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Justin Sink / Bloomberg Business:
Joe Biden Decries Donald Trump's ‘Sick Message’ on Hispanic Immigrants — Vice President Joe Biden took aim at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday, blasting the real estate mogul for “absolutely denigrating an entire group of people.”
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Former Romney Adviser Stuart Stevens on Loss, the GOP's Race Problem, and Why Trump Won't Win — “For Donald Trump to win, everything we know about politics has to be wrong. And I don’t think it is.” — Shares — Stuart Stevens is the type of Renaissance man seemingly conjured …
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CNN:
Joe Biden: Donald Trump's ‘sick’ message is xenophobic — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign remarks about Mexican immigrants represent a play to the to worst parts of society, Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday. — Speaking at a reception marking Hispanic Heritage Month …
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Talking Points Memo and Business Insider
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Donald Trump, protesters go big in Texas
Donald Trump, protesters go big in Texas
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Hot Air, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Texas Observer, ThinkProgress, Texas Monthly, Instapundit, The Huffington Post, New York Times, The Hill and CNN
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Donald Trump's Grand Inquisitor
Donald Trump's Grand Inquisitor
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Betsy's Page, Vox, Tales from the Trail and Real Clear Politics
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell threatens to bring Israel amendment into Iran debate — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is warning Democrats that if they block a resolution disapproving the Iran nuclear deal, he will force a vote on a contentious amendment related to Israel and U.S. prisoners.
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Conservatives press GOP leaders on Planned Parenthood — Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell believes it's an “exercise in futility” to try and defund Planned Parenthood this month. — Not all of his Senate Republican colleagues agree.
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RedState
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House open to short-term funding bill to prevent shutdown
White House open to short-term funding bill to prevent shutdown
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Talking Points Memo
Bobby Jindal / CNN:
Conservatives need to say what we are thinking: Donald Trump is a madman who must be stopped. Failure to speak out against Trump is an endorsement of Clinton. — We do need to Make America Great Again. We do need to burn down Washington. We do need to eradicate political correctness.
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Kory Grow / Rolling Stone:
Roger Waters on Donald Trump: ‘He Is Pig-Ignorant’
Roger Waters on Donald Trump: ‘He Is Pig-Ignorant’
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Addicting Info and Raw Story
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
No, Bernie Sanders is not going to bankrupt America to the tune of $18 trillion — The big policy headline today comes from the Wall Street Journal, which delivers this alarming message: … Holy cow! He must be advocating for some crazy stuff that will bankrupt America!
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Was Sanders Actually Fishing For Votes at Liberty University? — When I heard about Bernie Sanders choosing to speak at one of Liberty University's famous “convos” where so many right-wing figures have spoken in the past, my initial reaction was probably the same as pretty much everybody's: “Huh!
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Hullabaloo and ThinkProgress
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig / New Republic:
Bernie Sanders Isn't Crazy to Court Evangelicals. But Here's Why It's a Tough Sell.
Bernie Sanders Isn't Crazy to Court Evangelicals. But Here's Why It's a Tough Sell.
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OnPolitics and Slantpoint
Avi Selk / Dallas Morning News:
Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’ — IRVING — Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday.
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Biz Carson / Business Insider:
FINALLY: You'll soon be able to ‘dislike’ things on Facebook, says Mark Zuckerberg — Mark Zuckerberg announced today that Facebook is finally working on a “Dislike” button. — " I think people have asked about the dislike button for many years. Today is a special day because today …
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Facebook Says It's Introducing a ‘Dislike’ Button
Facebook Says It's Introducing a ‘Dislike’ Button
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Bloomberg Business, Re/code, US News, Mashable, Guardian and Balloon Juice
Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Facebook is working on a ‘dislike’ button
Facebook is working on a ‘dislike’ button
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The Verge, 89.3 KPCC, Refinery29 and Your EDM
BBC:
Intelligent machines: Call for a ban on robots designed as sex toys — A campaign has been launched calling for a ban on the development of robots that can be used for sex. — Such a use of the technology is unnecessary and undesirable, said campaign leader Dr Kathleen Richardson.
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Daily Mail, NBC News, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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Politico:
Jeb Bush video about America uses stock footage from foreign countries — Jeb Bush's super PAC Right to Rise used stock video images from England and Asia for its new video, which seeks to contrast the former Florida governor's optimism about America's future with Donald Trump's pessimism about its present.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Gateway Pundit
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Remember Jade Helm 15, the controversial military exercise? It's over. — The military exercise Jade Helm 15 generated enough conspiracy theories this year that it garnered mockery on late-night television, commentary from presidential candidates and reaction from the Texas governor.
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Addicting Info, The PJ Tatler, Raw Story and Right Wing Watch
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Trump, Sanders, Corbyn, Syriza, and Scottish Nationalists — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — Donald Trump, the brash, often incoherent leftist-turned-Republican, leads all polls for the GOP presidential nomination. Jeremy Corbyn, the socialist buddy of Hamas who wants …
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Jennifer Portman / Tallahassee Democrat:
Thrasher fires back at Rubio — Florida State University President John Thrasher fired back at Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, who yesterday dissed on the university. — “He's a nice kid,” said FSU President John Thrasher, who served with Rubio in Florida legislature.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Florida Down on Bush, Rubio Campaigns
Florida Down on Bush, Rubio Campaigns
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Hot Air, Daily Kos and Orlando Sentinel