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12:45 PM ET, April 19, 2015

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Fox News:
Graham says he's ‘91 percent sure’ he'll get in 2016 GOP presidential primary but needs campaign cash  —  FILE: Jan. 28, 2015: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (AP)  —  South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he's “91 percent sure” …
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Washington Post:
GOP contenders audition their attack lines on Clinton  —  NASHUA, N.H. — As Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared to bring her week-old presidential campaign to this state on Monday, an array of Republicans vying to be their party's pick spent the weekend offering a preview of how they would take her on.
Discussion: The Week
James Hohmann / Politico:
Rand Paul slams GOP foreign policy hawks
Discussion: The Reaction
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
Big Idea: California Is So Over  —  California's drought and how it's handled show just what kind of place the Golden State is becoming: feudal, super-affluent and with an impoverished interior.  —  California has met the future, and it really doesn't work.
Discussion: Never Yet Melted and The PJ Tatler
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Granny Get Your Gun  —  WASHINGTON — THE most famous woman on the planet has a confounding problem.  She can't figure out how to campaign as a woman.  —  In 2008, Hillary Clinton took advice from two men — Bill Clinton and Mark Penn — and campaigned like a man.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000  —  The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.
Betsy Hiel / Associated Press:
Reagan shooter Hinckley closer to permanent freedom  —  The last man to shoot an American president spends most of the year in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated community.  —  He likes taking walks, plays guitar and paints, eats at Wendy's and drives around in a Toyota.
New York Times:
Voting Rights, by the Numbers  —  When the Supreme Court struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, its main argument was that the law was outdated.  —  Discrimination against minority voters may have been pervasive in the 1960s when the law was passed, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Walker Shines in New Hampshire  —  Nashua, N.H.  —  Scott Walker was feeling it.  —  He'd been speaking for a little more than ten minutes, telling stories about his battles in Wisconsin to a crowd of Republicans nodding their heads in enthusiastic agreement.
Diane Cardwell / New York Times:
Solar Power Battle Puts Hawaii at Forefront of Worldwide Changes  —  Utility vs. Homeowners Over Solar Power Utility vs. Homeowners Over Solar Power  —  In Hawaii, where 12 percent of the homes have solar panels, handling the surplus power is putting pressure on the state's biggest utility …
Plain Dealer:
Ohio principal dumps school's Muslim headscarf day after online backlash  —  Mindy McCarty-Stewart, principal of Mason High School in Mason, Ohio, Thursday, April 16, 2015, canceled a student-led event in which girls planned to celebrate diversity by spending a day wearing a Muslim headscarf.
Zach Noble / TheBlaze.com:
When This Female Air Force Vet Saw Protesters Stepping on the Flag, She Took Action.  It Took Four Cops to Bring Her Down.  —  When she saw protesters disrespecting the flag, she took matters into her own hands.  —  She didn't let up even when the cops got involved.
Jackie Congedo / WLWT-TV:
Officer: ‘I wanted to be absolutely sure before I used deadly force’  —  Kidder says relative gave him body camera to use at work after Ferguson  —  Officer Jesse Kidder has only been on the New Richmond police force for a year, but he did two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine and he's a Purple Heart recipient.
 
 
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Hari Pulakkat / The Economic Times:
Why not enough people are working on climate change in India
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Washington Post:
New Hampshire could be make-or-break for Jeb Bush
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Political Wire
Harry Dunphy / Associated Press:
The world's financial leaders see a number of threats facing …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Nicholas Garcia / Chalkbeat Colorado:
Jeffco board member apologizes for sharing link to “hate group” on Facebook
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials
Discussion: Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
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Noah Barkin / Reuters:
Thousands in Germany protest against Europe-U.S. trade deal
Discussion: Common Dreams
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep: Obamacare Makes America More Like North Korea
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
George Lucas wants to build affordable housing on his land because 'we've got enough millionaires'
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

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