according to Islam, the infidel should die, that the Quran is infallible, that those who violated sharia law — thieves, gays …
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
High school accused of massive grade-fixing scheme — Teaching kids takes so much effort, staffers at John Dewey HS in Brooklyn have found a quicker way to fix persistent failure rates, sources said: Just let them pass. — Investigators are probing accusations of a massive grade-fixing scheme …
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The Nation:
150th Anniversary Special Issue — The year 2015 marks The Nation's 150th anniversary. This week, to celebrate the occasion, we're publishing a very special anniversary issue, one of the longest in the magazine's long history. — This issue, which I co-edited with D.D. Guttenplan …
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