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CNN:
Poll: New speed bumps for Clinton — Hillary Clinton's 2016 announcement in under 2 minutes — Sen. Rand Paul running for president — Ted Cruz is first out of the gate in 2016 race — Is there room for a non-Hillary Democratic candidate? — Story highlights
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Mark Peterson / New York Magazine:
Not the Bush You Think He Is — Jeb Bush is more ruthless than he looks, more conservative than moderates like to believe, and possibly more appealing to Latinos than Marco Rubio. — Photographs by — There's a substantial gulf between the Jeb Bush who served two formidable terms …
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Washington Monthly, Business Insider and The Week
Washington Post:
Frontrunner angst: Bush lead evaporates, Clinton favorability hits 7-year low — After five months of forums, fundraising appearances and trips to the early states, the 2016 Republican nomination contest is as unsettled as ever, with no candidate receiving more than 11 percent support …
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Power Line, Orlando Sentinel, Trail Blazers Blog, Daily Kos, Bloomberg Business, Hot Air, National Review, New York Times and Liberal Values
Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton unfavorable numbers highest in 14 years
Clinton unfavorable numbers highest in 14 years
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Washington Post, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and The Week
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Secret effort to sell Hillary Clinton to rich liberals
Megan Apper / BuzzFeed:
Huckabee On Transgender People: I Wish I Could've Said I Was Transgender In HS To Shower With The Girls — “There is something inherently wrong about forcing little children to be a part of this social experiment.” — View Video › — buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com
Sarah Boesveld / National Post:
Becoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies — Oh, The Humanities: Part of a series showcasing research at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences this week. — OTTAWA — When he cut off his right arm with a …
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protein wisdom, Hot Air, Rush Limbaugh, The PJ Tatler, RedState, The Federalist and The Daily Caller
David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Rand Paul, Ron Wyden Release Nine Amendments to USA Freedom Act — According to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's presidential campaign, Sunday's votes on the USA Freedom Act amounted to a partial victory and a total fulfillment of Paul's promise. The Republican had said he would make the Patriot Act expire.
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Mark Garfinkel / Boston Herald:
Boston police: Man killed by FBI agent, cop during active terror probe — Photo by: — Boston police officers and detectives investigate at the scene of a shooting Tuesday morning at 4600 Washington St. in Roslindale. — By: — An armed man in his 20s being surveilled …
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Weasel Zippers, BARE NAKED ISLAM, Hinterland Gazette and The Gateway Pundit
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Evan Allen / BostonGlobe.com:
Man armed with ‘military-style’ knife shot, killed in Roslindale
Man armed with ‘military-style’ knife shot, killed in Roslindale
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Daily Mail, The Jawa Report and NBC News
Politico:
Why We're Suspending the “Run Warren Run” Campaign — But we're still declaring victory. — Today we announce the suspension of our campaign to draft Elizabeth Warren into the presidential race. There's no sugar-coating it: We didn't achieve our central goal.
New York Times:
Poll Shows Americans Favor Overhaul of Campaign Financing — Americans of both parties fundamentally reject the regime of untrammeled money in elections made possible by the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other court decisions and now favor a sweeping overhaul of how political campaigns …
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ThinkProgress, OpenSecrets.org, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, OnPolitics and The Week
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Simon Maloy / Salon:
GOP's massive deception exposed: The Obamacare “contingency” plan they still won't deliver
GOP's massive deception exposed: The Obamacare “contingency” plan they still won't deliver
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The Hill and Wall Street Journal
Official Laverne Cox Tumblr:
On May 29, 2014, the issue of timemagazine magazine which proclaimed the “Transgender Tipping Point” was revealed with me on the cover. June 1, 2015 a year and 3 days later, Caitlyn Jenner's vanityfair cover was revealed proclaiming #CallMeCaitlyn I am so moved by all the love and support Caitlyn is receiving.
