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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.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP to meet, discuss ObamaCare repeal — Senate Republicans will meet Monday evening to discuss plans to pass an ObamaCare repeal package later this week. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is convening the meeting to walk through the special budgetary process known …
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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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Herman Cain / Best of Cain:
Politics: Hey Jeb: Before you talk about my ‘fall,’ try getting as far as I got
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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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Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
The 2016 Pirelli Calendar May Signal a Cultural Shift — When Agnes Gund, the 77-year-old philanthropist and president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, got the call, she thought: “That's odd. What's that got to do with someone like me?” — When Fran Lebowitz, the 65-year-old author …
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Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Amy Schumer and Serena Williams' Nude Photoshoot Is a Big Middle Finger to Trolls
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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
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Los Angeles Times:
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
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Black Pastors Rail Against Closed-Door Meeting With Trump, Citing Racist Language And Incitement — Dozens of African American pastors gathered behind closed doors with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump at his office in New York City on Monday. The Trump campaign originally told press the pastors …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Big Endorsement Event Quietly Becomes a Private Meeting
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump scraps endorsement event after black pastors object
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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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Devin Henry / The Hill:
White House presses GOP on ISIS — The White House is pushing congressional Republicans to formally authorize military action against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and institute new rules to prevent terrorism in the United States. — The press comes in the wake …
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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 …
Walker Bragman / Salon:
More like Reagan than FDR: I'm a millennial and I'll never vote for Hillary Clinton — I never thought I'd be encouraging people to not vote for the Democratic nominee for president. But I am — I am a 27-year-old, politically active, progressive millennial voter.
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP chairwoman defends abortion probe after Planned Parenthood shootings — The leader of the GOP-controlled House committee charged with investigating abortion providers is defending its mission in the wake of a deadly rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
After Shooting, Planned Parenthood Blames GOP Rhetoric for ‘Toxic Environment’
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New York Times:
Sheldon Silver, Ex-New York Assembly Speaker, Is Found Guilty on All Counts — Sheldon Silver, an assemblyman who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of New York State's most powerful politicians, was found guilty on Monday in a federal corruption trial …
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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.
Chris Ariens / Advertising & Branding:
How Roger Ailes Built Fox News Into a Media Powerhouse — Roger Ailes' first moon shot came when he was 29 years old. He was in the Oval Office setting up the first interplanetary split screen. “Eagle” had just landed on the moon. — “I had video from the Earth and I realized I could set …
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Alissa Scheller / The Huffington Post:
2 Degrees Will Change The World — More Floods, More Drought Inevitable. How Bad Do We Want It To Get? — World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario …
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