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Raw Story:
Arnold Schwarzenegger to take over for Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — “You're terminated”? “You won't be back”? “Hasta la vista, job seeker”? — Arnold Schwarzenegger is to replace Donald Trump as the host of the NBC reality show …
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Deadline, UPROXX and Progress Pond
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson explains why he apologized to Donald Trump
Ben Carson explains why he apologized to Donald Trump
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Wall Street Journal
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
The One-Man Roadshow of Donald Trump
The One-Man Roadshow of Donald Trump
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Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and Poynter.
James Hibberd / EW.com:
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TO REPLACE DONALD TRUMP AS CELEBRITY APPRENTICE HOST
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TO REPLACE DONALD TRUMP AS CELEBRITY APPRENTICE HOST
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BizPac Review, Full Feed and TMZ.com
New York Times:
Showdown Between Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump Expected at Republican Debate
Showdown Between Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump Expected at Republican Debate
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Wall Street Journal, Talking Points Memo, CNN, Hot Air, Bloomberg View, Washington Post, Hit & Run, Tales from the Trail, Slantpoint and The Hill
Kate Stanhope / Hollywood Reporter:
Arnold Schwarzenegger Named New ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Host
Arnold Schwarzenegger Named New ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Host
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Political Wire, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and The Moderate Voice
Politico:
McConnell's fall mandate: Keep calm, avert catastrophe — In a POLITICO interview, the Senate leader says the GOP can do big things — in 2017. Until then, his agenda is more modest. — Mitch McConnell wants his party playing the long game. — To hear the Senate majority leader tell it …
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Washington Post, ABC News, Addicting Info, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Raw Story, New York Times and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Poll: Public wants to avoid shutdown over Planned Parenthood — A huge majority wants Congress to keep the government open, regardless of whether that means providing funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday. — The poll finds that 71 percent of adults …
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Hullabaloo, Addicting Info and Daily Kos
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP: Defund Planned Parenthood even if it didn't break the law
GOP: Defund Planned Parenthood even if it didn't break the law
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Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Juan Williams / The Hill:
The GOP at war — Forget presidential politics.
The GOP at war — Forget presidential politics.
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The Moderate Voice
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner's so gross even PR flacks are disgusted by him — Anthony Weiner is so toxic that the powerhouse public-relations firm that hired him is losing top-flight talent, sources tell The Post. — Arthur Schwartz, one of the top executives at MWW, quit after the p.r. firm put …
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Mediaite, Daily Mail and Washington Free Beacon
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Debt-Ridden Donald Trump Lost His “Ship Of Jewels” To A Saudi Prince — I'm sailing awaaaaay... Donald Trump has made a habit of criticizing the United States for allowing foreign countries to continue “eating our lunch,” a message he has pushed for nearly-thirty years.
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Liberaland
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Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Mark Cuban: I could beat Trump AND Clinton — Mark Cuban to CNBC: I would crush Donald — Republican candidates will hit the stage Wednesday night in their next debate. CNBC's Eamon Javers reports Mark Cuban said he would crush Donald Trump if he were head to head with him in a race.
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OnPolitics
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Poll: Sharp erosion in Clinton support among Democratic women — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hillary Rodham Clinton is suffering rapid erosion of support among Democratic women — the voters long presumed to be her bedrock in her bid to become the nation's first female president.
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Business Insider, Townhall.com, Liberal Values, Mediaite, ABC News and Slantpoint
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David Kamp / Vanity Fair:
Why Late-Night Television Is Better than Ever — Late-night comedy has seen a disorienting—some feared fragmenting—shuffle over the last two years as Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Jon Stewart gave up their chairs. But, writes David Kamp, a mix of new faces, shows, and platforms has only revitalized the format.
