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Sean Cockerham / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Can Rand Paul stand for big military without losing libertarians? — WASHINGTON — With an aircraft carrier as his backdrop, Rand Paul will seek Thursday to reassure hawkish Republican voters and donors during his presidential campaign roll-out week that he isn't the same politician who called for cutting defense spending in 2011.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Rand Paul Gets the TV Spotlight and Turns It on Interviewers in Testy Encounters
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Joan Walsh / Salon:
“No no no no no no no no: Listen!” He-man Rand Paul lectures a lady — again
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Rand Paul's problem with female interviewers just cropped up again
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Rand Paul: I'm ‘Testy With Both Male And Female Reporters’ (VIDEO)
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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Paul won't spell out abortion ban exceptions
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Rand Paul Goes off on Savannah Guthrie for Saying He's ‘Changed His Positions’
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Fox News:
University of Michigan reverses decision, will show ‘American Sniper’ as scheduled — Bradley Cooper as former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in ‘American Sniper’ — The University of Michigan said late Wednesday that it will show the film “American Sniper” as originally scheduled after a protest …
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David Jesse / Detroit Free Press:
U-M reverses course, will show ‘American Sniper’ — After a day filled with intense controversy, the University of Michigan reversed course late Wednesday night and decided to show the movie “American Sniper” at its originally scheduled time and place. — “It was a mistake to cancel …
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NBC News:
Bystander Considered Erasing Footage of Cop Shooting — Feidin Santana said there was a struggle between the unarmed man and the officer, but the officer had control of the situation before opening fire.
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A killing on camera — Protesters gathered outside city hall in North Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday. — The Rev. Calvin Butts this week threatened to withhold his electoral support from Mayor de Blasio. He demands the mayor order Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to fully abandon …
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Lauren C. Williams / ThinkProgress:
GoFundMe Rejects Campaign To Support South Carolina Officer Charged With Murder
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House mocks Netanyahu on Twitter — The White House on Wednesday took a shot at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by using a cartoon bomb to defend its nuclear deal with Iran. — The bomb diagram attached to a White House tweet looked a lot like a chart used by Netanyahu during …
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David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
White House Trolls Netanyahu on Iran with Bomb Graphic
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Kathy Frankovic / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Few trust Iran but support for negotiations persist
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Snejana Farberov For / Daily Mail:
‘America is the real terrorist and my boys are the best’: Boston Marathon bombers' defiant mother rails against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's guilty verdict in bizarre rant as he faces death penalty — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was emotionless with his head bowed as the verdict was read out in U.S. District Court in Boston on Wednesday afternoon
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Julie Bykowicz / Bloomberg Business:
Will Ted Cruz Super-PACs Usher in New Frontier of Donor Influence? — Now big donors can go super-PAC shopping. — The four super-PACs preparing to give a $31 million boost to the presidential hopes of Texas Senator Ted Cruz represent the latest twist in the infiltration of big money in politics …
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Network of ‘Super PACs’ Says That It Has Raised $31 Million for Ted Cruz Bid
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Elizabeth R. Varon / New York Times:
Lee Surrendered, But His Lieutenants Kept Fighting — “If the programme which our people saw set on foot at Appomattox Court-House had been carried out ... we would have no disturbance in the South,” testified the former Confederate general (and future senator) John Brown Gordon in 1871.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The ‘Face The Nation’ shortlist: Who's on tap to replace Bob Schieffer? — Now that Bob Schieffer has announced his retirement, CBS News is hard at work determining who will become the next host of “Face The Nation.” — Network president David Rhodes is a long way from settling on a successor.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama to Call for End to ‘Conversion’ Therapies for Gay and Transgender Youth — WASHINGTON — A 17-year-old transgender youth, Leelah Alcorn, stunned her friends and a vast Internet audience in December when she threw herself in front of a tractor-trailer after writing in an online suicide note …
Patrick McGeehan / New York Times:
Wall Street Fees Wipe Out $2.5 Billion in New York City Pension Gains — The Lenape tribe got a better deal on the sale of Manhattan island than New York City's pension funds have been getting from Wall Street, according to a new analysis by the city comptroller's office.
Mark Mellman / The Hill:
So many candidates, so little love — A seemingly interminable flight, blessed with a well-stocked video-on-demand system, afforded me the opportunity to watch Woody Allen's classic “Annie Hall” again after a hiatus of many years. — At one point, the star tells a joke about two elderly women …
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
These Texas rebels say the American flag is more racist than the Confederate flag — When people tell the Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans spokesman Marshall Davis that his group's flags are an enduring symbol of the South's savage history of slavery, he has an answer ready for them.
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New York Times:
Today in Politics: A Knighted Bloomberg Decrees Bush and Clinton Worthy Candidates — Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, received an honorary knighthood on Wednesday in Washington, making him Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. — Thibault Camus/Associated Press
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Indictments May Be Near in George Washington Bridge Scandal — It has been falsely predicted many times in the last year, but now it seems to be true: The federal investigation into the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge appears to be coming to a head, with an announcement of indictments as early as next week.
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Dan Maduri / newstalkflorida.com:
Bachmann: Obama Has Virtually Guaranteed a World War III — WASHINGTON - Former Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann doesn't mince words when discussing President Obama's “pro jihad” and “anti christian” foreign policy. — She also evaluates the Republican field for 2016 …
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Valerie Jarrett / Advocate:
Op-ed: Protecting LGBT Workers Means Protecting All Workers — “Because of what they did, the doors of opportunity swung open not just for black folks, but for every American. Women marched through those doors. Latinos marched through those doors. Asian Americans, gay Americans …
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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Latest White House feature: Gender-neutral restroom
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