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Vogue profile casts Rand Paul's wife Kelley as 'secret asset' to winning political power

The profile describes the blonde and quick-witted Kelley as 'more than a pretty image-softener' for the 'famously dour' senator.




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Senator Rand Paul launches class action law suit challenging constitutionality of NSA spy program

The lawsuit’s announcement comes only hours after the secret FISA court renewed the government’s permission Friday to collect bulk telephone metadata.




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Rand Paul says Bill Clinton is a 'predator' over Monica Lewinsky affair

Likely presidential candidate Rand Paul doubled down on comments his wife made in an interview with Vogue magazine: former President Bill Clinton is a 'predator' because of his affair with Monica Lewinsky




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Rand Paul continues Bill Clinton assault, as he may run against Hillary in 2016

Rand Paul has continued to smear former President Bill Clinton by calling him a 'serial philanderer' that was a threat to women in the workplace as a result of his extra marital affairs.




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'Rand Paul v. Barack Obama' lawsuit hits federal court with 350,000 plaintiffs, as U.S. senator sues White House and intelligence chiefs over NSA surveillance

The Libertarian firebrand has his eyes focused on the presidency and aims to organize voters by branding NSA snooping as 'precisely the kind of overreach we fought a revolution over.'




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'What you do on your cell phone is none of their damned business!': Rand Paul thrills libertarians and unites CPAC with anti-NSA stemwinder

Paul got the Conservative Political Action Conference's loudest applause -- by far -- and figures to be a major force in the 2016 presidential season.




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Rand Paul wins CPAC presidential straw poll as conservatives set aim on Hillary Clinton in 2016

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul won the conference's presidential preference straw poll, a symbolic victory that reflects his popularity among conservatives who typically hold outsized influence in the GOP's presidential selection process.




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Ben Carson emerges as sleeper threat in N.H. Republican Party event straw poll, as Rand Paul and Chris Christie lead the field

The momentary phenomenon of a presidential run by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough quickly fizzed on Saturday, and Carson -- targeted by a 'draft committee' -- came in a close third.




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President hopeful Rand Paul wants '100 percent of American pilots armed' to prevent new 9/11

Republican Presidential hopeful Rand Paul claims arming all US commercial airline pilots is the most effective way of preventing a new 9/11 attack.




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US intelligence community is 'drunk with power': Sudden GOP rock star Rand Paul wows college students at ultra-liberal UC Berkeley with an eye toward 2016

'No one should be allowed to invade your privacy' and NSA leaders are 'only sorry they got caught' snooping on Americans, he said to repeated applause from an audience of 400.




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Rand Paul bashes Hillary Clinton's handling of Benghazi and mocks her 'dead broke' gaffe

Paul joked that he'd been losing sleep at night over the former Secretary of State's financial affairs and asked the audience to take a 'moment of silence' for her wealth.




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Rand Paul caught partying in the Hamptons after skipping conservative event for a 'family commitment'

Paul told the Family Leader he had to skip the group's annual summit - of which he was a sponsor - because he had to attend an event in New York with his family.




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Rand Paul slams Hillary Clinton for 'shoot first' foreign policy that would have given ISIS control of Syria

'We are lucky Mrs. Clinton didn't get her way and the Obama administration did not bring about regime change in Syria,' the Kentucky senator wrote. 'That new regime might well be ISIS.'




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Rand Paul sparks firestorm with claim that John McCain posed with ISIS-linked jihadists in Syria

Sen. McCain 'did meet with ISIS, and had his picture taken, and didn't know it was happening at the time,' Sen. Paul claimed, setting off angry denials and a D.C.-wide press scrum to call him a liar.




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Rand Paul claims that Ebola could 'get beyond our control' and that the CDC is downplaying threat

'We should not underestimate the transmissibility' of this disease, Paul told a conservative radio show host.




