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5:55 PM ET, April 11, 2015

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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton campaign memo: No drama this time  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign-in-waiting held its final pre-game briefing Saturday at its Brooklyn Heights headquarters, just ahead of her expected official entry into the race on Sunday.  —  During an hour-long meeting where bagels were served …
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Ari Melber / msnbc.com:
In Iowa, Martin O'Malley lays out vision for Democratic Party  —  Des Moines, Iowa - Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley says if he runs for president, he will try to pull the Democratic Party back to its populist roots.  —  “You know what it's about?  It's really about calling our party …
Discussion: The Reaction
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Hillary Clinton skeptics fear ‘an unstoppable train’  —  Democratic insiders see little hope for Clinton's opponents, whoever they turn out to be.  —  It's gotten to this point: Even the Democratic Party's Hillary skeptics are resigned to her being the party's nominee.
Raymond Colitt / Bloomberg Business:
Castro Calls Obama Honest Man as Latin American Leaders Criticize Venezuela Sanctions  —  Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro met in the first such encounter between the U.S. and Cuba in more than 50 years and pledged to move ahead with normalizing relations while cautioning that change may come slowly.
Discussion: Business Insider
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New York Times:
Obama Meets Cuban Leader, Making History  —  PANAMA — President Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba met here Saturday, in the first face-to-face discussion between the leaders of the two countries in a half century.  —  Seated beside Mr. Castro in a small room in the convention center downtown …
Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
The Insiders: The Democratic Whackjob Survey  —  Yesterday, in a somewhat useful exercise, my Democratic friend and sometimes sparring partner Carter Eskew compiled a “Republican Nutcase Check List” for Republican presidential candidates to take.  (If you want to see how you'd rank, you can take that survey here.)
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida surprise: Jeff Atwater won't run for Marco Rubio seat  —  Just as he looked like a front runner to replace Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida CFO Jeff Atwater announced Saturday he would not run for the seat.  —  “Over the past weeks I have received a tremendous amount of encouragement …
Discussion: SaintPetersBlog
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Marc Caputo / Politico:   Awkward or old friends? Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio sit next to each other on flight after NRA conference
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Calculus on Embracing Obama  —  He defeated her in a grueling Democratic nomination battle.  Then she pursued his agenda across the world as secretary of state.  Now, the delicate relationship between Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Obama is about to get even more complicated.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Hillary Clinton begins her entry into the 2016 presidential race
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What does Hillary stand for?
Discussion: Fox News
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Remains from Lincoln's Last Day  —  Imagine him in the last week of his life, 150 years ago this month.  Shuffling, clothes hanging loosely on the 6-foot-4-inch frame, that tinny voice, a face much older than someone of 56.  “I am a tired man,” he said.  “Sometimes I think I am the tiredest man on earth.”
Discussion: The Mahablog and The PJ Tatler
Joe Jervis / Joe. My. God.:
Mormon Church To SCOTUS: Say No To Same-Sex Marriage Because It Will Deprive Us Of “Citizenship Rights”  —  A coalition of religious denominations including the Mormon Church has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in which they argue that the legalization of same-sex marriage will …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Capitol on lockdown after shooting  —  The U.S. Capitol is on lockdown after shots were fired on the West Front of the complex, a spokesman for Capitol Police said.  —  Authorities confirmed that the shooting was an apparent suicide.  —  Story Continued Below
Discussion: ABC News, USA Today and The Week
Garry Trudeau / The Atlantic Online:
The Abuse of Satire  —  The following is the text of remarks Garry Trudeau delivered on April 10 at the Long Island University's George Polk Awards ceremony, where he received the George Polk Career Award.  —  My career—I guess I can officially call it that now—was not my idea.
Yoav Gonen / New York Post:
Cabby facing fine for ordering women to stop kissing  —  Now he's the one getting the kiss-off.  —  A cabby who claimed he had a “no-kissing policy” in his yellow taxi was hit with $15,000 in fines for ordering two female passengers to stop smooching — and then shouting vulgar epithets at them when they got out.
NBC News:
Egypt Sentences American Citizen, 27, to Life in Prison  —  Mohamed Soltan was arrested in 2013 after Egyptian security forces stormed a sit-in protest of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
 
 
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