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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Soar, G.O.P. Leaders' Exasperation Grows — DES MOINES — Republican leaders are growing alarmed by the ferocious ways the party's mainstream candidates for president are attacking one another, and they fear that time is running out for any of them to emerge …
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
We checked if 2,000 voters recognized the 2016 candidates' faces. Here's what we found. — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are by far the most recognizable faces in the 2016 race, a poll conducted by Morning Consult and Vox has found. — Ninety-six percent of respondents to the online poll …
CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Donald Trump dominates GOP field at 41% — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has hit a new high in the race for the Republican nomination, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, with more than 4-in-10 Republican voters nationwide now saying they back the billionaire.
David Brody / blogs.cbn.com:
Brody File Video Exclusive: Ted Cruz's Plea To Iowa Pastors At Private Meeting: Stop Trump! — In video obtained exclusively by The Brody File, Ted Cruz says it's up to Iowa pastors to stop Donald Trump from winning the Iowa Caucus or the billionaire from New York will be, unstoppable.
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RedState, Politico and The Daily Caller
Ramesh Ponnuru / BloombergView.com:
Cruz-Hating Republicans Need a Reality Check — Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. This sound aphorism may have a less pithy political corollary: Never attribute to strategy what can be explained by emotion. — Only this truth can help us understand …
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Bloomberg Business, Washington Post, Mickey Kaus and Business Insider
David Brooks / New York Times:
Stay Sane America, Please! — In January of 2017 someone will stand at the U.S. Capitol and deliver an Inaugural Address. This is roughly the place where Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan once stood. I am going to spend every single day between …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump: I'll work with Democrats — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is stressing his bona fides as a dealmaker who'd be able to enter the White House and work with congressional Democrats to hammer out agreements. — “I think I'm going to be able to get along with Pelosi …
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RedState
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: Ted Cruz ‘looks like a jerk’ — For Donald Trump, in some ways, Ted Cruz “looks like a jerk.” — The heated personal rhetoric directed by Trump at Cruz cranked up another few degrees on Tuesday morning, with the Manhattan business mogul unloading on his Republican rival in back-to-back morning show interviews.
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Political Wire
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Donald Trump Says Ted Cruz Is Telling ‘Lie After Lie’ — Less than one week before the pivotal Iowa caucuses, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said that his rival Sen. Ted Cruz is “just saying lie after lie” about his record. — “He's so nervous,” Trump told ABC's George Stephanopoulos …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump: Establishment rallying behind me to stop ‘nasty’ Cruz
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Heidi Cruz Is Asked On The Radio If She Is “Sleeping With An Immigrant”
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
2 Abortion Foes Behind Planned Parenthood Videos Are Indicted — HOUSTON — A grand jury here that was investigating allegations of misconduct against Planned Parenthood has instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who made videos of the organization. — In a statement …
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The Federalist:
Houston Grand Jury Indicts David Daleiden For Organ Trafficking, Issues No Charges Against Planned Parenthood — Months after the release of undercover videos detailing Planned Parenthood's scheme to traffic aborted baby body parts, a grand jury has finally brought brought criminal charges.
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abc13.com, ThinkProgress and Little Green Footballs
Fox News:
Grand jury in Texas indicts activists behind Planned Parenthood videos
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Fox News Insider, Truth Revolt and The Last Refuge
Valerie Lawhorn / Houston Public Media:
Grand Jury Takes No Action Against Planned Parenthood In Houston, Two Videographers Indicted
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Mother Jones, The Daily Caller and NPR
Barack Obama / Washington Post:
Why we must rethink solitary confinement — Barack Obama is president of the United States. — In 2010, a 16-year-old named Kalief Browder from the Bronx was accused of stealing a backpack. He was sent to Rikers Island to await trial, where he reportedly endured unspeakable violence …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama bans solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Is Nominating Bernie Sanders a Worthwhile Gamble? — Hillary Clinton's supporters have yet to make a persuasive case that Sanders is too great a risk. — For the better part of a year, Bernie Sanders enjoyed a polite if slightly bemused welcome from the non-radical quarters of the Democratic firmament.
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Clinton losing support among N.H. Dems, Sanders ahead by 16
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WBUR and Political Wire
Oren Liebermann / CNN:
Au revoir and shalom: Jews leave France in record numbers — Ashdod, Israel (CNN)Yoav Krief remembers the day he knew it was time to move to Israel: January 9, 2015. — It was a Friday. Four Jews had just been killed in the Hyper Cacher, a kosher supermarket in Paris, two days after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Joseph Rose / Oregonian:
Watch: Oregon militant challenges Chris Christie to sumo wrestling to end standoff — An armed protester at the Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge says the militants will end their standoff if Chris Christie can beat him in one round of sumo wrestling. (YouTube)
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New Jersey Online, Political Wire, PoliticusUSA and Talking Points Memo
Nicolle Wallace / New York Times:
Sarah Palin, Rage Whisperer — DONALD J. TRUMP has made a shrewd bet. For the first time since he descended an escalator in Trump Tower last June to announce that this time, he really was running for president, he ceded control of his campaign message. He handed the Trump-bedecked podium over to Sarah Palin.
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Politico
Jacob Bojesson / The Daily Caller:
15-Year-Old Refugee Brutally Kills His Swedish Care Taker In Stabbing — A 15-year-old refugee was charged with murder Monday after allegedly stabbing a 22-year-old female employee of a refugee center in Sweden. — The incident took place at small refugee home outside the city of Gothenburg …
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