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Bloomberg.com:
Trump Says Women May Need Punishment If Abortion Is Banned — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says there would “have to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions if it were outlawed in the U.S. — Trump speaks at taping of MSNBC town hall to be aired later
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Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Says Abortion Ban Should Carry Punishment for Women — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday there would “have to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions if the procedure were outlawed in the U.S. — The comment, which is sure …
Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT REGARDING ABORTION — If Congress were to pass legislation making abortion illegal and the federal courts upheld this legislation, or any state were permitted to ban abortion under state and federal law, the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon …
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Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump Advocates Abortion Ban, Walks Back ‘Punishment’ for Women Remark — Trump: ‘Some form of punishment’ for abortion 6:37 — GREEN BAY, Wisc. — After saying on Wednesday that he believes there should be punishment for women who undergo abortions if the procedure was outlawed …
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Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:
Donald Trump: I've Evolved, I'm Pro-Life Now
Donald Trump: I've Evolved, I'm Pro-Life Now
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March For Life, Occupy Democrats, LifeNews.com and Guardian
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump suggests ‘punishment’ for women who get illegal abortions
Trump suggests ‘punishment’ for women who get illegal abortions
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Pressed on an Abortion Ban, Donald Trump Sees a Penalty for Women
Pressed on an Abortion Ban, Donald Trump Sees a Penalty for Women
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Backtracks: If Abortion Were Banned I'd Punish Providers, Not Women
Trump Backtracks: If Abortion Were Banned I'd Punish Providers, Not Women
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The New Civil Rights Movement and RedState
Nick Gass / Politico:
Limbaugh vows to muzzle himself on Lewandowski, Fields — Those hoping to hear the thoughts of Rush Limbaugh on the misdemeanor battery charge against Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will have to look elsewhere, the host declared Wednesday. — “My friends, I have decided …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Chief Says Ted Cruz Wasn't Involved In Melania Trump Ad — “The bottom line is Roger Stone is as much tied to this campaign as the super PAC that leaked that is tied to the Cruz campaign.” — w.soundcloud.com — Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Who is Corey Lewandowski? His rise — and his relationship with Donald Trump.
Who is Corey Lewandowski? His rise — and his relationship with Donald Trump.
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Peter King: “I'd Be Embarrassed” To Talk About Lewandowski Incident If I Were Fields
Peter King: “I'd Be Embarrassed” To Talk About Lewandowski Incident If I Were Fields
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Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Teen girl pepper-sprayed in fight outside Trump rally — Police say they're looking for two suspects: one for the sexual assault and one who pepper-sprayed the teenager.Video provided by Newsy Newslook — JANESVILLE, Wis. — As GOP frontrunner Donald Trump prepared to speak to supporters …
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Daily Mail:
Pictured: Trump supporter suspected of pepper-spraying teenage protester at point blank range …
Pictured: Trump supporter suspected of pepper-spraying teenage protester at point blank range …
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Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Paul Ryan booed at Trump rally in his hometown
Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
New Marquette Law School Poll finds Cruz, Sanders ahead in Wisconsin presidential primaries; Bradley leads state Supreme Court race — MILWAUKEE - A new Marquette Law School Poll finds Ted Cruz ahead in the Wisconsin Republican presidential primary race, supported by 40 percent of likely voters …
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Conor Lynch / Salon:
Hillary Clinton's “tone"-gate disaster: Why her campaign's condescending Bernie dismissal …
Hillary Clinton's “tone"-gate disaster: Why her campaign's condescending Bernie dismissal …
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Talking Points Memo, Refinery29 and Breitbart
FOX 61:
Listen: Woman calls 911 to report incorrect pizza order from Hartford shop … HARTFORD — A Hartford woman called 9-1-1 to report a problem with her pizza order, and police have released the recording. It happened a few weeks ago regarding an order from Empire Pizza on New Britain Ave in Hartford.
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Brian Marschhauser / Yorktown Articles:
'I'd Like to Solve the Puzzle': Yorktown's Santoli Wins Big on ‘Wheel’ … YORKTOWN, N.Y. - Yorktown resident Robert Santoli didn't just win his recent appearance on “Wheel of Fortune”; he dominated, finishing with a near-perfect sweep of the puzzles, including solving the opening round toss-up with only one letter on the board.
