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10:45 AM ET, April 16, 2015

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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Wrong On Family's Immigration History, Records Show  —  “Her grandparents always spoke about the immigrant experience and, as a result she has always thought of them as immigrants,” a spokesperson says.  “As has been correctly pointed out, while her grandfather was an immigrant …
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Antonin Scalia / TIME:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg  —  The high Court's counterweight  —  Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had two distinguished legal careers, either one of which would alone entitle her to be one of TIME's 100.  When she was a law professor at Rutgers and later Columbia, she became the leading (and very successful) …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
Richard Engel / NBC News:
New Details on 2012 Kidnapping of NBC News Team in Syria  —  Here is what we found based on facts gathered from dozens of sources inside and outside of Syria.
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New York Times:
NBC News Alters Account of Correspondent's Kidnapping in Syria  —  NBC News on Wednesday revised its account of the 2012 kidnapping of its chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, saying it was likely that Mr. Engel and his reporting team had been abducted by a Sunni militant group …
Arthur Allen / Politico:
George W. Bush: Jeb has a problem: ‘Me’  —  CHICAGO — Jeb Bush's candidacy has a problem, says brother George.  —  “Me.”  —  Story Continued Below  —  “It's an easy line to say, 'Haven't we had enough Bushes?'  After all, even my mother said, ‘Yes,’” the former president told an audience …
Leon Hendrix / WOOD-TV:
Shop owner will deny ‘openly gay’ customers  —  GRANDVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — The owner of a Grandville auto repair shop says he won't hesitate “to refuse service to an openly gay person or persons.”  —  Brian Klawiter, the owner of Dieseltec on Ottawa Avenue in Grandville …
Politico:
Hillary Clinton's Wall Street backers: We get it  —  Populist rhetoric, many say, is good politics — but doesn't portend an assault on the rich.  —  NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton sounded like a woman on a mission after her long drive into the heartland: “There's something wrong,” …
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Los Angeles Times:
Column What are the Democrats' alternatives to Clintonland?
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Power Line
New York Times:
Ben Bernanke Will Work With Citadel, a Hedge Fund, as an Adviser
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Politics National Poll Finds Improving Economic Mood  —  Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes may be buoyed by a more optimistic feeling about President Barack Obama and the economy seen in a new Bloomberg Politics poll.  —  Americans are becoming more optimistic …
Discussion: The Reaction and Political Wire
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  April 16, 2015 - New Jersey Voters Say Menendez …
Discussion: Washington Post
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Even in New Hampshire, ‘Bridgegate’ Dogs Christie  —  LONDONDERRY, N.H. — Chris Christie's name has tumbled off the list of top-tier presidential candidates.  He is sagging in the polls.  And in the kind of indignity that creeps up on him with agonizing regularity, a stranger …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Christie Is Served a Ribbing at New Hampshire Restaurant
Discussion: Politico, Business Insider and The Week
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Chris Christie Changes Vaccine Position During New Hampshire Town Hall
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Liberaland
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Where Clinton must win  —  Hillary Clinton may be one of the most famous people in the world, and most people have already decided whether her chance to become our first woman president tops everything else they know of her.  But there is a pocket of the electorate left for her to penetrate.
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Jorge Ramos Corners Rubio: Would You Attend a Gay Wedding?  —  One day after he confirmed to CNN's Jake Tapper that he believes marriage should be between one man and one woman, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) went on Jorge Ramos' Fusion show where the host confronted him on the issue using a new angle.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and The Week
Jacqueline Klimas / Washington Times:
U.S. military ‘hostile’ to Christians under Obama; morale, retention devastated … Soon there may only be atheists in the foxholes.  —  Christians are leaving the U.S. military or are discouraged from joining in the first place because of a “hostile work environment” that doesn't let them express …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Tavis Smiley Battles O'Reilly on Police, Race: ‘How Many Isolated Incidents Equal a Pattern?’  —  Bill O'Reilly tonight went off on “cop haters” who he believes are trying to demonize all cops, when the reality is most cops aren't bad.  Of course, O'Reilly said, what Officer Michael Slager …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
New York Times:
President Vladimir Putin's Dangerous Moves  —  President Vladimir Putin of Russia has added new, chilling nuclear threats to his aggression in Ukraine, where 6,000 people have been killed in a war with Russian-backed separatists.  Mr. Putin wants to expand his country's influence and standing …
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Leonid Bershidsky / Bloomberg View:
Putin's Iran Game Bests Obama
Discussion: The Daily Caller
James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Foundation to Keep Foreign Donors  —  Board's decision to continue accepting funding from some countries could become 2016 campaign issue  —  The board of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has decided to continue accepting donations from foreign governments …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Dismembered Protections  —  These new abortion bans may be the most dangerous yet.  —  When we have come to the point that more than 330 abortion restrictions have been introduced in 43 states since January, it's awfully hard to keep track of which are worth worrying about and which are merely variations on old themes.
Discussion: RedState
Alix Culbertson / Daily Express:
Statue of Liberty-sized ASTEROID on collision course to hit EARTH, experts fear  —  AN asteroid the size of the Statue of Liberty is on a collision course to hit EARTH, scientists fear.  —  Getty  —  The asteroid has already passed Earth once and could be even closer this time
Discussion: FOX News Radio
 
 
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Netanyahu warns of second Holocaust from Iran
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Mayor de Blasio, on Midwest Trip, Seeks to Lead a National Shift to the Left
Discussion: Hot Air, New York Magazine and The Week
Susan Davis / USA Today:
100 days of Congress: Stumbles but signs of progress
Discussion: Political Wire
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Has Obamacare Turned Voters Against Sharing the Wealth?
Discussion: Democratic Strategist
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Campaign Finance: Big Money From Super PACs Is Eroding the Power of Parties
Discussion: Washington Monthly
New York Times:
Dean Skelos, New York Senate Leader, and His Son Are Said to Be Focus of Corruption Inquiry
Discussion: Gothamist and New York Magazine
Tim Alberta / National Journal:
Conservative Leaders Plan Two Secret Meetings Aimed at Picking a 2016 Candidate
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Cokie Roberts: ‘About 3 People’ Won't Vote for Hillary Because of Email Story
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Washington Post:
Chief Justice Roberts reports for jury duty in a Maryland court
Discussion: Politico and Bloomberg Business
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Private Company Conspired With Police To Hold Poor People For Ransom, Lawsuit Charges
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Myth of Police Reform
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ben Montgomery / Tampa Bay Times:
Ruskin mailman tries flying to Capitol in gyrocopter to deliver campaign reform message to Congress
 

 
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