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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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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
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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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Ellen Page confronts Ted Cruz on LGBT issues
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz: Jeb is ‘confused’ about my citizenship
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Daily Mail:
Hero US marine who prevented Moroccan terrorist's train massacre in France is ‘in critical condition’ after being shot in the neck - as he and his colleague are praised for ‘extreme bravery’ — A suspected Moroccan terrorist opened fire with a Kalashnikov on board a high speed train in northern France
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James Rothwell / Telegraph:
Gunman injures two 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 — Security agents of French national railway operator SNCF stand next to Thalys trains at the main train station in Arras, northern France
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CNN:
Official: 2 U.S. Marines stop Islamist attacker on train in France — European official: France shooting a terrorist attack — As a gunman on an Amsterdam-to-Paris train was about to launch an attack by loading his Kalashnikov he was surprised by two U.S. Marines in civilian clothing …
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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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John Harwood / CNBC:
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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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Scott Walker: I don't have time for Black Lives Matter — let's talk about ‘things that matter’
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Scott Walker says ‘Black Lives Matter’ doesn't matter! …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump calls O'Malley a ‘disgusting, little, weak, pathetic baby’
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
GOP insiders to Trump: Enough already
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
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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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Pro-Choice Group Takes Down Story Slut-Shaming Pro-Life Activist
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood: Videos illegal
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Michael Scherer / TIME.com:
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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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
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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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A View From the Clinton Scandal Nonsense Mill
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Christine Byers / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
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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Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
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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Joshuakarpf / Spotify Blog:
SORRY. — We are in the middle of rolling out new terms and conditions and privacy policy and they've caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it. We apologize for that. We should have done a better job in communicating what these policies mean …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
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
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Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kansas Democratic Party chair resigns … Larry Meeker has resigned as chair of the Kansas Democratic Party following uproar over comments he made this week about moving the party in a more conservative direction. — Meeker's resignation was confirmed by the party's executive director …
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David Roberts / Vox:
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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Zachary Mider / Bloomberg Business:
Another Way to Mask Super Rich Donors — LLCs that contribute to campaigns aren't required to disclose backers. — In January, Ted Cruz's quest for the presidency got help from a limited liability company called V3 231. The LLC was listed as the source of a $250,000 donation …
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