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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Exclusive: Carson claimed West Point ‘scholarship’ but never applied — Editor's note: POLITICO stands by its reporting on this story, which has been updated to reflect Ben Carson's on the record response. The original story and headline said that Carson's campaign had admitted he …
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Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
Team Carson: ‘Politico Story Is An Outright Lie’ — “The campaign never ‘admitted to anything,’” a spokesman for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told The Daily Caller News Foundation in response to a hit by Politico claiming his campaign admitted to “fabricating” a key point about his West Point story.
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Ben Carson's Past Faces Deeper Questions — In harsh light of presidential politics, parts of his inspirational biography are questioned — The day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968, Ben Carson's black classmates unleashed their anger and grief on white students who were a minority at Detroit's Southwestern High.
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Steve Eder / New York Times:
Ben Carson Resists Challenges to the Life Story He Rode to Political Prominence — In his rise to the top of the crowded field for the Republican presidential nomination, Ben Carson has endeared himself to conservatives with his inspirational tale of emerging from a broken home to become …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Ben Carson Seems to Have a Serious Personal Honesty Problem
Ben Carson Seems to Have a Serious Personal Honesty Problem
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Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
Carson Defends Claim That He Was Offered a Scholarship to West Point
Carson Defends Claim That He Was Offered a Scholarship to West Point
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
No, Ben Carson Didn't Lie About West Point. It's Another Media Hit Job.
No, Ben Carson Didn't Lie About West Point. It's Another Media Hit Job.
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John Nolte / Breitbart:
Video Proof: CNN's Attack On Ben Carson's Biography Is Racially-Motivated
Video Proof: CNN's Attack On Ben Carson's Biography Is Racially-Motivated
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The West Point Flap: How Much Will It Hurt Carson? [With comment by Paul]
The West Point Flap: How Much Will It Hurt Carson? [With comment by Paul]
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Ed Mazza / The Huffington Post:
Ben Carson Says America Would Be Cuba If Not For Fox News
Ben Carson Says America Would Be Cuba If Not For Fox News
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Diana Moskovitz / Deadspin:
This Is Why NFL Star Greg Hardy Was Arrested For Assaulting His Ex-Girlfriend — Barefoot and frightened, Nicole Holder walked as fast as she could through the darkness, and the moment she saw the cops she ran. She headed west on Fifth Street toward North Church, away from the Charlotte. …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Citing Climate Change, Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline — WASHINGTON — President Obama announced on Friday that he had rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven-year review that had become a symbol of the debate over his climate policies.
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Rebecca Leber / New Republic:
Obama Rejects the Keystone XL Pipeline—And Secures His Environmental Legacy
John Kerry / US Department of State:
Keystone XL Pipeline Permit Determination
Keystone XL Pipeline Permit Determination
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Roosevelt Room / The White House:
Statement by the President on the Keystone XL Pipeline
Statement by the President on the Keystone XL Pipeline
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Elise Labott / CNN:
Kerry rejects Keystone XL pipeline, spelling certain death for project
Kerry rejects Keystone XL pipeline, spelling certain death for project
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Source: Key Clinton emails did not contain highly classified secrets — The U.S. intelligence community has retreated from claims that two emails in Hillary Clinton's private account contained top-secret information, a source familiar with the situation told POLITICO.
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Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Signed NDA Laying Out Criminal Penalties for Mishandling of Classified Info
Clinton Signed NDA Laying Out Criminal Penalties for Mishandling of Classified Info
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Sanders draws differences with Clinton on oil pipeline, trade
Sanders draws differences with Clinton on oil pipeline, trade
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Greg Hilburn / The News Star:
Edwards ad: Vitter chose prostitutes over patriots — Democrat state Rep. John Bel Edwards has cut a TV ad attacking Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter specifically about Vitter's prostitution scandal for the first time during the Louisiana gubernatorial campaign.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Things Get Even Uglier In The Louisiana Race For Governor
Things Get Even Uglier In The Louisiana Race For Governor
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Leading Trump Supporter In Oklahoma Has Epically Offensive Facebook Page — An Oklahoma woman who has taken a prominent role with the Donald Trump campaign in the state has posted a variety of anti-Muslim, anti-transgender and other wildly offensive content to her public Facebook page.
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Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:
Jury Acquits Officer Who Shot Unarmed Man Face Down On The Ground — On Thursday, a jury acquitted Officer Lisa Mearkle for shooting David Kassick in Pennsylvania, who was pulled over for an expired inspection sticker. The same day, video of the deadly encounter was released by the local D.A. …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court to hear new challenge to Obamacare contraception mandate — Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would take up a challenge from religious non-profit groups — including the Little Sisters of the Poor— to the Affordable Care Act and the requirement …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear New Case on Contraception and Religion
Supreme Court to Hear New Case on Contraception and Religion
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Here's why Marco Rubio's corporate card saga isn't really a scandal — “People need to understand what they're talking about. It wasn't a credit card. It was an American Express charge card secured under my personal credit in conjunction with the [Republican] Party. Bills would be mailed to me at home.
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Bloomberg Business:
A Wal-Mart Heir Is $27 Billion Poorer Than Everyone Thought — Son Lukas Walton, now 29, inherited twice as much as Christy — John Walton's widow was long pegged as America's richest woman — Ever since Wal-Mart heir John T. Walton died 10 years ago in a plane crash …
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Fox News:
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Associated Press:
Dashcam video of man holding hands up helps convict officers — NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two police officers who accused a motorist of trying to grab one of their guns were convicted Thursday of misconduct in part because a dashcam video showed the motorist holding his hands up.