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Ellen Page Confronts Ted Cruz on Gay Rights at Iowa State Fair — While Sen. Ted Cruz was grilling pork chops at the Iowa State Fair today, actress Ellen Page, wearing a hat and sunglasses, snuck her way up to the grill and asked the GOP presidential candidate about “the persecution of gays in the workplace and LGBT rights.”
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Ted Cruz Criticizes Carter Day After Wrenching Talk on Cancer — A day after Jimmy Carter appeared on national television to talk about the cancer that's ravaging his body, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz criticized the former president's administration in a speech in Iowa.
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Cruz: Jeb is ‘confused’ about my citizenship
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Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
Maybe This Time Really Is Different — Historical context is a great asset. But is history always an accurate guide? Does past performance always give us the best predictor of future outcomes? — This election season provides a fascinating frame to see if the polarization in politics …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Ornstein's Warning — Us old folks remember a time when AEI's Norman Ornstein was the very voice of The Conventional Wisdom. So his new column at The Atlantic ought to come as a particularly significant warning about this election cycle and the particular level of conservative freakout we are dealing with:
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U.S Marines ‘take down’ armed Moroccan gunman onboard a French train — A suspected Moroccan terrorist opened fire with a Kalashnikov on board a high speed train in northern France — Eyewitnesses said two U.S. Marines on the train disarmed the 26-year-old gunman and pinned him to the ground
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Gunman injures three after firing Kalashnikov on Amsterdam-Paris train: latest — Unarmed US marines foil attack by Moroccan gunman with Kalashnikov and handgun on train - follow live updates — 21.13 — Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, paid tribute to the Marines as he arrived at the scene, and said
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Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest — For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.
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A View From the Clinton Scandal Nonsense Mill — There's no question that the Clinton email ‘scandal’ has become a major issue for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Not that it should necessarily but it has. It's the focus of negative press stories that appear clearly to have at least helped pull down her favorability numbers nationwide.
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Hillary vs. media malpractice
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Scott Walker talks birthright citizenship — Walker: ‘no position’ on birthright citizenship — Gov. Scott Walker ducks on Trump's call for ending birthright citizenship — MANCHESTER, N.H.—Days after seeming to echo Donald Trump's call for ending birthright citizenship …
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GOP insiders to Trump: Enough already
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump calls O'Malley a ‘disgusting, little, weak, pathetic baby’
Trump calls O'Malley a ‘disgusting, little, weak, pathetic baby’
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Pennsylvania becomes fifth state to find no Planned Parenthood wrongdoing — Pennsylvania has found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood in the state after a review, according to a letter from the state health department. — That decision makes it the fifth state to announce that they have found …
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Planned Parenthood: Videos illegal
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Pro-Choice Group Takes Down Story Slut-Shaming Pro-Life Activist
Pro-Choice Group Takes Down Story Slut-Shaming Pro-Life Activist
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Read TIME's cover story and watch Trump's take on the Clintons, his opponents and how to change American politics — There are some things you just can't do in politics, not at the presidential level, anyway. — This is a game like any other, with rules honed over decades by the pros …
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Man killed by St. Louis police died from gunshot in the back — ST. LOUIS • An autopsy on Mansur Ball-Bey, whose death from police gunfire this week stirred protests, showed that he died from a single wound in the back, police officials said. — Chief Sam Dotson said the wound's …
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Scott Walker says ‘Black Lives Matter’ doesn't matter! - and mocks ‘ridiculous question’ about whether he would meet with civil rights group's organizers — Said Friday that it's ‘ridiculous’ to propose a meeting with the movement's organizers since it's leaderless - like the tea party
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Scott Walker: I don't have time for Black Lives Matter — let's talk about ‘things that matter’
Scott Walker: I don't have time for Black Lives Matter — let's talk about ‘things that matter’
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Trump Goes Off At ABC Reporter Over Questions On Term ‘Anchor Babies’ — Donald Trump lashed out at ABC reporter Tom Llamas on Thursday after the network aired segments critical of the presidential candidate's use of the term “anchor babies” to describe the children of undocumented immigrants.
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Gwyneth Kelly / New Republic:
Why “Anchor Baby” Is Offensive—and a Distortion of Truth
Why “Anchor Baby” Is Offensive—and a Distortion of Truth
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Dr. Dre Apologizes to the 'Women I've Hurt' — For Dr. Dre, the self-proclaimed “first billionaire in hip-hop,” the movie “Straight Outta Compton” and its quasi-soundtrack, “Compton,” his first album in 16 years, were meant to be a victory lap. That biopic, about his hip-hop group, N.W.A. …
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Carly Fiorina did a 4-minute riff on climate change. Everything she said was wrong. — Katie Couric recently interviewed Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, and the subject of climate change came up. They discussed it for over four minutes, likely marking the longest …
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Louisiana GOPer: I Used Ashley Madison For ‘Opposition Research’ — The executive director for the Louisiana Republican Party said his email is a part of the Ashley Madison database because he used the cheating website for “opposition research” that “ended up being a waste of money and time,” according to a New Orleans newspaper.
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Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Hundreds of feds paid for Ashley Madison memberships at work
Hundreds of feds paid for Ashley Madison memberships at work
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Bakers Who Were Fined $135,000 for Gay Wedding Cake Refusal Deliver a Major Surprise — and a Powerful Message — to 10 Gay Rights Groups — Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweetcakes by Melissa, were ordered by Oregon state officials last month to pay $135,000 in damages after they declined …
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