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Will Kraus / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Donald Trump: A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over “our southern border.” — The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! Donald Trump's first TV ad shows migrants ‘at the southern border,’ but they're actually in Morocco — In a new television ad — his campaign's first …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's provocative first TV ad raises the temperature of GOP race — NEW YORK — Donald Trump's ad begins with a shot of President Obama and Hillary Clinton. Then comes a U.S. battleship launching a cruise-missile strike. From there it moves swiftly through an explosive montage …
ABC News:
Bill Clinton Brushes Off Trump Attacks — We're exactly four weeks away from the Iowa caucuses — and the 2016 presidential race is switching into high gear. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is holding a rally in Massachusetts tonight after releasing his first television ad of his 2016 campaign …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
THE BIG IDEA: — —Mitt Romney says concern about Jeb Bush's electability was a major reason he seriously considered running for president a year ago. — “A Bush-versus-Clinton head-to-head would be too easy for the Democrats,” he told my colleagues Dan Balz and Philip Rucker during …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's new TV ad: Make America great by keeping the darkies out — As the final, frenzied push towards the first presidential voting begins, Donald Trump has unveiled a riveting new television ad that perfectly sums up Trumpism in all its xenophobic glory — and also perfectly captures …
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Pro-Rubio super PAC aims attack ads at Christie
Pro-Rubio super PAC aims attack ads at Christie
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Donald Trump's first TV ad is a greatest hits of his campaign's most controversial ideas
Donald Trump's first TV ad is a greatest hits of his campaign's most controversial ideas
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
One year, two races: Inside the Republican Party's bizarre, tumultuous 2015
One year, two races: Inside the Republican Party's bizarre, tumultuous 2015
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump: Cruz copying my immigration plan
Trump: Cruz copying my immigration plan
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House calls Oregon standoff a ‘local law enforcement matter’ — The White House on Monday referred to an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon as a “local law enforcement matter.” — Spokesman Josh Earnest's comments come even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation …
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Ted Cruz Calls for Oregon Armed Protesters to ‘Stand Down’ — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Monday called for armed protesters who occupied a federal building in Oregon to “stand down peaceably.” — “Every one of us has a constitutional right to protest, to speak our minds,” Cruz told reporters in Iowa.
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Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
The Absurdly Harsh Penalties That Sparked the Oregon Rancher Protest — As Ed Krayewski noted yesterday, the armed men who are occupying an office building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon broke off from a demonstration protesting the sentences received by two ranchers …
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Cruz urges armed protesters in Oregon to ‘stand down’
Cruz urges armed protesters in Oregon to ‘stand down’
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Marco Rubio On Oregon Standoff: “You Can't Be Lawless”
Marco Rubio On Oregon Standoff: “You Can't Be Lawless”
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Nick Gass / Politico:
GOP candidates call for end to armed standoff at Oregon refuge
GOP candidates call for end to armed standoff at Oregon refuge
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama rolls out gun control strategy — President Barack Obama launches an aggressive rollout strategy this week meant to contain the political fallout from upcoming executive actions on gun control and to cast himself as the voice of common sense in a raging culture war.
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Eric Raymond / Armed and Dangerous:
Why I joined the NRA — After 20 years of evading joining the NRA …
Why I joined the NRA — After 20 years of evading joining the NRA …
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
President Obama Claims Executive Action on Gun Control Within His Authority
President Obama Claims Executive Action on Gun Control Within His Authority
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Matt Adams / Fox 59:
Indianapolis bar's response to customer's complaint about ‘ruined’ New Year's Eve goes viral — Missing Attachment Missing Attachment — INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Jan. 4, 2015) - A woman suffered a heart attack during a New Year's Eve celebration at a downtown Indianapolis bar …
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Jessica Diehl / Vanity Fair:
Blowhards Beware: Megyn Kelly Will Slay You Now — The brightest star at Fox News, Megyn Kelly is a newly minted role model for women who sees her gender as irrelevant, and a conservative champion who transcends politics with her skillful skewering of windbags of both parties, most notably Donald Trump.
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BBC:
Saudi Arabia's allies Bahrain, Sudan and UAE act against Iran — A number of Saudi Arabia's allies have joined diplomatic action against Iran after the Saudi embassy in Tehran was attacked amid a row over the execution of a Shia Muslim cleric. — Bahrain and Sudan have both severed relations with Iran …
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. fears Saudi tensions with Iran could affect fight against ISIS
U.S. fears Saudi tensions with Iran could affect fight against ISIS
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Hillary Clinton Promises She'll Investigate Area 51, UFOs — In an interview with New Hampshire's The Conway Daily Sun, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that she would investigate Area 51 and UFOs if she were elected. — Reporter Daymond Steer asked Clinton about the topic in 2007 …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Clinton: Aliens may have visited us already
Clinton: Aliens may have visited us already
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Every year, I take on a personal challenge to learn new things and grow outside my work at Facebook. My challenges in recent years have been to read two books every month, learn Mandarin and meet a new person every day. — My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work.
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Des Moines Register:
Last Slide — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called the 2016 election cycle perplexing Sunday due to voters shying away from candidates with past political experience. — “This has been, of all the election cycles I've been involved in, this has been one of the most bewildering …
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Antoinette Ramseur / WTKR-TV:
Woman shot to death in apartment while mother and children were inside — Newport News, Virginia - A 25 year-old woman was shot to death in her Heritage Trace apartment just after 1:30am, on Heritage Way off Warwick Boulevard. — The victim's name has not been released by police …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush Has “Mistaken And Conflated” Story About Receiving NRA Award, Campaign Admits — Bush has repeatedly claimed that he received the NRA's “statesman of the year” award. — A spokesman for Jeb Bush's campaign told BuzzFeed News on Monday that Bush had “mistaken and conflated” …
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