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Fox News:
Fox News announces candidate line-up for prime-time debate — Fox News has announced the line-up for the prime-time Republican presidential debate this Thursday, and here's who qualified: — Real estate magnate Donald Trump; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker …
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump Dominates Republican Field in Pre-Debate Bloomberg Poll — Billionaire Donald Trump is lapping the Republican field, a new Bloomberg Politics national poll shows, as two prominent governors, Chris Christie of New Jersey and John Kasich of Ohio, rank in the top 10 ahead of the first presidential debate.
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New York Times, US News, Wall Street Journal, Talking Points Memo, The Moderate Voice, Guardian, FishbowlDC, NPR, Daily Kos, Shakesville, Politico, Oliver Willis, OnPolitics and FiveThirtyEight
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
How the Public Views Planned Parenthood and the NRA — Planned Parenthood and the National Rifle Association may both be the targets of protests and heated rhetoric, but they are still viewed more favorably than the candidates running for president on both sides of the aisle.
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Slantpoint, Dame Magazine, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, Shakesville, The Huffington Post and Politico
Isabel Taft / Politico:
Chris Christie: 'I've used birth control, and not just the rhythm method' — The Christie camp has been using the hashtag #TellingItLikeItIs to promote the New Jersey governor's campaign on Twitter. And that's exactly what he was doing at a town hall meeting in Manchester …
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Hot Air, CBS Philly and CBS DC
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Walker, Clinton lead in Minnesota- General Looks Like 2004
Walker, Clinton lead in Minnesota- General Looks Like 2004
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Jezebel, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
NBC News:
First Read: A Lousy Poll for Almost Every 2016 Candidate
First Read: A Lousy Poll for Almost Every 2016 Candidate
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Mock Paper Scissors, Hullabaloo, The Hill, Political Wire, Booman Tribune and NBC News
John DiStaso / WMUR:
WMUR poll: Donald Trump surges to top of GOP primary field in NH
WMUR poll: Donald Trump surges to top of GOP primary field in NH
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Washington Post, Real Clear Politics, CNNMoney, Washington Monthly and Fox News
Henrietta Wildsmith / Associated Press:
2 Men Open Fire On Soldiers At Jade Helm Training Site In Mississippi — HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A sheriff in Mississippi says authorities are searching for two men who fired gunshots from a vehicle at soldiers at a military facility. No injuries were reported.
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Raw Story and AMERICAblog News
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Ryan Moore / WDAM-TV:
Two suspects sought after shots fired at Camp Shelby — Authorities responded to a call of shots being fired at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center Tuesday afternoon. — Perry County deputies confirmed the shots were fired around 12:10 p.m. on a group of soldiers training in the area.
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Guardian, CNN and WREG-TV
David Daleiden / The Center for Medical Progress:
“Intact Fetal Cadavers” At 20-Weeks “Just a Matter of Line Items” at Planned Parenthood TX Mega-Center: Abortion Docs Can “Make it Happen” — #PPSellsBabyParts “INTACT FETAL CADAVERS” AT 20-WEEKS “JUST A MATTER OF LINE ITEMS” AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD TX MEGA-CENTER: ABORTION DOCS CAN “MAKE IT HAPPEN”
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Adam Skolnick / New York Times:
Natalia Molchanova, Champion Free Diver, Is Feared Dead After Dive — Natalia Molchanova, widely regarded as the greatest free diver in history, wore her favorite purple wet suit Sunday on a chartered boat off the coast of Formentera, an island near Ibiza. Only 1.5 millimeters thick …
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Guardian, NPR, Washington Post and Mashable
Wall Street Journal:
Robert Conquest, Seminal Historian of Soviet Misrule, Dies at 98 — Anglo-American historian and poet who chronicled Stalin's excesses dies in Palo Alto, Calif. — Robert Conquest, an Anglo-American historian whose works on the terror and privation under Joseph Stalin …
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Washington Free Beacon
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama to call for Voting Rights Act restoration on law's anniversary — President Obama will call for the restoration of the Voting Rights Act on its 50th anniversary Thursday, the White House said. — Obama will hold a teleconference to commemorate the landmark legislation and call for its renewal …
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Newsday, Politico, Washington Monthly and ACS Blog
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
A Rare Red-State Accord for More Voter Access
A Rare Red-State Accord for More Voter Access
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The Moderate Voice
ABC News:
Hear Trump's Message on His Leaked Cellphone — Donald Trump has turned the tables on Gawker. After the online site released one of Donald Trump's cellphone numbers, the GOP presidential candidate changed his voicemail this morning. — “Hi, this is Donald Trump and I'm running …
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Political Wire, BREITBART.COM, Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Verge, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Hot Air
Isis Anchalee / Medium:
You May Have Seen My Face on BART — Hi, my name is Isis. I'm a full-stack engineer at OneLogin. They asked me to be one of four others participating recruiting campaign that was hastily planned and executed in 1 day. I was not personally ready for the amount of attention that it has brought me.
