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New York Times:
Paul Singer, Influential Billionaire, Throws Support to Marco Rubio for President — One of the wealthiest and most influential Republican donors in the country is throwing his support to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a decision that could swing millions of dollars in contributions behind …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Springtime for Grifters — At one point during Wednesday's …
Springtime for Grifters — At one point during Wednesday's …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Republican ‘Insiders’ Shine
Republican ‘Insiders’ Shine
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New York Times:
White House Aims to Stop Release of Obama-Clinton Emails — WASHINGTON — The White House will try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, citing longstanding precedent invoked by presidents of both parties …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Obama drawn into Clinton email controversy
Obama drawn into Clinton email controversy
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Justin Fishel / ABC News:
More Hillary Clinton Emails Released, One Describes ‘Weirdest Exchange Ever’
More Hillary Clinton Emails Released, One Describes ‘Weirdest Exchange Ever’
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Mother Jones
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Rules of Next Republican Debate Are Unveiled — Republican presidential candidates will not give opening statements at the next debate, hosted by the Fox Business Network, but they will have more time to respond to questions — 90 seconds in their initial answer, and a 60-second rebuttal …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
RNC pulls out of NBC debate
RNC pulls out of NBC debate
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio Spox: We're Not Complaining About The CNBC Debate — Our Guy Won!
Rubio Spox: We're Not Complaining About The CNBC Debate — Our Guy Won!
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Mediaite
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Chair: I'm ‘Pissed Off’ About ‘Crap Sandwich’ CNBC Debate (VIDEO)
RNC Chair: I'm ‘Pissed Off’ About ‘Crap Sandwich’ CNBC Debate (VIDEO)
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Fox News, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
RNC suspends partnership with NBC
RNC suspends partnership with NBC
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Obama to Boehner: 'Man, I'm gonna miss you' — President Barack Obama placed a call to John Boehner on his penultimate day as Speaker, telling the Ohio Republican he was sorry to see him go. — “He said, 'Boehner, man, I'm gonna miss you,' ” Boehner recalled in an interview broadcast Friday on Fox News.
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Black Lives Matter protesters interrupt Hillary rally — Protesters with the Black Lives Matters movement interrupted a Hillary Clinton rally in Atlanta on Friday, where she planned to unveil her criminal justice reform plan. — Members of the civil rights group in the crowd chanted …
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Margaret Newkirk / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton Vows to Fight Profiling as Black Protesters Chant
Hillary Clinton Vows to Fight Profiling as Black Protesters Chant
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Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Chief Operating Officer Leaves Jeb Bush Campaign — The highest-ranking official known to lose her job in Jeb Bush's flagging campaign is Christine Ciccone, the campaign's chief operating officer. — News of Ms. Ciccone's departure comes a week after the Bush campaign announced a re-organization …
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush team bracing for cash crunch — Jeb Bush's campaign, wounded after another mediocre debate performance, is bracing for the possibility that revenue dries up in the coming weeks ahead. — It's a striking turn for a campaign that had embarked on a “shock and awe” approach to fundraising …
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Political Wire and Fox News Insider
Alex Thompson / Politico:
America's Most Dangerous Political Taboo — Political taboos, campaign dealbreakers and electoral glass ceilings are crumbling. Members of Congress are openly gay and bisexual, there's a black man in the White House, and a woman may be next. Voters have accepted all sorts of behavioral warts …
John Crudele / New York Post:
The Commerce Department's GDP numbers don't make any sense — Marijuana must be legal in Washington because the folks at the Commerce Department have to be smoking a lot of it. — Commerce announced on Thursday that the nation's third-quarter gross domestic product expanded by just a 1.5 percent annual rate.
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The Other McCain
Washington Post:
6 injured in chemistry classroom fire at Woodson High in Fairfax — A chemistry demonstration at a Fairfax County high school went out of control Friday morning, with a flash of flame engulfing a group of students, leaving two with serious burns and also sending three others to the hospital.
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Daily Mail
Tom Tancredo / Breitbart:
Former Congressman: I'm Quitting GOP — In a panel discussion at the University of Colorado after the recent Republican debate, I was asked by a student why she should be a Republican. The question forced me to ask myself the same thing. — I gave the young woman the standard talking points …
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The Other McCain, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Spot
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama to Send Special Operations Forces to Syria to Help Fight ISIS — WASHINGTON — President Obama will deploy a small number of American Special Operations forces to Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Syria, a United States official said. — The White House is expected to make the announcement on Friday, the official said.
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Obama seeks to intensify operations in Syria with Special Ops troops
Obama seeks to intensify operations in Syria with Special Ops troops
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New York Post:
Fatal collapse at NYC building — One person was killed and another seriously injured when a ceiling collapsed Friday in a building under renovation at West 38th Street, sources said. — The injured person was trapped in the rubble at 25 W. 38th Street, sources said.
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WUSA9:
WUSA9: Lottery clerks selling themselves winning tickets … WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - A man who sold himself a $1,000,000 winning D.C. Lottery ticket is just one of many retailers a WUSA9 investigation found winning the lottery at rates statisticians say border on impossible.
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