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The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014 — FREE ONLINE FIRST — Raj Chetty, PhD1; Michael Stepner, BA2; Sarah Abraham, BA2; Shelby Lin, MPhil3; Benjamin Scuderi, BA4; Nicholas Turner, PhD5; Augustin Bergeron, MA4; David Cutler, PhD4 — JAMA.
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New York Times:
The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters. — Life expectancy of 40-year-olds with household incomes below $28,000, — For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or death. — The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles …
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Forbes, The Big Picture, Daily Kos and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
Emily Badger / Washington Post:
Where living poor means dying young
Where living poor means dying young
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New York Times and Marginal REVOLUTION
Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Donald Trump Loses Weekend Delegate Fight in 5 States — A no good, very bad start to turning his ground operation around — Donald Trump's effort to reset his campaign following defeat in Wisconsin showed no signs of paying off this weekend, as a series of technical failures by his campaign set his hopes back even further.
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Aide Accuses Cruz of Using ‘Gestapo Tactics’
Trump Aide Accuses Cruz of Using ‘Gestapo Tactics’
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American Spectator
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Despite Complaints, Delegate System Has Given Trump a 22 Percent Bonus
Despite Complaints, Delegate System Has Given Trump a 22 Percent Bonus
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NBC News
John Frank / Denver Post:
Donald Trump says Colorado residents “had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians” …
Donald Trump says Colorado residents “had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians” …
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Michelle Cho / NBC News:
Cruz-Supporting Delegates Picked in Virginia District Trump Won
Cruz-Supporting Delegates Picked in Virginia District Trump Won
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Oops: Trump's Kids Ivanka And Eric Never Registered To Vote For Their Dad — While plenty of New Yorkers say they'll cast their votes for native son Donald Trump in next week's Republican primary contest, two of Trump's own kids won't be among them. — Trump confirmed in a Monday call …
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ABC News:
The Note: Hillary Clinton Fighting a Two-Front War
The Note: Hillary Clinton Fighting a Two-Front War
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Can Bernie Sanders Upset Hillary Clinton in New York?
Can Bernie Sanders Upset Hillary Clinton in New York?
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Gabrielle Bluestone / Gawker:
Donald Trump's Kids Never Bothered to Register to Vote for Him
Donald Trump's Kids Never Bothered to Register to Vote for Him
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The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: My kids feel ‘guilty’ for not registering to vote for me
Trump: My kids feel ‘guilty’ for not registering to vote for me
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ABC News
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Past cases suggest Hillary won't be indicted — It's the most explosive question of the 2016 presidential campaign: Could Hillary Clinton get indicted for her handling of sensitive materials through her home email server? — A POLITICO review of dozens of recent federal investigations …
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Matt Higgins / CBS New York:
Obama On Clinton's Emails: 'There's Classified, And Then There's Classified'
Obama On Clinton's Emails: 'There's Classified, And Then There's Classified'
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Paul Ryan, a Mirage Candidate, Wages a Parallel Campaign — WASHINGTON — As the Republican candidates for the White House battled in Wisconsin last week, Speaker Paul D. Ryan was conspicuously absent from his home state — but he was very much on the political stage.
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Is The Weakest GOP Front-Runner In The Modern Era — Despite getting drubbed in Wisconsin this week, Donald Trump has won more votes than any other Republican candidate this year. So, he's doing OK, right? Well, for all the talk that unbound delegates and quirky convention rules …
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The Right Scoop
Josh Peterson / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump's Twitter Followed by Millions of Inactive or Fake Accounts — Sixty-four percent of Donald Trump's 7.51 million Twitter followers have not been in use for at least the past six months, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. — Additionally, using StatusPeople.com's Twitter analysis app …
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Washington Post:
A portrait of Trump the donor: Free rounds of golf, but no personal cash … Since the first day of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has said that he gave more than $102 million to charity in the past five years. — To back up that claim, Trump's campaign compiled a list of his contributions — 4,844 of them, filling 93 pages.
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Jim Norman / Gallup:
U.S. Worries About Race Relations Reach a New High — WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than a third (35%) of Americans now say they are worried “a great deal” about race relations in the U.S. — which is higher than at any time since Gallup first asked the question in 2001.
NBC News:
Director Brennan: CIA Won't Waterboard Again — Even if Ordered by Future President — CIA director: I will not allow waterboarding, despite campaign rhetoric 0:36 — CIA Director John Brennan told NBC News in an exclusive interview that his agency will not engage in harsh “enhanced interrogation” …
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Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Washington Watchdog Adjusts to Life With Partisan Roommates — Republicans have faced the vast majority of campaign finance allegations from CREW in recent months. — For more than a decade, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, has scrutinized and assailed federal agencies …
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RedState
Judd Gregg / The Hill:
Sanders fans are blind to reality of socialism — We have now been through more than half of the Democratic primaries to choose that party's presidential nominee. — In over forty percent of those contests, a socialist, Bernie Sanders — , has been the winner.
Bryan Adams / Facebook:
Mississippi has passed anti-LGBT ‘Religious Liberty’ bill 1523. I find it incomprehensible that LGBT citizens are being discriminated against in the state of Mississippi. I cannot in good conscience perform in a State where certain people are being denied their civil rights due to their sexual orientation.
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ThinkProgress, Gay Star News, Washington Post and The Week
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
When Pieties Collide — Feminism and multiculturalism in Western Europe — Feminists incessantly harp about a phantom “rape culture” in the United States and other Western countries. On New Year's Eve 2016, Northern European cities experienced an outbreak of the real thing—and the opponents of patriarchy went silent.
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Power Line
Kate Andersen Brower / Vanity Fair:
The Permanent White House Staff Is, Understandably, on Edge About the 2016 Presidential Race — Think you're anxious about the prospect of a Donald J. Trump presidency? Meet the staffers who would have to work for him. The author of First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern …
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