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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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama hopes Planned Parenthood shooting leads to gun control
Obama hopes Planned Parenthood shooting leads to gun control
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MichelleMalkin.com
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Cruz: ‘Overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats’
Cruz: ‘Overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats’
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The Hill, Friendly Atheist, addictinginfo.org and The Week
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Obama, While Speaking in Paris, on Planned Parenthood Shooting: 'This Just Doesn't Happen in Other Countries'
Obama, While Speaking in Paris, on Planned Parenthood Shooting: 'This Just Doesn't Happen in Other Countries'
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The Daily Caller and myfox8.com
Damon Linker / The Week:
The deeply irresponsible rhetoric of the pro-life movement
The deeply irresponsible rhetoric of the pro-life movement
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New York Times, LifeNews.com, Mother Jones, Hot Air, Friendly Atheist, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Bloomberg View
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:
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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CityLab, addictinginfo.org and The Week
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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ABC News, CNN, 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
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, Washington Times and Infowars
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Obama equates threats from climate change, ISIS
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
56 Arrests in U.S. This Year Related to ISIS, Study Says
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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
Cruz hits Hillary on contraceptive rhetoric: What nonsense
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Talking Points Memo
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
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
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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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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NBC News, Greenville News, RealClearPolitics, Politico and The Week
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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
Trump To CNN: Give Me $5 Million Or I Won't Be At Your Next Debate
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OnPolitics
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
Rubio: Paris Attacks and 9/11 Are Part of God's Plan for Our Lives
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LiberalAmerica.org
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.
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
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
Jonah Goldberg / USA Today:
Planned Parenthood and those villainous Christians — If we can't condemn Islam for Muslim terrorists, why do we condemn Christians? — In the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting, I read a great deal about so-called Christian terrorism from liberals. I don't think they've thought this through.
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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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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