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Cruz Condemns Colorado Shooting, Rejects Anti-Abortion Link … Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. — NEWTON, Iowa — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is condemning the fatal shooting of three people at a Planned Parenthood location in Colorado but also aggressively pushing …

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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:

Ted Cruz Describes Alleged Planned Parenthood Shooter As ‘Transgendered Leftist Activist’ — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is the latest presidential candidate trying to downplay the role anti-abortion rhetoric may have played in motivating the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs Friday afternoon.

Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:

Ted Cruz Floats Report That Planned Parenthood Shooter Was A “Transgendered Leftist” — Not what his neighbors thought. Cruz was trying “to make the point that we don't have all the details,” a spokesperson says. — Scott Olson / Getty Images — While urging caution about drawing conclusions …

Hawaii News Now:

Family: Waianae woman among those killed in Colorado Springs shooting — One of the three victims killed in the shooting Friday at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado is from the islands, her family has confirmed. — Family members identified the woman as Jennifer Markovsky, a 1997 Waianae High School graduate.

Discussion: Guardian, Mashable, NBC News, The Huffington Post, The Week, Jezebel, Shakesville and New York Times

Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:

How The Abortion Rights Movement Is Going To Turn Colorado Into A Rallying Cry — WASHINGTON — This week, abortion rights activists are going to use tough language and modern political tactics to make the shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Friday into a political moment …

Discussion: RedState

Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
Accused gunman Robert Dear faces first court appearance on Monday in Planned Parenthood shootings

Discussion: WIAT-TV, Slantpoint and The Gateway Pundit

Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
A grieving father remembers Jennifer Markovsky, one of three victims killed in the Planned Parenthood shootings

Discussion: CNN, CBS Denver, Washington Post, addictinginfo.org, FOX31 Denver, Independent Journal, Mediaite, NBC News and Raw Story

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fiorina: ‘Typical Left-Wing Tactics’ to Connect Pro-Lifers to Planned Parenthood Attack

Discussion: addictinginfo.org, Liberaland, Daily Kos and Mock Paper Scissors

Katie Valentine / ThinkProgress:
Republican Candidates Finally Comment On Shooting, Continue False Attacks On Planned Parenthood

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Hill, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Towleroad

Kobe Bryant / The Players' Tribune:

Dear Basketball — PHOTOGRAPH BY WALTER IOOSS JR./THE PLAYERS' TRIBUNE … I knew one thing was real: — I fell in love with you. — A love so deep I gave you my all — From my mind & body — To my spirit & soul. — As a six-year-old boy — Deeply in love with you

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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:

Trump abruptly cancels black clergy press conference — After prematurely announcing the endorsements of 100 black pastors — prompting several to protest they were not, in fact, supporters - Donald Trump's campaign abruptly cancelled a press conference with the group scheduled for Monday afternoon at Trump Tower.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Associated Press, ABC News, Independent Journal and Bloomberg.com news

Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
GOP donors wrestle with possibility of Trump nomination

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Martin Pengelly / Raw Story:
Jeb Bush: I'd still support Trump over Clinton because ‘anybody is better than Hillary’

Discussion: Guardian, Infowars and Scripting News

Los Angeles Times:

Op-Ed Bill McKibben: What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth — Demonstrators make their way down Sixth Avenue in New York during the People's Climate March on Sept. 21, 2014. — Starting Monday, diplomats and scientists, activists and heads of state …

Discussion: CNN, President Obama, skippy the bush kangaroo, New York Times, Washington Monthly and DeSmogBlog

Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register: Fostering a climate of intolerance

Curt Stager / New York Times:
Tales of a Warmer Planet

Discussion: CNN

Jeremy Manier / UChicago News:

Monday Classes and Activities at Hyde Park Campus Canceled Due to Threat — To: University of Chicago Campus Community — The University was informed by FBI counterterrorism officials today (Sunday) that an unknown individual posted an online threat of gun violence against the University of Chicago …

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, ABC News, Mashable, The Gateway Pundit and The Week

Michael Barbaro / New York Times:

Chasing Endorsements, Chris Christie Showers New Hampshire With Calls and Texts — MANCHESTER, N.H. — The pleading phone calls, solicitous text messages and eager dinner invitations come at all hours, even on holidays — an unrelenting wave of attention from a governor never known for offering small doses of himself.

Discussion: Power Line, CNN, Outside the Beltway and Weekly Standard

Seung Min Kim / Politico:

As Cruz gains, GOP senators rally for Rubio — Ted Cruz has built his Senate career and presidential campaign on his willingness to stick it to the Republican establishment. And now that he's gaining momentum in the primary, his many GOP nemeses in Congress are returning the favor by quietly coalescing behind Marco Rubio.

Discussion: Algemeiner.com

Sarah Knapton / New Zealand Herald:

Anti-ageing drug could let you live to 120 in good health — Ageing - Health - Health & Wellbeing - Your Health — The world's first anti-ageing drug will be tested on humans next year in trials which could result in people being able to live healthily well into their 120s.

Discussion: Liberaland

Rory Appleton / Fresno Bee:

Suspected 19-year-old burglar stuck in Huron home's chimney dies after residents light fire — Deputies say family had no idea man was stuck for nearly a day … Authorities Sunday night identified the man who became stuck in the chimney of a Huron home during a botched burglary attempt …

Discussion: The Week and Scared Monkeys