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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump campaign to negotiate directly with TV networks on debate formats — Donald Trump and his advisers have decided to work directly with television executives and take a lead role in negotiating the format and content of primary debates, which have become highly watched and crucial events …
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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
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump camp: We have always negotiated directly with networks
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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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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 …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cruz rising in Iowa; Clinton back out to dominant lead — PPP's newest Iowa poll finds a tight race on the Republican side in the state with Donald Trump at 22%, Ben Carson at 21%, Ted Cruz at 14%, Marco Rubio at 10%, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal each at 6%, and Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina each at 5%.
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Meet Your New GOP 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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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Rubio's polling numbers skyrocket in NH
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Rubio triples his support in New Hampshire
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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
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Candace Smith / ABC News:
Jeb Bush Invokes President Lincoln Amid ‘Jeb Can Fix It’ Tour
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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 …
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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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump slams Wasserman Schultz as ‘crazy’ and ‘highly neurotic’
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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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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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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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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Larry Lessig ends presidential campaign, citing unfair debate rules
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Ed Tibbetts / Quad City Times:
Santorum targets Cruz on immigration — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum took aim Monday at a rival who has been getting a lot of buzz in Iowa lately, Sen. Ted Cruz. — Santorum said Cruz, a Texas Republican, falls short on immigration. — Santorum, who is lagging in the polls …
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Cruz's silent super PACs a growing worry for campaign
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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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Stephen L. Miller / National Review:
South Park Shows How to Defeat the Social-Justice Warriors — South Park's PC Principal and fraternity
Dana Schuster / New York Post:
'He's a mess': Insiders worry Fallon's partying is getting out of hand — He's one of NBC's biggest success stories — keeping “The Tonight Show” at the top of the late-night ratings with bouncy show tunes and campy games. — Now Jimmy Fallon is also one of NBC's biggest worries.
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Daily / Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal:
Man jailed after bombing at Tupelo Walmart — By William Moore — Daily Journal — TUPELO - A Tupelo man is facing life behind bars after allegedly setting off an explosive at Walmart early Sunday morning. — Marshall W. Leonard, 61, of Tupelo, was arrested and will be charged placing an explosive device.
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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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Isabelle Fraser / Telegraph:
Russian plane crash: Final moments of doomed airliner revealed in flight data as it emerges crew went unpaid for two months — Roland Oliphant in St Petersburg and Raf Sanchez in Cairo — Suspicions that foul play or terrorism caused the passenger jet crash in Egypt were growing on Monday …
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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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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:
Chicago Vocational Career Academy teacher is bullied by students in video — Frightening footage has emerged of a group of American high school students subjecting a despondent teacher to a barrage of abuse and intimidation inside the classroom. — In the short clip, an out-of-control student …
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