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Mashable and Washington Post
Daniela Galarza / Eater:
Whole Foods' $6 Asparagus Water Is Just Water With Three Stalks of Asparagus in It [Updated] — Is Whole Foods trolling its own employees? — Twitter user Layla Dhere (@dhere) expressed confusion in a recent tweet featuring the above image of a row of bottles of what is labeled “Asparagus Water” on a shelf.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Crisis in Santorum campaign — The moves leave the winner of the 2012 Iowa Caucuses without a campaign manager and raise questions about whether he can last until Iowa votes on Feb. 1 next year. — Several top staffers have left Rick Santorum's campaign to create a new super PAC …
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Advocate, Political Insider blog and Mock Paper Scissors
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
The Freakishness of Christianity — Evangelical Christianity has long had a stranglehold on how Americans imagine public faith. Vague invocations of “religion”—whether it's “religion vs. science” or “religious freedom”—usually really mean “conservative, Protestant, evangelical Christianity …
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Washington Monthly, National Journal and The Hugh Hewitt Show
Fox News:
Police dash-cam video debunks professor's racial profiling claims — A college professor who accused a Connecticut state trooper of racial profiling saw her claims fail when audiotape of the stop proved she was lying, police said. — According to Fox CT, Minati Roychoudhuri, 32 …
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BizPac Review, Crime and Consequences Blog and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz Anti-Iran Deal Site Accidentally Links To Big Photo Of Ass Instead Of Senator's Twitter Account — The site urges you to contact your senator to tell them to vote against the Iran nuclear agreement: — Via stoptheirandeal.com — If you click a link for Washington Democratic …
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Mediaite
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton Loses Ground With White Women — WSJ/NBC Poll — Many Democrats have long hoped that Hillary Clinton might expand Barack Obama's electoral coalition by drawing in more white women voters. — A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll suggests she may have a tough time pulling it off.
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New York Times, Liberal Values, NBC News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Politico, Daily Mail, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Jeb Bush: I ‘Misspoke’ On Women's Health Spending Comments — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) quickly walked back earlier comments that he was “not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.” — His presidential campaign posted online a statement Tuesday evening saying Bush “misspoke” with the remarks:
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Politico, Latest from Crooks and Liars, Raw Story, Mediaite and The Week
Tyler Whetstone / The Jackson Sun:
Racial graffiti written on Haley grave — The tombstone of a relative of author Alex Haley was defaced in a cemetery in Savannah earlier this week, according to Savannah Police Chief Gary Will. — Will said Queen Haley, a black woman and grandmother of Alex Haley, author of “Roots,” had …
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Guardian
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Idaho's ban on undercover animal abuse videos struck down by federal judge — A federal judge struck down Idaho's ban on undercover videos at factory farms Monday, saying state legislators wrongly criminalized free speech to protect powerful agricultural groups.
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Food Safety News, protein wisdom, The Daily Caller and ThinkProgress
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
The Twilight Zone: How The GOP Candidates Left Out Of The Big Debate Are Prepping For Theirs — WASHINGTON — Hours before the first official Republican debate begins on Thursday in Cleveland, the several other candidates who didn't make the big debate will take the stage hoping to rescue their slim poll numbers.
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TIME, The Daily Caller and Yahoo Politics
Melissa Chan / New York Daily News:
110-year-old New Jersey woman credits longevity to Miller High Life, whiskey — The secret to long life is High Life — or basically just drinking water. — A New Jersey woman who turned 110 on Saturday credits her longevity to two things: believing in God and popping the “champagne of beers” daily.
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Gothamist, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, US News, Washington Free Beacon, theGrio, The Week, fox8.com and Jezebel
Rachelle Blidner / New York Daily News:
SEE IT: California cops pull man out of car before train slams into it — Two quick-thinking deputies dragged a man out of his car just moments before two trains plowed into it in California. — San Mateo County sheriff's deputies Lance Whitted and Erik Rueppel were just blocks away …
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BizPac Review, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Raw Story
Armand Valdes / Mashable:
Kevin Bacon demands more male nudity in Hollywood — Hey, Hollywood, Kevin Bacon has a bone to pick with you. There is so much gratuitous female nudity in films and television, and that's not fair because male actors want to be naked too. — In a very serious PSA, the actor demands …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Peace-brokering? Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch talked by phone — Two weeks ago Rupert Murdoch said Donald Trump was embarrassing “the whole country.” But now the two Republican party power brokers may be brokering peace. — The two men recently spoke for the first time since Trump entered …
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Talking Points Memo and The Last Refuge