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Why Jeb Bush played nice with Hillary Clinton in Florida — She ripped his ‘right to rise’ campaign slogan. He thanked her for being there. — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Appearing Friday at the National Urban League Conference here in the country's most important swing state …
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Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice and The Week
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Hits Jeb Bush First, and Hard, in Speech on Race
Hillary Clinton Hits Jeb Bush First, and Hard, in Speech on Race
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CNN, Hullabaloo, Guardian, Daily Kos and Post On Politics
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Bush at Urban League: Obama was ‘speaking the truth’ after shooting
Bush at Urban League: Obama was ‘speaking the truth’ after shooting
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The Gateway Pundit
Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
The astonishing weakness of Hillary Clinton
The astonishing weakness of Hillary Clinton
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Power Line
Washington Post:
Top Clinton aide accused of receiving overpayments at State Department — State Department investigators concluded this year that Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton's closest aides, was overpaid by nearly $10,000 because of violations of rules governing vacation and sick leave during her tenure as an official in the department.
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Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: Federal Judge Orders State Department to Ask Hillary Clinton to Account for Government Records and Email Use, Turn Over All Government Records — (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the U.S. State Department …
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Power Line, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Wall Street Journal
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Obama Appointee And Bundler Blocks More Video Releases By Group Behind Planned Parenthood Sting — A federal judge late Friday granted a temporary restraining order against the release of recordings made at an annual meeting of abortion providers. The injunction is against the Center for Medical Progress …
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RedState, The Right Scoop, Washington Post and CNN
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Fetal Tissue Gives Hope for One of the Worst Diseases
Fetal Tissue Gives Hope for One of the Worst Diseases
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Washington Examiner, LifeNews.com and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Topeka Capital-Journal:
Mike Huckabee, Republican presidential candidate, won't rule out employing U.S. troops, FBI to stop abortion — Berkeley law professor: Huckabee's reference to precedents ‘way off-base’ — justin.wingerter@cjonline.com celia.llopisjepsen@cjonline.com samantha.foster@cjonline.com
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Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Huckabee Floats Plan To Deploy U.S. Troops To Stop Women From Getting Abortions — Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said at a campaign stop on Thursday that he would consider sending federal troops or the Federal Bureau of Investigation to stop abortions.
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Mock Paper Scissors
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Mike Huckabee Won't Rule Out Using Federal Troops To Stop Abortions
Mike Huckabee Won't Rule Out Using Federal Troops To Stop Abortions
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Dame Magazine, Hullabaloo and Talking Points Memo
Roxane Gay / New York Times:
Of Lions and Men: Mourning Samuel DuBose and Cecil the Lion — LIKE many others, I was stunned by the story of the Minnesota dentist who hunted and killed a 13-year-old lion, Cecil, in Zimbabwe. It was a brutal, senseless thing. — The story has gone viral because it offers a strange alchemy …
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Prairie Weather
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Anne Saker / Cincinnati.com:
Tensing, through union, demands his UC job back
Tensing, through union, demands his UC job back
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Daily Kos, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Balloon Juice and Fox News Insider
TMZ.com:
‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper — Dies at 61 from Cardiac Arrest — Wrestling legend “Rowdy” Roddy Piper has died at the age of 61 ... TMZ Sports has learned. — Piper — born Roderick George Toombs — died from cardiac arrest in his sleep at his home in Hollywood on Thursday night. He was discovered on Friday.
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Chelsia Rose Marcius / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Gay Staten Island man says cops beat him outside of home, shouting homophobic slurs (VIDEO) — A gay Staten Island caterer says cops who were captured on video taking him down in his front yard, beat him while shouting homophobic slurs, the Daily News has learned.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Turns out Obamacare is a government takeover — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — During the legislative debate over the passage of President Obama's healthcare law, supporters of the program were sensitive to any suggestion that it represented a government takeover of the healthcare system.
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Steven Rattner / New York Times:
We're Making Life Too Hard for Millennials — TO some, millennials — those urban-dwelling, ride-sharing indefatigable social networkers — are engaged, upbeat and open to change. To others, they are narcissistic, lazy and self-centered. — I'm in the first camp, but regardless of your opinion …
Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
Dem: Obama Ready To Ignore Congress If Veto On Iran Deal Is Overridden — WASHINGTON — California Rep. Brad Sherman warns that even if Congress were to override Barack Obama's veto of the Iran deal, the president could still get the deal he wants. — Sherman, a Democrat who serves …
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Hot Air
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Trump Sues Chef Who Backed Out Of Restaurant Deal — Presidential candidate Donald Trump wants a prominent chef to pay $10 million in damages after the food star bailed on plans to open a new restaurant inside Trump's latest project in the nation's capital.
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Politico
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Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian Best Bites Blog:
Donald Trump Sues José Andrés Over Old Post Office Hotel Restaurant
Donald Trump Sues José Andrés Over Old Post Office Hotel Restaurant
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Talking Points Memo
Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Award in Lead Paint Lawsuit Can't Be Tied to Ethnicity, Judge Rules — A federal judge in Brooklyn explained in a court memo released on Wednesday why he rejected a landlord's attempt to use a child's Hispanic ethnicity to argue for reduced damages in a lead poisoning case.
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Addicting Info and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Billionaires Put Their Stamp on 2016 Presidential Campaigns — Well-to-do backers are funding super PACs aligned with several candidates, campaign reports show — Billionaires are bankrolling the early days of the 2016 presidential campaign to an unprecedented degree …