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Gary Martin / MySanAntonio.com:
Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch — Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said. — Scalia, 79, was a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch …
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Darren Hunt / KVIA-TV:
BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Scalia dies during hunting trip in Marfa — EL PASO - — EL PASO — An El Paso source close to Justice Antonin Scalia tells ABC-7 that the 79-year-old died in his sleep last night after a day of quail hunting at Cibolo Creek Ranch outside of Marfa, Texas.
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Julie Fancher / The Scoop Blog:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia reported dead — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, the San Antonio-Express News reported.
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Eileen AJ Connelly / New York Post:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dead at 79 — Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Scalia was found dead Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said. — Scalia, 79, was a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a resort in the Big Bend region south of Marfa.
Politico:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dead at the age of 79 — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement on Saturday. — The statement did not indicate the cause of death, but several news outlets reported that he died of natural causes while in Texas this weekend.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
He's Beatable — We seem to be at a point in the election season where, to quote George Orwell, “restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” So to restate the obvious: Choosing Donald Trump as the Republican party's nominee would be a mistake.
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Cruz and Trump poised for the ugliest debate yet — Ted Cruz and Donald Trump enter Saturday's debate locked in a two-man race for South Carolina, and to prepare, both have gone full negative. — After splitting the first two votes, the New York billionaire has relentlessly hammered away …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
How Cruz rescued Carson
How Cruz rescued Carson
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Gingrich calls on pro-Bush super PAC to take down Kasich attack
Gingrich calls on pro-Bush super PAC to take down Kasich attack
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New York Daily News:
KING: Peyton Manning's squeaky-clean image was built on lies, as detailed in explosive court documents showing ugly smear campaign against his alleged sex assault victim — Thirteen years ago, USA Today obtained 74 pages of explosive court documents on Peyton Manning, Archie Manning …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
15 percent of latest Clinton emails marked classified; 551 released Saturday — More than 15 percent of the latest batch of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails released Saturday contain classified information, with three of the messages being labeled “secret” …
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Nicole Gaouette / CNN:
Former Obama intel official: Hillary Clinton should drop out — Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama's former top military intelligence official said Hillary Clinton should pull out of the presidential race while the FBI investigate her use of a private email server for official government communication while secretary of state.
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Cornel West / Politico:
Why Brother Bernie Is Better for Black People Than Sister Hillary — The future of American democracy depends on our response to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. And that legacy is not just about defending civil rights; it's also about fighting to fix our rigged economy …
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Cornel West: Sanders is better for black people than Clinton
Cornel West: Sanders is better for black people than Clinton
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Donald Trump On Ford, Carrier, Shipping Jobs To Mexico: 'I'm The Only One Who Understands What's Going On' — Donald Trump, the billionaire and national GOP presidential frontrunner who just won the New Hampshire primary and is polling ahead of the field in South Carolina …
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Prepare for ‘Guerrilla Warfare’ With Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes, Experts Warn
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
U.S. Plans to Resume Commercial Flights to Cuba This Year
U.S. Plans to Resume Commercial Flights to Cuba This Year
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Lawmaker Challenges Men To Accept Health Restrictions Like They Propose For Women — What it would it look like if the law imposed as many restrictions on men's access to healthcare as it does women's? One state lawmaker is hoping to start just such a conversation.
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Deborah Yetter / Courier-Journal:
Want Viagra? Not without a note from the wife
Want Viagra? Not without a note from the wife
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Keith BieryGolick / USA Today:
Regulating sex: Uncharted waters in the suburbs … WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Ohio — The chairman of West Chester Township's Board of Zoning Appeals cleared his throat. He asked anyone leaving the January zoning meeting to do so quietly. — Melissa Warren stood up. She didn't say a word.
Laurie Mason Schroeder / Morning Call:
Jamie Silvonek: ‘I was a monster’ — PHOTO GALLERY: It was one of the most shocking homicides the Lehigh Valley has ever seen; 14-year-old eighth-grader Jamie Silvonek plotted her mother's death. Her 20-year-old soldier boyfriend was charged with helping her carry out the brutal slaying.
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New York Times:
With a Slur for Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Further Splits Voters — CHARLESTON, S.C. — Donald J. Trump has defied conservative orthodoxy on policy, shunned traditional politicking and even insulted prisoners of war and the disabled, sacrosanct constituencies that other candidates would no more slur …
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Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
DNC rolls back restrictions on lobbyist donations — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has dismantled the last of its prohibitions on receiving donations from lobbyists and political action committees. — The ban has been in place since 2008, when President Obama became the party's presumptive nominee.
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Super PAC moves to ramp up financial firepower for Clinton
Super PAC moves to ramp up financial firepower for Clinton
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NBC News:
FBI Looked at Ohio Machete Attacker Four Years Ago — An Ohio man who slashed four restaurant patrons with a machete and was later killed by police had come to the attention of the FBI four years ago for radical comments, law enforcement officials said. — Agents took a brief look at Mohamed Barry but moved on, the officials said.
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Machete-Wielding Man Known to FBI
Machete-Wielding Man Known to FBI
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