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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Walker goes strong on foreign policy — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) brought a South Carolina crowd to its feet Saturday during his remarks on national security, a topic generally considered Walker's Achilles heel as he weighs a run for president. — Addressing the South Carolina Freedom Summit …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Top GOP Pollster Makes Really Weird Joke About Bruce Jenner At 2016 Event — A scene from Diane Sawyer's interview with Bruce Jenner. — CREDIT: YouTube/ABC News — GOP pollster Frank Luntz made an awkward joke about Bruce Jenner during a focus group at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday afternoon.
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Associated Press:
The Latest on 2016: GOP Hopefuls Proud of Their Parents — For many of the presidential hopefuls on stage Saturday for the South Carolina Freedom Summit, their parents are never far from their thoughts. — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal tells of his parents leaving India to go to Baton Rouge.
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Walker Shoots His Campaign In The Foot — On Sunday, Sergio Valencia del Toro was upset by an argument with his fiancee. He chose to deal with his pain and anger by going to a community setting with two hand guns and opening fire, killing three people - including an 11 year old girl - before taking his own life:
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Blue Telusma / theGrio:
UPDATED: Georgia school founder shocks students with racist remarks during graduation ceremony — Friday, the founder of TNT Academy in Lilburn Georgia shocked students and parents alike when she made racist comments towards her black graduates. — In the past students have alleged that the school …
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Yahoo:
Why Obama is happy to fight Elizabeth Warren on the trade deal — “She's absolutely wrong,” Barack Obama said, before I could even get the question out of my mouth. — He was talking about Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and populist crusader whom Obama helped elevate to national prominence.
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Jeff Greenfield / The Daily Beast:
Why Character Attacks on Hillary Won't Work — Why the former first couple has always survived attacks on their character, and probably always will. — If you're Martin O'Malley, or one of the other potential Democrats pondering a race against Hillary Clinton, you've been presented …
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Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
Father Apparently Confesses to Family's Murder in Facebook Post — A British Columbia man has apparently admitted in a Facebook post to killing his family, CBC News reports. The post on Randy Janzen's Facebook page states that he killed his wife, his daughter, and his sister.
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Guardian:
Officer in Freddie Gray case demanded man's arrest as part of personal dispute — Baltimore lieutenant Brian Rice used his position to threaten ‘heads will roll’ if officers did not arrest his ex-girlfriend's husband, police report reveals — The most senior Baltimore police officer charged …
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New York Times and Firedoglake
Sheri Fink / New York Times:
Liberia Is Free of Ebola, World Health Organization Declares — The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola on Saturday, making it the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to bring a formal end to the epidemic. — “The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over …
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Media centre — The Ebola outbreak in Liberia is over
Media centre — The Ebola outbreak in Liberia is over
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
King Blames Obama for Inciting Baltimore Riots — The Iowa firebrand takes his hot fire to South Carolina. — Representative Steve King was in his element at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday, saying after a speech to raucous conservatives that the fault for riots in Baltimore lies with President Barack Obama.
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Charles Murray / Wall Street Journal:
Regulation Run Amok—And How to Fight Back — Too many government regulations today are pointless and prevent us from doing our jobs as well as we could, writes Charles Murray. His modest proposal: Ignore them. — America is no longer the land of the free.
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