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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win — Less than three months before the kick-off Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Trump likens Carson's ‘pathology’ to that of a child molester — (CNN)Donald Trump said Thursday that Ben Carson's self-described “pathological temper” is incurable — adding that it's like the sickness of a “child molester.” — “It's in the book that he's got a pathological temper,” …
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's 95-minute rant: ‘How stupid are the people of the country?’ — FORT DODGE, Iowa — For an hour and 35 minutes, Republican front-runner Donald Trump vented about everything that's wrong with this country and this election. — He said he would “bomb the s—” …
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Donald Trump: Marco Rubio “wants amnesty” because he is Hispanic — Donald Trump explains his immigration plan — (CNN)Donald Trump said on Thursday that Marco Rubio favors “amnesty” for undocumented immigrants because the Florida senator and his parents are Hispanic.
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump's New Book To Debut Behind Ben Carson's On New York Times Bestseller List
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Brian Ross / ABC News:
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
U.S. airstrike targets ‘Jihadi John’ in Syria — Washington (CNN)U.S. forces targeted “Jihadi John,” the man who has emerged as the masked face of ISIS, in an airstrike in Raqqa, Syria, the Pentagon announced Thursday night. — “Jihadi John,” whom Western officials have identified as Mohammed Emwazi …
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Adam Goldman / Washington Post:
U.S. drone strike targets ‘Jihadi John,’ Briton linked to hostage beheadings — The U.S. military launched a drone strike Thursday targeting “Jihadi John,” the masked Islamic State terrorist who beheaded several Western hostages in Syria and came to symbolize the brutality of the militant group, U.S. officials said.
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Elspeth Reeve / New Republic:
The Hillary Clinton Living Inside the Republican Brain — Imagine a police sketch artist drawing a picture of Hillary Clinton based only on descriptions from the Republicans at the Fox Business Network debates on Tuesday night. The sketch would be unappealing, obviously, but also weird and contradictory.
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Mark Schmitt / New York Times:
A Lost Generation of Democrats
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Floats Theory About Hillary's Hair: ‘Is That A Wig?’
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Pundits Have It All Wrong. Ted Cruz Is a Real Threat For the Nomination. — Ted Cruz gets no respect. At least no respect in keeping with the impressiveness of the campaign he's built and his increasing odds of winning the Republican nomination. — The press and the political class …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Jennifer Lawrence: GOP 'doesn't support women's basic rights' — Actress Jennifer Lawrence says she has trouble staying true to her Republican upbringing because of the GOP's treatment of women. — “I was raised a Republican but I just can't imagine supporting a party …
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Jonathan Van Meter / Vogue:
Jennifer Lawrence Is Determined, Hilarious, and—Above All—Real
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Adam Chandler / The Atlantic:
A Six-Figure Settlement on Campus Free Speech — As debates roil over free speech on American college campuses and as mechanisms that critique Israeli policies continue to divide, the universe delivered a perfect enmeshing of both stories in the Land of Lincoln.
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Jodi S. CohenContact / Chicago Tribune:
University of Illinois OKs $875,000 settlement to end Steven Salaita dispute
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Jordan Abudayyeh / WICS-TV:
Springfield Woman Goes Viral After Attending Trump's Speech — Donald Trump's visit to Springfield is getting a lot of attention thanks to a Springfield woman who sat right behind the GOP front runner. — Donald Trump spoke for more than a hour during his visit to the Prairie Capital Convention Center …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Candidates' Solutions to Top U.S. Problems Get Mixed Reviews — PRINCETON, N.J. — Americans are divided on whether any of the presidential candidates have come up with good ideas for handling the problem they see as the most important facing the country, with 47% saying “yes” and 45% saying …
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BBC:
Russia reveals giant nuclear torpedo in state TV ‘leak’ — The Kremlin says secret plans for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo - called “Status-6” - should not have appeared on Russian TV news. — The leak happened during a report on state-run Channel One about President Vladimir Putin …
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
In new shock poll, Sanders has landslides over both Trump and Bush — In a new McClatchy-Marist poll, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leads Republican candidate Donald Trump by a landslide margin of 12 percentage points, 53 to 41.
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Secret Service Agent Charged With Sexting 14-Year-Old From White House — A uniformed Secret Service officer was arrested for allegedly sending nude photos to a contact he thought was a 14-year-old girl, with some texts sent while on the job at the White House, CNN reported Thursday.
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
US flies B-52 bombers near disputed islands claimed by China — The United States flew two B-52 bombers over the weekend near man-made islands constructed by China in the South China Sea, a U.S. official told The Hill, in a clear challenge to China's territorial claims to the area.
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Denise Grady / New York Times:
Uterus Transplants May Soon Help Some Infertile Women in the U.S. Become Pregnant — CLEVELAND — Six doctors swarmed around the body of the deceased organ donor and quickly started to operate. — The kidneys came out first. Then the team began another delicate dissection …
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Taylor Lemmons / Medium:
Dear Claremont McKenna College Community — Dear CMC Community: Students, Faculty, Staff, Friends, Family: — I made a statement 24 hours ago, stating that because of Dean Spellman's failure to address her comment about the “CMC mold”, I felt uncomfortable as a student of color expressing …
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John Binder / The Hayride:
EXCLUSIVE: Apparently John Bel Edwards Hosted A ‘Meet And Greet’ At A New Orleans Club — Gubernatorial candidate State Rep. John Bel Edwards (D-Amite) apparently hosted a “meet and greet” at a New Orleans night club, according to the Lyve New Orleans Instagram account.
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Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
A Plague of Racial Hoaxes on Campus — The two well-publicized incidents of racism on the University of Missouri campus, consisting of offensive slurs directed at African-American students, have not been independently confirmed. That does not indicate that these events never happened …
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Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Utah judge removes lesbian couple's foster child, says she'll be better off with heterosexuals — Last year, Utah couple Beckie Peirce and April Hoagland decided to get married. Last summer, in a decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, the Supreme Court confirmed that this was okay.
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Ashton Edwards / fox13now.com:
Utah DCFS files motion to stay after judge orders foster child removed from same-sex couple's care
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