Tamir Rice’s Mother Speaks Out, Rand Paul Is the GOP Frontrunner, Budget Battle: P.M. Links

• The
  mother of
  Tamir Rice, the Cleveland 12-year-old killed by police for
  having a toy gun, is “looking for a conviction.”
• Fraternity supporters are
  calling on UVA to rescind its moratorium on campus Greek life
  activities in the wake of new revelations about inaccuracies in the
  Rolling Stone story.
• The Washington Post named
  Sen. Rand Paul the GOP frontrunner for 2016.
• Meanwhile, the Republican Party
  establishment is in search of a candidate it likes.
• “Efforts to protect women from a putative epidemic of violence
  have led to misguided policies that infringe on the civil rights of
  men,”
  wrote Slate‘s Emily Yoffe.
• Why don’t we all come together to fight
  about funding the government again? Say it with me:
  Shutdown, shutdown, shutdown, shutdown…
• There was a
  huge fire in downtown Los Angeles this morning.

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