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4:00 PM ET, April 13, 2015

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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.
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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.
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
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!
Hadas Gold / Politico:   Clinton campaign asks WHCA to help organize pools
Michael J. Mishak / National Journal:
The Great Risk in Marco Rubio's 2016 Run
Discussion: Addicting Info
Julie Bykowicz / Bloomberg Business:
Marco Rubio Seeks Contrast With Hillary Clinton as He Announces Presidential Run
Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg View
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.
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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 …
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 …
Bill Curry / Salon:
Hillary Clinton just doesn't get it: She's already running a losing campaign
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton
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
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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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.
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
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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.
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.
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 …
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Tulsa World:
Reserve deputy who shot, killed man thought he drew his Taser, release says
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.
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 …
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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Romney: ‘Hillary Clinton Is Just Not Trustworthy’
 
 
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Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
U.C.L.A. Faculty Approves Diversity Requirement
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Obama rolls the dice on Iran
Discussion: Power Line
Stephen Kinzer / New York Times:
Günter Grass, German Novelist and Social Critic, Dies at 87
Discussion: CNN, American Spectator and Mediaite
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Anti-gay activist testifies against same-sex marriage in Texas: Gays are like ‘murderers and rapists’
Discussion: Addicting Info
Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
Pentagon Deploys ‘May I Kiss You?’ Training
Discussion: The Daily Caller and BizPac Review
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
Inspector General report comes down hard on Metro North
Discussion: Associated Press
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Wealthy donors on left launch new plan to wrest back control in the states
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Prairie Weather
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Obama conquered the West for Democrats, but now it's back in play
Discussion: American Power
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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New York Times:
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Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
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