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Lance Benzel / Gazette:
Clerical glitch causes speculation about Colorado Springs shooting suspect's gender identity — An El Paso County clerical error was apparently to blame for Planned Parenthood shooting suspect Robert Lewis Dear Jr. being listed as a woman on his voter registration card …
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Richard Fausset / New York Times:
For Robert Dear, Religion and Rage Before Planned Parenthood Attack — CHARLESTON, S.C. — The man she had married professed to be deeply religious. But after more than seven years with Robert L. Dear Jr., Barbara Micheau had come to see life with him as a kind of hell on earth.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama hopes Planned Parenthood shooting leads to gun control
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Obama, While Speaking in Paris, on Planned Parenthood Shooting: 'This Just Doesn't Happen in Other Countries'
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Cruz: ‘Overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats’
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The Hill, Friendly Atheist, addictinginfo.org and The Week
Damon Linker / The Week:
The deeply irresponsible rhetoric of the pro-life movement
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Fran Spielman / Chicago:
Emanuel fires McCarthy — Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy has been fired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the mayor confirmed Tuesday. — McCarthy was called into City Hall on Monday and when he left City Hall he still had a job. But overnight, the mayor called McCarthy to tell him he was out …
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Bernard E. Harcourt / New York Times:
Cover-Up in Chicago — THERE'S been a cover-up in Chicago. The city's leaders have now brought charges against a police officer, Jason Van Dyke, for the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. But for more than a year, Chicago officials delayed the criminal process …
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New York Times:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel Fires Chicago Police Superintendent — CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel ousted Chicago's police superintendent on Tuesday, responding to an uproar over a white officer shooting a black teenager 16 times and anger at the Police Department for resisting, for more than a year, release of a video of the fatal shooting.
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Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
MTV News posts 2001 clip that sparked Trump 9/11 claim — As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to offer newspaper clippings and soundbites he says are proof of his claim that he saw “thousands and thousands” of Muslim Americans cheering the terror attacks of Sept. 11 …
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo Politics:
Giuliani refutes Trump's 9/11 claim: ‘We had some pockets’ of people celebrating — not thousands — Donald Trump's claim that he saw “thousands and thousands of people” in New Jersey cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, has been refuted by police …
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CNN, ABC News, NBC News and No More Mister Nice Blog
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Trump Card: New Report Points To DC Media Cover-Up of 9/11 NJ Muslim Celebration
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The Daily Banter
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Joint Chiefs chairman: ‘We have not contained’ ISIS — The United States has “not contained” the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the nation's top military officer said Tuesday, contradicting President Obama's remarks last month about the terror group.
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Washington Post, Hot Air and Washington Times
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Obama equates threats from climate change, ISIS
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Washington Free Beacon
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
56 Arrests in U.S. This Year Related to ISIS, Study Says
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Washington Times, The Hill, Independent Journal, NPR, Politico, The Week and New York Times
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz Excoriates Rubio on Foreign Policy, Links Him to Clinton — In an exclusive interview, the Texas Republican positions himself as a third way between “neo-con” interventionism and isolationism. — Ted Cruz on Monday offered his strongest denunciation so far of Marco Rubio's foreign policy views …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Cruz hits Hillary on contraceptive rhetoric: What nonsense
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Tom Moran / New Jersey Online:
You won't believe why N.H.'s top paper endorsed Christie | Moran — If you haven't read the fulsome endorsement of Gov. Chris Christie from New Hampshire's most influential paper, take a minute. This could be important. — Know two things about this endorsement from the Manchester Union-Leader.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Speaker Paul Ryan eyes strategy for government shutdown fight — House Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) strategy for avoiding a government shutdown is taking shape, with his leadership team seeking a clean break from the divisive intraparty warfare that plagued John Boehner's (R-Ohio) tenure.
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William Cummings / OnPolitics:
Trump mulls debate boycott unless CNN donates $5M — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (Steven Senne, AP) — Donald Trump proposed demanding $5 million from CNN in order for him to participate in the next Republican presidential debate during a rally in Macon, Ga. on Monday.
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump To CNN: Give Me $5 Million Or I Won't Be At Your Next Debate
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OnPolitics
Richard Lawson / Vanity Fair:
The Reagan Administration's Unearthed Response to the AIDS Crisis Is Chilling — A new short film, When AIDS Was Funny, unearths never-before-heard audio reaction to the escalating AIDS crisis. — One of the most prominent stains on the reputation of the much-mythologized Reagan administration …
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Eric W. Dolan / Raw Story:
Marco Rubio: 9/11 terror attacks were part of God's plan for the universe — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio thinks the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the recent massacre in Paris were part of God's plan.
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Samuel Smith / Christian Post:
Rubio: Paris Attacks and 9/11 Are Part of God's Plan for Our Lives
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The Hill:
FBI chief is wild card for Clinton — FBI Director James Comey is the pivotal figure in the 2016 presidential race that no one is talking about. — Comey, a Republican appointed by President Obama who enjoys a stellar reputation on both sides of the aisle, is investigating Hillary Clinton's use …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton is getting crushed on social media, captured in one word cloud
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Washington Free Beacon and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Wary of Donald Trump, G.O.P. Leaders Are Caught in a Standoff — WASHINGTON — For months, much of the Republican Party's establishment has been uneasy about the rise of Donald J. Trump, concerned that he was overwhelming the presidential primary contest and encouraging other candidates to mimic his incendiary speech.
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Drudge Report:
DICAPRIO RAPED BY BEAR IN FOX MOVIE — The new movie ‘REVENANT’ features a shocking scene of a wild bear raping Leo DiCaprio! — The explicit moment from Oscar winning director Alejandro Inarritu has caused maximum controversy in early screenings. Some in the audience escaped to the exits …
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Nico Perrino / FIRE:
Yale Faculty Defend Freedom of Speech, Express Support for Christakises in Open Letter — Forty-nine current or emeritus faculty members at Yale University have signed an open letter of support for Erika and Nicholas Christakis' right to “free speech and freedom of intellectual expression.”
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The American Conservative, Yale Daily News, Col·lege In·sur·rec· tion and Business Insider
Nick Hallett / Breitbart:
Migrants Beat Up Locals In Restaurant In Germany — Migrants and locals got into a fight in a restaurant in Bavaria on Sunday, resulting in a 50-year-old German man receiving serious head injuries. — The brawl, which began as an argument between a small group of migrants and local residents eating …
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Refugee Resettlement Watch, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Vox Popoli
Nola Marketplace / WGNO:
‘Exploding’ hoverboard blamed for destroying Lafitte family's home — LAFITTE, La. (WGNO)- Jessica Horne can't believe that the hoverboard her son couldn't wait to get— could have killed him. Now she blames the toy for a fire that destroyed her home. — Just five days before Thanksgiving …
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