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6:00 PM ET, March 23, 2015

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David McCabe / The Hill:
Cruz made 2016 announcement speech without a teleprompter  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made his speech announcing that he would run for the presidency without the assistance of a teleprompter, his spokesman said Monday.  —  Cruz delivered his roughly half-hour announcement speech at evangelical Liberty University in Virginia.
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Andrew Harnik / Washington Post:
Transcript: Ted Cruz's speech at Liberty University  —  Here is a running transcript of Ted Cruz's address at Liberty University in which he officially announced his 2016 presidential bid.  —  CRUZ: Good to see you.  —  Thank you.  (APPLAUSE)  —  Thank you so much, President Falwell.
David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Has Skeptics at Liberty, and They Use Yik Yak  —  From Yik Yak to Facebook, Cruz skeptics speak out.  —  Announcing his presidential bid at Liberty University is giving Ted Cruz something that some candidates dream of: A massive crowd that has to be there.
Manu Raju / Politico:
Fellow Texan John Cornyn won't back Ted Cruz in presidential primary  —  Sen. Rand Paul may have fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell's support for his likely 2016 presidential bid.  But Sen. Ted Cruz won't have his senior senator from Texas, John Cornyn, behind him.
Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Just Laid Out The Most Anti-Woman Agenda Yet  —  When Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced his candidacy for president on Monday, he may have forgotten an extremely important electoral group: women.  —  In Cruz's formal announcement for president, he lamented the low voter turnout rates for the Evangelical community.
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
First Draft: Ted Cruz Faces More Questions on Canada Roots  —  Ted Cruz Faces More Questions on Canada Roots  —  The name of another country, Canada, has kept coming up whenever Senator Ted Cruz has been mentioned as a candidate for president of the United States.  —  THE UPSHOT
Discussion: Hullabaloo
David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump Goes Birther on Canadian-Born Ted Cruz
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Ted Cruz's new website puts donor credit card information at risk
Discussion: Techdirt
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Wisconsin Voter-ID Law Stands as Supreme Court Rejects Appeal  —  (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Wisconsin to implement a voter-identification law that opponents say is one of the strictest in the nation.  —  Rejecting without comment an appeal by civil rights groups …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Wisconsin Decides Not to Enforce Voter ID Law  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to a Wisconsin law that requires prospective voters to provide photo identification before casting their ballots.  —  Officials in Wisconsin said they would not enforce the law …
Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Supreme Court declines to take up Wisconsin voter ID case
Discussion: ABC News and Outside the Beltway
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court lets Wisconsin voter ID law stand
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Nation
Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
U.S. will not take floor at U.N. rights debate on Israel, Palestinians  —  (Reuters) - The United States will not take the floor at the main U.N. human rights forum on Monday during the annual debate on violations committed in the Palestinian territories, a U.S. spokesman told Reuters.
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The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu apologizes to Arabs for voter turnout remark
Discussion: The Week
Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Netanyahu Apologizes for Comments About Israeli Arabs
Discussion: BillMoyers.com and Political Wire
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
In Clinton Emails on Benghazi, a Rare Glimpse at Her Concerns  —  WASHINGTON — It was a grueling hearing.  A month after the September 2012 attack on the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, House Republicans grilled a top State Department official about security lapses at the outpost.
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Reconsidering My August Post on Ferguson and ‘Conflicting Accounts’  —  In the heat of a very hot news moment last summer, I criticized a Times story about the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.  —  Now, with the benefit of hindsight, I want to acknowledge that I misjudged an important element of that story.
Ayo and Iken:
An Interview With George Zimmerman - March 2015  —  In an interview conducted in Orlando by Howard Iken, George Zimmerman discusses his viewpoint on events now that the Justice Department has declined to file charges against him  —  Duplication without prior permission prohibited.
Dustin Volz / National Journal:
Oil Giant BP Drops Membership With ALEC  —  The oil-and-gas super company is just the latest big firm to leave the conservative group in recent months.  —  Major oil-and-gas corporation BP announced Monday it is parting ways with the American Legislative Exchange Council, marking just the latest …
Harriet Alexander / Telegraph:
Argentine archaeologists find secret Nazi lair in jungle  —  Stone structures in the remote region of Misiones are thought to be the ruins of a hideout build by Nazis, in case their leaders needed to flee Germany  —  A team of Argentine archaeologists investigating a series of ruins in the jungle …
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Is A Confederate Flag License Plate Free Speech?  —  The U.S. Supreme Court is tackling a question of great interest to America's auto-loving public: Whose speech is that on your specialty license plate?  Specifically, when the government issues specialty tags at the behest of private groups or individuals …
Discussion: Althouse
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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Any Republicans who vote against higher defense spending should be fired  —  Let's talk a bit about which House Republican incumbents are going to draw primary opponents in 2016.  Make a note: Those GOP representatives who vote against upping Pentagon spending this week are at the top of a list …
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Obamacare is 5 years old, and Americans are still worried about death panels  —  When Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, they knew it wasn't popular — poll after poll showed pluralities, if not majorities, opposed to the legislation after the bruising national fight that led to its passage.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Britain's Terrible, No-Good Economic Discourse  —  The 2016 election is still 19 mind-numbing, soul-killing months away.  There is, however, another important election in just six weeks, as Britain goes to the polls.  And many of the same issues are on the table.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Kathleen Miller / Bloomberg Business:
Loretta Lynch Senate Confirmation Vote Seen Delayed Until Mid-April  —  The chamber plans to spend this week debating its budget proposal.  —  (Bloomberg) — U.S. attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch probably won't get a Senate confirmation vote until at least mid-April …
Discussion: Moe Lane
Fox News:
‘Kill the Jews!’:  New fears stoked as drunken mob attacks London synagogue  —  A drunken mob stormed into a London synagogue where worshippers were marking the end of the Sabbath early Sunday, shouting “Kill the Jews,” attacking people, vandalizing the building and stoking fears of rising anti-Semitism.
Discussion: BizPac Review
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
High school accused of massive grade-fixing scheme  —  Teaching kids takes so much effort, staffers at John Dewey HS in Brooklyn have found a quicker way to fix persistent failure rates, sources said: Just let them pass.  —  Investigators are probing accusations of a massive grade-fixing scheme …
 
 
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Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
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Agence France-Presse:
Clinton urges non-partisan attack on economic inequality
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Obama is enraged - by Netanyahu quoting Kerry
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