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Rand Paul: Baltimore Violence Is About ‘Lack Of Fathers’ And Morals (AUDIO) — Presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) weighed in on the turmoil in Baltimore on Tuesday, standing with police and blaming the violence on a lack of morals in America. — “I came through the train on Baltimore …
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Nonviolence as Compliance — Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but in the custody of the city's publicly appointed guardians of order.
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The Absence of Legitimate Authority in Baltimore
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Baltimore Burning: The Morning After And The Day Ahead
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The Economic Devastation Fueling The Anger In Baltimore
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What you really need to know about Baltimore, from a reporter who's lived there for over 30 years
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Obama on riots: America needs some soul searching
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White House awakes to ‘national crisis’
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Gay Marriage Arguments Divide Supreme Court Justices — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices on Tuesday clashed during arguments on whether there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The session is the last public step before a decision that will resolve one of the great open questions in modern constitutional law.
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Supreme Court Appears Ready To Rule In Favor Of Marriage Equality — A 5-4 vote in favor of same-sex couples' marriage rights appears to be the most likely outcome, although Chief Justice John Roberts' vote shouldn't be counted out. — Mladen Antonov / Getty Images
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No clear answers on same-sex marriage: In Plain English
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Supreme Court justices skeptical of redefining marriage
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Kennedy Sends Mixed Signals as Supreme Court Debates Gay Marriage
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Why a Ruling for Same-Sex Marriage Would Help Republicans
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Bernie Sanders To Announce Presidential Run — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a luncheon at the National Press Club on Monday, March 9, 2015 in Washington. VPR has learned that Sanders will announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday. — ANDREW HARNIK AP
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Sanders to launch presidential bid — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will officially launch a bid for the White House on Thursday. — A Democratic source close to the senator confirmed to The Hill that Sanders will announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination …
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Bernie Sanders to Challenge Hillary Clinton
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Iran fires at, boards Marshall Islands cargo ship; U.S. sending defense … Iranian troops boarded a cargo vessel early Tuesday morning after firing shots at the ship, prompting the U.S. to send assets to the ship's defense. — The Pentagon said at least five Iranian patrol vessels approached …
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Iran seizes commercial ship, U.S. forces respond
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Marshall Islands Needs U.S. Help in Iran Standoff
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URGENT: US Ship Seized by Iranian Warships
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RI executes 8 drug convicts — Defying intense pressure from the international community, the government executed eight death row prisoners early on Wednesday on Nusakambangan prison island near Cilacap in Central Java. — “We've carried out the executions,” said an Attorney General's Office …
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Bali Nine: Indonesia confirms it will execute prisoners tonight - live updates
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Bali Nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran ‘dignified’ ahead of executions
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181 Clinton Foundation donors who lobbied Hillary's State Department — The size and scope of the symbiotic relationship between the Clintons and their donors is striking. At least 181 companies, individuals, and foreign governments that have given to the Clinton Foundation also lobbied …
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That Time Bill Clinton Ran Ads Attacking His Rivals For Taking Money From Foreign Interests
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Fargo lawmaker sent explicit photo, claims disclosure was payback for vote on gay rights bill — FARGO—A North Dakota lawmaker who sent an explicit photo of himself to another man says the exchange being made public is retaliation for a recent vote against expanding gay rights.
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Jeb Bush Has The Cash, But Not The GOP Support — Jeb Bush is expected to declare a fundraising total in the “high tens of millions of dollars,” The New York Times reported on Monday. Any talk of record fundraising totals ought to account for inflation — as well as the fact that it's easier …
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Walker, Clinton lead in Iowa
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Why I killed Jeffrey Dahmer — Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was done in by his uncontrollable lust for human flesh, the man who whacked him in prison 20 years ago told The Post, revealing for the first time why the cannibal had to die. — Christopher Scarver — who fatally beat the serial killer …
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What the Public Knows — In Pictures, Words, Maps and Graphs — Pew Research Center News IQ Quiz — The latest Pew Research Center News IQ survey finds that, nearly half a century after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., an overwhelming majority of Americans (91%) are able to identify the civil rights leader from his picture.
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Americans bomb Pew test of basic political knowledge
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VIDEO: Mom beats child for throwing rocks at Baltimore Police — This Baltimore mom saw her son throwing rocks at police on television. — That didn't sit well with her. — The video shows the mother repeatedly striking her boy, chasing him as he tries to walk away.
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CNN Anchor Brooke Baldwin Blames Military Veterans for Baltimore Riots — After more than a year of CNN pouring gasoline all over America with hysterical, and oftentimes phony, stories of American racism, the left-wing network's afternoon anchor Brooke Baldwin finally took it to the next level …
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Baltimore's violent protesters are right: Smashing police cars is a legitimate political strategy — As a nation, we fail to comprehend Black political strategy in much the same way we fail to recognize the value of Black life. — We see ghettos and crime and absent parents …
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