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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.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Rubio Takes Aim at the Left — Marco Rubio launched his presidential campaign this afternoon with an event in Miami. In my opinion, Rubio understands, and is able to speak to, the current mood of most Americans better than any of the other candidates of either party.
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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mrctv.org/videos, Bloomberg Business, Associated Press and BuzzFeed
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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BuzzFeed, Fox News, CNN, Weekly Standard, Bloomberg Business, Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, PoliticusUSA, The Atlantic Online, New York Times, Shakesville and Politico
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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ABC News and ThinkProgress
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
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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The Gateway Pundit, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider and Associated Press
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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Politico, Raw Story, Washington Monthly and Crooks and Liars
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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Poynter and FishbowlNY, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Mediaite, CNNMoney and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, more at Mediagazer »
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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Talking Points Memo
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton, Just an Unrecognized Burrito Bowl Fan — 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. — Driving to Iowa for her first campaign swing …
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CBS DC, Hot Air, Twitchy, The Democratic Daily and Business Insider
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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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Guardian, Washington Post, New York Magazine, New York Post, Mashable, Yahoo Politics, OnPolitics, New York Times, The Daily Caller and CNN
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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New York Magazine, Mediaite, KFOR-TV, FOX2now.com and NPR
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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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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Campaign for America's Future
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton
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Los Angeles Times, Liberal Values, Washington Post, Reuters and New York Times
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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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Ex-Blackwater Guards Sentenced to Long Prison Terms in 2007 Killings of Iraqi Civilians
Ex-Blackwater Guards Sentenced to Long Prison Terms in 2007 Killings of Iraqi Civilians
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Gawker
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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FOX2now.com
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 …
USA Today:
Tulsa reserve deputy charged with manslaughter — Authorities say Eric Harris was trying to sell an undercover officer a gun when more officers arrived and he took off. Police cameras captured the exchange, chase and deadly shooting by a reserve deputy who claims he meant to fire his stun gun.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Everything We Know About The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Killing Of Eric Harris
Everything We Know About The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Killing Of Eric Harris
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Tulsa World, New York Times, Common Dreams and Balloon Juice
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Lawmakers unveil music royalty bill — Lawmakers on Monday unveiled legislation aimed at forcing broadcasters, satellite radio companies and Internet streaming services to pay the same royalties to musicians. — Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) …
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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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Daily Kos
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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Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
Heather / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
The Daily Show Pokes Fun At The Response To Clinton's 2016 Rollout — The Daily Show had a bit of fun with Hillary Clinton's big announcement this week. After mocking her fairly boring campaign video, host Jon Stewart praised Clinton for “not acting like she's dropping a bombshell with the announcement …
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Raw Story
Peter Lloyd / Telegraph:
Meet the feminist who is sticking up for men — Feminist academic Christina Hoff Sommers is attracting attention for speaking out against untruths in the gender equality debate, writes Peter Lloyd — For a lot of men, there are two dirty f-words in the English language …
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