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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 …
THE BIG IDEA: —Mitt Romney says concern about Jeb Bush's …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's new TV ad: Make America great by keeping the darkies out
Donald Trump's new TV ad: Make America great by keeping the darkies out
Mary Ann Georgantopoulos / BuzzFeed:
Bizarre Lawsuit Claims Without Evidence That Cliven Bundy Accused Obama Of Threatening Donald Trump
Bizarre Lawsuit Claims Without Evidence That Cliven Bundy Accused Obama Of Threatening Donald Trump
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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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NBC News:
Trump Ad Fact Checked for Border Footage, Campaign Says ‘No Sh—’
Trump Ad Fact Checked for Border Footage, Campaign Says ‘No Sh—’
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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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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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Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama rolls out gun control strategy — The White House unveiled President Barack Obama's executive actions on gun violence on Monday as part of a multi-day rollout meant to contain the political fallout and to cast Obama as the voice of common sense in a raging culture war.
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Washington Post:
Armed men, led by Bundy brothers, take over federal building in rural Oregon — BURNS, Ore. — A group of armed anti-government activists remained encamped at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Sunday evening, vowing to occupy the outpost for years to protest the federal government's treatment …
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NBC News:
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 …
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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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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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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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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Speaker.gov:
Statement on Potential Executive Action to Restrict 2nd Amendment Rights — Speaker Ryan Press Office — WASHINGTON—House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement in response to reports that the president intends to take executive action to restrict gun ownership in America:
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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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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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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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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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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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Guardian:
Periodic table's seventh row finally filled as four new elements are added — Discovery of four super-heavy chemical elements by scientists in Russia, America and Japan has been verified by experts and formally added to table — Four new elements have been added to the periodic table …
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