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Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Airstrike Hits Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan — A United States airstrike appeared to have badly damaged a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in the Afghan city of Kunduz early Saturday, killing at least nine hospital staff members and wounding dozens, including patients and staff.
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CNN:
Air attacks kill at least 19 at Afghanistan hospital; U.S. investigating
Air attacks kill at least 19 at Afghanistan hospital; U.S. investigating
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Sune Engel Rasmussen / Guardian:
Death toll rises in suspected US airstrike on Afghan hospital
Death toll rises in suspected US airstrike on Afghan hospital
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Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Mocks Ben Carson, Ted Cruz on Gay Rights — Hillary Clinton on Saturday mocked Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson and Ted Cruz over their positions on gay rights during remarks to the Human Rights Campaign, where she also called for new laws to support and protect the rights of transgendered people.
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton: Those kicked out of military for being gay should get honorable discharges — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed Saturday that military records be amended to upgrade dishonorable discharges imposed on gay, lesbian and transgender military veterans.
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Some Hillary Clinton Donors Defect to Movement to Draft Joe Biden
Some Hillary Clinton Donors Defect to Movement to Draft Joe Biden
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Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Vatican sacks gay priest after highly public coming out — VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Saturday dismissed a gay priest from his Holy See job on the eve of a major Church meeting for a highly public coming out that challenged the Roman Catholic teaching that homosexual acts are a sin.
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Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Vatican sacks priest after he comes out as gay
Vatican sacks priest after he comes out as gay
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Paul Theroux / New York Times:
The Hypocrisy of ‘Helping’ the Poor — EVERY so often, you hear grotesquely wealthy American chief executives announce in sanctimonious tones the intention to use their accumulated hundreds of millions, or billions, “to lift people out of poverty.” Sometimes they are referring to Africans …
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Mark J. Rozell / Politico:
Illegal Immigrants Could Elect Hillary — <p>Illegal immigrants—along with other noncitizens without the right to vote—may pick the 2016 presidential winner. Thanks to the unique math undergirding the Electoral College, the mere presence of 11-12 million illegal immigrants and other noncitizens …
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
IAmAChristian: Dr. Ben Carson Lights Up Facebook in Response to Oregon School Shooting — Dr. Ben Carson, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate and world-renowned neurosurgeon, has launched a social media response effort to the Oregon gunman's reported targeting of Christians in his shooting spree on a community college campus on Thursday.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
BOSTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Saturday that he opposes a unilateral American no-fly zone in Syria, offering a less hawkish stance on the war-torn region than Hillary Rodham Clinton, his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, and a position more in line with President Obama.
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Pamela Geller:
VIDEO: Final moments of Jihadi DANCING “JOYOUSLY,” shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he EXECUTES Aussie police worker — Muslim Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammed was dancing joyously and shouting “allahu akbar” as he murdered police employee Curtis Cheng, who was leaving police headquarters.
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Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
NY Daily News hires columnist and activist Shaun King — Shaun King, a Daily Kos columnist and a prominent voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, has been hired by the New York Daily News, the paper announced on Friday. — Executive Editor Jim Rich said in a staff memo Friday that King …
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Kimberly Hefling / Politico:
Nation's largest teachers union endorses Clinton for president — <p>The National Education Association defied some of its state affiliates Saturday with an endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president, which came after an in-person, closed-door conversation between members and Clinton herself.</p> <p> …
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Daily Mail:
Muslim family are driven from their home... after they converted to Christianity: Neighbours vandalise car and call them ‘blasphemers’ — An Asian family who converted to Christianity claim they are being driven out of their home for the second time by Muslim persecutors.
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Jihad Watch and Walid Shoebat