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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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The Note: What The 2016ers Are Saying About Baltimore … NOTABLES —OBAMA — ‘NO EXCUSE’ FOR ‘SENSELESS’ VIOLENCE IN BALTIMORE: President Obama condemned the violence in Baltimore yesterday, saying there is “no excuse” for the violence, looting and arson that followed the funeral held for Freddie Gray …
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Hillary Clinton's forgotten death penalty shift
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Hillary Clinton to Outline Pitch for Criminal Justice Reform
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Hillary Clinton to call for end to ‘mass incarceration’
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Bernie Sanders to launch Democratic presidential bid: Vermont radio
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Bernie Sanders to Challenge Hillary Clinton
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Baltimore mom who smacked son during riots: “I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray” — Shares - — The Baltimore mother caught on video repeatedly smacking her son after catching him throwing things at police during rioting in Baltimore told CBS News that she was only concerned about protecting him.
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What you really need to know about Baltimore, from a reporter who's lived there for over 30 years — It was only a matter of time before Baltimore exploded. — In the more than three decades I have called this city home, Baltimore has been a combustible mix of poverty, crime, and hopelessness …
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Goodbye to Freddie Gray and Goodbye to Quietly Accepting Injustice — WASHINGTON — IN the spacious sanctuary of Baltimore's New Shiloh Baptist Church, at the funeral of Freddie Gray on Monday, the familiar weight of grief descended over me, not just for Mr. Gray, but for the countless Freddie …
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Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch — Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch. 9NEWS at 9 p.m. 04/27/15. — CONNECT — AURORA - A mother in Aurora claims a teacher at her child's preschool, Children's Academy, refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch, because it wasn't nutritious.
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State of the News Media 2015 — Call it a mobile majority. At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of comScore data.
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Martin O'Malley Takes a Walking Tour of an Angry Baltimore — Chris Dickens reads Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland and the former mayor of Baltimore, the names of people Mr. Dickens said had been brutalized by the police. Credit: — BALTIMORE — Martin O'Malley may plan …
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Thousands of new Lerner emails found — An inspector general investigating the IRS's improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups has found thousands of emails from Lois Lerner, the agency official at the center of that controversy, according to committees involved in the probe.
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Holy war against Hillary — What have the American people done to deserve the political campaigns that have become a permanent feature of American life, starring politicians who perpetually escalate every unsavory tactic that brings politics into widespread disrepute?


Social media analysis suggests links between Baltimore and Ferguson violence — Baltimore firefighters battle a three-alarm fire Monday, April 27, 2015, at a senior living facility under construction at Federal and Chester Streets in East Baltimore. (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Why Can't Baltimore's Black Female Mayor Stop Saying ‘Thug’?
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Joni Mitchell — In a Coma, Unresponsive (Update: With Court Docs) — IN A COMA, UNRESPONSIVE — EXCLUSIVE — Joni Mitchell is unconscious in a hospital, unable to respond to anyone, with no immediate prospects for getting better. — Joni's close friend of 44 years, Leslie Morris …
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Geraldo: ‘Annoying’ Protester Got in the Way of ‘Important Story’ — Fox News' Geraldo Rivera nearly got into it with a protester last night as he was trying to interview Maryland State Senate Majority Leader Catherine Pugh in the midst of the Baltimore demonstrations.
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Debunking Obama's bilious Baltimore babble — Creators Syndicate — It's never enough. American taxpayers have surrendered billions and billions and billions of dollars to the social-justice-spender-in-chief. But it's never, ever enough. — The latest paroxysm of urban violence …
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GOP leader: Gas tax hike ‘politically impossible’ — A gas-tax hike is dead on arrival in Congress, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday. — Transportation advocates have pushed to increase or index to inflation the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax …


Mother viciously beats woman over parking space at LI mall as husband, children watch — Warning: Video contains graphic language and violence. — VALLEY STREAM, Long Island (PIX11) — Police are looking for a mother who viciously beat a woman in a Long Island mall parking lot as her husband …

Supreme Court Divided In Same-Sex Marriage Arguments — Justice Anthony Kennedy seemed to lean toward same-sex marriage, but not decisively. — The Supreme Court divided along traditional partisan lines Tuesday over a historic case that could make same-sex marriage legal in every state.
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Marshall Islands Needs U.S. Help in Iran Standoff — The Marshall Islands, a small country that gained independence from the U.S. in 1986, will almost definitely have to rely on the U.S. to retrieve a cargo ship flying its flag that was commandeered Tuesday by Iran's Navy, apparently in Iranian waters.
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Iran seizes commercial ship, U.S. forces respond
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