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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Kasich super PAC rolls out first direct Trump attack ad — The super PAC supporting Ohio Gov. John Kasich's presidential bid released its first direct attack ad against Donald Trump on Monday. — The 47-second Web ad is the first spot from the New Day for America super PAC …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Dear Media, Stop Freaking Out About Donald Trump's Polls — Lately, pundits and punters seem bullish on Donald Trump, whose chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination recently inched above 20 percent for the first time at the betting market Betfair.
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
John Kasich Trying To Take Down Donald Trump
John Kasich Trying To Take Down Donald Trump
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Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Donors line up behind Kasich Super PAC planning Trump attack
Donors line up behind Kasich Super PAC planning Trump attack
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Mark Niquette / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Heads to Ohio as Rivals Sharpen Attacks After Wild Week
Trump Heads to Ohio as Rivals Sharpen Attacks After Wild Week
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The media has no idea how to deal with Donald Trump's constant lying — Donald Trump's interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week (above) is a great distillation of why covering the Republican frontrunner is proving so difficult for mainstream press outlets. — On the one hand, he demands coverage.
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Peter Kinder / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Donald Trump: “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed. — “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering” as the World Trade Center collapsed.
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Donald Trump's 9/11 celebration claim widely disputed
Donald Trump's 9/11 celebration claim widely disputed
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Ben Carson 'Doesn't Stand Behind' His Own Remarks About American Muslims Cheering on 9/11
Ben Carson 'Doesn't Stand Behind' His Own Remarks About American Muslims Cheering on 9/11
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Politico, MSNBC, OnPolitics, Business Insider and CBS New York
Avi Selk / Irving Blog:
Letters demand $15 million, say Irving officials worked to smear Ahmed Mohamed after clock arrest — Former Irving MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested and interrogated by Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade clock to school. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Clock Kid Ahmed Mohamed Wants $15 Million in Damages
Clock Kid Ahmed Mohamed Wants $15 Million in Damages
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The Independent:
This TV presenter's life was saved by a viewer who spotted a cancerous lump in his neck — A TV presenter who was diagnosed with cancer after a viewer spotted a lump in his neck has described how his life has changed since his cancer went into remission. Tarek El Moussa co-hosts HGTV's …
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Emily Strohm / People.com:
Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa After Thyroid Cancer Battle: ‘I Have Slowed Down Quite a Bit’
Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa After Thyroid Cancer Battle: ‘I Have Slowed Down Quite a Bit’
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government — Broad criticism, but positive performance ratings in many areas — Overview — A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation's elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why Vitter's last-minute Syrian refugee gambit failed
The Daily 202: Why Vitter's last-minute Syrian refugee gambit failed
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
TV networks unite to fight Trump's restriction on journalists' access — Network TV news representatives will confer Monday to hash out demands about access to Donald Trump's presidential campaign after Trump officials last week threatened to “blacklist” reporters who left a designated media …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
TV networks hold conference call to discuss Trump treatment
TV networks hold conference call to discuss Trump treatment
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Pew: White Christians no longer a majority — White Christians now make up less than half of the U.S. population, largely receding from the majorities of most demographic groups, with one notable exception: the Republican Party. — According to the latest results from Pew Research Center's …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans say Trump Most Likely to Ruin Thanksgiving Dinner; GOP Opposes Obama on Turkey Pardons — Donald Trump leads PPP's newest poll by a wide margin...on which candidate Americans think would be the most likely to say something inappropriate at the table and ruin Thanksgiving Dinner.
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Emails show DOD analysts told to ‘cut it out’ on ISIS warnings; IG probe expands — Analysts at U.S. Central Command were pressured to ease off negative assessments about the Islamic State threat and were even told in an email to “cut it out,” Fox News has learned - as an investigation expands …
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul: Boston Bombers Were “Coddled,” Given “Free Stuff” As Refugees — Rand Paul said on Friday that the Boston bombers came to America as refugees and were “coddled” and given “free stuff,” before they “decided to attack us.” — “The Boston bombers came here and as refugees …
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Erik Baard / Gothamist:
Should The MTA Allow These Nazi Insignias On Subway Cars? — Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious.
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
NBC Reaches Agreement on Equal Time After Trump's ‘SNL’ Gig — NBC has come to an agreement with the campaigns of John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, James Gilmore and Lindsey Graham for equal time following Donald Trump's “Saturday Night Live” hosting gig on Nov. 7, the network said.
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Los Angeles Times:
$4.9-million settlement in death of mentally ill homeless man Kelly Thomas — Ron Thomas, center, is flanked by attorney's Garo Mardirossian, left and Dale Galipo during a press conference Monday after a $4.9-million settlement was reached in the death of Thomas' mentally ill homeless son, Kelly Thomas Monday, November 23, 2015.
Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Trump takes heat for tweet about black murder rates — Donald Trump is taking heat on social media for a Sunday afternoon tweet of statistics purporting to show that the vast majority of murdered black people in the U.S. are killed by other black people. — The tweet was apparently Trump's response …
Tammy Mutasa / WLWT-TV:
Muslim UC student says she was attacked because of her religion — 'I'm terrified to cross the street now,' woman says — A Muslim woman is speaking out after she says she was called a terrorist and almost run over by an angry man in Clifton Monday night.
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Ben Carson, author of book about the Constitution, incorrectly states that Thomas Jefferson crafted it — It's a common misconception that Thomas Jefferson participated in drafting the United States Constitution in 1787. But as Republican presidential candidate and retired pediatric …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Telling the Truth About ISIS and Raqqa — On Saturday night, five young Syrians slouched into a dive bar in New York and ordered drinks. When the bartender asked if off-brand vodka was O.K., they had to smile. They were all exiles from Raqqa, the provincial city in northern Syria that ISIS …
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Ari Melber / MSNBC:
Ex-Benghazi investigator sues Trey Gowdy for discrimination and defamation — A former investigator for the House Benghazi Committee filed a federal lawsuit against the committee Monday, opening a new chapter in legal skirmishes over the Benghazi attacks and subsequent investigations.
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Mediaite, Liberaland, Talking Points Memo and The Week
Dana Treen / Florida Times Union:
Costumed Dark Lord overcome by the ‘force’ of a jar of salad dressing in Jacksonville Beach — The all-encompassing Force made famous in the fictional “Star Wars” universe didn't extend to a Dark Lord wanna-be in Jacksonville Beach Sunday. — Instead, the Darth Vader-costumed would-be robber …
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