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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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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.
Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz Floats Report That Planned Parenthood Shooter Was A “Transgendered Leftist” — Not what his neighbors thought. Cruz was trying “to make the point that we don't have all the details,” a spokesperson says. — Scott Olson / Getty Images — While urging caution about drawing conclusions …
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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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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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
How The Abortion Rights Movement Is Going To Turn Colorado Into A Rallying Cry — WASHINGTON — This week, abortion rights activists are going to use tough language and modern political tactics to make the shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Friday into a political moment …
New York Times:
Robert Dear, Suspect in Colorado Killings, ‘Preferred to Be Left Alone’
Robert Dear, Suspect in Colorado Killings, ‘Preferred to Be Left Alone’
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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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Katie Valentine / ThinkProgress:
Republican Candidates Finally Comment On Shooting, Continue False Attacks On Planned Parenthood
Republican Candidates Finally Comment On Shooting, Continue False Attacks On Planned Parenthood
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CNN:
Source: Suspect spoke of ‘baby parts’ after Planned Parenthood shooting
Source: Suspect spoke of ‘baby parts’ after Planned Parenthood shooting
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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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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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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:
Trump's rhetoric turning Muslims against the US, McCain says — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric is only serving to turn the international Muslim community against the U.S. — “Oh, I think it has an interesting effect of turning Muslims all over the world …
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Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Obama's Legacy at Stake in Paris Talks on Climate Accord — WASHINGTON — At a joint news conference here Tuesday with President François Hollande of France, President Obama veered from his focus on the terrorist attacks in Paris to bring up the huge international gathering beginning …
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