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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Black Pastor Who Spoke At Rand Paul's Rally: Obama Will “Evolve” From Christianity — “In five years we'll find out what [Obama's] real religion is.” — MICHAEL B. THOMAS / Getty — LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — One of the high points from Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign kickoff Tuesday came …
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Rand Paul: ‘I am running for president’ — Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)For Rand Paul, it's all led to this moment. — Since riding the tea party wave into the Senate in 2010, Paul has carefully built a brand of mainstream libertarianism — dogged advocacy of civil liberties combined …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
YouTube's copyright system has taken Rand Paul's presidential announcement offline — If you're looking for Rand Paul's presidential announcement on YouTube, bad news. As of writing, the video has been blocked by the video streaming site, thanks to a copyright claim from Warner Music Group, as Vox's Andrew Prokop spotted.
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Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Don't Let Rand Paul Fool You On Climate Change
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ABC News:
Transcript for Rand Paul Says He Will Do Anything to Defend America From ‘Haters of Mankind’
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Chip Somodevilla / National Review:
Rand Paul Is Running for the Republican Nomination, So Now the Party Is Ready to Attack Him
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New York Times:
Rand Paul Announces Presidential Run
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Paul to argue electability with 2016 launch
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Rand Paul Begins 2016 Presidential Campaign, Aiming at ‘Washington Machine’
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Paul launches 2016 presidential bid ‘to take America back’
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Kate Andersen Brower / Politico:
The Secret Lives of Hillary and Bill in the White House — Broken lamps, shouting matches, sneaking away to the pool—and other scenes from the Clinton residence during the Lewinsky scandal. — Lead image by AP Photo. — White House Florist Ronn Payne remembers one day in 1998 …
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How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House — Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Official: Cuba expected to be removed from State Sponsors of Terrorism list
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Obama To Scott Walker: ‘Bone Up On Foreign Policy’ — Anyone who thinks President Obama will shy away from presidential politics in 2016, think again. — Obama scoffed at Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's suggestion that he would, on Day 1, revoke any nuclear agreement with Iran if he is elected president.
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Transcript: President Obama's Full NPR Interview On Iran Nuclear Deal — NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviews President Obama at the White House on Monday. — NPR's interview with President Obama focuses on the pact the U.S. and allied nations recently negotiated with Iran.
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Vanity Fair:
The Inside Story of the Civil War For the Soul of NBC News — Brian Williams's fabrication was just the latest, and worst, of the debacles that have plagued NBC News since NBCUniversal was bought by Comcast in 2011. Who is to blame? — On the afternoon of Wednesday, February 4 …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Fighting Against ‘Rape Culture’ Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry — Rolling Stone's journalistic malpractice is not merely a cautionary tale about “confirmation bias.” — The extensive post mortem that Rolling Stone commissioned in the wake of Sabrina Rubin Erdely's now infamous …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Rolling Stone and the media's glass house
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David Armstrong / Bloomberg Business:
How an Insurer Is Taking Money From the Fan Beaten at Dodger Stadium — First he was assaulted for wearing the wrong team's clothes. Then he was sucker-punched by the insurance system. … Dave Stow, 71, strains to push the wheelchair carrying his 250-pound son, Bryan …
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Senate Conservatives Fund:
Replace John McCain — Senator John McCain (R-AZ) officially announced today that he will seek a sixth term in the U.S. Senate. Thirty years of cutting deals with the Democrats is not enough for Senator McCain; he wants six more. — There are few Republicans who have betrayed our conservative principles more than John McCain.
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Kelly O'Donnell / NBC News:
John McCain Will Run for Re-Election to the Senate in 2016
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Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Check Before You Hit Send — Drexel University is investigating a law professor who thought she was sending her class a link to an article on writing legal briefs, but who actually sent a link to a pornography site's video of a woman using anal beads. — “Drexel has been made aware …
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Abortion Opponents Are Quietly Going After One Of The Top Medical Schools In The Country — One of the most well-respected OB-GYN programs in the country could be forced to stop teaching its students how to perform abortions, if the North Carolina legislature ends up approving a piece of legislation that was introduced this month.
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Associated Press:
NEW BOOK BY DICK CHENEY TAKES ON BARACK OBAMA — NEW YORK (AP) — The next book by former Vice President Dick Cheney is aimed directly at President Barack Obama. — Cheney's “Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America” will be published on Sept. 1 by Threshold Editions, the publisher announced Tuesday.
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John Hawkins / John Hawkins' Right Wing News:
Leading Conservatives Call on Apple to Pull Out of Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Iran Until They Stop Torturing Their Gay Citizens — Last week, I got together with Bruce Carroll from Gay Patriot to write a letter calling on Apple to live up to their publicly stated principles by pulling …
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Klara Glowczewska / Town & Country Magazine:
T&C Philanthropy 2015, with Activist-in-Chief Bill Clinton — Supporting 3,100 projects in 180 countries, the Clinton Foundation is the most powerful reimagining ever of what post-presidency can be. But can the fixer-in-chief work his magic on Haiti? — I am standing under …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Laurence Tribe Fights Climate Case Against Star Pupil From Harvard, President Obama — WASHINGTON — Laurence H. Tribe, the highly regarded liberal scholar of constitutional law, still speaks of President Obama as a proud teacher would of a star student. “He was one of the most amazing …
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