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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Joe Biden in 2016: What Would Beau Do? — WASHINGTON — A PATTERN of cutting corners, a patina of entitlement and inevitability, has led to this. — Destroying digital messages and thwarting official investigations while acting all innocent about wiping out sensitive material.
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Joe Biden Said to Be Taking New Look at Presidential Run — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his associates have begun to actively explore a possible presidential campaign, an entry that would upend the Democratic field and deliver a direct threat to Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Who Was Maureen Dowd's Source? — Here's part of Maureen Dowd's interesting and moving column in tomorrow's New York Times on Joe Biden: … Read the whole thing, as they say. And read the accompanying Times news article, reporting that Joe Biden is seriously considering a presidential bid.
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Sources: Grand jury indicts Attorney General Ken Paxton — McKINNEY — A grand jury has indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on multiple felony charges, according to several sources who are familiar with the complaints. — The charges will be unsealed in McKinney on Monday about noon …
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Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Grand Jury Indicts Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, on Felony Charges — HOUSTON — Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas and a former longtime lawmaker, has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of securities fraud and of failing to register with the state securities board …
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Ryan Carey-Mahoney / USA Today:
Jericho, Cecil the lion's brother, killed — The brother of Cecil the lion, whose death sparked widespread outrage this week, was killed by a hunter Saturday afternoon in Zimbabwe, a local conservation group said. — “I'm very disappointed. I'm heartbroken,” Zimbabwe Conservation Task …
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Cecil the lion's brother, Jericho, also illegally killed in Zimbabwe, official says
Cecil the lion's brother, Jericho, also illegally killed in Zimbabwe, official says
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Wills Robinson For / Daily Mail:
Cecil the lion's brother Jericho ‘shot dead’ says Zimbabwe park officials
Cecil the lion's brother Jericho ‘shot dead’ says Zimbabwe park officials
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Richard A. Serrano / Chicago Tribune:
Assailant in Garland, Texas, attack bought gun in 2010 under Fast and Furious operation — Five years before he was shot to death in the failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, Nadir Soofi walked into a suburban Phoenix gun shop to buy a 9-millimeter pistol.
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Ali Weinberg / ABC News:
Texas Already Defunded Planned Parenthood — Here's What Congress Can Learn From It — As Congress seeks to end all taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, lawmakers and health care professionals in the state of Texas, who took similar action in recent years, have some advice on how to make that transition …
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P. J. O'Rourke / The Daily Beast:
The Unbearable Nuttiness of Mike Huckabee — Oh go home, you old fundamentalist fool, before you embarrass the Republicans any more. — “Playing the Hitler card” is an infallible sign that a politician has run out of intelligent, substantive and plausible ways to criticize an opponent.
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Clinton aide and confidante was overpaid at State Dept. — State Department investigators have concluded that Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, was overpaid by nearly $10,000 while working at the State Department, the Washington Post reports.
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William Saletan / Slate:
The Iran hearings have shown how the Republican Party can no longer be trusted with the presidency. — If Republicans win the White House next year, they'll almost certainly control the entire federal government. Many of them, running for president or aspiring to leadership roles in Congress …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Christie: Elizabeth Warren is ‘taking over’ Democratic Party — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie believes Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is dominating her party's political message. — Christie argued Friday that Warren is overshadowing other Democrats with her progressive rhetoric during a town hall in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Jenise Fernandez / WPLG-TV:
South Florida woman first to receive bionic eye in Florida — Carmen Torres diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at 18 years old … MIAMI - — Growing up, Carmen Torres didn't think much about her vision until the age of 18, when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition in which vision gradually declines over time.
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