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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump's campaign says he'll negotiate directly with TV networks on debates — The format and content of upcoming Republican debates became increasingly uncertain on Monday after Donald Trump's campaign said the real estate mogul would negotiate his terms directly with television executives instead …
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Read the new debate demands Ben Ginsberg has compiled from Republican campaigns — Ben Ginsberg, the Republican attorney who's become the pro bono debate negotiator for frustrated GOP candidates, has amended his initial letter of questions to TV networks. When Sunday night's meeting …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Republicans shoot themselves in foot with Latinos, again
Morning Plum: Republicans shoot themselves in foot with Latinos, again
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump camp: We have always negotiated directly with networks
Trump camp: We have always negotiated directly with networks
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Meet Your New Republican 2016 Front Runner: Ben Carson — Ben Carson has surged into the lead of the Republican presidential race, getting support from 29 percent of GOP primary voters, according to a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. — That's the highest percentage any GOP candidate has obtained so far in the survey.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cruz rising in Iowa; Clinton back out to dominant lead
Cruz rising in Iowa; Clinton back out to dominant lead
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and Naked Politics
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Rubio's polling numbers skyrocket in NH
Rubio's polling numbers skyrocket in NH
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Rush Limbaugh and Eschaton
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Cruz's silent super PACs a growing worry for campaign
Cruz's silent super PACs a growing worry for campaign
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds — Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.
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Paul Starr / American Prospect:
A Shocking Rise in White Death Rates in Midlife—and What It Says about American Society — In a reversal of earlier trends, death rates among white non-Hispanic Americans in midlife increased sharply between 1999 and 2013, according to a new study by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton …
Daniel Larison / The American Conservative:
Bush's Lies About the Nuclear Deal — Jeb Bush delivered a speech today meant to relaunch his flagging campaign. Among other dubious foreign policy claims he made, this was the most remarkable for its dishonesty: … Bush's statement is just one falsehood after another.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush's big speech: What he said, and what he meant
Jeb Bush's big speech: What he said, and what he meant
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Wired, Mother Jones, Hullabaloo and Slantpoint
Kendall Breitman / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump Gets Personal in Attacks on Marco Rubio — The Republican front-runner noted Rubio's perspiration when calling for more air conditioning at debate venues. — Republican front-runner Donald Trump is worried about rival Marco Rubio. — Discussing the proposed changes …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida poll shows Trump in front, with Bush's help — MIAMI — Donald Trump remains the clear frontrunner in Florida and, a new poll of likely Republican voters shows, he can partly thank the unlikeliest of people for that: Jeb Bush. — With the former Florida governor in the crowded primary …
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ABC News, Florida Politics, Daily Mail, New York Times, Naked Politics, Hot Air and Bloomberg.com news
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
TransCanada asks Obama to suspend review of Keystone XL pipeline — The company seeking to build the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline is asking the Obama administration to pause the process for reviewing its permit. — TransCanada Corp., which until recently repeatedly pressured President Obama …
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Amy Harder / Wall Street Journal:
TransCanada Requests Suspension of U.S. Permit for Keystone XL Pipeline
TransCanada Requests Suspension of U.S. Permit for Keystone XL Pipeline
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The Moderate Voice and The Week
New York Daily News:
Notre Dame academic coach fired amid claims she coerced athletes into having sex with her daughter — Notre Dame fired a female academic coach amid allegations she coerced young football and basketball players into having sex with her daughter, according to an internal school report obtained by the Daily News.
