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USA Today:
Only the Clintons seem blind to foundation's conflicts: Our view — Hillary should put the charity's work on ice during her presidential campaign. — The foundation that Bill Clinton created after leaving the White House in 2001 has many things to commend it.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Bill Clinton Says He's “Taken Almost No Capital Gains In 15 Years” — Here's What The Returns Show — “I give 10% of my revenue off the top every year to the foundation, and Hillary in the year she was there gave 17,” former President Clinton told NBC News. — Joe Raedle / Getty Images
David Lerman / Bloomberg Business:
State Department Says No Evidence Donations Influenced Hillary Clinton
State Department Says No Evidence Donations Influenced Hillary Clinton
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BizPac Review, Mediaite and American Spectator
Institutional Investor's Alpha:
The 2015 Rich List: The Highest Earning Hedge Fund Managers of the Past Year — Read more: — David Tepper relinquishes the top spot on the Rich List for the first time in three years after posting a disappointing 2.2 percent gain. — ppein — Harsh memories of the global financial …
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New York Times and Prairie Weather
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Alexandra Stevenson / New York Times:
For Top 25 Hedge Fund Managers, a Difficult 2014 Still Paid Well — For investors in hedge funds, like big pension funds, 2014 was not a lucrative year. But for those who managed their money, the pay was spectacular. — The top 25 hedge fund managers reaped $11.62 billion in compensation in 2014 …
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The Week
Ann Colwell / CNN:
Texas shooting: Who is Pamela Geller? — Cartoon contest organizer: I'm anti-jihad 02:07 — Story highlights — (CNN)When two men opened fire outside a contest for Prophet Mohammed cartoons in a Dallas suburb Sunday night, Pamela Geller was the first to call it an attack on free speech.
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Washington Post, Boing Boing, The Daily Beast, ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo and The Huffington Post
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Dean Obeidallah / The Daily Beast:
Muslims Defend Pam Geller's Right to Hate
Muslims Defend Pam Geller's Right to Hate
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CNN, Middle East Eye, Commentary Magazine, US News, Salon, AMERICAblog News, New York Post, Jezebel, The Daily Banter, NBC News, Hit & Run, Fox News Insider, USA Today and Mashable
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Pamela Geller Battles CNN Host over Garland Shooting: Why Is Media ‘Targeting’ Us?
Pamela Geller Battles CNN Host over Garland Shooting: Why Is Media ‘Targeting’ Us?
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CNN, PoliticusUSA, The PJ Tatler, BBC, Raw Story, The Daily Banter, Liberaland, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, NewsHounds blog, NPR and FOX News Radio
Fox News:
Conflicting reports on gun incident in Baltimore — The unidentified man is seen in a stretcher after being shot Monday by Baltimore police. (Fox News) — DEVELOPING: Conflicting reports about a police chase that may have involved gunfire roiled Baltimore Monday, just a week after riots rocked the city.
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Mediaite, Reuters, CBS Baltimore, Politico, Hit & Run, Salon, The Huffington Post and Poynter.
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Bill / The Hill:
Bill Press: Sanders a serious opponent — Looking ahead to 2016, the contrast between the two major parties could not be more striking. Two more Republican candidates — Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson — joined the race Monday, with Mike Huckabee expected to announce on Tuesday.
cbp.gov:
Cocaine Found in Underwear By CBP at JFK — JAMAICA, N.Y. — U. S. Customs and Border Protection officers in New York are always discovering interesting concealment methods. Hiding cocaine in his underwear is another way that a would-be smuggler attempted to transport illegal drugs into the United States.
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The Smoking Gun, The Daily Caller, FOX31 Denver and Gawker
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Ben Carson's over-the-top ego — Republican neurosurgeon Ben Carson brought out a choir singing an Eminem cover and vowed not to be “politically correct” at the event announcing his run for president in 2016. Here are those key moments and more. (AP) — Ben Carson, who formally announced …
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Balloon Juice, Politico and Prairie Weather
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Hannah Scheller / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Willie Cauley-Stein's name change is official — Former University of Kentucky basketball star Willie Cauley-Stein's hyphenated last name is official now, as is a change in his middle name. — Cauley-Stein, 21, was born Willie Durmond Cauley Jr. He filed a name-change order Friday …
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ProBasketballTalk, SBNation.com, Deadspin, USA Today and The Big Lead
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
ObamaCare program saves Medicare $400M — A pilot program created under ObamaCare to change Medicare's payment system saved almost $400 million and will be expanded, the administration announced Monday. — An independent report released by the Department of Health and Human Services …
Brian Dulle / KSNT-TV:
Note on restaurant receipt to Kansas governor goes viral — TOPEKA (KSNT) - A photo posted on social media regarding a note on a receipt given to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has gone viral overnight. — The photo posted by former waitress Chloe Hough shows a credit card receipt …
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Kansas City Star, Raw Story, The Huffington Post, Liberaland, Talking Points Memo, LiberalAmerica.org and Mediaite
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Chuck Norris: Don't Trust The Gov't On A Possible Military Takeover Of Texas — The actor who starred in the TV show “Walker, Texas Ranger” wrote on Sunday that he thinks concerns about a possible military takeover of Texas might well be justified. — Actor Chuck Norris …
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Americans Against the …, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Banter and WND
Meredith ShinerPolitical / Yahoo Politics:
The Mike Huckabee record: An early advocate for criminal justice reform — In the eight years since Mike Huckabee left the governor's mansion in Arkansas, the former state executive has become better known as “Huckabee,” the brand — television host, author, pundit, 2008 Iowa caucuses winner.
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Bloomberg Business
New York Post:
Shot NYPD cop dies — Brian Moore (left) and Demetrius Blackwell — NYPD Officer Brian Moore died Monday after his distraught family removed him from life support, law-enforcement sources said. — A grim-faced Police Commissioner Bill Bratton was seen entering the hospital around 12:30 …
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Scared Monkeys, Fox News, The Huffington Post, CBS New York, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Power Line, New York Times, Mediaite and Gothamist
New York Times:
Dave Goldberg, Silicon Valley Executive, Died of Head Trauma, Mexican Official Says — SAN FRANCISCO — Dave Goldberg, the chief executive of SurveyMonkey and husband of Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, died of head trauma Friday night after he collapsed at the gym at a private resort in Mexico, according to a Mexican government official.
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Reuters, The Week, Mashable, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Althouse
News Releases:
ER Visits Continue to Rise Since Implementation of Affordable Care Act — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Three-quarters of emergency physicians report that emergency visits are going up, according to a new poll. This represents a significant increase from just one year ago when less than half reported increases.
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Tech Times and The Daily Signal
Liz GoodwinSenior / Yahoo Politics:
Obama-inspired foundation gets its start, with $80 million in the bank — President Barack Obama announced Monday that a new nonprofit aimed at empowering young men and boys of color has already raised $80 million from PepsiCo, Deloitte and other corporate sponsors.
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American Gaming Association and Politico