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Jeb Bush Allies Threaten Wave of Harsh Attacks on Marco Rubio, an Ex-Mentee — The cash-rich group aiding Jeb Bush's White House run has filmed a provocative video casting his rival Marco Rubio as ultimately unelectable because of his hard-line stand against abortion.
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The Hill:
Clinton, allies set sights on newly surging Rubio — Clinton World is stepping up its attacks on Sen. Marco Rubio, signaling the Democratic presidential front-runner sees the rising Florida Republican as a significant threat. — Priorities USA, a super-PAC aligned with Hillary Clinton …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Republicans Wrangle in Wisconsin — NOTABLES —WHY SCOTT WALKER IS GRABBING THE SPOTLIGHT BEFORE TUESDAY'S DEBATE: He may not be on stage for the Republican debate tonight, but that doesn't mean that Scott Walker won't be getting attention. The Wisconsin governor …
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Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush's Comeback Plan Looks Weaker Than Advertised
Jeb Bush's Comeback Plan Looks Weaker Than Advertised
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Bush, Carson Under Pressure Ahead of Critical Fourth Debate
Bush, Carson Under Pressure Ahead of Critical Fourth Debate
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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
For GOP Candidates, the Best Bet Is for Instability
For GOP Candidates, the Best Bet Is for Instability
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Yale Classmate: We Did The Prank Test That Ben Carson's Talking About — A former staff member of the Yale Record says that he recalls many of the details of a prank that Dr. Ben Carson wrote about in an autobiography. — The incident has been the subject of media coverage in recent days …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
How Ben Carson and Marco Rubio Outfoxed the Media — Two Republican candidates. Two sets of potentially damaging stories. So far, not a great deal of damage. What happened? — In one case, much-anticipated credit-card records from Marco Rubio produced ... not a great deal.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Self-Awareness Mr Magoo — In case you missed the late news yesterday evening, the Carson-Yale mystery has taken a paradoxical turn in which all can apparently rejoice: new evidence both suggests the possibility that Ben Carson may be telling some version of the truth as he remembers it …
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Meet The Mizzou Media Professor Who's Trying To Ban Media Coverage — After desperately trying to gin up media coverage of student protests at the University of Missouri, one of the school's media professors is now furiously trying to “muscle” the press off campus to prevent …
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New York Times:
As Missouri Activists Block Journalists, a Divide Over ‘Respect’ and Rights — COLUMBIA, Mo. — A video that showed University of Missouri protesters restricting a student photographer's access to a public area of campus on Monday ignited discussions about press freedom.
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Adrienne Green / The Atlantic:
The Financial Calculations: Why Tim Wolfe Had to Resign — The University of Missouri's president Tim Wolfe has resigned after months of protest from students, faculty, and community members over the administration's handling of recent instances of racism targeted at black students.
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Columbia Daily Tribune:
Deans, faculty members call for Loftin's dismissal
Deans, faculty members call for Loftin's dismissal
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New York Times:
University of Missouri Protests Spur a Day of Change
University of Missouri Protests Spur a Day of Change
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How the Missouri football team just took down its university president
How the Missouri football team just took down its university president
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Appeals court keeps block on Obama immigration actions — A federal appeals court has rejected President Barack Obama's effort to move forward with a series of executive actions he announced last year seeking to give quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of undocumented immigrants.
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Associated Press:
AP: Appeals court rules against Obama immigration plan
AP: Appeals court rules against Obama immigration plan
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Kevin McGill / Associated Press:
Appeals court rules against Obama immigration plan
Appeals court rules against Obama immigration plan
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Reid rips Grassley over Clinton-Abedin probe — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is demanding that Sen. Chuck Grassley drop his hold on dozens of State Department nominations, arguing the Iowa Republican is wasting money to try to bring down Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
FBI steps up interviews in Clinton email probe
FBI steps up interviews in Clinton email probe
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Donald Trump: ‘Maybe we should boycott Starbucks’ — “If I become president, we're all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, I can tell you,” Trump told a crowd in Springfield, Illinois — Washington (CNN)Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump weighed in on the day's controversy on Monday …
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Ben Carson's Roman fixation — Ben Carson doesn't have a detailed foreign policy platform, but he does have a clear worldview: the evangelical precept that the greatest danger facing America is moral and spiritual decline at home — a decline he often compares to a Roman Empire collapsing under …
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Seton Motley / RedState:
Cronyism: For the Likes of Google, It is Really, REALLY Good to be a Friend of Obama — If President Barack Obama doesn't like you - his government tends to make your life really, REALLY miserable. Ask Tea Party and conservative groups - when Obama's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) …
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Out Magazine:
Out100 2015 Cover Revealed: President Barack Obama … The 44th President of the United States is our Ally of the Year—a president who came to office on a wave of euphoria, appeared to lose momentum halfway through, and has since rallied, helping us secure marriage equality …
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
A Young Journalist Setting an Example for the Rest of Us — It's too easy, and also rash and risky, to criticize people on the basis of perhaps-out-of-context social media snippets. — So let me compliment someone! You may already have seen the video below, shot this afternoon at the University of Missouri.
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Even as House Speaker, Paul Ryan Makes His Office a Home — WASHINGTON — The speaker has no house. — Of all his unusual traits for his new role — relative youth, a love of Clif bars for lunch and an excessive interest in tax policy — the most notable may be Speaker Paul D. Ryan's insistence …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
The New Intolerance of Student Activism — Professor Nicholas Christakis lives at Yale, where he presides over one of its undergraduate colleges. His wife Erika, a lecturer in early childhood education, shares that duty. They reside among students and are responsible for shaping residential life.
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