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Monica Alba / NBC News:
Bill Stumping for Hillary Clinton: 'Sometimes ... I Wish We Weren't Married' — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton embrace during a campaign stop Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Hudson, N.H. Matt Rourke / AP — HUDSON, N.H. — In his last appearance …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump calls Cruz a ‘pussy’ — Donald Trump echoed a supporter during a rally on the eve of the New Hampshire primary Monday night who called his Republican presidential rival Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) a “pussy.” — Trump was touting his hardline stance against terrorists from the Middle East …
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Financial Times:
Michael Bloomberg says he is eyeing 2016 run for the White House — Oliver Ralph in London, Demetri Sevastopulo in New Hampshire and Matthew Garrahan in New York — You have viewed your allowance of free articles. If you wish to view more, click the button below.
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Pete Williams / MSNBC:
FBI formally confirms its investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server — In a letter disclosed Monday in a federal court filing, the FBI confirms one of the world's worst-kept secrets: It is looking into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. — Why say this at all, since it was widely known to be true?
Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Prevails and G.O.P. Has 3-Way Tie as 3 New Hampshire Towns Vote — The results are in. — Or, at least, the first results from the tiny New Hampshire towns — Dixville Notch, Millsfield and Hart's Location — that practice the time-honored tradition of voting at midnight …
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Vox, Politico and Outside the Beltway
Tim Stanley / Telegraph:
While Trump and Sanders smell victory, Hillary Clinton contemplates humilation
While Trump and Sanders smell victory, Hillary Clinton contemplates humilation
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
New Hampshire Should Answer a Lot of Key Questions
New Hampshire Should Answer a Lot of Key Questions
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David Brooks / New York Times:
I Miss Barack Obama — As this primary season has gone along, a strange sensation has come over me: I miss Barack Obama. Now, obviously I disagree with a lot of Obama's policy decisions. I've been disappointed by aspects of his presidency. I hope the next presidency is a philosophic departure.
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump defends repeating that vulgar word: ‘It was like a retweet.’ — CONCORD, N.H. — With the New Hampshire polls open, Republican front-runner Donald Trump hit the morning talk shows and kept getting asked some variation of this question: Why in the world did he repeat …
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Michelle Hackman / Vox:
Donald Trump called Ted Cruz a “pussy” — and the media won't repeat it — There's no way to skirt the word used to describe Ted Cruz at a Donald Trump rally last night: pussy. — Trump was criticizing the Texas senator's unwillingness to support widespread uses of torture when a woman …
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Dante Chinni / NBC News:
Why a Donald Trump Win in New Hampshire Would Be Big
Why a Donald Trump Win in New Hampshire Would Be Big
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
The Marco Rubio Robot Bull — Much of the political press leans left and has zero experience in politics. Perhaps they graduated Ivy League, did a tour or two at Salon or some lefty blog, then got in on the ground floor at a national media outlet covering politics.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
National poll: Cruz and Rubio surged after Iowa
National poll: Cruz and Rubio surged after Iowa
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Ben White / Politico:
What Clinton said in her paid speeches — NEW YORK — When Hillary Clinton spoke to Goldman Sachs executives and technology titans at a summit in Arizona in October of 2013, she spoke glowingly of the work the bank was doing raising capital and helping create jobs, according to people who saw her remarks.
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WPTV:
Man accused of tossing gator into Wendy's drive-thru window — Tory Dunnan, WPTV Webteam — Gator wasn't on the menu but one did make an appearance inside a Wendy's just east of Loxahatchee in Royal Palm Beach. And it wasn't by choice. — A Jupiter man threw it through …
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Sam Reisman / Mediaite:
Trump's Son Says Waterboarding ‘No Different’ Than ‘What Happens in Frat Houses Every Day’ — Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump, appeared on Fox's On the Record Monday night to explain that waterboarding not only wasn't torture — it was basically tantamount to frat house shenanigans.
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Barack Obama / Wall Street Journal:
Protecting U.S. Innovation From Cyberthreats — Our new national action plan includes $3 billion to kick-start an overhaul of federal computer systems. — More than any other nation, America is defined by the spirit of innovation, and our dominance in the digital world gives us a competitive advantage in the global economy.
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
The Anxiety Of Being Marco Rubio — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Millions of people watched Marco Rubio's televised tailspin in the opening minutes of last weekend's Republican presidential debate — but what, exactly, they saw depended on the viewer. — To rivals, Rubio's reflexive retreat …
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Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones and Daily Kos
Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Released felons gain right to vote in Maryland following veto override … The Maryland Senate narrowly overrode Gov. Larry Hogan's final veto from last year's General Assembly session, paving the way to reinstate voting rights to felons before they complete probation or parole.
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Here's a Huge and Undercovered Obamacare Success Story — I've mentioned this in passing a couple of times, but it really deserves a short post of its own. We've heard a lot about Obamacare not meeting the original enrollment projections published by the CBO in 2010, but those aren't the only projections that CBO published.
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Balloon Juice
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Young Democrats Love Bernie Sanders — MERRIMACK, N.H. — Perhaps the most eye-popping statistic to come out of last week's Iowa caucuses was Bernie Sanders's overwhelming advantage among young voters. According to the Iowa entrance poll, Sanders beat Hillary Clinton 84 percent to 14 percent among Democrats aged 171 to 29.
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Nirmala George / Associated Press:
INDIAN SCIENTISTS STUDY CHUNK THAT FELL FROM SKY, KILLED MAN — NEW DELHI (AP) — Scientists are analyzing a small blue object that plummeted from the sky and killed a man in southern India, after authorities said it was a meteorite. — The object slammed into the ground at an engineering college …
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