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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Describes Alleged Planned Parenthood Shooter As ‘Transgendered Leftist Activist’ — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is the latest presidential candidate trying to downplay the role anti-abortion rhetoric may have played in motivating the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs Friday afternoon.
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Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
A grieving father remembers Jennifer Markovsky, one of three victims killed in the Planned Parenthood shootings — One of the three victims killed in the shooting Friday at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado is from the islands, her family has confirmed.
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Hawaii News Now:
Family: Waianae woman among those killed in Colorado Springs shooting — One of the three victims killed in the shooting Friday at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado is from the islands, her family has confirmed. — Family members identified the woman as Jennifer Markovsky, a 1997 Waianae High School graduate.
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Cruz Condemns Colorado Shooting, Rejects Anti-Abortion Link … Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. — NEWTON, Iowa — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is condemning the fatal shooting of three people at a Planned Parenthood location in Colorado but also aggressively pushing …
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New York Times:
Robert Dear, Suspect in Colorado Killings, ‘Preferred to Be Left Alone’ — HARTSEL, Colo. — Robert L. Dear Jr. was a man who lived off the grid. — On this lonely, snow-covered patch of land in a hamlet ringed by the Rocky Mountains, his home was a white trailer, with a forest-green four-wheeler …
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Katie Valentine / ThinkProgress:
Republican Candidates Finally Comment On Shooting, Continue False Attacks On Planned Parenthood — Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, and Mike Huckabeee responded to the deadly shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood Sunday by reiterating false claims that the organization sells babies' body parts.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fiorina: ‘Typical Left-Wing Tactics’ to Connect Pro-Lifers to Planned Parenthood Attack
Fiorina: ‘Typical Left-Wing Tactics’ to Connect Pro-Lifers to Planned Parenthood Attack
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‘This Week’ Transcript: Ben Carson and Gov. John Kasich
‘This Week’ Transcript: Ben Carson and Gov. John Kasich
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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
‘No more baby parts,’ suspect in attack at Colo. Planned Parenthood clinic told official
‘No more baby parts,’ suspect in attack at Colo. Planned Parenthood clinic told official
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Guardian:
Suspect in Planned Parenthood attack said ‘no more baby parts’ after arrest
Suspect in Planned Parenthood attack said ‘no more baby parts’ after arrest
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump abruptly cancels black clergy press conference — After prematurely announcing the endorsements of 100 black pastors — prompting several to protest they were not, in fact, supporters - Donald Trump's campaign abruptly cancelled a press conference with the group scheduled for Monday afternoon at Trump Tower.
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
GOP donors wrestle with possibility of Trump nomination — When asked who he would vote for if the presidential race comes down to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the former mayor of Los Angeles and a longtime Republican establishment figure, Dick Riordan, says: “I would probably go find a deserted island.”
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Martin Pengelly / Raw Story:
Jeb Bush: I'd still support Trump over Clinton because ‘anybody is better than Hillary’
Jeb Bush: I'd still support Trump over Clinton because ‘anybody is better than Hillary’
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Jeb Bush: Trump not a ‘serious candidate’
Jeb Bush: Trump not a ‘serious candidate’
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Kobe Bryant / The Players' Tribune:
Dear Basketball — PHOTOGRAPH BY WALTER IOOSS JR./THE PLAYERS' TRIBUNE … I knew one thing was real: — I fell in love with you. — A love so deep I gave you my all — From my mind & body — To my spirit & soul. — As a six-year-old boy — Deeply in love with you
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Kiri Blakeley For / Daily Mail:
University of Missouri assistant professor charged with ‘violently grabbing 14-year-old relative by the hair and dragging her out of school for not wearing hijab’ — Youssif Zaghwani Omar, 53, was arrested after allegedly dragging a 14-year-old female relative out of school
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Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
Fostering a climate of intolerance — Hysteria: state in which your emotions (such as fear) are so strong that you behave in an uncontrolled way; a situation in which many people behave or react in an extreme or uncontrolled way because of fear, anger, etc.
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
House Dem threatens to file suit if Cruz wins nomination — Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) says he will file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) presidential bid if Cruz wins his party's nomination. — Grayson said Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American mother …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama visits site of Paris concert massacre — PARIS — President Barack Obama is here to attend the international climate conference that kicks off Monday, but his first stop was to commemorate the terrorist attacks that struck the French capital Nov. 13. — Less than an hour after Air Force …
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New York Times:
What the Paris Climate Meeting Must Do — In 1992, more than 150 nations agreed at a meeting in Rio de Janeiro to take steps to stabilize greenhouse gases at a level that would “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” — United Nations-speak for global warming.
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Obama's Legacy at Stake in Paris Talks on Climate Accord
Obama's Legacy at Stake in Paris Talks on Climate Accord
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