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Hunter Schwarz / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham says he's ‘91 percent’ sure he'll run for president — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said his decision on whether he'll run for president depends on whether he can raise enough money, but he said there's a “91 percent” chance he will. — “If I can raise the money, I'll do it …
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Ana Marie Cox / The Daily Beast:
Marco Rubio, Gen-X Fraud — It will take more than youthful good Hispanic looks to appeal to today's Millennial voters. If Marco Rubio doesn't get that, he won't go very far. — On the surface, Marco Rubio is such a perfect 2016 Republican nominee you might think he was created in a lab.
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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.
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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
Graham says he's ‘91 percent sure’ he'll get in 2016 GOP presidential primary but needs campaign cash
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Face the Nation Transcripts April 19, 2015: Rubio, Manchin, O'Malley
Face the Nation Transcripts April 19, 2015: Rubio, Manchin, O'Malley
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Lindsey Graham eyes May presidential announcement
Lindsey Graham eyes May presidential announcement
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Daily Mail:
Slaughter on the beach: ISIS behead and shoot Ethiopian Christians in sickening new propaganda video — Video seems to show militants in Libya holding one group of at least 16 captive on a beach and 12 others in a desert — Before the killings a masked fighter in black brandishes …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
ISIS Video Purports to Show Killing of Ethiopian Christians — CAIRO — The Islamic State released a video on Sunday that appears to show fighters from affiliates in southern and eastern Libya executing dozens of Ethiopian Christians, some by beheading and others by shooting.
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Matt Lewis / Telegraph:
Why satire not scandal could derail Hillary Clinton's campaign — “Serious” stories about Hillary Clinton did not attract as much coverage as her failure to leave a tip at a Mexican restaurant, writes Matt Lewis — Republicans are the usual targets for caricature on popular US comedy show …
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Jon Stewart / Guardian:
why I quit The Daily Show — Stewart's decision to retire as host of the satirical news show after 16 years has left liberal America in mourning. So why is he leaving just before an election - and what will happen when he steps out from behind the desk? — here was no one moment …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Checking Charlie Hebdo's Privilege — A LIVING cartoonist lecturing his murdered peers makes for a curious spectacle, but that's what transpired at journalism's George Polk Awards a week ago. The lecturer was Garry Trudeau, of “Doonesbury” fame; his subject was the cartoonists for Charlie Hebdo …
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.
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Big money in politics emerges as a rising issue in 2016 campaign — At almost the same time last week that a Florida mailman was landing a gyrocopter in front of the U.S. Capitol to protest the influence of the wealthy on politics, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) was getting pressed …
Washington Post:
‘Free-range’ flap fans the flames of a national debate on parenting — Montgomery County police said that a call came in to check on the children's welfare shortly before 5 p.m. (Montgomery County Police) — Long before the Meitivs of Silver Spring clashed with Montgomery County …
Jim Yardley / New York Times:
Hundreds of Migrants Are Feared Dead as Ship Capsizes Off Libyan Coast — ROME — Hundreds of people were feared dead on Sunday after a ship crowded with migrants capsized and sank in the Mediterranean, as the authorities described a grisly scene of bodies floating and submerging in the warm waters …
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