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Rand Paul says Republican Party's brand 'sucks' - just like the old Domino's Pizza crust

'For 80 years African-Americans have had nothing to do with Republicans,' Paul said. 'Why? Because of a perception ... that no one in the Republican Party cares.'




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Pressure on Hillary Clinton as potential 2016 challenger Rand Paul posts mocking pictures of her

Paul is already trying to score points for the next election cycle by painting Tuesday night's losses as a failure for Clinton - even though she wasn't on the ballot in any state.




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Rand Paul in formal declaration since 1942 to declare war on ISIS

The Kentucky senator wants Congress to vote on a formal declaration of war targeting the Islamic fanatics, with troops used for strikes on its leadership and intelligence-gathering.




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'Rand Paul 2016' shirt photo comes amid annual 'airing of grievances' for fictional 'Festivus' holiday

The Kentucky senator switched on Washington's buzz machine Tuesday with tweeted photo of a garment sporting a presidential campaign message.




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Cory Booker tells Rand Paul to shave his head because his 'curls are offensive'

Earlier in the day Paul had mocked the media for obsessing over his hair and questioning the authenticity of his curls.




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Rand Paul says Hillary Clinton 'did a terrible job' protecting Benghazi diplomatic post

The libertarian firebrand senator started pummelling the presumptive Democratic frontrunner a day before barnstorming through six stops in New Hampshire.




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Rand Paul says 'over half the people on disability' are undeserving'

'Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts,' Paul said. 'Join the club.'




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Rand Paul latches on to debunked science to insist vaccines should be 'voluntary'

The Kentucky senator waded into a contentious science debate with libertarian politics, saying 'the state doesn't own your children.' He shushed a TV host on camera when she cut off his long arguments.




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Rand Paul pictured getting booster shot for Hepatitis A

The Republican senator from Kentucky received a booster for Hepatitis A, one year after his trip to Guatemala.




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Rand Paul prepares for possible court battle to keep Senate seat AND run for the White House

If Kentucky Republicans refuse to change their primary election to a caucus so Paul can compete for both his Senate seat and the presidency, he'll have to move to Plan B.




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Rand Paul comes out ahead in CPAC straw poll AGAIN

BUT -- Conservative Political Action Conference poll winners went on to become presidential nominees in the next election just 20 per cent of the time




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Rand Paul to kick off presidential bid from home state of Kentucky on April 7

Even before Cruz kicked off his 2016 bid, Paul, 52, had his eye on April 7 as a launch date for his own national campaign. But the fellow Republican's formal announcement helped solidify Paul's plans.




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Republicans mock Rand Paul's 'Defeat the Washington machine' slogan: 'It's like Hillary Clinton running on a platform of email transparency'

An Iowa Republican Party official says the senator's claims to Washington-outsider status 'won't sell in Iowa, especially since he's walking his views back toward the center.'




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Rand Paul's Republican nomination campaign store features unconventional items

Like Paul, the 52-year-old freshman senator who made a name for himself championing issues not typically associated with the GOP, the 'Rand' 2016 SWAG store is unique.




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Rand Paul gets testy with Savannah Guthrie in NBC interview

'No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!' Listen, you've editorialized,' Paul blasted the 'TODAY' host as she tried to corner him on changes to his foreign policy views.




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Meet Rand Paul's cheerleader wife Kelley who traded pompoms for politics

Kelley Ashby Paul is likely her husband's secret weapon in his bid to win the presidency. She grew up in Kentucky where she was a high school cheerleader and loves to shop with her mom.




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Rand Paul smacks around Hilary Clinton at New Hampshire summit

Paul smacked around Clinton at a campaign stop in New Hampshire on the eve of her first visit to the Granite State as a proclaimed 2016 candidate.




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Presidential hopeful Rand Paul takes poker lessons from notorious gun-toting 'King of Instagram' Dan Blizerian

On Friday, the Republican lawmaker from Kentucky shared a Snapchat video of himself learning how to play Liar's Poker - a game played with dollar bills - from the debauched social media star.




