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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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Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
‘They thought it was a bomb’: 9th grader arrested after bringing a home-built clock to school — Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to get noticed by his teachers. — Instead, he got arrested. — In an incident that has raised allegations of racism and made a Texas school district …
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Jason Whitely / WFAA-TV:
Irving ISD student detained for invention resembling bomb
Irving ISD student detained for invention resembling bomb
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Fiorina: Trump is going to hear a lot from me — 'Mr. Trump's going to be hearing quite a lot from me': Fiorina — Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, fires back at front-runner Donald Trump, one of her most vocal detractors.
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James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal:
Records Show Scant Reagan-Trump Ties — Reagan Library files indicate real-estate developer was rebuffed in many entreaties to former president — SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—Like many hopefuls before him, presidential candidate Donald Trump has embraced Ronald Reagan, the icon of the modern Republican Party.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Debate Expectations, Reagan Library Edition — Shares- — Play
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Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
A day before the GOP debate, Donald Trump talks national security on board a battleship
A day before the GOP debate, Donald Trump talks national security on board a battleship
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Carson closes in on Trump in NH poll
Carson closes in on Trump in NH poll
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Fred Thys / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Close N.H. Race Between Trump, Carson
WBUR Poll: Close N.H. Race Between Trump, Carson
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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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Justin Sink / Bloomberg Business:
Joe Biden Decries Donald Trump's ‘Sick Message’ on Hispanic Immigrants
Joe Biden Decries Donald Trump's ‘Sick Message’ on Hispanic Immigrants
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Paul Singer / OnPolitics:
If Donald Trump wins, what country would you flee to?
If Donald Trump wins, what country would you flee to?
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Serge F. Kovaleski / New York Times:
Steve Rannazzisi, Comedian Who Told of 9/11 Escape, Admits He Lied — When the comedian Steve Rannazzisi has explained his success, which includes seven seasons starring on a popular TV show, “The League,” and a one-hour special this Saturday on Comedy Central, he has frequently attributed …
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Mike Ciandella / NewsBusters:
CNN Spends 78 Percent of Prime Time GOP Campaign Coverage on Trump — Share it Tweet it — When the GOP candidates assemble on CNN's stage Wednesday night, they will be appearing on a network that has virtually ignored most of them, while spending vast amounts of time covering the now-frontrunner, businessman Donald Trump.
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Wall Street Journal:
Cable TV News Binges on Trump Coverage — CNN, more than rivals, focuses on the candidate; all get a ratings boost — Cable news can't get enough of Donald Trump. — Since announcing his run for president in June, the real-estate developer and reality-TV star has dominated coverage of the 2016 race …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The GOP debate: 5 things to watch
The GOP debate: 5 things to watch
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
House GOP wants McConnell to go nuclear — Multiple House Republicans want Senate leaders to “go nuclear” over the Obama administration's deal with Iran now that Democrats have stymied efforts to derail the accord by conventional means. — A small but growing number of GOP lawmakers …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell sets up tough vote for Dems on Iran
McConnell sets up tough vote for Dems on Iran
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Stephanos Bibas / National Review:
The Truth about Mass Incarceration — From the September 21, 2015, issue of NR — America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, outstripping even Russia, Cuba, Rwanda, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Though America is home to only about one-twentieth of the world's population …
Washington Post:
Boehner and his allies prepare fall battle with conservative GOP critics — House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) is bracing for what could be the toughest weeks of his speakership as several dozen conservatives in his party are threatening to topple him unless he is more ferocious with Democrats during the upcoming fiscal showdowns.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
House conservatives warm to McCarthy as Speaker
House conservatives warm to McCarthy as Speaker
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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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New York Times:
Analysts Detail Claims That Reports on ISIS Were Distorted — WASHINGTON — A group of intelligence analysts have provided investigators with documents they say show that senior military officers manipulated the conclusions of reports on the war against the Islamic State …
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Glenn Beck: Tea Partiers Who Support Donald Trump Are Racist — On Tuesday, talk radio host Glenn Beck accused the Tea Party supporters of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump of being racists. — While he questioned whether Trump's supporters are genuine Tea Partiers, Beck said of them …
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Trump, Sanders, Corbyn, Syriza, and Scottish Nationalists
Trump, Sanders, Corbyn, Syriza, and Scottish Nationalists
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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple Delays Release Of watchOS 2 Due To Bug — Apple has delayed the release of watchOS 2, which was expected to be available today to owners of the Apple Watch. — “We have discovered a bug in development of watchOS 2 that is taking a bit longer to fix than we expected,” an Apple spokesperson told TechCrunch.
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