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Heather / Crooks and Liars:
Bill Kristol: If They Get To Nominate Hillary Clinton, Why Don't We Get To Nominate Dick Cheney? — Here's Bloody Bill Kristol with the false equivalency of the day when asked who is the most promising Republican candidate not in the race yet by This Week host George Stephanopoulos:
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CNN:
First on CNN: Hillary Clinton takes road trip to Iowa — (CNN)Iowa or bust. — Hillary Clinton is kicking off her second bid for the White House with a road trip, riding from New York to her first campaign stop on Tuesday in Iowa. She was spotted on Sunday evening chatting with people at a gas station in Pennsylvania.
Julie Bykowicz / Bloomberg Business:
Why Hillary Clinton Can't Win the Fundraising Expectations Game — As Hillary Clinton begins her second presidential bid, and the business of paying for it, her supporters predict that she will be deemed a fundraising failure no matter how much money she collects.
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Washington Monthly, Politico and New York Times
Bill Curry / Salon:
Hillary Clinton just doesn't get it: She's already running a losing campaign — Hillary Clinton joins the race for president today. If you believe the leaks from her staff, and there's no reason you shouldn't, she'll do it in a video released at noon as she herself flies high above the nation in a chartered plane.
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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Romney: ‘Hillary Clinton Is Just Not Trustworthy’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton made no mention of her potential Republican rivals when kicking off her second campaign for president. — They didn't share her restraint. — Rand Paul put Clinton at the center of his first television ad, titled “Liberty, not Hillary.”
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The road to ELLE: ClintonWorld's plutographic presidential rollout — As part of the rollout of her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton chose the Huffington Post to publish a new “epilogue” to her tepidly-received 2014 memoir, Hard Choices. A significant part of the chapter …
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Mickey Kaus, Power Line and Ed Driscoll
Agence France-Presse:
Gay couple overjoyed to feature in Clinton launch video — Washington (AFP) - When Jared Milrad and Nate Johnson participated in a video about “big changes,” they had no idea their same-sex wedding plans would feature in Sunday's campaign launch by Hillary Clinton.
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Hillary Clinton / Guardian:
The Guardian view on Hillary Clinton: hammering the glass ceiling (again)
The Guardian view on Hillary Clinton: hammering the glass ceiling (again)
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Presidential Bid
Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Presidential Bid
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Mayor de Blasio, Saying He Wants More Policy Details, Holds Off on Endorsing Hillary Clinton
Mayor de Blasio, Saying He Wants More Policy Details, Holds Off on Endorsing Hillary Clinton
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Anti-Clinton Posters Hit New York, Las Vegas
Anti-Clinton Posters Hit New York, Las Vegas
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Hillary Clinton to drive to Iowa
Hillary Clinton to drive to Iowa
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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton faces scandal amid expectant presidential run
Hillary Clinton faces scandal amid expectant presidential run
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Romney: Clinton a ‘creature of Washington’
Romney: Clinton a ‘creature of Washington’
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Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Walter Scott shooting: officer describes adrenaline rush in recording — Michael Slager appears to laugh nervously in audio recording as he discusses what will happen next with a senior officer — The police officer who killed Walter Scott in South Carolina said afterwards that he was experiencing …
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Jenna Levy / Gallup:
In U.S., Uninsured Rate Dips to 11.9% in First Quarter — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate among U.S. adults declined to 11.9% for the first quarter of 2015 — down one percentage point from the previous quarter and 5.2 points since the end of 2013, just before the Affordable Care Act went into effect.
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Jeffrey Young / The Huffington Post:
Uninsured Rate Gets Lower And Lower, Thanks To Obamacare — WASHINGTON— The Affordable Care Act was designed to slash the percentage of Americans who lack health insurance, and it's working. — The uninsured rate fell to 11.9 percent during the first quarter of this year …
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Wealthy donors on left launch new plan to wrest back control in the states — SAN FRANCISCO — A cadre of wealthy liberal donors aims to pour tens of millions of dollars into rebuilding the left's political might in the states, racing to catch up with a decades-old conservative effort that has reshaped statehouses across the country.
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Balloon Juice, Political Wire and Prairie Weather
Politico:
Why Marco Rubio couldn't say no — “For Marco, being told he can't do something is a challenge.” — Some of Marco Rubio's early backers called themselves the Three Percent Club, because that's where the ambitious young Republican was polling when he began running for U.S. Senate six years ago.
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
The Official 2016 GOP Field Gets Its First Real Contender: Marco Rubio
The Official 2016 GOP Field Gets Its First Real Contender: Marco Rubio
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It Takes a Party — So Hillary Clinton is officially running, to nobody's surprise. And you know what's coming: endless attempts to psychoanalyze the candidate, endless attempts to read significance into what she says or doesn't say about President Obama, endless thumb-sucking about her “positioning” on this or that issue.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Probably Going to Win the 2016 Election
Why Hillary Clinton Is Probably Going to Win the 2016 Election
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Maria Abi-Habib / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Widens Role in Saudi-led Campaign Against Houthi Rebels in Yemen — Washington has concerns about Riyadh's goals in the conflict — The U.S. is expanding its role in Saudi Arabia's campaign in Yemen, vetting military targets and searching vessels for Yemen-bound Iranian arms amid growing concerns …
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Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Moves to Stem Iran Arms Flow to Yemen
U.S. Moves to Stem Iran Arms Flow to Yemen
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Israel Matzav and The Times of Israel
Tom Kertscher / JSOnline:
Driver, teen shot to death after van hits and kills toddler — The van that struck and killed a toddler in the 4600 block of N. 48th St. and the area surrounding it are cordoned off by police tape. The driver, who stayed at the scene, was fatally shot. And a 15-year-old at the scene also was fatally shot.
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Haaretz:
Men more likely than women to time-travel and kill Hitler, study shows — Study analyzed 6,100 participants' responses to various moral quandaries; women felt more conflicted about committing murder. … Send to friend — If they had a time machine, men would be more likely than women …
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