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NBC/WSJ Poll: Trump and Carson Lead GOP; Clinton Loses Ground — Donald Trump and Ben Carson are running neck and neck in the national Republican presidential horserace, while Carly Fiorina is now tied for third place with Marco Rubio, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Op-Ed No, pundits, Hillary Clinton isn't collapsing — Has the political punditry class lost its collective mind? — In a year in which every other supposed front-runner and establishment candidate has collapsed to single digits or has already withdrawn from the race — yes …


It's make or break time for Jeb Bush — Jeb Bush is entering a critical phase of his Republican presidential campaign, with top donors warning that the former Florida governor needs to demonstrate growth in the polls over the next month or face serious defections among supporters.
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Independent Journal Review

Jeb Bush: Early polls 'really don't matter'
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The Hill, The Moderate Voice and Bloomberg Business

Inside Jeb Bush's campaign headquarters, where push is on for long haul
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Politico


Carson, Fiorina, Sanders Gain Ground in Their Parties' Primary Races, Poll Shows
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Business Insider and Political Wire


John Boehner warns of GOP's “false prophets” in D.C. — Days after abruptly announcing that he would resign from the House at the end of October, Speaker John Boehner reflected on some of the “unrealistic” promises made by his colleagues. — “Absolutely they're unrealistic,” …
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Republican hard-liners are ‘false prophets,’ Boehner says — Outgoing House Speaker John A. Boehner, in his first one-on-one interview since announcing his resignation last week, compared conservative hard-liners in his party to biblical “false prophets” who promise more than they can deliver.
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller, The Week and addictinginfo.org


Graham fears post-Boehner ‘meltdown’ — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is warning Republicans to act wisely following the impending departure of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), which he fears could lead to a party “meltdown” in 2016. — “It's a fresh start, and what's the goal here?
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Politico, ABC News, Political Wire and NBC News


Chuck Todd to Fiorina: Haven't You ‘Exaggerated’ Planned Parenthood Video? — After grilling Hillary Clinton on her email scandal this morning, Chuck Todd spoke with Carly Fiorina and grilled her on her criticisms of Planned Parenthood. — At issue here was Fiorina's description …
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Hullabaloo
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Fiorina's falsehoods
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Planned Parenthood Protesters Throw Condoms at Carly Fiorina Supporters
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Trump: 'I'm a pretty good Republican' — Donald Trump in an interview broadcast late Sunday described himself as a “pretty good Republican,” while acknowledging that there are issues on which he differs with the GOP. — “I'm a pretty good Republican,” Trump told Scott Pelley on CBS's “60 Minutes.”
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WATCH: CNN Grills Carson On Muslim Comments Until Manager Ends Interview — CNN “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper grilled Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on his comments about Muslims in an interview that aired Sunday until his campaign manager off-screen ended the interview.
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Francis, the Perfect 19th-Century Pope — Washington — AFTER attending a canonization Mass at Catholic University with the pope who rails against the excesses of capitalism, I walked off campus to a festival of capitalism. — Vendors were hawking pope bracelets, buttons and T-shirts.
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New Hillary Clinton email chain discovered — Washington (CNN)An email chain between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-commander of U.S. Central Command David Petraeus from January and February 2009 is raising questions about whether some of the emails on Clinton's private email server …
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New York Times, The Daily Banter, Washington Free Beacon, Slantpoint and Reuters
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Hillary Clinton Blames GOP for ‘Drip, Drip, Drip’ of E-Mail Controversy
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RedState

Hillary Clinton: ‘Another conspiracy theory’
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Washington Free Beacon

Bill Clinton on email scrutiny: 'I've never seen so much expended on so little'
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BuzzFeed, Guardian, OnPolitics, The Week, Detroit News and Independent Journal Review


Last Slide — Vandals defaced statues and gravesites overnight at the Carmel Mission, police said this morning. — On the eve of a ceremony to commemorate this week's canonization of missionary Junipero Serra by Pope Francis during his trip to the United States, vandals struck in the darkness of night …
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Guardian


George Zimmerman retweets photo of Trayvon Martin's body posted by admirer — Fox host corners Bush for giving tax cuts to the 1%: ‘Does Jeb Bush need a $3 million tax cut?’
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FreakOutNation, addictinginfo.org, Mediaite and Daily Mail


Super Blood Moon to Make Last Appearance Until 2033 — A rare astronomical phenomenon Sunday night will produce a moon that will appear slightly bigger than usual and have a reddish hue, an event known as a super blood moon. — It's a combination of curiosities that hasn't happened since 1982, and won't happen again until 2033.
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Christian Science Monitor
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Man starts gas station blaze trying to kill spider with lighter — CENTER LINE - A man tried to kill a spider at a gas station using a lighter causing a dangerous fire. — Using a lighter to kill the bug, he started a blaze that quickly engulfed the gas pump.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Fox News, Fox News Insider, New York's PIX11 and Guardian
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Stop Googling. Let's Talk. — COLLEGE students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected. They say it's a skill they mastered in middle school when they wanted to text in class without getting caught.
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Hullabaloo


Not Good: The Doomsday Seed Vault Was Tapped Due To The Syrian Civil War — In the arctic, there is a vault 500 feet into a mountain that house hundreds of thousands of seeds in case of a catastrophic human event, or natural disaster, which threatens the biodiversity of the planet.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News


Why the Pope is wrong about climate — A close look at Francis's major encyclical finds some awfully strange views, even for people who care about the environment. — Pope Francis is now the world's most influential climate activist, but he didn't utter the word “climate” in his recent speech to Congress.