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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Stephanopoulos Challenges Clinton Cash Author: ‘Is There a Smoking Gun?’ — Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer appeared on This Week and faced a very skeptical George Stephanopoulos, who argued that his accusations that Hillary Clinton exchanged favorable treatment from the U.S. State Department …
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CANNONFIRE, The Last Refuge, FOX News Radio and Liberaland
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Maura Pally / Clinton Foundation:
A Commitment to Honesty, Transparency, and Accountability — Over the past few days, many questions have been raised about the Clinton Foundation, its initiatives, and the financial support that allows us to do the uniquely impactful philanthropic work that we do at home and around the world.
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Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Charity watchdog: Clinton Foundation a ‘slush fund’ — The Clinton Foundation's finances are so messy that the nation's most influential charity watchdog put it on its “watch list” of problematic nonprofits last month. — The Clinton family's mega-charity took in more than $140 million …
Evan Serpick / citypaper.com:
City Paper photo editor J.M. Giordano beaten by police at Freddie Gray protest — City Paper Photo Editor J.M. Giordano was tackled and beaten by Baltimore City police outside of Western District headquarters last night while covering protests over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
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Matthew Boyle / Associated Press:
War Zone: Baltimore Erupts Into Violence, Chaos as #BlackLivesMatter Riots Rage — BALTIMORE, Maryland — Racial protests supposed to be peaceful quickly turned into violent riots on Saturday evening, closing down the city of Baltimore for some time—and creating a panic for thousands of people …
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Baltimore Sun:
After peaceful start, violence mars Freddie Gray protest in Baltimore — A day of mostly peaceful rallies to protest the death of Freddie Gray turned confrontational as dark fell over Baltimore on Saturday with demonstrators smashing the windows on police cars, blocking traffic near …
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Raw Story and FOX News Radio
Ric Anderson / LasVegasSun.com:
The big lie: Las Vegan watches as his Reid tale takes off — A Las Vegas man claims he started a false rumor that the injuries suffered by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid several months ago were the result of an attack by Reid's brother, not an exercise accident.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Little Green Footballs and Mediaite
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Obama jokes about his fourth-quarter ‘bucket list’ at WHCD — President Obama came out swinging in his speech at this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday night, mocking his critics and taking various shots at Republicans and members of the media.
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Washington Post and Politico
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Warren to Obama: Stop making ‘untrue’ trade claims — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told President Obama on Saturday he was making “untrue” claims about his opponents — including herself. — The feud between Obama and the left continued Saturday, when Warren and Sen. Sherrod Brown …
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: ‘Clinton Cash’ Author Peter Schweizer — This is a rush transcript for April 26, 2015. It will be updated and may contain errors. — ANNOUNCER: ABC's This Week. Breaking now, is there a dramatic shift coming in how we treat ransom demands from terrorists?
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Ali Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Foundation Acknowledges Mistakes as Schweizer Calls for Investigation
Clinton Foundation Acknowledges Mistakes as Schweizer Calls for Investigation
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Politico
New York Times:
George W. Bush Opens Up About 2016 Race — LAS VEGAS - Former President George W. Bush offered rare, and broad-ranging, remarks Saturday night about current national security threats and the 2016 presidential campaign to a large audience of Jewish donors, suggesting that sanctions on Iran …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Is anyone afraid of Jeb Bush?
Sean Kelly / opposingviews.com/homepage.xml:
Father Hopes Mother Of Two Shot In Florida Lives So He Isn't ‘Stuck’ With Their Kids (Video) — A father in Jacksonville, Florida raised eyebrows this week after saying he hopes the mother of his children lived after being shot so that he wouldn't be “stuck” with his kids.
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Corey Robin / Salon:
Our perverse centrist patriots: Everything the elite media gets wrong about American politics — George Packer is bored with American politics. “The 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me,” he writes in The New Yorker. Today's politics “doesn't quicken my pulse.”
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