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Talking Points Memo, Deadline, Addicting Info, Mediaite and Jezebel
Timothy D. Easley / ABC News:
What Kim Davis Is Saying Now About Marriage Licenses — Shares- — Play
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Mike Wynn / USA Today:
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis won't authorize licenses
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis won't authorize licenses
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The Atlantic, Religion News Service and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
Kevin Conlon / CNN:
Kim Davis stands ground, offers alternative
Kim Davis stands ground, offers alternative
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Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Prairie Weather, NBC News, Patterico's Pontifications and Scared Monkeys
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Why is the media more interested in Hillary's email than in Jeb's profoundly dishonest tax pitch? — The formative experience of my political life was the 2000 presidential campaign, in which the media mercilessly persecuted Al Gore over a series of trivial exaggerations and now-forgotten pseudo-scandals …
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Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, New York Times and FiveThirtyEight
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Democrats Lay Groundwork to Expand Use of ‘Super PACs’ — Democrats are laying the groundwork for an ambitious reorganization of their struggling network of “super PACs” that would exploit the loopholes and legal gray areas that Republicans have already used to raise hundreds of millions …
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BuzzFeed
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Perry Gets Winnowed
Perry Gets Winnowed
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Off the Kuff, Texas Monthly and Addicting Info
TMZ.com:
Devo Co-Founder — 9/11 Themed Wedding ... Box Cutters Anyone? — 9/11 THEMED WEDDING — ... Box Cutters Anyone? — 9/14/2015 8:16 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF — EXCLUSIVE — The co-founder of Devo and his bride hung their faces off a Twin Towers cake to celebrate their marriage with the most bizarre …
Danny Wicentowski / News Blog, Riverfront Times:
The Ferguson Commission Has Released its Long-Awaited Report. Now What? — The Ferguson Commission wasn't built just to churn out a report. — Assembled by an executive order from Governor Jay Nixon, the commission's sixteen members have spent the past ten months compiling data, holding public hearings and listening to experts.
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The Atlantic and Raw Story
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Jason Rosenbaum / NPR:
Ferguson Commission Shines Light On Racially Divided St. Louis
Ferguson Commission Shines Light On Racially Divided St. Louis
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Weekly Standard, Slantpoint and abc7ny.com
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Is Trump killing justice reform? — Don't look now, but The Donald is actually shaping American policy. — Criminal justice reform, a perennial lost cause for civil rights lefties, had its surprise bipartisan moment this year. Conservative Republican voices like anti-tax activist Grover Norquist …
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Washington Monthly, Bloomberg View and Front Page Magazine
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Rebel billionaires eager to follow Trump into politics
Rebel billionaires eager to follow Trump into politics
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Business Insider
Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
Russia shipping tanks into Syria, in ‘first clear sign of offensive weapons’ — Russia's military build-up in Syria has grown to include the shipment of a half-dozen highly sophisticated battle tanks — and more troops — a defense official told Fox News, in what the source called the …
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Michael J. Totten's blog
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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Inside Ethel Kennedy's cruel neglect of her troubled kids — Ethel Kennedy in 1969. — Since Robert F. Kennedy's assassination on June 6, 1968, his widow, Ethel, has been his torchbearer. Unlike her late sister-in-law, Jackie, she never remarried, never sought a path or identity that was hers alone.
John O'Brien / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Child victims partly to blame in priest sex-abuse cases, Syracuse bishop testified — SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The victims of child-molesting priests are partly to blame for their own abuse, the bishop of Syracuse said in a sworn deposition that revealed his views on the church's sex abuse scandal.
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Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
U.S. drops to 16th on ‘economic freedom’ list, behind Canada, Chile — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — The United States, ranked second in worldwide economic freedom as recently as 2000, has plummeted to 16th, according to a new report of world economies.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
A pregnant woman wanted her tubes tied. Her Catholic hospital said no. — It was painful to hear but ultimately seemed the best course to Jessica Mann and her family. Because of a dangerous tumor in her brain, her doctor gently suggested that she take steps to make sure that she could not get pregnant again.