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The Hill:
Sanders sues Democratic Party — Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) presidential campaign filed a lawsuit Friday evening in federal court against the Democratic National Committee, following the suspension of his campaign from the DNC's voter database. — Earlier in the day …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Chaos in the Democratic presidential primary — A civil war erupted within the Democratic Party on Friday after news that Bernie Sanders' campaign took advantage of a technological glitch to access, search and save one of Hillary Clinton's most valuable campaign assets — her voter files.
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CNN:
Bernie Sanders and the DNC: It's war — Devine: DNC trying to “shut down biggest” grassroots campaign this year — The fight between Bernie Sanders and the DNC is a proxy battle over the future of the Democratic Party, with Sanders representing a progressive wing disenchanted with Clinton …
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Bloomberg Business:
Sanders Campaign Sues Democratic Party After Data Breach — Senior adviser Tad Devine accuses party leaders of “grinding our campaign to a halt” in an appearance on Bloomberg Politics' With All Due Respect. — michaelcbender — jeneps — AndyNewsNowInDC
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Clinton Spox: Sanders Camp Was ‘Stealing Data,’ ‘Like Kids in a Candy Store’
Clinton Spox: Sanders Camp Was ‘Stealing Data,’ ‘Like Kids in a Candy Store’
MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
DNC Data Breach: What Happened and What It Means for Bernie Sanders' Campaign
DNC Data Breach: What Happened and What It Means for Bernie Sanders' Campaign
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Guardian:
Bernie Sanders sues DNC for $600,000 a day over removal of data access
Bernie Sanders sues DNC for $600,000 a day over removal of data access
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Moe Lane / RedState:
Bernie Sanders will participate in the DNC's destruction of his campaign.
Bernie Sanders will participate in the DNC's destruction of his campaign.
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Stu Trevelyan / blog.ngpvan.com:
Data Security and Privacy
Data Security and Privacy
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Fired Sanders Staffer: We Saved Clinton Voter Data To Prove Breach
Fired Sanders Staffer: We Saved Clinton Voter Data To Prove Breach
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders Bristle at Holding Debates on Weekends
Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders Bristle at Holding Debates on Weekends
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CBS News:
Marco Rubio explains why he skipped vote, swipes at Rand Paul — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, on Friday defended his decision to skip a major vote in the Senate that afternoon to fund the government through September, and he took a swipe at a GOP rival who called on him to resign from Congress.
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Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Rick Perry Praises Cruz, Rips Trump And Rubio In Iowa Radio Interview
Rick Perry Praises Cruz, Rips Trump And Rubio In Iowa Radio Interview
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
In 1999 Memo, Ted Cruz Took Milder Tone on Immigration
In 1999 Memo, Ted Cruz Took Milder Tone on Immigration
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rubio misses spending bill vote
Rubio misses spending bill vote
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Ire Grows Over Marco Rubio's Past on Immigration and His Campaign Tactics
Ire Grows Over Marco Rubio's Past on Immigration and His Campaign Tactics
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Paul: Rubio should resign over missed Senate votes
Paul: Rubio should resign over missed Senate votes
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Lead Grows Nationally; 41% of His Voters Want to Bomb Country From Aladdin; Clinton Maintains Big Lead — PPP's newest national Republican primary poll finds Donald Trump holding his largest lead yet in the wake of Tuesday night's debate. He's at 34% to 18% for Ted Cruz …
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Jana Kasperkevic / Guardian:
Poll: 30% of GOP voters support bombing Agrabah, the city from Aladdin — Public Policy Polling also found that about 54% of the Republicans they polled support banning Muslims from entering the US, as Donald Trump has proposed — Almost one-third of Republican primary voters would support bombing …
Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:
Poll: 30 percent of GOP voters support bombing any Arab sounding nation — even the fictional land of Aladdin
Poll: 30 percent of GOP voters support bombing any Arab sounding nation — even the fictional land of Aladdin
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
President Obama commutes sentences of 95 federal drug offenders — President Obama commuted the sentences of 95 drug offenders Friday, more than double the number he granted this summer, in an effort to give relief to drug offenders who were harshly sentenced in the nation's war on drugs.
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Donald Allen / The White House:
President Obama Grants Commutations and Pardons
President Obama Grants Commutations and Pardons
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Dan De Luce / Foreign Policy:
Hagel: The White House Tried to ‘Destroy’ Me — In an exclusive interview, Chuck Hagel said the Obama administration micromanaged the Pentagon, stabbed him in the back on the way out — and still has no strategy for fixing Syria. — Jet-lagged from a long overseas trip …
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
How old-fashioned logrolling produced Congress' massive budget deal — During John Boehner's speakership, when a vote on a massive spending bill was around the corner, he'd often be holed up in his office, trying to figure out how to persuade Republicans to avoid a government shutdown.
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Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
Congress Votes To Fund Nearly 300,000 Visas For Muslim Migrants In One Year
Congress Votes To Fund Nearly 300,000 Visas For Muslim Migrants In One Year
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Sen. Ted Cruz / Politico:
The Republicans in Congress Are Surrendering to Obama
The Republicans in Congress Are Surrendering to Obama
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Congress clears $1.8 trillion tax and spending bills
Congress clears $1.8 trillion tax and spending bills
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Systemic Change Needed After Faulty Times Article — Mistakes are bound to happen in the news business, but some are worse than others. — What I'll lay out here was a bad one. It involved a failure of sufficient skepticism at every level of the reporting and editing process …
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
College Professor, Students Sport Yellow Jewish Stars to ‘Protest Islamophobia’ — A University of San Diego professor and her students have raised eyebrows in the pro-Israel community after they led a protest this week against anti-Muslim rhetoric by wearing yellow Jewish star badges …
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Abraham Cooper By / Wall Street Journal:
Mideast Christians Deserve U.S. Refuge
Mideast Christians Deserve U.S. Refuge
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fda.gov:
FDA proposes tanning bed age restrictions and other important safety measures … For Immediate Release — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced important proposed steps to protect public health by preventing the use of sunlamp products (also commonly known as indoor tanning beds) …
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
The New York Times Just Memory-Holed This Devastating Obama Admission — A story published by the New York Times late Thursday night caused some major media waves. The story, which was written by reporters Peter Baker and Gardiner Harris, included a remarkable admission by Obama …
Matt Grubs / KRQE-TV:
Governor's post-party call to police: Call off your officers — This story has been updated to include a written statement from the Governor's Office, and quotes from an interview Governor Martinez gave to KRQE News 13 on Friday evening. — SANTA FE (KRQE) — Governor Susana Martinez …
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Michael Randall / Times Herald-Record:
Six protesters taken into custody in anti-CPV power plant demonstration — SLATE HILL - Actor James Cromwell held his fist in the air defiantly as he sat in the entrance to the Competitive Power Ventures power plant construction site and led fellow protesters in a chant Friday morning.
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CNN:
First on CNN: Newly discovered hack has U.S. fearing foreign infiltration — Washington (CNN)A major breach at computer network company Juniper Networks has U.S. officials worried that hackers working for a foreign government were able to spy on the encrypted communications of the U.S. government …