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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
John McCain: “I Don't Know” If Cruz Is Eligible For Presidency With Canadian Birth — McCain, the Republican nominee in 2008, was born in the Panama Canal Zone when it was a U.S. territory. — Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images — w.soundcloud.com — Arizona Sen. John McCain …
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John McCain: Ted Cruz's citizenship is “worth looking into” — PHOENIX — Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, who faced questions as the 2008 GOP presidential nominee about his birth abroad, is now posing the same question to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. — In an interview Wednesday …
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RedState, National Review, PoliticusUSA, Taylor Marsh, The Resurgent, Trail Blazers Blog and MichelleMalkin.com
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Cruz's path to victory — He is the most hated man in Washington, and he isn't riveting record crowds like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are out on the campaign trail. But Ted Cruz is running one of the best presidential campaigns of 2016. — After spending what will likely amount …
Jennifer Hansler / ABC News:
Donald Trump Wants Ted Cruz to ‘Go Before a Judge’ About His Citizenship
Donald Trump Wants Ted Cruz to ‘Go Before a Judge’ About His Citizenship
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul Says He's Not Sure If Ted Cruz Is Eligible To Be President
Rand Paul Says He's Not Sure If Ted Cruz Is Eligible To Be President
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Veepstakes cloud Senate GOP hopes of preserving majority — The Republican imperative to put together a strong White House ticket is butting up against the party's dream of preserving the Senate GOP majority. — Republican strategists say Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio and Kelly Ayotte …
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Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
RINOs Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie chasing fool's gold — It's a shootout in the lifeboat — the Republicans in Name Only (RINO) lifeboat. — All the also-rans in the GOP presidential field are firing wildly at one another, trying to grab that coveted fourth-place finish in Iowa and
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The Resurgent
Joe Klein / TIME:
The Republican Governors' Advantage
The Hill:
Bill Clinton rape accuser: Hillary ‘tried to silence’ me — A woman who publicly accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978 is resurrecting her claims on social media. — “I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me,” Juanita Broaddrick tweeted Wednesday.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The Bill Clinton scandal machine revs back up and takes aim at his wife — The ghosts of the 1990s have returned to confront Hillary Clinton, released from the vault by Donald Trump and revved up by a 21st-century version of the scandal machine that almost destroyed her husband's presidency.
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Washington Free Beacon, Althouse and USA Today
Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
Suspects in Cologne sex attacks ‘claimed to be Syrian refugees’ — Leaked police report claims senior police officers feared fatalities and that one of those involved in attacks told officers: “I am Syrian. You have to treat me kindly. Mrs Merkel invited me”
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Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Germany springs to action over hate speech against migrants
Germany springs to action over hate speech against migrants
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Sanders cracks Clinton's Nevada firewall — LAS VEGAS — Hillary Clinton has been on the ground in Nevada since last April. Bernie Sanders only began building up his organization here late in the fall. — But the state that's been touted as Clinton's firewall against the Vermont senator …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders: Clinton lacks courage to stand up to Wall Street
Sanders: Clinton lacks courage to stand up to Wall Street
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Taylor Marsh and ABC News
CNN:
Man with cleaver killed by Paris police on anniversary of Charlie Hebdo attacks — Deadly shooting outside Paris police station — Police kill man with cleaver after he tried to enter a northern Paris police station, officials say — (CNN)Police shot and killed a man wielding …
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Hasani Gittens / NBC News:
$700M Powerball Rollover Prize Is Largest in U.S. History — Here's the bad news: You didn't win the monster Powerball jackpot Wednesday night. — The good news: Neither did anyone else. — That means the jackpot will roll over to an estimated $700 million — the largest lottery prize in U.S. history …
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Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
No Winners in $524 Million Powerball Jackpot
No Winners in $524 Million Powerball Jackpot
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
George Zimmerman rips Obama's ‘crocodile tears’ on guns — George Zimmerman is accusing President Obama of insincerity for weeping over mass shooting victims one day ago. — “He made an announcement and I could think when I saw it was crocodile tears,” Zimmerman, who shot and killed a black teenager in 2012, told TMZ.
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Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and TMZ.com
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
NOAA: U.S. posts second-hottest year on record — The United States posted its second-hottest year on record in 2015, government scientists reported Thursday, extending the streak of warmer-than-average annual temperatures. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …
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The Week
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
New charges allege religious leader, who has ties to the Duggars, sexually abused women — Ten women on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Bill Gothard, who for decades was a major force in the conservative Christian homeschooling movement, charging him and leaders in his ministry with sexual abuse, harassment and cover-up.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Gawker and Homeschoolers Anonymous
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Email Shows CNN's Invite Only Gun Control “Town Hall” With Obama is a Total Sham — Following his executive actions this week, President Obama will participate in what CNN is calling a “town hall” style discussion about gun control at George Mason University tomorrow night.
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Bearing Arms
Associated Press:
17 miners rescued from salt mine near Ithaca — LANSING, N.Y. (AP) — Seventeen miners stuck 900 feet underground at the deepest salt mine in the Western Hemisphere were rescued Thursday morning, ending an ordeal that officials said began about 10 hours earlier when an elevator got stuck on its way to the mine's floor.
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Zach Despart / Burlington Free Press:
Burlington raises concerns over Trump event — Vermonters who plan to see Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speak on Thursday should prepare for “airport-like” security and sizable crowds after the campaign issued tickets for more than 10 times the number of available seats, the Flynn Center's executive director says.
Marco Rubio / USA Today:
Convention can restore limited government — Our republic is under siege by the Washington establishment in both parties. — America was built on the revolutionary idea that our rights come from God, not from government. To protect those rights, our founders created a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
Why James Hansen Is Wrong About Nuclear Power — Climatologist James Hansen argued last month, “Nuclear power paves the only viable path forward on climate change.” He is wrong. — As the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and International Energy Agency (IEA) explained in a major report last year …
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National Review
Jay Newton-Small / TIME:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton on Running and Governing as a Woman — 'There still is a double standard, there's no doubt about that.' — I sat down with Hillary Clinton in October for an exclusive interview for my book, “Broad Influence How Women Are Changing the Way America Works.”
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Washington Free Beacon
Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business:
Amazon to Sell Its Own Brand of Chips Next to Wipes, USB Cables — Recently acquired startup unveils new line of semiconductors — ‘Alpine’ products based on designs from U.K.'s ARM Holdings — Amazon.com Inc. is expanding the products it makes and sells under its own brand with a foray …
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The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget and Gizmodo
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Christie says he ‘changed his mind’ on guns — Chris Christie on Wednesday conceded that he changed his mind on guns. — Fox News host Sean Hannity pressed the New Jersey governor on his gun stance, noting that he supported an assault weapons ban in 1995, called GOP opponents who wanted to repeal it …
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Hot Air
Moe Lane / RedState:
Washington Post admits that, no: electric cars were NOT worth it. — At least, if you use the rule of thumb that any time you ask a question in a headline then the answer is always going to be ‘no:’ “The government has spent a lot on electric cars, but was it worth it?”
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Washington Post and Business Insider
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
State Department gave ‘inaccurate’ answer on Clinton email use, review says — Two years before the public learned of Hillary Clinton's private server, the State Department gave an “inaccurate and incomplete” response about her email use when it told an outside group that it had no documents …
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The Daily Caller and Hot Air