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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Joe Biden insiders see a campaign taking shape — Donor meetings, adviser sessions, staff lists — everyday looks more like a campaign. — NEW YORK — People around Joe Biden are increasingly convinced he'll run for president — and Thursday, he took the next step forward …
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CNN:
Clinton's lead over Sanders shrinks as her edge over GOP vanishes — Poll: Sanders closes the gap with Clinton — Clinton trails Ben Carson in a hypothetical general election match-up and runs about even with Jeb Bush and Donald Trump — Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton's lead in the race …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Joe Biden, in Colbert Interview, Expresses Doubts About Bid for President — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in an emotional, wide-ranging interview on Stephen Colbert's “Late Show” on Thursday, expressed doubt about the likelihood that he would run for president, saying that “I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there.”
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Mediaite, Outside the Beltway and No More Mister Nice Blog
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The amazing honesty of Joe Biden
The amazing honesty of Joe Biden
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Hot Air, The Daily Caller and CNN
Melinda Henneberger / Bloomberg Business:
Joe Biden's Late Show Appearance With Stephen Colbert Turns Emotional
Joe Biden's Late Show Appearance With Stephen Colbert Turns Emotional
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Joe Biden's Dilemma
The Note: Joe Biden's Dilemma
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CNN:
Carly Fiorina will appear in top-tier CNN Reagan Library debate — Thursday marked the close of the two-month window for determining eligibility based on averages of national polls — 11 candidates will appear in the 8 p.m. debate, and five candidates will appear at the 6 p.m. event
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Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Says Immigrant Deportations Done in Two Years — Donald Trump estimated that it will take 18 months to two years to get the roughly 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to leave the country, and that he would then build a wall running along the border with Mexico.
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Jim O'Sullivan GLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
New mission for Team Romney: Stop Trump — Some of them go back to 2002, the win. Others slogged through Iowa, twice, and rode aboard the Mitt Mobile. In 2012, they were so close to the White House they could taste it. — Now, the Mitt Romney diaspora — an army of former aides …
CBS News:
Bobby Jindal: Donald Trump “looks like he's got a squirrel” on his head — Shares - — After Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal delivered a speech slamming his fellow presidential candidate Donald Trump, he sat down with CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett to weigh …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Bachmann dismisses sexism charges against Trump
Bachmann dismisses sexism charges against Trump
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Mediaite and Political Wire
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Trump on Fiorina's face: I made those comments as an entertainer
Trump on Fiorina's face: I made those comments as an entertainer
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Yvonne Wenger / Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to announce she won't seek re-election — Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, beleaguered by the death of Freddie Gray and the protests and rioting that followed, will announce at 10 a.m. Friday that she won't seek re-election, her spokesman confirmed.
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Carol Brown / American Thinker:
The world just changed forever, but you'd hardly know it from the media — It is now official. On Thursday the Senate let the Iran deal go through - a deal that will forever change the landscape of the world in terrifying and unthinkable ways. I need not enumerate how this collaboration with Iran …
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USA Today:
ISIL haunts 9/11 anniversary: Our view — 14 years ago, Americans learned they can't ignore the terror of extremists. — Fourteen years ago, the United States suffered a shockingly successful surprise attack by a little known Islamic extremist group based 7,000 miles away in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
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CNN:
U.S. to take at least 10,000 more Syrian refugees
U.S. to take at least 10,000 more Syrian refugees
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Obama's Syrian Nightmare
Obama's Syrian Nightmare
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Navy chief rejects report showing female Marines less capable — Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on Friday criticized a Marine Corps study that showed that female Marines in a mixed unit did not perform as well as men in several key areas. — “They started out with a fairly largely component …
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The Daily Caller, Liberty Unyielding and protein wisdom
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump's ‘haters and losers’ Sept. 11 tweet vanishes — A 2-year-old tweet from Donald Trump's Twitter account vanished Friday morning, one in which the current Republican presidential candidate commemorated the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by offering “best wishes to all, even the haters and losers.”
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Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
A new 9/11 memorial to Flight 93: ‘Our loved ones left a legacy for all of us’ … SHANKSVILLE, Pa.—Debby Borza stood before a wall of photos of 40 people who died here Sept. 11, 2001, and gently tapped her daughter's face on a computer touch screen, not knowing exactly what to expect.
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Faith Karimi / CNN:
9/11 anniversary: America remembers lives lost on one of its darkest days
9/11 anniversary: America remembers lives lost on one of its darkest days
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Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
California Senate OKs automatic voter registration plan — In response to the record-low turnout in the last election, the state Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would automatically register to vote any eligible Californian who gets a driver's license unless they opt out.
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New York Times:
Will We Always Remember 9/11? — Soon after the horrific destruction of the World Trade Center towers 14 years ago, bumper stickers abounded in parallel with the nation's grief. “Never Forget,” one proclaimed with great resolve. “We Will Always Remember,” promised another.
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Daily Mail:
Charlotte Proudman in LinkedIn sexism storm and the men SHE ogled online — The barrister who accused a male solicitor of sexism after he described her photograph on a business website as ‘stunning’ has previously told men online they were ‘hot stuff’. — Charlotte Proudman, 27 …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Watchdog opened ‘criminal’ Abedin probe, but DOJ passed — Sources close to Hillary Clinton's former deputy chief of staff and current vice chairwoman for the campaign say the news actually exonerates her. — The State Department inspector general opened a “criminal investigation” …
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Sydney Morning Herald:
FBI says ‘Australian IS jihadist’ is actually a Jewish American troll named Joshua Ryne Goldberg — A young Jewish American man has been charged with pretending to be an Australian-based Islamic State jihadist after a FBI joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police based on information provided by Fairfax Media.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Gateway Pundit