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Rand Paul New Hampshire director licks Democrat campaigner's camera

David Chesley licked the camera of an opposition researcher from the liberal group American Bridge. The tracker was at Paul's event in Londonberry on Monday. Chesley. He had been standing in the way.




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Lindsey Graham circles June 1 on the calendar for presidential announcement as he faces steep uphill climb and continues trading foreign-policy barbs with Rand Paul

The South Carolina senator has told multiple donors he'd start his presidential campaign, which he has been testing the waters for since late February, on that day, according to a report.




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Hillary Clinton proxy group goes after 'Clinton Cash' author and Rand Paul

A pro-Hillary group told the FEC that author Peter Schweizer made an illegal 'in-kind' contribution to Sen. Paul by arming him with presidential campaign dirt on Clinton before his book's publication date.




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Donald Trump dishes about Rand Paul, Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush 

Donald Trump and his team dined on Burger King on Thursday at 40,000 feet becuase it was 'quick,' after his speech to 1,500 Floridians who are hungry for an alternative to Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.




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'What's he waiting for?': Rand Paul says Obama should end the NSA's mass surveillance program through an executive order if he's so against it

The president's spokesman said this afternoon that the Obama does not have the ability to alter the program with a swish of his pen as Paul demanded.




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Chris Christie takes on Rand Paul: He' sided with criminal Edward Snowden

Christie, a former U.S. attorney who has had to use the Patriot Act, suggested that Paul is not qualified to be crafting federal regulations on the spy agency.




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Rand Paul accuses his detractors of 'secretly' wishing for a terrorist attack

'People here in town think I’m making a huge mistake,' he said Sunday. 'Some of them, I think, secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me.'




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Dylann Roof praised Earl Holt who donated to Republicans Rick Santorum, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz

Earl Holt III, the president of the Council of Conservative Citizens whose website Charleston massacre shooter Dylann Roof cited in his 'manifesto', has donated $65,000 to Republicans.




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Chris Christie: If there's another terrorist attack Rand Paul should be held responsible

Paul is also a contender for the White House and is aggressively opposed to provisions of the Patriot Act that give the feds access to Americans' phone records so they can look for ties to terrorists.




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Republican insiders warn of the stench of death around Rand Paul’s campaign

Other predict a pair of 9/11 era former governors who have been out of office for roughly a decade and are polling at one percent or under will be the next to go: Jim Gilmore and George Pataki.




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Trump mocks Rand Paul's low poll numbers and says 'he will announce soon' that he's quitting – but the feisty Kentucky senator says he'll outlast the billionaire 'clown'

DEJA VU? Eight days before Trump rival Rick Perry dropped out on September 11, The Donald publicly predicted it – and Perry issued a vehement denial.




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Rand Paul says being Donald Trump's running mate would be an 'absolute disaster'

In an appearance on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore that airs in full on Monday, Paul tried his hand at comedy.




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Rand Paul goes on The View only to be asked how tall he is

With Lindsey Graham out, Rand Paul is now the shortest of the GOP candidates and it must have showed. Appearing on The View today the first question posed was about his height.




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Protesters chanting for Rand Paul who BOYCOTTED the debate disrupt proceedings

Libertarian Senator Rand Paul actually made it onto the main stage at Thursday night's Republican presidential primary debate - kind of.




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Rand Paul compares Donald Trump to GOLLUM from Lord of the Rings

The Kentucky senator said The Donald's lust for power makes him like the creepy Tolkein character who craves the 'precious' ring. Trump is leading national polls while Paul's numbers are in single digits.




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Ron Paul says it's 'realistic' Donald Trump will be the nominee

The father of GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul said Wednesday that Republican front-runner Donald Trump may well end up as the party's 2016 nominee instead of his son




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Trump golfs with Sen. Rand Paul at his Virginia course

President Donald Trump hit the golf links on Sunday with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul – days after handing Paul a pen for an executive action as he seeks to undo Obamacare.