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fda.gov:
Mifeprex (mifepristone) Information … Mifeprex is used, together with another medication called misoprostol, to end an early pregnancy. The FDA first approved Mifeprex in 2000. In 2016, the agency approved a supplemental application for Mifeprex based on data and information submitted by the drug manufacturer.
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
The FDA Just Removed One Of Anti-Abortion Lawmakers' Favorite Talking Points
The FDA Just Removed One Of Anti-Abortion Lawmakers' Favorite Talking Points
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Common Dreams
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
New F.D.A. Guidelines Ease Access to Abortion Pill
New F.D.A. Guidelines Ease Access to Abortion Pill
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The Atlantic, Slantpoint, ACOG, Mother Jones and Refinery29
Shawn Moran / bpunion.org:
National Border Patrol Council Endorses Donald Trump for President — The National Border Patrol Council is the official organization representing our nation's Border Patrol Agents. We represent 16,500 agents who selflessly serve this country in an environment where our own political leaders try to keep us from doing our jobs.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Border patrol union endorses Trump
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Can Trump become so unpopular that Democrats take back the House? … It's one of the most controversial things to say on Capitol Hill, sparking looks of shock and disbelief: The House majority is in play this fall. — For almost five years, ever since state legislatures and commissions finished drawing …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
How the GOP loyalty pledge completely fell apart
How the GOP loyalty pledge completely fell apart
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New York Times:
Corporations Grow Nervous About Participating in Republican Convention — Some of the country's best-known corporations are nervously grappling with what role they should play at the Republican National Convention, given the likely nomination of Donald J. Trump, whose divisive candidacy …
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Politicus USA and Booman Tribune
Scott Gordon / NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
FBI: Frisco Hospice Owner Directed Nurses to Overdose Patients — “You need to make this patient go bye-bye,” executive is quoted as saying — The owner of a North Texas medical company regularly directed nurses to give hospice patients overdoses of drugs such as morphine to speed …
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Philip Oltermann / Guardian:
Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis — German historian shows how news agency retained access in 1930s by promising not to undermine strength of Hitler regime — The Associated Press news agency entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime in the 1930s …
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Ari Melber / NBC News:
Rubio Makes Unprecedented Bid to Keep Delegates for Contested Convention — Brokered Convention? Here are the Rules 1:46 — Despite suspending his campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio is attempting to keep every delegate he won while running for president. — The unusual move reflects preparations …
Joe Concha / Mediaite:
AJAM's David Shuster Exclusive: Hillary Clinton to be Interviewed by FBI Director Comey in Coming Days — Al Jazeera America may be shutting off the lights permanently soon, but that doesn't mean reporters like David Shuster aren't continuing to go about their business until the final gun sounds.
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Washington Free Beacon
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Coulter Thinks Trump's Hit On Heidi Cruz Went Too Far: He's ‘Mental’ — Ann Coulter has been one of Donald Trump's biggest fans, but the conservative commentator said in an interview excerpt published on Monday that she cannot defend Trump's retweet of an unflattering photo of Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) wife, Heidi Cruz.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts:
Household Expenditures and Income — Expenditures are a key but often overlooked element of family balance sheets. In measuring household financial security, significant attention is typically paid to income, but much less to whether those resources are sufficient to cover expenses.
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Ashley Thorne / New York Post:
The drive to put Western civ back in the college curriculum — Most college students, we're told, want easy As, cheap beer and free condoms. Not many care about the quality of their education. — Stanford students want more. They're asking the school to require a course on Western civilization, from Plato to Galileo to Du Bois.
Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim / New York Times:
Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music — The Unesco Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger is a melancholy document, charting the 3,000 or so languages that experts predict will vanish by the end of this century. For the most part, ethnographers and linguists are helpless in the face …
KTUU-TV:
Anchorage school suspends 1st-graders for plotting to poison classmate — Three first-grade students at Winterberry Charter School in Anchorage have been suspended after plotting to poison and kill a classmate, the school principal says. — In a bizarre case, Anchorage police …
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