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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Populism on the Rise in GOP Race for President — Candidates bash big banks, the Fed, corporations and international trade deals in their latest debate — The latest presidential debate vividly captured how the 2008 financial crisis has reshaped the Republican Party by unleashing …
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The GOP on Economics — The good, the bad, and the ugly at the fourth presidential debate. — Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate wasn't the most entertaining, but it was by far the most educational. The two-hour session gave the candidates a chance to critique the Obama record …
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Politico and Washington Post
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
A Troubled G.O.P. Debate for Donald Trump and Jeb Bush
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Confrontation Brews as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Vie for Conservative Vote
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump, Marco Rubio Won GOP Debate, Poll Finds
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Cruz vs. Rubio: The Overture
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Postal workers union backs Bernie Sanders — Bernie Sanders snagged a major union endorsement on Thursday, with the American Postal Workers' Union announcing its backing of the Democratic presidential candidate. Sanders' largest union pickup comes as his chief rival, Hillary Clinton …
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New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's bought-and-paid-for betrayal of charter schools — Whoosh! There goes Hillary Clinton, hurtling leftward after another 180-degree cartwheel on a critical issue — this time, a flip-flop on charter schools. — Charters once had no greater fan.
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Peter Hasson / Campus Reform:
Mizzou prof. resigns following outrage over his refusal to cancel exam — “If you don't feel safe coming to class, then don't come to class,” Dr. Brigham told his students. “I will be there, and there will be an exam administered in our class.” — Dr. Dale Brigham, considered …
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Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
As death threats spread fear at Mizzou, professor asks students to defeat ‘bullies’ and attend class
Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon:
White Missouri professor shames black students for heeding violent threats: “If you give into bullies, they win”
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Washington Post, The Daily Banter, The Daily Caller and BizPac Review
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Charles Koch: We are doling out welfare for the wealthy — Billionaire Charles Koch said Wednesday that the federal government is widening the gap between America's rich and poor. — “For most of this nation's history, our country has been characterized by opportunity …
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Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Charles Koch: No backing for candidate in GOP primary — WASHINGTON — Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch said Wednesday he's unlikely to back a candidate in the crowded Republican presidential primary, the latest sign that one of the most influential figures in conservative politics seems less than enthusiastic about his choices.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Promised Bipartisanship, Obama Adviser Found Disappointment — WASHINGTON — When President Obama first won the White House, he recruited Ray LaHood, a Republican congressman, to join his cabinet. The appointment, Mr. Obama declared, “reflects that bipartisan spirit” that would distinguish his presidency.
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Agence France-Presse:
EU flag burned as tens of thousands join Warsaw nationalist demo — Organisers said that up to 50,000 were on the march which marked the anniversary of Poland's independence after the First World War — Tens of thousands of protesters poured into Warsaw's streets on Wednesday …
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Devin Henry / The Hill:
EPA seeks to block chief's deposition in coal lawsuit — The Environmental Protection Agency is working to block a deposition for administrator Gina McCarthy as part of a coal industry lawsuit. — In a Tuesday court filing, the EPA asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit …
Cristina Flores / KUTV-TV:
Foster parents say child removed from their home because they are gay — (KUTV) April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce of Carbon County said the baby they've loved and raised for the last three months will be removed from their home and sent to heterosexual foster parents because a judge said the baby would be better-off.
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple, Banks in Talks on Mobile Person-to-Person Payment Service — Service would be a rival to PayPal's Venmo platform — Apple Inc. is in discussions with U.S. banks to develop a payment service that would let users zap money to one another from their phones rather than relying on cash or checks …
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Ari Melber / MSNBC:
Driven to hospital, Virginia man tased, shackled and dies in police custody — When three Virginia police officers put Linwood Lambert in a squad car around 5 a.m. on May 4, 2013, they said they were taking him to the ER for medical attention because he was speaking delusionally.
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Rafael Romo / CNN:
Human trafficking survivor: I was raped 43,200 times — Mexico City (CNN)Karla Jacinto is sitting in a serene garden. She looks at the ordinary sights of flowers and can hear people beyond the garden walls, walking and talking in Mexico City. — She looks straight into my eyes …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Rand Paul is right: The most economically unequal states are Democratic — During Tuesday night's Republican debate, Gerard Baker, editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal, posed a question to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.): “Does it matter at all that the gap between the rich and everyone else is widening?”
Washington Post:
Mr. Trump praises a grotesquely inhumane immigration plan from the 1950s — “WE HAVE a country that's going to hell.” So pronounced Donald Trump, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, at Tuesday night's debate. If Mr. Trump thinks that now, it's likely many Americans …
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Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Race and the Free-Speech Diversion — Of the many concerns unearthed by the protests at two major universities this week, the velocity at which we now move from racial recrimination to self-righteous backlash is possibly the most revealing. The unrest that occurred at the University …
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Glenn Reynolds: After Yale, Mizzou, raise the voting age — to 25 — How can students too spoiled to tolerate debate weigh opposing political arguments? They can't. — CONNECT — In 1971, the United States ratified the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18.
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Mireya Navarro / New York Times:
Public Housing Nationwide May Be Subject to Smoking Ban — Smoking would be prohibited in public housing homes nationwide under a proposed federal rule to be announced on Thursday, a move that would affect nearly one million households and open the latest front in the long-running campaign …
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