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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Whisper Campaigns And “Zipper Problems”: How Jeb Bush's Allies Tried — And Failed — To Stop Marco Rubio — On the night of the 2010 midterm elections, a portly, silver-haired Jeb Bush stood on a stage in the courtyard of Miami's luxe Biltmore Hotel, appearing to choke back tears.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
As Cruz gains, GOP senators rally for Rubio — Ted Cruz has built his Senate career and presidential campaign on his willingness to stick it to the Republican establishment. And now that he's gaining momentum in the primary, his many GOP nemeses in Congress are returning the favor by quietly coalescing behind Marco Rubio.
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
5 takes on 2016 as the campaign kicks into high gear — The untamable 2016 campaign has settled into a kind of comprehensible chaos with 60 days until the Iowa caucuses. — Donald Trump, a contender who embodies the ultimate cross-pollination of politics and entertainment that began with Ronald Reagan …
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Obama, at Conference, Says U.S. Is Partly to Blame for Climate Change — PARIS — President Obama told world leaders who gathered northeast of Paris on Monday for a climate conference that the United States is at least partly to blame for the life-threatening damage that environmental change has wrought …
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Nick Stockton / Wired:
The Paris Climate Talks Will Emit 300,000 Tons of CO2, by Our Math. Hope It's Worth It
The Paris Climate Talks Will Emit 300,000 Tons of CO2, by Our Math. Hope It's Worth It
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Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Bill McKibben: What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth
Op-Ed Bill McKibben: What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama casts climate talks as world's last best chance
Obama casts climate talks as world's last best chance
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Elizabeth Kolbert / New Yorker:
Unsafe Climates — In Syria, the rainy season begins in November and ends in April.
Unsafe Climates — In Syria, the rainy season begins in November and ends in April.
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Spiegel Online:
Ex-US Intelligence Chief on Islamic State's Rise: — ‘We Were Too Dumb’ — Interview Conducted By Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark — Without the Iraq war, Islamic State wouldn't exist today, former US special forces chief Mike Flynn openly admits. In an interview …
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Associated Press:
Clinton opened State Department office to dozens of corporate donors, Dem fundraisers — WASHINGTON - As secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton opened her office to dozens of influential Democratic party fundraisers, former Clinton administration and campaign loyalists …
Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune:
1 in custody in threat at University of Chicago linked to Laquan McDonald shooting — University of Chicago security officers patrol the Hyde Park campus quad on Nov. 30, 2015. … An online threat to kill 16 white male students or staff in retaliation for the shooting of Laquan McDonald forced …
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Dean Schabner / ABC News:
University of Chicago Closes Campus After Online Threat
University of Chicago Closes Campus After Online Threat
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Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun Times:
University of Chicago cancels classes after threat warning from FBI
University of Chicago cancels classes after threat warning from FBI
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Hispanic Republican leaders shun Donald Trump — Prominent Hispanic Republicans are holding out hope that business mogul Donald Trump won't win the party's presidential nomination. — They are worried that his incendiary rhetoric on immigration will sour Latinos on the GOP and sink the party's chances of taking back the White House.
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Herman Cain / Best of Cain:
Politics: Hey Jeb: Before you talk about my ‘fall,’ try getting as far as I got
Politics: Hey Jeb: Before you talk about my ‘fall,’ try getting as far as I got
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Big Endorsement Event Quietly Becomes a Private Meeting — Donald J. Trump will meet on Monday with more than 100 black pastors and religious figures at Trump Tower in Manhattan. But just how many will actually endorse him afterward is unclear.
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump scraps endorsement event after black pastors object
Trump scraps endorsement event after black pastors object
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Jeff Sparrow / Guardian:
We can save atheism from the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris — There must be another way for nonbelievers than to transform, as Dawkins and Harris have done, into toxic know-it-alls — hy are the New Atheists such jerks? Case in point: Richard Dawkins' continuing pursuit …
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Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune:
State sues prisoners to pay for their room, board — Melvin Moore is a paroled inmate being sued by the Illinois Department of Corrections to recoup the costs of incarceration. … The $31,690 Johnny Melton received to settle a lawsuit over his mother's death was going to help him start life anew after prison.
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Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Trump gets OK to use Twisted Sister song — Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider says he gave Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump permission to use the band's hit “We're Not Gonna Take It” on the campaign trail. — “He called and he asked, which I appreciated,” Snider told Canadian Business in a recent interview.
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Orrin G. Hatch / Washington Times:
The wall separating faith and public life must be torn down — Our history tells us that faith and public life are complementary parts of American life. But invocation of the “wall of separation” between church and state has become shorthand for a particular narrative about the history and status of religion in American life.
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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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Blake Seitz / Washington Free Beacon:
Conference Organizers Hit the Buzzer as Obama's Climate Speech Goes 11 Minutes Over Schedule — The French had a message for President Obama during the climate change talks in Paris on Monday: Wrap it up. — Event organizers hit the buzzer as Obama's address neared the nine-minute mark …
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Tony Schwartz / New York Times:
Addicted to Distraction — ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue. I simply couldn't marshal the necessary focus. — I was horrified.
Dan Majors / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Muslim taxi driver shot on Thanksgiving in Hazelwood calls attack a hate crime — Pittsburgh police are investigating the Thanksgiving Day shooting of a Muslim cab driver in Hazelwood that the victim and leaders of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh are describing as a hate crime.
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