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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Rep. Peter King Threatens to Jump Off a Bridge if Cruz Gets GOP Nomination — Rep. Peter King (R-NY) appeared on CNN's The Situation Room Monday afternoon and when Wolf Blitzer asked him to explain his statement that compared Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to a “carnival barker,” …
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Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
Ted Cruz Cannot Be Serious — The big news of the day is that Senator Ted Cruz is officially running for president. Not setting up an exploratory committee or any of that perfunctory foreplay, but actually running. “It is a time for truth. It is a time for liberty,” he said in a 30-minute speech at, yeah, Liberty University.
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Cruz: I'm a natural born American — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Monday that despite being born in Canada he is still a natural born citizen by birth and qualified to run for president. — “I was born in Calgary. My parents — as a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth …
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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.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Democrats cheer: Run, Ted, run
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
What Ted Cruz Would Need to Do to Win
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Ted Cruz Is Such a Long Shot
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
3 Reasons Ted Cruz Could Win
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Rand Paul, reacting to Ted Cruz, talks ‘winnability’
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Wilson / Glenn Beck:
Ted Cruz called Glenn over the weekend and revealed something Glenn thinks is really important
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Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Could Ted Cruz pull a Barack Obama?
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Fellow Texan John Cornyn won't back Ted Cruz in presidential primary
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Adam Entous / Wall Street Journal:
Israel Spied on Iran Talks — Ally's snooping upset White House because information was used to lobby Congress to try to sink a deal — Soon after the U.S. and other major powers entered negotiations last year to curtail Iran's nuclear program, senior White House officials learned Israel was spying on the closed-door talks.
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
The Orwellian Obama Presidency — Under Mr. Obama, friends are enemies, denial is wisdom, capitulation is victory. — The humiliating denouement to America's involvement in Yemen came over the weekend, when U.S. Special Forces were forced to evacuate a base from which they had operated against the local branch of al Qaeda.
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Washington Post:
Report: Israel spied on Iran-U.S. talks and shared information with lawmakers — Israel obtained sensitive information about the nuclear talks between Iran and the United States and turned it over to members of Congress, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
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White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough Remarks As Prepared at J Street Annual Conference
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Barack Obama's top aide says Israeli ‘occupation’ must end
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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
Dershowitz Rips Obama on Iran: Couldn't ‘Negotiate a One-month Lease’
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Katie Pavlich / The Hill:
America isn't better with ObamaCare — It's been five years since the Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, was passed and signed into law. This week, the White House is touting the legislation as a huge success and claiming the country is better off.
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Helena Andrews / Washington Post:
The White House head florist is gone and rumors are flying about why — When White House chief pastry chef Bill Yosses left the executive mansion last summer, the president publicly mourned the loss of “the crust master's” mysteriously addictive pies. And when the first family's personal chef and pal …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Hillary Clinton meets Barack Obama at the White House
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Angelina Jolie Pitt / New York Times:
Diary of a Surgery — LOS ANGELES — TWO years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene. It gave me an estimated 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.
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Jean-Francois Rosnoblet / Reuters:
Germanwings plane crashes in France, up to 150 feared dead — (Reuters) - An Airbus plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed in southern France on Tuesday en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, police and aviation officials said. — French Prime Minister Manuel Valls …
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Fox News:
No survivors expected after plane carrying 150 crashes in French Alps — DEVELOPING: No survivors are expected among the 150 people aboard a passenger plane that went down in the French Alps Tuesday morning, said the French president, who called the crash “a tragedy that has occurred on our land.”
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Michael Shnayerson / Politico:
He Coulda Been a Contender — The rise and fall of Andrew Cuomo. — Lead image by AP Photo. — Close up, Andrew Cuomo had his flaws. But as a newcomer to the national stage, he looked a big winner—and he was. In just two years, the New York governor had whipped the country's worst-run capital …
Rene Stutzman / Orlando Sentinel:
George Zimmerman: President Obama amped up racial tension against me — In his first public comments since the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would not prosecute him for violating Trayvon Martin's civil rights, George Zimmerman says he was victimized by President Obama.
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Craig Giammona / Bloomberg Business:
Taco Bell Introduces Breakfast Biscuits in Bid for Morning Sales — (Bloomberg) — Taco Bell is sticking with the playbook that helped it muscle into the breakfast business last year: Take a breakfast sandwich, and put it in a taco. — The fast-food chain will introduce a new line of Biscuit Tacos …
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