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4:45 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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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.
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.”
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
First Draft: Ted Cruz Faces More Questions on Canada Roots
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Ted Cruz's new website puts donor credit card information at risk
Discussion: Techdirt
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz: I Am THE Conservative Candidate For President
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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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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.
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.
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.
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  —  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 …
The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu apologizes to Arabs for voter turnout remark
Discussion: The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
Benjamin Netanyahu scores majority needed to form government
Jerusalem Post:
Netanyahu apologizes to Arab Israelis for Election Day remarks
Discussion: Politico, BuzzFeed and Mediaite
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
New York Times:
Clean Air Act and Dirty Coal at the Supreme Court
Discussion: Washington Post
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!
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 …
Starbucks Newsroom:
A Letter from Howard Schultz to Starbucks Partners Regarding Race Together  —  I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to every one of you for your fearless and energetic support of the Race Together initiative.  Our objective from the very start of this effort — dating back to our first open forum …
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Nicole Hensley / NY Daily News:
Starbucks ends ‘Race Together’ coffee cup campaign, continues push for forums and new stores
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Moe Lane
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
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 …
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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Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
Documents Reveal Canada's Secret Hacking Tactics
Discussion: Business Insider and Common Dreams
Agence France-Presse:
Clinton urges non-partisan attack on economic inequality
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
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
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Rolling Stone to Publish Review of Disputed Rape Article
CBS Philly:
Gunman Shot Dead Inside West Philadelphia Barbershop
Discussion: Guns.com and The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
‘In Islam, they are all rotten apples’: Ex-Muslim's call for religion's reboot
Discussion: BizPac Review
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-Daily Caller Blogger Criticizes Fox ‘Monopoly’ On Conservative TV News (VIDEO)
Discussion: CNN
Lev Tsitrin / American Thinker:
Obama is enraged - by Netanyahu quoting Kerry
Discussion: Israel Matzav and New York Post
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida's Patrick Murphy running for Marco Rubio's Senate seat
Larry J. Sabato / Politico:
Why this scandal won't hurt Hillary
Derrick Rose / WHAS-TV:
Encounter with officer ends in tears, smiles and viral photo
Discussion: abc30.com and WRIC-TV
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Boehner eyes ‘doc fix’ breakthrough
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumped 50%+ after hours

 
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