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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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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?
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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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz seeks to raise expectations for Rubio
Cruz seeks to raise expectations for Rubio
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump repeats vulgar word audience member uses to describe Cruz
Trump repeats vulgar word audience member uses to describe Cruz
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CBS News:
CBS News announces Republican debate criteria — CBS News is announcing the criteria for the ninth Republican presidential debate, which will take place at the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina on Saturday, Feb. 13. — In order to qualify for this debate, candidates will have to meet one of the following criteria:
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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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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Whoops! Fox News Accidentally Declares Trump The Winner In NH
Whoops! Fox News Accidentally Declares Trump The Winner In NH
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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Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Prevails and G.O.P. Has 3-Way Tie as 3 New Hampshire Towns Vote
Bernie Sanders Prevails and G.O.P. Has 3-Way Tie as 3 New Hampshire Towns Vote
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New York Times:
Winnowing Out in New Hampshire
Winnowing Out in New Hampshire
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
New Hampshire Should Bring Clarity to Republican Race
New Hampshire Should Bring Clarity to Republican Race
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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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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Clinton: I'm tougher on Wall Street than Sanders
Clinton: I'm tougher on Wall Street than Sanders
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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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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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Rich Noyes / NewsBusters:
Network News Disses Ted Cruz After Surprise Iowa Victory
Network News Disses Ted Cruz After Surprise Iowa Victory
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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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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
This Is How Hillary Clinton Gets the Coverage She Wants — Hillary Clinton's supporters often argue that mainstream political reporters are incapable of covering her positively—or even fairly. While it may be true that the political press doesn't always write exactly what Clinton would like …
National Review:
Only a Barbaric Nation Drafts Its Mothers and Daughters into Combat — The most disappointing moment of Saturday night's debate came when Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and Marco Rubio each embraced the idea that women should register with the selective service, making it possible for America to draft women into ground combat.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The RNC's 2012 Autopsy Was Wrong
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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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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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Bernie Sanders is the future of the Democratic Party — Whether or not Bernie Sanders wins in New Hampshire, or wins the Democratic nomination outright, he's already won in another, perhaps more important way: His brand of politics is the future of the Democratic Party.
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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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Mark Thoma / The Fiscal Times:
Why the Working Class Is Choosing Trump and Sanders — Donald Trump recently defended Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid: — “Every Republican wants to do a big number on Social Security, they want to do it on Medicare, they want to do it on Medicaid. And we can't do that.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Carson to skip his own New Hampshire primary party — Ben Carson will be notably absent from his New Hampshire primary party on Tuesday. — The retired neurosurgeon will instead fly to South Carolina in the afternoon, his campaign said. Following Tuesday's first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire …
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 173 to 29.
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