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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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Daily Kos, Jezebel, Balloon Juice, Mother Jones, Slantpoint, Chicago Tribune, ThinkProgress and Chicago Reader
New York Times:
Chicago Police Superintendent Is Fired — CHICAGO — had Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Chicago's police superintendent on Tuesday, after the city's police department came under fire for resisting, for more than a year, release of a video showing an officer shooting a teenager 16 times.
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The Week
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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Power Line, CNN, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, NBC News, Trail Blazers Blog, The Hill, BuzzFeed, OnPolitics, Washington Times, Politico and The American Conservative
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Cruz hits Hillary on contraceptive rhetoric: What nonsense
Cruz hits Hillary on contraceptive rhetoric: What nonsense
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Talking Points Memo and ABC News
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Ted Cruz: GOP isn't ‘condom police’
Ted Cruz: GOP isn't ‘condom police’
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PoliticusUSA, BuzzFeed, Hot Air, Jezebel, addictinginfo.org, Politico and Mashable
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Punish Each Other for the Best Things They've Done
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Punish Each Other for the Best Things They've Done
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Wall Street Journal, Talking Points Memo, Prairie Weather, The Daily Caller and Trail Blazers Blog
John Hawkins / Townhall.com:
The Conservative Case For Ted Cruz
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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ThinkProgress, New York Times, Joe.My.God., Towleroad and Vox
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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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Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
MTV News posts 2001 clip that sparked Trump 9/11 claim
MTV News posts 2001 clip that sparked Trump 9/11 claim
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ThinkProgress, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Right Scoop, Yahoo Politics and NewsHounds blog
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Trump Card: New Report Points To DC Media Cover-Up of 9/11 NJ Muslim Celebration
Trump Card: New Report Points To DC Media Cover-Up of 9/11 NJ Muslim Celebration
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Mediaite and The Daily Banter
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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Vox, Mediaite, Death and Taxes and Joe.My.God.
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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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump To CNN: Give Me $5 Million Or I Won't Be At Your Next Debate — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump threatened Monday that he may not attend CNN's next debate unless the network forks over $5 million, which the real estate mogul said would go to charity.
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William Cummings / OnPolitics:
Trump mulls debate boycott unless CNN donates $5M
Trump mulls debate boycott unless CNN donates $5M
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NBC News, Greenville News, RealClearPolitics, Politico and The Week
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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Hot Air, Infowars, Washington Times and Washington Post
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
56 Arrests in U.S. This Year Related to ISIS, Study Says
56 Arrests in U.S. This Year Related to ISIS, Study Says
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Politico, The Week and New York Times
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Black Pastor: Donald Trump Isn't Telling The Whole Truth About Closed-Door Meeting — In the minutes following a closed-door meeting with black pastors on Monday afternoon, billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump touted the event as a huge success. More than 100 leaders …
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Liberaland, The Hill, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo, BizPac Review, Reuters and Independent Journal
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Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Trump says meeting with U.S. black clergy went ‘very well’
Trump says meeting with U.S. black clergy went ‘very well’
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Friendly Atheist and Joe.My.God.
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Donald Trump Is Not a Liar — He's something worse: a bulls**t artist. — Falsehoods fly out of Donald Trump's mouth with such unstoppable frequency that it's tempting to describe him as a liar. Among the recent Trumpian untruths is his claim to have seen a video showing “thousands and thousands” …
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Washington Monthly
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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Washington Post, New York Times and Politico
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Syrian refugees bill could be inserted in omnibus
Syrian refugees bill could be inserted in omnibus
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Independent Journal and Washington Post
Shirley Washington / FOX2now.com:
Ferguson mom's body found nude in pool of blood after meeting Facebook friend — FERGUSON, MO (KTVI) - The Major Case Squad is activated in Ferguson after a young mother is found dead in her home. Was the killer caught on camera? That's what her relatives believe.
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FOX31 Denver and KTLA
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Obama urges Turkey to reduce tensions with Russia — U.S. President Barack Obama urged Turkey on Tuesday to reduce tensions with Russia that are hampering efforts to fight Islamic State militants in Syria and stressed that U.S. support for its NATO ally's security remained steadfast.
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Associated Press and KTOO
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Fox News:
Clinton emails show Benghazi response, back-patting after contentious hearing — As the number of classified Hillary Clinton emails grew to nearly 1,000, they also reveal how freely she and her staff shared information on the Benghazi attacks including confirming the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens …
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Pirate's Cove
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Do Hillary's Emails Confirm Clinton-Obama Enmity?
Do Hillary's Emails Confirm Clinton-Obama Enmity?
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Viking Pundit
Roger Friedman / Showbiz411:
The Revenant: Leonardo DiCaprio Molestation By Grizzly Bear Depicted in Spectacular Detail from the Novel It's Based On — Advance screenings of Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu's epic “The Revenant,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, are producing all kinds of reactions, all wildly favorable, albeit with caveats.
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Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh and The Daily Caller
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
When in Paris... President Obama has a ‘working dinner’ at three-star eatery — As working dinners go, President Obama's meal Monday night in Paris with French President Francois Hollande, Secretary of State John Kerry and others wasn't too shabby. — No cartons of takeout — instead …
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Liberty Unyielding, Infowars, Washington Free Beacon, The Federalist and Scared Monkeys
Lee Drutman / Washington Monthly:
Secrets of the Chamber — In 2011, Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue vowed that his organization would fight against what he called a “regulatory tsunami”: the thousands of pages of new rules that were beginning to flow out of federal agencies as they implemented the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform …