Rand Paul wins CPAC straw poll, Scott Walker a close second - The Denver Post

OXON HILL, md. — Ken tucky Sen. Rand Paul has won the Conservative Political Action Conference's annual presidential preference straw poll.Pollsters announced Saturday afternoon that Paul won 26 percent of the votes in the annual survey, giving Paul his third consecutive win in as many years.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker came in second, with 21 percent.The three-day CPAC conference in suburban Washington draws many libertarian-leaning college students...

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Russian opposition mourns murdered leader Nemtsov - Reuters

By Timothy Heritage and Alexander WinningMOSCOW Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:50pm IST Link this Share this By Timothy Heritage and Alexander Winning MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of stunned Russians laid flowers and lit candles on Saturday on the bridge where opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead near the Kremlin, a murder that showed the risks... Email Print Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov attends a rally in central Moscow, in this file photo...

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Rand Paul wins CPAC straw poll for third year in row - New York Post

For the third year in a row on Saturday, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky Saturday won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — who is leading surveys of likely GOP voters — scored second in the CPAC contest, held in Maryland.More than 3,000 conservative activists voted in the poll.Paul took 25.7 percent of the vote, and Walker got 21.4 percent.Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was in third place; retired...

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Nemtsov planned to reveal Russian links to Ukraine conflict - Poroshenko - Reuters

A group (front) of foreign ambassadors and officials visit the site where Boris Nemtsov was recently murdered, with St. Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin walls seen in the background, in central Moscow, February 28, 2015.Credit: Reuters/Maxim ZmeyevSource: Top Stories - Google News - http://ift.tt/1aFl...

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Rand Paul wins CPAC straw poll for third year in row - New York Post

For the third year in a row on Saturday, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky Saturday won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — who is leading surveys of likely GOP voters — scored second in the CPAC contest, held in Maryland.More than 3,000 conservative activists voted in the poll.Paul took 25.7 percent of the vote, and Walker got 21.4 percent.Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was in third place; retired...

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If Netanyahu's right, why is he so wrong? - Haaretz

Over the weekend the Prime Minister’s Office released a video showing Benjamin Netanyahu in his study preparing Tuesday’s speech to Congress. A source at the residence says that not much Hebrew has been heard around the prime minister in recent days. Many of the people around him speak American English in a heavy Republican accent.One of the key people helping craft the speech is Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Ron Dermer, who has been in Jerusalem...

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Who was outspoken Putin critic Boris Nemtsov? - USA TODAY

The Russian opposition leader was reportedly gunned down near the Kremlin in Moscow just days ahead of his planned anti-war demonstration. Video provided by Newsy Newslook Russian riot police detain Boris Nemtsov during an opposition rally in central Moscow on Aug. 31, 2010.(Photo: File photo by Sergei Ilnitsky, European Pressphoto Agency) 117 CONNECT 1 LINKEDIN EMAILMORE The brash, sharp-tongued Russian opposition leader shot and killed late...

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'Jihadi John' Latest Terrorist to Come From West London Neighborhood - NBCNews.com

LONDON — The man believed to be the masked ISIS executioner "Jihadi John" was part of a network of Islamist extremists, according to intelligence agencies, and is just the latest — although the most notorious — of several terrorists to emerge from the west London district neighborhood where he grew up.Mohammed Emwazi, identified Thursday as the suspected killer of least four hostages including two Americans, went to school in Ladbroke Grove, a stone's...

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Senator Rand Paul wins straw poll in boost to 2016 presidential prospects - Reuters

By Steve Holland NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:47pm EST Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor in Maryland February 27, 2015.Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Reuters) - Senator Rand Paul won a straw poll of conservative activists on Saturday, giving his potential bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 a boost, and Wisconsin Governor...

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Fear Envelops Russia After Killing of Putin Critic Boris Nemtsov - New York Times

Photo A Russian woman visited the spot where Boris Y. Nemtsov, a critic of the Kremlin, was shot to death in Moscow. Credit Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters MOSCOW — About two weeks before he was shot and killed in the highest-profile political assassination in Russia in a decade, Boris Y. Nemtsov met with an old friend to discuss his latest research into what he said was dissembling and misdeeds in the Kremlin.He was, as always, pugilistic and excited,...

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Senator Rand Paul wins straw poll in boost to 2016 presidential prospects - Reuters

By Steve Holland NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:47pm EST Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor in Maryland February 27, 2015.Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Reuters) - Senator Rand Paul won a straw poll of conservative activists on Saturday, giving his potential bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 a boost, and Wisconsin Governor...

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Sierra Leone vice president places himself in Ebola quarantine - Reuters

FREETOWN Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:42pm EST FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana said on Saturday that he had placed himself in a 21-day quarantine after one of his bodyguards died of Ebola amid a worrying recent surge in new infections in the West African nation. Cases of Ebola, which has killed nearly 10,000 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea during a year-long epidemic, have fallen off sharply in recent weeks....

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Fear Envelops Russia After Killing of Putin Critic Boris Y. Nemtsov - New York Times

Photo A Russian woman visited the spot where Boris Y. Nemtsov, a critic of the Kremlin, was shot to death in Moscow. Credit Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters MOSCOW — About two weeks before he was shot and killed in the highest-profile political assassination in Russia in a decade, Boris Y. Nemtsov met with an old friend to discuss his latest research into what he said was dissembling and misdeeds in the Kremlin.He was, as always, pugilistic and excited,...

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Senator Rand Paul wins straw poll in boost to 2016 presidential prospects - Reuters

By Steve Holland NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:47pm EST Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor in Maryland February 27, 2015.Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Reuters) - Senator Rand Paul won a straw poll of conservative activists on Saturday, giving his potential bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 a boost, and Wisconsin Governor...

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Russians to march in memory of murdered critic of Putin - Reuters

By Timothy Heritage and Katya GolubkovaMOSCOW Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:10pm EST 1 of 19. People gather at the site where Boris Nemtsov was recently murdered, with St. Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin walls seen in the background, in central Moscow, February 28, 2015.Credit: Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev MOSCOW (Reuters) - Opposition supporters will march through Moscow on Sunday in memory of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, whose murder has increased concern...

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Senator Rand Paul wins straw poll in boost to 2016 presidential prospects - Reuters

By Steve Holland NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:47pm EST Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor in Maryland February 27, 2015.Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Reuters) - Senator Rand Paul won a straw poll of conservative activists on Saturday, giving his potential bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 a boost, and Wisconsin Governor...

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