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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.
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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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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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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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Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
Accused gunman Robert Dear faces first court appearance on Monday in Planned Parenthood shootings
Accused gunman Robert Dear faces first court appearance on Monday in Planned Parenthood shootings
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Describes Alleged Planned Parenthood Shooter As ‘Transgendered Leftist Activist’
Ted Cruz Describes Alleged Planned Parenthood Shooter As ‘Transgendered Leftist Activist’
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Abortion rights groups: Political rhetoric contributed to shooting
Abortion rights groups: Political rhetoric contributed to shooting
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Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz Floats Report That Planned Parenthood Shooter Was A “Transgendered Leftist”
Ted Cruz Floats Report That Planned Parenthood Shooter Was A “Transgendered Leftist”
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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 …
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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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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump abruptly cancels black clergy press conference
Trump abruptly cancels black clergy press conference
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Dean Schabner / ABC News:
University of Chicago Closes Campus After Online Threat — The University of Chicago has canceled all classes and activities at its Hyde Park campus after being warned by the FBI of an online threat of gun violence there. — In an alert sent out to the campus community …
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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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Jeremy Manier / UChicago News:
Monday Classes and Activities at Hyde Park Campus Canceled Due to Threat
Monday Classes and Activities at Hyde Park Campus Canceled Due to Threat
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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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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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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Obama urges world action on climate change: ‘Hour is almost upon us’
Obama urges world action on climate change: ‘Hour is almost upon us’
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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.
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
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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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Appoints Ex-Congressman Who Blamed Defeat on Jewsto ‘Leadership Team’ — Hillary Clinton has appointed to her leadership team a former congressman who blamed his defeat on “Jewish interests” and the “Jewish media,” her campaign announced earlier this month.
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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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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.
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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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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