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11:20 PM ET, April 13, 2015

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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Marco Rubio Is a Polished Performer, but He's Out of Position  —  Marco Rubio, who announced his bid for the presidency on Monday in a call to donors, has been called the “best communicator” in the Republican Party.  Over and over and over again.  —  But he has little to show for it.
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Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Marco Rubio Is the Most Disingenuous Republican Running for President  —  He's not a reformer.  He's a fraud.  —  Most of the Republican Party's primary candidates have internalized something that was blindingly obvious to everyone who watched the 2012 elections unfold.
Bloomberg Business:
Will the GOP Get Behind Marco Rubio's Immigration Evolution?
Discussion: ABC News and ThinkProgress
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nate Silver to Vox: Stop stealing our charts! … FiveThirtyEight founder and statistics guru Nate Silver has accused Ezra Klein's Vox.com of stealing other people's charts without attribution.  —  “Yo, @voxdotcom: Y'all should probably stop stealing people's charts without proper attribution,” he tweeted Monday.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
How Vox aggregates  —  I started as a blogger in the pre-social web, when the only way to build an audience was to have other sites quote or link to your work.  Those links didn't drive a ton of traffic back to the original site, but they drove some, and sometimes you would get a new regular reader out of the deal.
Hillary Clinton / Salon:
Dangers of a Hillary Clinton campaign: The disastrous centrism she desperately needs to avoid  —  With the Big Announcement yesterday, Hillary Clinton officially entered the race that everyone assumes she's already won.  Can you feel the excitement?  No?  Well, this shouldn't come as a shock …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama won't automatically endorse Hillary
Discussion: Politico
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:   GOP Strategist: I Don't Need Hillary ‘To Drown Me In Estrogen’ (VIDEO)
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
On the Road, Hillary Clinton Stops for Lunch at Chipotle and Goes Unrecognized  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is all about “everyday Americans,” she made clear in announcing it on Sunday.  —  On Monday, she showed how unassuming she herself could be.
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ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Makes Surprise Pit Stop at Chipotle in Ohio During Presidential Roadtrip … Hillary Clinton, who has embarked on a roughly 1,000 mile road trip after formally announcing her presidential bid on Sunday, was spotted at a Chipotle in Maumee, Ohio this afternoon.
Michael Quander / WREG-TV:
Brutal attack at Memphis gas station caught on camera  —  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Surveillance video showed a mob of rowdy high school students beating a man at a Crosstown gas station.  —  Police said a large group of Northwest Prep Academy students swarmed a BP gas station on Poplar and Cleveland.
Discussion: KFOR-TV
Alaska Airlines Blog:
Statement on Alaska Airlines flight 448  —  Flight 448, bound for Los Angeles, returned to Seattle shortly after departure today after it was discovered that a ramp agent was still in the cargo hold.  The aircraft was in the air for 9 minutes.  —  After landing, the agent …
Discussion: Mediaite, KFOR-TV, KTLA, FOX2now.com and NPR
Ashley Edwards / New York's PIX11:
EXCLUSIVE: Woman says Harlem tattoo parlor behind ‘Black Ink’ left her disfigured  —  HARLEM (PIX11) — Asabi Barner was a confident woman in her 30s.  Her body was never something she felt a need to cover up, until now.  —  A tattoo coverup changed her life last year.
Discussion: fox8.com
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Mark Kirk Says People Drive Faster Through Black Neighborhoods  —  WASHINGTON — In a little-noticed interview last week, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) described African-American neighborhoods as areas that people in his state try to avoid.  —  The comment, with its racial undertones …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Chicago
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Walter Scott shooting: officer describes adrenaline rush in recording  —  Michael Slager appears to laugh nervously in audio recording as he discusses what will happen next with a senior officer  —  The police officer who killed Walter Scott in South Carolina said afterwards that he was experiencing …
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Sundance / The Last Refuge:
Update* Game Changer OR Paradigm Shift ? …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Everything We Know About The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Killing Of Eric Harris  —  A white reserve sheriff's deputy in Tulsa County, Oklahoma shot and killed a black man who was on the ground being arrested on April 2.  Law enforcement initially said the reserve deputy had mistaken his own handgun …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
CNN Host Asks Rand To Reconcile Libertarianism, View On Gay Marriage  —  CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday pushed presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on his views on same-sex marriage, asking him why, as a libertarian, he doesn't believe gay people should have the freedom to marry.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Four Blackwater guards sentenced in Iraq shootings of 31 unarmed civilians  —  A federal judge in Washington handed down prison terms of 30 years to life behind bars to four Blackwater Worldwide guards convicted in a deadly 2007 shooting that killed 14 unarmed Iraqis and injured others in a Baghdad traffic circle.
Detroit News:
Ben Carson to launch bid for presidency from Detroit  —  Detroit native Dr. Ben Carson will officially launch his presidential campaign in Detroit on May 4, officials said Monday.  —  The event at the Detroit Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts will be ticketed, though a time hasn't been set …
Jenna Levy / Gallup:
In U.S., Uninsured Rate Dips to 11.9% in First Quarter  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate among U.S. adults declined to 11.9% for the first quarter of 2015 — down one percentage point from the previous quarter and 5.2 points since the end of 2013, just before the Affordable Care Act went into effect.
Alejandro Alba / NY Daily News:
Revenge porn is now a specific crime in the UK  —  The UK has passed new legislation that punishes revenge porn with prison.  —  As of Monday, UK's Criminal Justice and Court Act considers revenge porn as a specific crime.  If someone publicly posts racy images of their ex without consent …
Discussion: FOX News Radio, The Verge and Engadget
 
 
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TMZ.com:
Justin Bieber Put in Chokehold and Booted from Coachella ... Singer Threatens Legal Action
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Jordan Buie / Tennessean.com:
Shots fired at West End Synagogue; No one injured
Washington Post:
Fairfax jail inmate in Taser death was shackled
Discussion: Daily Kos and Addicting Info
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
King: Iran bill must be handled ‘responsibly’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Josh Levs / CNN:
North Carolina college on lockdown after man shot dead
Murtaza Hussain / The Intercept:
UAE Gave $1 Million to NYC Police Foundation; Money Aided ‘Investigations’
Discussion: Gothamist and Prairie Weather
KABY-TV:
President Obama to deliver 2015 commencement speech at Lake Area Tech
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
US military spending drops as other regions boost defenses
Kelsey Kern / WHNT-TV:
Albertville man goes to the prom for the first time at 80
Discussion: fox8.com
Patrick M. Gleason / Wall Street Journal:
A Laffer Curve for Smokes
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
New York Democrats unmoved by Hillary's announcement
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
U.C.L.A. Faculty Approves Diversity Requirement
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Obama's deceptions on Iran and Cuba
Discussion: VodkaPundit
 

 
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