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Dylan Byers / Politico:
New York Times, Fox News strike deals for anti-Clinton research — The New York Times and Fox News have made exclusive agreements with a conservative author for early access to his opposition research on Hillary Clinton, a move that has confounded members of the Clinton campaign and some Times reporters …
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Tarini Parti / Politico:
George Soros' son builds a PAC for Jewish voters — The son of Democratic mega-donor George Soros is gearing up to play a more active role in the 2016 election with the launch of new political action committee focused on representing the views of Jewish Americans — beyond foreign policy.
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Hillary Clinton Jabs GOP Candidates for Focusing on Her and Not Issues — During a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Monday, Hillary Clinton actually took a few questions from the press, addressing her conservative critics in a more direct way than she had previously done in her still-nascent run for president.
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FOX News Radio and CNN
Annie Karni / Politico:
Hillary Clinton on GOP field: They only want to talk about me
Hillary Clinton on GOP field: They only want to talk about me
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ABC News, The Reaction, Bloomberg Business and PoliticusUSA
ABC News:
White House Won't Comment on Reports of Preferential Treatment for Clinton Foundation Donors
White House Won't Comment on Reports of Preferential Treatment for Clinton Foundation Donors
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Hot Air, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo, Fox News and Washington Post
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton Just Took A Shot At GOP Plans To Cut Social Security
Hillary Clinton Just Took A Shot At GOP Plans To Cut Social Security
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Daily Kos and Washington Post
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
David Koch Signals a Favorite: Scott Walker — Charles G. and David H. Koch, the influential and big-spending conservative donors, have a favorite in the race for the Republican nomination: Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
G.O.P. Donors Signal a Favorite: Wisconsin Governor
G.O.P. Donors Signal a Favorite: Wisconsin Governor
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The New York Observer, Bloomberg Business, Liberaland and Balloon Juice
Tim Teeman / The Daily Beast:
Roseanne Barr on Losing Her Sight, Smoking Weed, Rejecting Feminism, and Not Voting For Hillary — As a documentary of her 2012 presidential run is released, Roseanne Barr talks about political power, mortality, and why a Hillary Clinton win wouldn't be as symbolic as many hope.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Sexy Conservatives Will Out-Breed Barren Liberals — The last time some Twitter leftist sneered at me and called me a “breeder,” I wondered whether this collectivist genius considered not reproducing to be a wise long-term strategy. The fact is that in America, most of the time it's the traditional …
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Ed Driscoll
Gaby Wood / Telegraph:
Toni Morrison interview: on racism, her new novel and Marlon Brando — Age hasn't dimmed the fire in Toni Morrison, 84. The unwavering voice of black America talks about her latest novel and what it will take for racism to be a thing of the past — Toni Morrison is, without a doubt, a world-class novelist.
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Oliver Laughland / Guardian:
Toni Morrison: ‘I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman’
Toni Morrison: ‘I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman’
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FOX News Radio
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Top Christie ally defects to Bush — As New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tries for a political revival with New Hampshire town halls and Iowa diner stops, he won't have one of his longtime friends and political advisers at his side. — New Jersey state Sen. Joseph M. Kyrillos …
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Outside the Beltway and Business Insider
Baltimore Sun:
Police report says Freddie Gray had knife, arrested ‘without incident’ — City police wrote in court documents that Freddie Gray was arrested “without force or incident” for having a switchblade knife and suffered a medical emergency during transport. — The documents provide the first account …
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Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Death of Baltimore man Freddie Gray in custody sparks call for independent inquiry
Death of Baltimore man Freddie Gray in custody sparks call for independent inquiry
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CNN, Firedoglake and Daily Kos
New York Times:
1.5 Million Missing Black Men — For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men. The remaining men - 1.5 million of them - are, in a sense, missing. — Among cities with sizable black populations, the largest single gap is in Ferguson, Mo.
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Philly.com
Josh Middleton / Philadelphia Magazine:
PA High School Students Organize “Anti-Gay Day” in Response to National Day of Silence — McGuffey High School in Claysville, Pennsylvania made headlines over the weekend when a group of students organized an “Anti-Gay Day' in direct retaliation to the LGBT youth-supportive National Day of Silence (NDOS) on Friday.
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
U.S. carrier moving off coast of Yemen to block Iranian arms shipments — WASHINGTON — The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has moved off the coast of Yemen to prepare to intercept potential shipments of Iranian weapons to the rebels fighting the U.S.-backed government of Yemen, Pentagon officials said Monday.
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
68K sign up during ObamaCare's extra period — More than 68,000 people have signed up for healthcare during ObamaCare's extra enrollment period so far this year, the federal government announced Monday. — People who lack insurance have 10 more days to buy coverage through the federal marketplace …
Dana Somberg / Jerusalem Post:
Rivlin refuses meeting in Israel with former US president Jimmy Carter … Diplomatic sources says Foreign Ministry recommended president not meet with Carter in light of his “anti-Israel” positions in recent years. — President Reuven Rivlin has refused to meet with former US president Jimmy Carter during …
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Israel Matzav and The Gateway Pundit
Sophie Curtis / Telegraph:
PayPal wants to implant passwords in your stomach and your brain — “Natural body identification” could one day replace passwords and other modern methods of identification, claims PayPal developer chief — PayPal is working on a new generation of embeddable, injectable and ingestible devices …
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Infowars and FOX News Radio
The Right Scoop:
FRANKLIN GRAHAM: WE NEED TO STOP MUSLIM IMMIGRATION FROM COUNTRIES WITH ACTIVE TERROR CELLS — Franklin Graham didn't mince any words today with Fox News host Gretchen Carlson on the 30 Christians from Ethiopia that were slaughtered this weekend. He both condemned the White House …
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FOX News Radio
Max Seddon / BuzzFeed:
Putin's Action Hero: How Steven Seagal Became the Kremlin's Unlikeliest Envoy — Vladimir Putin knew his relationship with the United States was nearing breaking point when he met Barack Obama in Lough Erne, a picturesque lakeside golf resort in Northern Ireland, on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in June 2013.
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Daily Kos, New York Magazine and The Week
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans look to lift spending caps — The GOP is already talking about another big spending deal to ease budget caps. Call it Ryan-Murray 2.0? — GOP congressional leaders are racing to approve a budget blueprint for the coming year that abides by strict spending limits …
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Daily Kos and BarbWire.com
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Wildmon: The Left Hates Us Because We 'Represent God's Message Of A Moral Standard Having To Do With Sexuality' — The American Family Association's Tim Wildmon was the guest on “WallBuilders Live” today, discussing his organization's “bigotry map,” which it recently released in response …
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FOX News Radio
David Martosko / Daily Mail:
Clinton aide admits they SCREEN ‘everyday Americans’ for Hillary's campaign events as some ordinary people in a New Hampshire bakery - the employees! - refuse to shake her hand — But a cashier told Daily Mail Online that some of the kitchen staff 'didn't want to come out to meet Hillary' because 'they just don't like her'
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Patterico's Pontifications
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Lindsey Graham on 2016, Immigration and Israel — South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham sat down with The Wall Street Journal after addressing Republican activists Saturday in Nashua, N.H., and assessed his 2016 prospects and the debates over immigration policy and national security.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mediaite, Niqnaq and The Pulse 2016