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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Trump gets down to business on 60 Minutes — Scott Pelley interviews Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who lays out key policy details and reveals a major part of his tax proposal — The following script is from “Trump” which aired on September 27, 2015. Scott Pelley is the correspondent.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: My tax plan is ‘going to cost me a fortune’ — <p>NEW YORK — Billionaire businessman Donald Trump took to the lobby of his famed Trump Tower on Monday morning and pledged to slap himself with a huge tax hike.</p><p>" It's going to cost me a fortune, which is actually true …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama swipes at Putin, Cheney and Trump in U.N. address
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Trump Plan Cuts Taxes for Millions
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Ryan Ellis / Americans for Tax Reform:
Send to Kindle Follow @ryanlellis — GOP Presidential …
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Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Release Plan Calling for Higher Taxes on the Wealthy
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: 69 percent oppose shutdown over Planned Parenthood — <p>Nearly seven in 10 Americans — 69 percent — oppose shutting down the government over funding for Planned Parenthood, according to the results of a new national <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/ images/polling/us/us09282015_um96cvr.pd f" …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Paul Ryan endorses Tom Price over Steve Scalise for House majority leader — <p>House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan is throwing his weight behind Rep. Tom Price for majority leader, a significant boost for the Georgia Republican, and a blow to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Ted Cruz's big moment — <p>If Ted Cruz is ever going to break through in the Republican presidential primary, the time is now. </p><p>Cruz has been the workmanlike conservative of the GOP field: a strong fundraiser but no Jeb Bush, well-liked by the activist right yet unable, so far …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Hensarling backs Price for majority leader
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Kasich: What have Boehner critics accomplished? — Ohio Gov. John Kasich is telling anti-establishment Republicans in the House to “look in the mirror” before attacking outgoing Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). — “The people who keep saying that they want things to happen, what have they accomplished?
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Right sees power grow with end of Boehner era
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Blackmail Caucus, a.k.a. the Republican Party
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
John Boehner Quit Because He Was Going To Be Fired
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: The Donald Is In The Details
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Top GOP official seeks McConnell ouster as Senate leader
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Carly Fiorina defends Bush-era torture and spying, calls for more transparency — Positioning herself as a steely advocate of aggressive counterterrorism programs, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina offered a vigorous defense of CIA waterboarding as a tactic that helped “keep our nation safe” in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Carly Fiorina Both Repels and Enthralls Liberal Feminists — When the novelist Jennifer Weiner watched the second Republican presidential debate with her two daughters on Sept. 16, she felt a sense of pride at seeing the lone woman on stage, Carly Fiorina, hold her own against Donald J. Trump.
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Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Govt. workers have right to refuse gay marriage licenses: pope — Pope Francis said on Monday government officials have a “human right” to refuse to discharge a duty, such as issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals, if they feel it violates their conscience.
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The Huffington Post:
PRIESTLY BETRAYAL — In the hour-long, freewheeling talk that has become a trademark of his papacy, the pope returned to the problem of priestly abuse. On Sunday, he met five victims of sexual abuse and issued his most comprehensive condemnation of the crime.
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Megyn Kelly doesn't want to talk about Donald Trump — <p>Fox News anchor and show host Megyn Kelly, who has been lambasted by presidential frontrunner Donald Trump since the first Republican national debate, said she was done talking about her feud with the candidate during a one-on-one discussion …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio: I Don't Want To Be A Part Of Trump's ‘Freak Show’ (AUDIO)
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Arnie Seipel / NPR:
Sen. Marco Rubio: President Obama Has 'Strengthened Putin's Hand'
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Richard L. Hasen / Talking Points Memo:
Why The Most Urgent Civil Rights Cause Of Our Time Is The Supreme Court Itself — The future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time. It is more important than racial justice, marriage equality, voting rights, money in politics, abortion rights, gun rights, or managing climate change.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project:
Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to U.S., Driving Population Growth and Change Through 2065 — Views of Immigration's Impact on U.S. Society Mixed — Fifty years after passage of the landmark law that rewrote U.S. immigration policy, nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States …
Matt Helms / Detroit Free Press:
‘None of your business’ Facebook post goes viral — Ann Arbor woman's plea: Stop asking the young and childless about their plans for procreation. It's insensitive. — An Ann Arbor woman's Facebook post lamenting rude questions about 20- and 30-somethings' plans to have children went viral …
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Allison Croghan / fox13now.com:
‘None of your business’ Facebook post goes viral
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Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN debate criteria would allow Joe Biden to participate — (CNN)Vice President Joe Biden will be invited to participate in the first Democratic presidential primary debate if he declares his intention to seek his party's nomination as late as the day of the debate, eligibility criteria released Monday by CNN shows.
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John McWhorter / The Daily Beast:
Black Lives Matter Is Living in the Past — Yes, black lives taken by cops matter. But so do black lives taken by other blacks. BLM won't win over America until it acknowledges this. — It is considered the height of sophistication to declare that “America doesn't want to talk about race.”
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Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
NASA Says Signs of Liquid Water Flowing on Mars — Despite its reputation as a forebodingly dusty, desolate and lifeless place, Mars seems to be a little bit wet even today. — Scientists reported on Monday definitive signs of liquid water on the surface of present-day Mars …
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Ian Sample / Guardian:
Nasa scientists find evidence of flowing water on Mars
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
No, 100,000 People Did Not Gather In Peru To Support Kim Davis. Here's Proof. (Updated) — Embattled Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was no doubt the guest of honor at this year's Values Voter Summit, with the hosting Family Research Council awarding her a “Cost of Discipleship Award.”
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Ken Cuccinelli / New York Post:
Yes, Hillary Clinton broke the law — Since there has been much evasion and obfuscation about Hillary Rodham Clinton's e-mail use, it seems appropriate to step back and simply review what we know in light of the law. It's also instructive to compare Clinton's situation to arguably …
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