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3:05 PM ET, March 23, 2015

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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.
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.”
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.
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 …
Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:   Ted Cruz Just Laid Out The Most Anti-Woman Agenda Yet
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz: I Am THE Conservative Candidate For President
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Ted Cruz's new website puts donor credit card information at risk
Discussion: Techdirt
Tré Goins-Phillips / The Liberty Champion:
Ted Cruz to announce bid for presidency
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.
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 …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Benjamin Netanyahu scores majority needed to form government
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.
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!
Discussion: US News and The PJ Tatler
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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Michael Kruse / Politico:
Jeb's talk radio problem
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Liberaland
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 ...
Discussion: Associated Press and abc30.com
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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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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: abc30.com and WRIC-TV
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 …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and BizPac Review
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
 
 
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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
Discussion: Raw Story and BizPac Review
Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Supreme Court declines to take up Wisconsin voter ID case
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Any Republicans who vote against higher defense spending should be fired
Discussion: The Federalist
Seth Mydans / New York Times:
Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Father and First Premier of Singapore, Dies at 91
New York Times:
Clean Air Act and Dirty Coal at the Supreme Court
Discussion: Washington Post
CBS Philly:
Gunman Shot Dead Inside West Philadelphia Barbershop
Discussion: Guns.com and The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-Daily Caller Blogger Criticizes Fox ‘Monopoly’ On Conservative TV News (VIDEO)
Discussion: CNN
Tyler Hill / WTVA-TV:
Corinth police investigating assault, possible hate crime
Lev Tsitrin / American Thinker:
Obama is enraged - by Netanyahu quoting Kerry
Discussion: Israel Matzav and New York Post
Donna Rachel Edmunds / BREITBART.COM:
Kurdish ‘Fighters’ Kick Islamists Off London Street
Salon:
“They made it crystal clear that the ask was from Hillary”: Inside the Clinton fundraising machine …
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Boehner eyes ‘doc fix’ breakthrough
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Two ripe targets for GOP
Discussion: JustOneMinute
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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