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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

Obama won't automatically endorse Hillary — President Obama will not automatically endorse Hillary Clinton now that she has formally declared her candidacy for president, the White House said Monday. — Press secretary Josh Earnest said that Obama and Clinton have “become friends” …

Discussion: Political Wire

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.

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

What Hillary Clinton's campaign announcement video tells us — Hillary Clinton's video announcement of her presidential run features Americans who are entering transitional periods in their lives — an expecting mother, a pair of immigrant brothers starting a business, a man changing …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Bloomberg Business, FOX News Radio, American Prospect, Yahoo Politics, Bloomberg View, Patterico's Pontifications, Campaign for America's Future, ABC, The Week and AMERICAblog News

Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:

Meet the gay couple in Clinton campaign video — Nathan Johnson and Jared Milrad were the male same-sex couple in the Hillary Clinton campaign video. (Photo courtesy of Jared Milrad) — Jared Milrad and Nathan Johnson didn't know exactly what they were getting into three weeks ago …

Discussion: Politico, ABC News, New York Times, Out Magazine, LGBTQ Nation, Business Insider, Towleroad News #gay, Advocate and The Huffington Post

Bill Curry / Salon:
Hillary Clinton just doesn't get it: She's already running a losing campaign

Discussion: Reuters, Politico, Common Dreams, Betsy's Page, Caffeinated Thoughts, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, Washington Post, The Mahablog, New York Post, New York Times, Gothamist and Liberal Values

Heather / Crooks and Liars:
Bill Kristol: If They Get To Nominate Hillary Clinton, Why Don't We Get To Nominate Dick Cheney?

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Addicting Info

Hadas Gold / Politico: Clinton campaign asks WHCA to help organize pools

Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Hillary Clinton's journey to Iowa: 1,000-mile road trip in a ‘Scooby-Doo’ van

Discussion: Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Balloon Juice, Althouse and Mashable

Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton

Discussion: New York Times, Reuters and Washington Post

Julie Bykowicz / Bloomberg Business:
Why Hillary Clinton Can't Win the Fundraising Expectations Game

Discussion: Politico, Washington Monthly, New York Times, Democratic Strategist, American Spectator and The Hill

Hillary Clinton / Guardian:
The Guardian view on Hillary Clinton: hammering the glass ceiling (again)

Discussion: Hit & Run, The Federalist, Common Dreams, Brooklyn Magazine, OnPolitics and Daily Kos

Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Can Hillary hold together the Obama coalition?

Discussion: Moe Lane, Weekly Standard, The National Memo, Hot Air, Raw Story, Bloomberg Business, Post On Politics and The Federalist

Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Clinton's decision: The long road to a second campaign

Discussion: Fox News

E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's role model? Bush 41.

Discussion: Commentary Magazine and The Week

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Hillary Clinton to drive to Iowa

Discussion: ABC News, Globe and Mail, Vox, Althouse, Political Insider blog, Washington Times, New York Times and Twitchy

Brian Beutler / The New Republic:

Marco Rubio Is the Most Disingenuous Republican Running for President — He's not a reformer. He's a fraud. — Most of the Republican Party's primary candidates have internalized something that was blindingly obvious to everyone who watched the 2012 elections unfold.

Discussion: Washington Post, The National Memo and Booman Tribune

Associated Press:

RUBIO TELLS DONORS HE IS RUNNING FOR WHITE HOUSE — MIAMI (AP) — Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday took on Hillary Rodham Clinton in his first words as a presidential candidate, telling top donors he is running for the Republican nomination because the 2016 race for the White House should be about the future, not the past.

Discussion: Post On Politics, Associated Press, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Mediaite, The Week, The Daily Caller and Chicago

Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:

The Official 2016 GOP Field Gets Its First Real Contender: Marco Rubio — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's campaign, which officially kicks off Monday, has so far attracted paltry support from Republican voters, according to polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, as well as nationally. He's down near Chris Christie!

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, New York Times, SaintPetersBlog, New York Magazine and The Reaction

Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Marco Rubio Announces 2016 Presidential Bid

Discussion: Politico, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, Rhode Island Public Radio and NPR

Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Marco Rubio set to launch 2016 bid

Discussion: OnPolitics, FOX News Radio, Hit & Run, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Shakesville, NBC News and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Politico:
Why Marco Rubio couldn't say no

Discussion: NPR, Salon, Bloomberg Business, BREITBART.COM, Bloomberg View, Washington Monthly, SaintPetersBlog, Hot Air, Associated Press and Post On Politics

CNN:
He's in: Marco Rubio's presidential challenge

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Business Insider and Associated Press

Julie Bykowicz / Bloomberg Business:
Marco Rubio Seeks Contrast With Hillary Clinton as He Announces Presidential Run

Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg View

Michael J. Mishak / National Journal:
The Great Risk in Marco Rubio's 2016 Run

Discussion: Addicting Info

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 …

Discussion: Mashable, The Last Refuge, New York Times, Addicting Info, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Free Thought Project and New York Magazine

Sundance / The Last Refuge:

Update* Game Changer OR Paradigm Shift ? - Walter Scott Shooting: Enhanced Video Shows Officer Slager With Taser Darts... On the first day we saw the North Charleston, South Carolina, shooting video of Walter Scott by Officer Michael Slager we were as shocked as everyone.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit, No More Mister Nice Blog, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and New York Times

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.

Discussion: New York Magazine, CBS DC, PoliticusUSA, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, ThinkProgress and Balloon Juice

Katie DeLong / FOX6Now.com:

Driver, 15-year-old passenger dead, shot after two-year-old hit by a car & killed — MILWAUKEE (WITI) — Milwaukee police say three people are dead in connection with an incident that began as a fatal accident and turned into a double shooting. — It happened in the 4600 block of N. 48th Street …

Discussion: KTLA, New York's PIX11, KFOR-TV and fox8.com

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.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:

Obama's deceptions on Iran and Cuba — Remember Jonathan Gruber, the Obamacare architect who as caught on tape boasting how the president had taken advantage of the “stupidity” of American voters to pass his health-care law? — Well it seems, Obama is applying the “Gruber Doctrine” once again — this time to foreign policy.

Discussion: VodkaPundit

Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:

Everything We Know About The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Killing Of Eric Harris — A white reserve sheriff's deputy in Tulsa County, Oklahoma shot and killed a black man who was on the ground being arrested on April 2. Law enforcement initially said the reserve deputy had mistaken his own handgun …

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Beast, Balloon Juice and Oklahoma's Own

Tulsa World:
Reserve deputy who shot, killed man thought he drew his Taser, release says

Discussion: Washington Post, Associated Press, National Review, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Hit & Run, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Mashable and Progress Pond

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.

Discussion: Washington Post and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Ken Thomas / TIME:

Clinton Takes Road Trip to Iowa for First Campaign Event — (WASHINGTON) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is hitting the road as she starts her 2016 presidential campaign — quite literally. — Clinton left Sunday on a road trip from her home in Chappaqua, New York, in a van headed for Iowa …

Discussion: American Spectator, Hot Air and Washington Post