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Advocate, Mediaite, Mashable, Fusion, The Huffington Post, theGrio and Vanity Fair
Associated Press:
FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities — 3 photos — WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies …
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Power Line, The Hill, Firedoglake, Hot Air, Fusion, Japan Times latest, The Verge, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Slantpoint
Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Hillary allows men at ‘women-only’ event amid weak turnout — Hillary Clinton had trouble attracting high-powered women to a New York talk hosted by Silda Wall Spitzer two weeks before her campaign officially kicks off. Sources said that after ticket sales fizzled for an intimate …
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Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Weasel Zippers
Hmsadusky / CBS Denver:
Kitchen Manager Fired For Giving Lunch To Students Without Money — AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) - Della Curry is out of work, and unashamed, after being fired by the Cherry Creek School District. — A married mother of two, Curry is the former kitchen manager at Dakota Valley Elementary School in Aurora.
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Annie Martin / Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Volusia School Board chair apologizes for remarks at Seabreeze graduation — DAYTONA BEACH — Volusia County School Board Chairwoman Linda Costello has apologized after parents and graduates were insulted by her comments Sunday during Seabreeze High School's graduation ceremony.
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Daily Mail and Progress Pond
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
A Day at a High School Rodeo with Dick Cheney — Former Vice President Dick Cheney doesn't seem all that ruffled by his villainous public persona. — During a recent trip to a high school rodeo in Casper, Wyo., Mr. Cheney responded to a question about his unpopularity by flashing his signature uneven grin.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and OnPolitics
Adrian Chen / New York Times:
The Agency … Around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 last year, Duval Arthur, director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, got a call from a resident who had just received a disturbing text message. “Toxic fume hazard warning in this area until 1:30 PM,” the message read.
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Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:
The feminist revolution is eating its own — The revolution always eats its own. That's the lesson from a recent essay by Northwestern University's Laura Kipnis. — Two students were so offended by her article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on why banning romantic relationships between faculty …
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Questions and Observations, Bloomberg View and Instapundit
By David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
The inside story of how the Clintons built a $2 billion global empire — Chevy Chase was on the plane with Bill Clinton. So was a former president of Brazil. The founders of Google. A former president of Mexico. And John Cusack. — They were all going to Davos …
Eliyahu Berkowitz / JP Updates:
Obama's Close Advisers Open Up About Strained Obama-Netanayhu Relationship — In advance of an exclusive interview with President Barack Obama, Channel 2's Ilana Dayan interviewed the people who were most close to the president in the past years, finding out what happened to the US-Israel relationship …
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The Daily Caller, Israel Matzav, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Bill / The Hill:
Bill Press: A raw deal for Hastert — As a Democrat, I know I'm supposed to cheer now that former Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has been charged with federal crimes. But, in fact, I feel just the opposite. — It looks to me like he got a raw deal, and ended up the victim of an overzealous federal prosecutor.
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RedState, Hot Air and Booman Tribune
Kathleen Miller / Bloomberg Business:
Key U.S. Senator Doubts Ex-Im Bank Deserves Long-Term Renewal — The future of the U.S. Export-Import Bank was cast into further doubt Tuesday when the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee said he wasn't convinced that the lending institution deserves long-term renewal.
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Zack Kopplin / Slate:
Politicians, school boards, principals, and teachers are pushing creationism on kids. — When a student in Louisiana opens her textbook in biology class, she might not have the standard Miller and Levine Biology with a dragonfly on the cover, and she might not ever learn about evolution.
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NOLA River and Raw Story
QUT:
50 Shades of endangered: marsupial mating habits to die for — Queensland scientists have discovered two more species of suicidally-sexed carnivorous marsupials and one is already destined for the threatened list. — Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Dr Andrew Baker and his team …
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Fusion, The Huffington Post and The Week
Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Why U.S. billionaires may not be able to buy the 2016 election — Florida Senator Marco Rubio has one; Texas Senator Ted Cruz has one; even former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, considered a longshot for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, has a billionaire in his corner.