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Slantpoint, theGrio, South Bend Tribune, The Big Lead and The Daily Caller
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Lessig drops out of presidential race — Harvard University professor Lawrence Lessig abandoned his Democratic presidential run on Monday, capping a candidacy that failed to get any real traction at all. — Lessig, an outspoken academic who had been a vocal proponent of campaign finance reform …
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Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg View, Techdirt, OnPolitics, Balloon Juice, Mediaite, The Verge and Althouse
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Larry Lessig ends presidential campaign, citing unfair debate rules
Larry Lessig ends presidential campaign, citing unfair debate rules
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Hit & Run, New York Times, Liberal Values, OpenSecrets.org and Outside the Beltway
Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Jeb Bush Borrowed His New Slogan From England's Most Notorious Child Abuser — To most American voters (especially the younger ones), Jeb Bush's new slogan will mostly just sound uninspired, and slightly reminiscent of Bob the Builder. But for pretty much anyone even mildly aware …
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Raw Story, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Ari Melber / MSNBC:
Obama bans the box — On Monday, President Obama is announcing a new order to reduce potential discrimination against former convicts in the hiring process for federal government employees. — It is a step towards what many criminal justice reformers call “ban the box” …
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ThinkProgress, Associated Press, Guardian, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Mediaite, NBC News, Washington Post, theGrio and Washington Monthly
Ian M. Smith / The Hill:
Leaked DHS memo shows Obama might circumvent DAPA injunction — A newly leaked internal DHS memorandum produced for an off-the-record agency conclave reveals that the Obama administration is actively planning to circumvent a federal court injunction that suspended part of last November's deferral-based amnesty initiative.
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RedState and Patterico's Pontifications
Matt Volz / Associated Press:
Federal health officials approve Montana Medicaid waiver — HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana will become the 30th state to expand its Medicaid program after federal health officials on Monday approved provisions that include requiring beneficiaries to pay premiums that amount to 2 percent of their income.
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Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and Billings Gazette
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Andy Puzder / Wall Street Journal:
The Slow-Motion Implosion of ObamaCare
The Slow-Motion Implosion of ObamaCare
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RedState, Rush Limbaugh and Chicago Boyz
The Federalist:
FINALLY: Rachel Dolezal Just Admitted That She's White — Rachel Dolezal, the former professor and NAACP president who pretended for years to be black, finally admitted that she is actually a white person. — During an appearance on the daytime television show The Real …
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The Gateway Pundit and TMZ.com
Stephen L. Miller / National Review:
South Park Shows How to Defeat the Social-Justice Warriors — South Park's PC Principal and fraternity
Monica Potts / American Prospect:
What's Killing Poor White Women? — For most Americans, life expectancy continues to rise—but not for uneducated white women. They have lost five years, and no one knows why. — On the night of May 23, 2012, which turned out to be the last of her life, Crystal Wilson baby-sat her infant granddaughter, Kelly.
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series a Go at CBS All Access — Alex Kurtzman is attached to the new series, which will premiere in January 2017 on CBS before new episodes debut on its digital and VOD platform. — Just in time for its 50th anniversary, Star Trek is returning to the small screen.
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Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
Ralph Nader Bizarrely Lectures Janet Yellen About Interest Rates, Says She Should Listen More to Her Husband — Ralph Nader is a fairly easy figure to ignore these days. But it's worth addressing this bizarre rant addressed to Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen that the man recently wrote …
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Salon, Mother Jones and Weekly Standard
The Independent:
Bill Gates says that capitalism cannot save us from climate change — There's no fortune to be made. Even if you have a new energy source that costs the same as today's and emits no CO2, it will be uncertain compared with what's tried-and-true and already operating at unbelievable scale …
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Hot Air, National Review, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Instapundit
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: DNC Chairwoman ‘crazy,’ ‘neurotic woman’ — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump on Monday knocked the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee as a “highly neurotic woman.” — Trump criticized the debate process of his own party speaking with Breitbart News on Siriux XM radio …
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Mediaite, Balloon Juice and Mashable
Dave Boucher / Tennessean.com:
Ben Carson touts creationism during Nashville speech — Republican presidential contender Ben Carson restated his views on creationism Sunday, wrapping up his weekend in Tennessee with a visit to one of Metro Nashville's largest churches. — Carson delivered two speeches Sunday morning at Cornerstone Church in Madison.
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Daily Mail, Daily Kos, addictinginfo.org, Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
The Perils of Obama's Latest Undeclared War — Without Congressional permission, public debate, or any attempt to rally the American public's support, President Obama has ordered U.S. ground troops to a war zone, his most flagrantly unconstitutional war-making since he unlawfully helped to overthrow Muammar al-Qaddafi.
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