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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Conservatives: Court nominee must be stopped at all costs — Conservative leaders are sending a blunt message to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — : The Supreme Court is more important than your majority. — McConnell's (R-Ky.) top priority since becoming majority leader last year …
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Chicago:
Sen. Mark Kirk: Scalia replacement must ‘bridge differences’
Sen. Mark Kirk: Scalia replacement must ‘bridge differences’
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ThinkProgress, National Review and The Journal Gazette
Caleb Howe / RedState:
BUSTED! Watch Biden in 92 Say Senate Should REFUSE To Hold Hearings On Bush SCOTUS Nominees!
BUSTED! Watch Biden in 92 Say Senate Should REFUSE To Hold Hearings On Bush SCOTUS Nominees!
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Rick Tyler / Facebook:
I want to apologize to Senator Marco Rubio for posting an inaccurate story about him here earlier today. The story showed a video of the Senator walking past a Ted Cruz staffer seated in the lobby of a hotel reading his Bible. The story misquoted a remark the Senator made to the staffer.
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Ellie Schroeder / thedp.com:
Marco Rubio has awkward confrontation with Rafael Cruz, Cruz staffer in hotel lobby — Note from the Editor: We have been receiving lots of questions about the contents of this video, and some have disagreed with our transcript. We stand by our original transcript, but the video …
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David Wright / CNN:
Cruz spokesman apologizes for ‘inaccurate’ Rubio video
Cruz spokesman apologizes for ‘inaccurate’ Rubio video
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ThinkProgress, RedState, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and The Right Scoop
D.C. McAllister / The Federalist:
Rubio Needs To Move Aside For Cruz, Not Vice Versa
Rubio Needs To Move Aside For Cruz, Not Vice Versa
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RedState, Hot Air and Washington Post
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
More Support for Justice Department Than for Apple in Dispute Over Unlocking iPhone — Slight partisan differences in views of issue — As the standoff between the Department of Justice and Apple Inc. continues over an iPhone used by one of the suspects in the San Bernardino terrorist attacks …
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James Comey / Lawfare:
We Could Not Look the Survivors in the Eye if We Did Not Follow this Lead — The San Bernardino litigation isn't about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message. It is about the victims and justice. Fourteen people were slaughtered and many more had their lives and bodies ruined.
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Fbi / Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter
FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter
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The Intercept, The Stranger …, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Fox News Insider and The Week
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Exclusive: San Bernardino victims to oppose Apple on iPhone encryption
Exclusive: San Bernardino victims to oppose Apple on iPhone encryption
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TechCrunch, CNNMoney, Engadget, MacRumors, The Verge, LawNewz, Washington Post and Mediaite
Andy Cush / Gawker:
Hot Mic Captures Trump Chatting With Morning Joe Hosts: “You Had Me Almost As a Legendary Figure” — The comedian and radio show host Harry Shearer has audio of what sure sounds like a casual off-the-air exchange between Donald Trump and Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
House GOP leader thinks he could work with Donald Trump — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday suggested that the Republican presidential race is now down to Donald Trump — “I see it more as Trump-Rubio,” McCarthy said during an interview on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” …
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Hot Air, Sabato's Crystal Ball and The Resurgent
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Meet the woman funding the effort to stop Trump
Meet the woman funding the effort to stop Trump
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Trump has a stranglehold on the GOP nomination. So why isn't he getting credit?
Trump has a stranglehold on the GOP nomination. So why isn't he getting credit?
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ABC News, Politico and FiveThirtyEight
New York Times:
How Jeb Bush Spent $130 Million Running for President With Nothing to Show for It — When Jeb Bush formally entered the presidential campaign in June, there was already more money behind him than every other Republican candidate combined. When he suspended his campaign on Saturday night in South Carolina …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Fall of the House of Bush: How last name and Donald Trump doomed Jeb
Fall of the House of Bush: How last name and Donald Trump doomed Jeb
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NPR, New York Magazine, Downtrend, Politico, NBC News and Yahoo Politics
James Rothwell / Telegraph:
Hitler ‘had tiny deformed penis’ as well as just one testicle, historians claim — Hitler suffered from a condition called hypospadias which left him with an abnormally small manhood, according to historians Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigie — It has long been suspected that Hitler's conquest …
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Raw Story, Metro.co.uk, Independent Journal Review and The Daily Caller
Ron Fournier / The Atlantic:
Hillary's Challenge With Trust — Two recent interviews—one before her Nevada triumph and one after—showed Hillary Clinton standing at a crossroad. One path goes to South Carolina and a string of Democratic contests that favor her coalition of older voters, African Americans, college graduates, and union households.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Did Bernie Sanders really just win the Hispanic vote in Nevada?
Did Bernie Sanders really just win the Hispanic vote in Nevada?
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The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, The Daily Beast, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Reno Gazette-Journal
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Delegate Count Leaving Bernie Sanders With Steep Climb
Delegate Count Leaving Bernie Sanders With Steep Climb
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Slantpoint, USA Today, Slate, Washington Post, Independent Journal Review and Prairie Weather
Hans A. Von Spakovsky / National Review:
The Obama Administration Wants to Make Sure Non-Citizens Vote in the Upcoming Election — Several well-funded organizations — including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP — are fighting efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting illegally in the upcoming presidential election.
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Power Line, RedState and Clayton Cramer
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds back court ban on proof of citizenship for voter registration
Feds back court ban on proof of citizenship for voter registration
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Talking Points Memo
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
I Will Not Vote For Donald Trump. Ever. — When I wrote in National Review that I was against Donald Trump, I said and have maintained since his entry into the race that if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, I would support him. No longer. — Donald Trump believes the federal government should fund Planned Parenthood.
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Washington Monthly, RedState and Politico
David Bahnsen / Viewpoint:
Now I Am Being Serious, Deadly Serious: Stopping The Trump Disgrace — Several years ago I penned a piece on then Presidential candidate, Ron Paul, someone who had no chance at the time of being President, but who had captured the affections of far too many discerning people.
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Washington Monthly, Slantpoint and The Week
Chris Perez / New York Post:
Donald Trump leads polls in 10 of next 14 voting states — Donald Trump is leading in 10 of the 14 states set to vote in Republican primaries or caucuses over the next two weeks. — Recent polls show that Trump is ahead in Nevada, Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Virginia, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Louisiana.
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Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider, The Week, National Review and New York Times
Mark Halperin / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton, Trump Now on Parallel Glide Paths to Nomination — Ask not for whom the fat lady sings. — MarkHalperin — Only suckers bet on presidential politics or professional wrestling, especially in this most tumultuous campaign cycle in recent memory.
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MarketWatch, Common Dreams and The Huffington Post
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Why Bernie Sanders's campaign makes me worry about how he'll manage the White House — Of late, Bernie Sanders has been under assault from the technocratic wing of the Democratic Party. The charge? His campaign has circulated economic projections that show stunning — and rather implausible — benefits from Sanders's agenda.
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