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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Marco Rubio Is a Polished Performer, but He's Out of Position — Marco Rubio, who announced his bid for the presidency on Monday in a call to donors, has been called the “best communicator” in the Republican Party. Over and over and over again. — But he has little to show for it.
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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.
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Marco Rubio Running For President in 2016: ‘I Can Lead This Country’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Marco Rubio Running For President in 2016: ‘I Can Lead This Country’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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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
Chris Good / ABC News:
Marco Rubio Would Reopen Gitmo, Reverse Obama Foreign Policy
Marco Rubio Would Reopen Gitmo, Reverse Obama Foreign Policy
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Bloomberg Business:
Will the GOP Get Behind Marco Rubio's Immigration Evolution?
Will the GOP Get Behind Marco Rubio's Immigration Evolution?
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New York Times:
Marco Rubio Announces 2016 Presidential Bid
Marco Rubio Announces 2016 Presidential Bid
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Associated Press:
RUBIO TELLS DONORS HE IS RUNNING FOR WHITE HOUSE
RUBIO TELLS DONORS HE IS RUNNING FOR WHITE HOUSE
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Rubio jumps into White House race with jab at Hillary Clinton
Rubio jumps into White House race with jab at Hillary Clinton
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Marco Rubio: Hillary Clinton's Ideas ‘Will Not Help Everyday Americans’
Marco Rubio: Hillary Clinton's Ideas ‘Will Not Help Everyday Americans’
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nate Silver to Vox: Stop stealing our charts! … FiveThirtyEight founder and statistics guru Nate Silver has accused Ezra Klein's Vox.com of stealing other people's charts without attribution. — “Yo, @voxdotcom: Y'all should probably stop stealing people's charts without proper attribution,” he tweeted Monday.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
How Vox aggregates — I started as a blogger in the pre-social web, when the only way to build an audience was to have other sites quote or link to your work. Those links didn't drive a ton of traffic back to the original site, but they drove some, and sometimes you would get a new regular reader out of the deal.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Unlike Hillary Clinton, the entire GOP field is either obscure or unpopular
Unlike Hillary Clinton, the entire GOP field is either obscure or unpopular
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Hillary Clinton / Salon:
Dangers of a Hillary Clinton campaign: The disastrous centrism she desperately needs to avoid — With the Big Announcement yesterday, Hillary Clinton officially entered the race that everyone assumes she's already won. Can you feel the excitement? No? Well, this shouldn't come as a shock …
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This Kid Is Devastated Hillary Clinton Is Running For President Because He Wanted To
This Kid Is Devastated Hillary Clinton Is Running For President Because He Wanted To
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Strategist: I Don't Need Hillary ‘To Drown Me In Estrogen’ (VIDEO)
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Meet the gay couple in Clinton campaign video
Meet the gay couple in Clinton campaign video
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
On the Road, Hillary Clinton Stops for Lunch at Chipotle and Goes Unrecognized — Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is all about “everyday Americans,” she made clear in announcing it on Sunday. — On Monday, she showed how unassuming she herself could be.
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ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Makes Surprise Pit Stop at Chipotle in Ohio During Presidential Roadtrip … Hillary Clinton, who has embarked on a roughly 1,000 mile road trip after formally announcing her presidential bid on Sunday, was spotted at a Chipotle in Maumee, Ohio this afternoon.
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Michael Quander / WREG-TV:
Brutal attack at Memphis gas station caught on camera — MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Surveillance video showed a mob of rowdy high school students beating a man at a Crosstown gas station. — Police said a large group of Northwest Prep Academy students swarmed a BP gas station on Poplar and Cleveland.
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Alaska Airlines Blog:
Statement on Alaska Airlines flight 448 — Flight 448, bound for Los Angeles, returned to Seattle shortly after departure today after it was discovered that a ramp agent was still in the cargo hold. The aircraft was in the air for 9 minutes. — After landing, the agent …
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Ashley Edwards / New York's PIX11:
EXCLUSIVE: Woman says Harlem tattoo parlor behind ‘Black Ink’ left her disfigured — HARLEM (PIX11) — Asabi Barner was a confident woman in her 30s. Her body was never something she felt a need to cover up, until now. — A tattoo coverup changed her life last year.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Mark Kirk Says People Drive Faster Through Black Neighborhoods — WASHINGTON — In a little-noticed interview last week, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) described African-American neighborhoods as areas that people in his state try to avoid. — The comment, with its racial undertones …
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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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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USA Today:
Tulsa reserve deputy charged with manslaughter
Tulsa reserve deputy charged with manslaughter
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
CNN Host Asks Rand To Reconcile Libertarianism, View On Gay Marriage — CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday pushed presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on his views on same-sex marriage, asking him why, as a libertarian, he doesn't believe gay people should have the freedom to marry.
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Washington Post:
Four Blackwater guards sentenced in Iraq shootings of 31 unarmed civilians — A federal judge in Washington handed down prison terms of 30 years to life behind bars to four Blackwater Worldwide guards convicted in a deadly 2007 shooting that killed 14 unarmed Iraqis and injured others in a Baghdad traffic circle.
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Detroit News:
Ben Carson to launch bid for presidency from Detroit — Detroit native Dr. Ben Carson will officially launch his presidential campaign in Detroit on May 4, officials said Monday. — The event at the Detroit Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts will be ticketed, though a time hasn't been set …
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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.
Alejandro Alba / NY Daily News:
Revenge porn is now a specific crime in the UK — The UK has passed new legislation that punishes revenge porn with prison. — As of Monday, UK's Criminal Justice and Court Act considers revenge porn as a specific crime. If someone publicly posts racy images of their ex without consent …
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