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Hillary Clinton says she does not support Trans-Pacific Partnership — Just days after the U.S. and 11 nations released a monumental trade deal that still faces a fight in Congress, Hillary Clinton says she does not support the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Speaking with Judy Woodruff Wednesday …
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Inside Bernie Sanders' unorthodox debate prep … Hillary Clinton has had aides lined up to run her debate prep for months. A Washington super lawyer is mimicking Sanders and her top policy staffer is acting as Martin O'Malley. — Bernie Sanders started studying for next Tuesday's event not even a full week ago.
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Joe Biden's Big Question — Why are you running? — Joe Biden is expected to announce whether he is running for president any day now. If he does decide to jump in the race, there will be one critical question for which he doesn't quite have an answer: Why are you running?
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Althouse, Talking Points Memo and NPR
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Hillary Clinton Just Made Passage of the TPP Much More Difficult
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BillMoyers.com, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed and Slantpoint
David Siders / Sacramento Bee:
Bernie Sanders gaining on Hillary Clinton in California
Bernie Sanders gaining on Hillary Clinton in California
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Hot Air, Reuters, The PJ Tatler and New York Magazine
Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Pocketbook issues take center stage in Democratic health care plans
Pocketbook issues take center stage in Democratic health care plans
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Roll Call, New York Times, Common Dreams, Liberal Values, Politico, The Week and Bloomberg Business
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Did Barack Obama do enough for his own community? — There is a photo by Pete Souza, the White House's canny and peripatetic photographer, that surfaces from time to time online. The setting is Marine One, and it features a modest cast of five. Valerie Jarrett, dressed in a suit of blazing pink, is staring at her cell phone.
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Rupert Murdoch: Carson could be ‘a real black president’ — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday said Republican Ben Carson would be “a real black president,” implying doubts about President Obama's connection to minorities. — The chairman and CEO of News Corporation tweeted Wednesday night: “Ben and Candy Carson terrific.
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Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Last Refuge and NBC News
Ivan Krastev / New York Times:
Is Vladimir Putin Trying to Teach the West a Lesson in Syria? — SOFIA, Bulgaria — Last week, after Russian planes bombed antigovernment forces near the Syrian town of Homs, a senior American official complained to me: “What Russia is doing in Syria is not an effort to fight the Islamic State; it is not old-fashioned realpolitik.
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Pirate's Cove and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
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Biden: Republicans ‘beating’ on Hispanics — Vice President Biden accused Republican presidential candidates of “beating” on Hispanics during an address to a Hispanic group on Wednesday. — In a surprise appearance at a fundraiser hosted by the Latino Victory Project PAC …
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Axelrod: Pro-Biden group's ad ‘tasteless’
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
First on CNN: Passionate Vice President Joe Biden slams GOP 2016ers at Latino voting event
First on CNN: Passionate Vice President Joe Biden slams GOP 2016ers at Latino voting event
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Matt Barnes drove 95 miles to ‘beat the s-t’ out of Derek Fisher — Matt Barnes with then-wife Gloria Govan, and Knicks coach Derek Fisher. — Knicks coach Derek Fisher is involved in a romantic relationship with the estranged wife of his former teammate Matt Barnes …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House conservatives spurn McCarthy, flex muscle ahead of speaker vote — A group of hard-line conservatives threatened to upend the Republican race to succeed outgoing House Speaker John A. Boehner, announcing on Wednesday it will throw its support behind a little-known Florida lawmaker to become the next speaker.
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Ben Carson stumbles on debt limit question — Ben Carson appeared to have some difficulty in explaining exactly whether he would support raising the debt limit in a recent interview. — “Let me put it this way: if I were the president, I would not sign an increased budget. Absolutely would not do it.
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Trump Says Bush and Rubio Suffer from Political Politeness — Republicans' celebrity front-runner draws 1,000 to afternoon rally in Waterloo, Iowa. — McCormickJohn — Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, during a campaign stop in Iowa, took aim at two of his party's nomination rivals …
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Eliana Johnson / National Review:
When Cruz Makes His Move, Watch Out
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Accused Oregon Shooter Discharged From Army After Suicide Attempt — Christopher Harper-Mercer left basic training after just one month in 2008 — The gunman who allegedly killed nine people and wounded nine others at a rural community college in Oregon last Thursday had been discharged …
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Daily Mail, Telegraph and The Daily Signal
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Shut Down the Benghazi Committee — House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
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Peter Holley / Washington Post:
Why you shouldn't be surprised that prisoners crushed Harvard's debate team — Last month, a debate team of three inmates with violent criminal records defeated a team of three Harvard University undergraduates. — It sounds like an underdog story plucked from the pages …
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Christian Science Monitor, CNN, Big Think, Hollywood Life, The Daily Caller and Shadowproof
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Billboard Cover Sneak Peek: 5 Ways Selena Gomez Is Taking Charge — Selena Gomez is done sitting back while paparazzi vultures and Internet trolls tear into her. On her upcoming album Revival, the pop star is taking charge of her life, career and image in a way she hasn't before — so watch out, world.
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Clinton ‘SNL’ Cameo Could Entitle Challengers to Free Air Time — Hillary Clinton's appearance on “Saturday Night Live” last weekend could trigger the so-called equal-time rule, the federal law that allows qualified opposing candidates to demand comparable air time.
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Military Haircuts — My first post about what it's like to live, and grow as a human being: transitioning in a military prison. — The last few weeks have been particularly challenging for me. For the first time in years, I felt like giving up... then, I found my “second wind” to be human.
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Carri Geer Thevenot / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Sen. Reid, wife sue makers of exercise band — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and his wife are suing the makers of a resistance exercise band that the lawmaker has blamed for a January accident that left him blind in his right eye. — Reid, D-Nev., and his wife, Landra Gould, filed …
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Bloomberg Politics Focus Groups: What's Powering the Ben Carson Boom — Despite never holding elected office, or perhaps because of that fact, the retired neurosurgeon has managed to impress many Republican voters. — What explains the appeal Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who …
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Tennessee's First Year Of Drug Testing Welfare Applicants Didn't Go Very Well — Tennessee's first year of drug testing welfare recipients uncovered drug use by less than 0.2 percent of all applicants for the state's public assistance system. — The state implemented the testing regime …
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