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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 Republican debate, Ben Carson was asked about his involvement with Mannatech, a nutritional supplements company that makes outlandish claims about its products and has been forced to pay $7 million to settle a deceptive-practices lawsuit.
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DownWithTyranny!, bradford-delong.com, Salon and Daily Kos
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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RedState, The First Street Journal, Reuters and Political Wire
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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Pirate's Cove, The Other McCain and The Spot
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
Don Melvin / CNN:
Russian passenger plane crashes in Sinai with 224 people on board — Cairo (CNN)[Breaking news update at 7:34 a.m.] — An Egyptian aviation investigation team has reached the site of the crashed Russian passenger jet in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, state-run Nile TV reported Saturday, citing the minister of civil aviation.
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BBC:
Bangladeshi secular publisher hacked to death — A Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in the second attack of its kind on Saturday, police say. — Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed at his office in the city centre, hours after another publisher …
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Friendly Atheist and Jihad Watch
Mike Rowe / Facebook:
What's on YOUR Wall? — 'Hello Mr. Rowe! What's your take on MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry being offended by the phrase “hard worker”? How can such a label possibly be offensive to anyone? Lenny Kostecki ... My take Lenny, for what it's worth, is that there is no longer a limit to what people can be offended by.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Patterico's Pontifications
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Yes, liberal media bias is real, and here's how it affected the CNBC debate — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — Since the Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night, there's been plenty of sturm und drang about media bias. Republican candidates and conservative commentators …
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Independent Journal
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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The Daily Caller
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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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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Mediaite, Washington Post, OnPolitics and Mother Jones
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
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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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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The Week, Politico, Fox News, Hullabaloo and ABC News
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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Daily Express, Allen B. West, Guardian, ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, Reuters and The Federalist