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11:45 AM ET, April 22, 2015

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Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Conservative Republicans Alone on Global Warming's Timing  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — While notable majorities of all other political party/ideology groups say the effects of global warming will happen within their lifetime, fewer than four in 10 conservative Republicans …
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Mark Drajem / Bloomberg Business:
Happy Earth Day! Unless You're Running for President in the GOP
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Roll Call
Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
The Insiders: Obama's global warming distraction
Discussion: New York Magazine
Doug Sosnik / Politico:
Mitch McConnell Shouldn't Get Comfortable  —  Why Democrats are poised to recapture the Senate.  —  After picking up nine seats in the 2014 elections, Republicans maintain a decisive 54-seat majority in the Senate.  In 2016, they will face a much more difficult map that coincides with a presidential election year.
Discussion: The Reaction
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell builds case for 2016
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
McConnell introduces bill to extend NSA surveillance
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Hillary Clinton Can't Run for President  —  So she's pushed her whole campaign into the slow lane.  —  Thousands have run for president, but only one candidate has ever unrun for the office: Hillary Clinton.  Ever since she finally announced her entry into the contest a couple of weeks ago, she has been unrunning with ferocity.
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Could Obama's Everglades Stop Hurt the Everglades?
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Washington Post:
Trade war heating up among Democrats  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton and other top Democrats began feuding over President Obama's trade initiative Tuesday as his bid for a major late-term win began tearing at the party's unity and threatened to expose old divisions ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Discussion: New York Times
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Progressives ready big ad buy targeting trade deal
Discussion: Fox News and Common Dreams
The Hill:
Obama turns up the heat on trade
Discussion: Politico
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Reid: I'm a ‘hell no’ on trade bill
Gazette:
Man shoots computer in Colorado Springs alley, gets revenge he wanted - and a citation  —  Updated:  —  3 photos  —  + caption  —  When ctrl + alt + delete doesn't work, just shoot the darn thing.  —  That's what one man did on Monday night, according to Colorado Springs police.
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Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
“Fed Up” Colorado Man, 38, Busted For Killing His Computer In Cold Blood
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Clayton Cramer
Lori Hinnant / Associated Press:
Paris extremist's misfire thwarts imminent attack on church  —  PARIS (AP) — An Islamic extremist with an arsenal of loaded guns was only prevented from opening fire on churchgoers because he accidentally shot himself in the leg, French officials said Wednesday.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
WH won't call Armenian killings ‘genocide’  —  The White House again will not use the term “genocide” to describe the Ottoman Turks' massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915.  —  Senior administration officials met with leaders from the Armenian-American community Tuesday to discuss …
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The Daily Blog:
EXCLUSIVE: The Prime Minister and the Waitress  —  This is a guest blog from an anonymous waitress about the way John Key kept touching her when he repeatedly visited her place of work.  The waitress contacted us with her story, The Daily Blog did not seek her out or pressure her in anyway to write this blog.
M.D. Kittle / Watchdog.org:
Who was the reporter outside Cindy Archer's house?  —  Part 194 of 193 in the series Wisconsin's Secret War  —  MADISON, Wis. - Of all of the frightening accounts of government abuses in Wisconsin's political John Doe investigation, David French's description in National Review …
Discussion: Althouse
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Showed Eloquence, and Limits, as Debater at Princeton  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — By the time he was a senior at Princeton University in 1992, Ted Cruz had developed an arsenal of rhetorical skills and theatrical gestures that made him one of the most polished performers on the college debate circuit.
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
When battling Hillary, it's the cronyism, stupid  —  “The economy, stupid.”  Democratic operative James Carville used that simple phrase in 1992 to remind former President Bill Clinton to maintain narrow focus on that issue.  —  Republicans who want to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 need …
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Boston Herald:
In N.H., ‘accessible’ Hillary Clinton ignores supporters
Daily Mail:
British man, 41, arrested after he ‘urinated in ice machine at Hard Rock Hotel in Florida’  — Andrew Stewart Wood, of Havant, Hampshire, was accused of urinating into the ice machine at the Hard Rock Hotel in the early hours of Tuesday  — Wood, who police said was ‘extremely intoxicated’ …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Jon Clifton / Gallup:
Russia Receives Lowest Approval in World; U.S. Highest  —  Story Highlights  —  This article is based on the findings from Gallup's first-ever report — Rating World Leaders: What People Worldwide Think of the U.S., China, Russia, the EU and Germany — on the status of how the world rates …
Discussion: US News and The Diplomat
Nick Gass / Politico:
Paul Ryan doesn't want to talk about 2016  —  Paul Ryan has a message for the media: It's too early to start talking about the presidential election next year.  —  “I don't want to get into any of this 2016 stuff.  I know you guys are already kind of tired of talking about this stuff so early out …
Discussion: Hot Air
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Charles Koch: We like 5 GOP candidates in primaries  —  WICHITA, Kan. — Charles Koch said he is considering throwing his political might into the Republican presidential primary for the first time and is likely to provide financial help to several contenders before settling on a single candidate.
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The GOP Needs to Run against the Last 16 Years
Discussion: alicublog
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Obama's approval numbers rise; Americans optimistic on economy  —  President Obama's approval ratings have reached their highest mark in almost two years, according to a new poll from CNN/ORC.  —  Forty-eight percent of Americans approve of how Obama is running the country, compared to 47 percent who disapprove.
Lauren French / Politico:
House Benghazi report won't come until 2016  —  A highly anticipated report from the House Select Committee on Benghazi likely won't be released until 2016 — in the throes of the presidential election season.  —  Chairman Trey Gowdy has previously said he wanted to finish his inquiry …
James Hohmann / Politico:
Mike Huckabee staffing up for 2016 run  —  Mike Huckabee has been staffing up for his likely presidential campaign, before an expected announcement in Hope, Arkansas, on May 5.  —  Sources familiar with the internal planning tell POLITICO that the Republican has decided on senior staff and their roles for a potential 2016 campaign.
Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Protesters rally in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray  —  Story highlights  —  (CNN)Chanting “No justice!  No peace!” protesters rallied in Baltimore late Tuesday, the same day police released the names of the officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray.
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Ilan Lior / Haaretz:
3 asylum seekers who left Israel executed by ISIS
Jonathan Tamari / Philly.com:
Sestak raised $312k in first quarter; Toomey has $5.5m advantage
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
Ian Black / Guardian:
Yemen crisis: air strike hits Aden after Saudi Arabia ends bombing campaign
Discussion: Common Dreams
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
New Orleans Bars Issue Last Call for Smoking
Discussion: The Week and Eschaton
Ed Kilgore / Talking Points Memo:
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Bryan Denson / Oregonian:
Teacher terrified by surprise ‘active shooter’ drill in eastern Oregon schoolhouse files federal lawsuit
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Patrick Winn / Air Force Times:
Michelle Manhart talks after losing Air Force career
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
David Horowitz: ‘Traitor’ Obama Letting Terrorists Bring Nukes Over Southern Border
Discussion: FOX News Radio
James K. Sanborn / Marine Corps Times:
Tough tattoo regs sink stellar Marine's career