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PHILADELPHIA Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) vowed Monday to do "everything possible" end the renewal of the Patriot Act -- even as he conceded that the filibuster he was planning was unlikely to be enough to end the program.

We do not have the votes to ultimately defeat the Patriot Act. I can delay it; I can force them to debate it so the public at large can know what theyre doing, Paul said, while asserting that he has public opinion on his side.

Theyve got the votes inside the Beltway, but we have the votes outside the Beltway, Paul said.

Pauls trip here was designed to be teeming with symbolism as he prepares for what he calls a fight for the Fourth Amendment. Paul held a question and answer session with a Philadelphia radio host at the Constitution Center, where the Bill of Rights is displayed, followed by a press conference in the shadow of Independence Hall with sign-waving campaign supporters.

Our founding fathers would be appalled to know that we are writing one single warrant and collecting everyones phone records all of the time, Paul said, reiterating a call for President Obama to end the bulk collection of phone records in the wake of a judges ruling that it violated the Patriot Act.

[Rand Paul: NSA court ruling should spur Obama to stop bulk collection of phone records]

Paul said that he would vote no on the USA Freedom Act, a compromise bill that would stop the government from collecting data but allow phone companies to keep it, because he is afraid it could actually expand government power. Speaking to reporters after his events, Paul repeated an assertion he first made in January: that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Edward Snowden should share a prison cell.

"It would probably be just and informative to put Clapper and Snowden in the same cell," he said.

Paul has been shifting to the right on foreign policy as he tries to win the Republican nomination, and he did so again Monday, asserting that the 2007 troop surge in Iraq worked.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pictured here on Tuesday, March 3, has become one of the most powerful people in Washington. Here's a look at her life and career through the years.

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Before she married Bill Clinton, she was Hillary Rodham. Here, Rodham talks about student protests in 1969, which she supported in her commencement speech at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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Rodham, center, a lawyer for the Rodino Committee, and John Doar, left, chief counsel for the committee, bring impeachment charges against President Richard Nixon in the Judiciary Committee hearing room at the U.S. Capitol in 1974.

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Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton helps first lady Rosalynn Carter on a campaign swing through Arkansas in June 1979. Also seen in the photo is Hillary Clinton, center background.

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Bill Clinton embraces his wife shortly after a stage light fell near her on January 26, 1992. They talk to Don Hewitt, producer of the CBS show "60 Minutes."

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In one of her last gigs on the paid lecture circuit, Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed an eBay summit aimed at promoting women in the workplace, delivering a 20-minute talk that garnered her a $315,000 payday from the company.

Less than two months later, Clinton was feted at the San Francisco Bay-area home of eBay chief executive John Donahoe and his wife, Eileen, for one of the first fundraisers supporting Clintons newly announced presidential campaign.

The two events spotlight the unusually close financial ties between Clinton and a broad array of industries that have issues before the government and paid millions of dollars to her and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, in the months preceding the launch of her presidential campaign.

Disclosure documents filed by Hillary Clinton last week revealed that the couple have earned about $25million for delivering 104 paid speeches since January 2014.

While Bill Clintons lucrative speaking career since leaving the White House in 2001 has been well documented, the new disclosures offer the first public accounting of Hillary Clintons paid addresses since she stepped down as secretary of state. And they illustrate how the Clintons have personally profited by drawing on the same network of supporters who have backed their political campaigns and philanthropic efforts while those supporters have gained entree to a potential future president.

[How the Clintons went from dead broke to rich]

Silicon Valley is one place where those overlapping interests come together, according to a Washington Post analysis of the new Clinton disclosures.

Out of the $11.7million that Hillary Clinton has made delivering 51 speeches since January 2014, $3.2million came from the technology industry, the analysis found. Several of the companies that paid Clinton to address their employees also have senior leaders who have been early and avid supporters of her presidential bid.

The tech sector was the largest single source of speaking fees for Clinton, followed by health care and financial services, according to the Post analysis. Bill Clinton also made substantial income speaking to tech groups but focused more heavily on financial services, insurance and real estate companies.

A Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman declined to comment.

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Authorities have said little about what led to last week's violence on Lake Mary Boulevard, but a police report describes the person charged with shooting at George Zimmerman as a mentally unstable man with a possible obsession with the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer.

Other details about Matthew Apperson's past have emerged as well. Law enforcement records show several instances in which Apperson portrayed himself as the victim in calls to Winter Springs Police Department since 2005 including two separate occasions where he said a neighbor's boyfriend threatened to kill him.

The May 11 shooting on Lake Mary Boulevard was the third altercation between Apperson, 35, and Zimmerman since their first encounter during an alleged road-rage incident in September.

It also came a day after a neighbor in Winter Springs accused Apperson of behaving strangely and killing a squirrel in her backyard with a BB gun, records show.

"During the investigation, I learned that Apperson has exhibited unusual behaviors in which he had recently been admitted to a mental institution," an officer wrote in Apperson's arrest report. "It appears that Apperson has a fixation on Zimmerman and has displayed signs of paranoia, anxiety and bipolar disorder."

Apperson was arrested Friday. He is facing several charges in the shooting, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and firing a deadly missile into an occupied conveyance.

He is currently out of jail on bond. A judge ordered him to avoid contact with Zimmerman. He turned in his guns to deputies on Sunday.

In the first two encounters Apperson told police that he felt threatened by Zimmerman, but Apperson didn't press charges.

Apperson said Zimmerman pointed a gun at him while both were driving on West Lake Mary Boulevard on May 11. "I hope I got him this time," an officer overheard Apperson say after the shooting, according to the police report.

Apperson and his family's attorneys have not shared many details about his background or whether he is, in fact, obsessed with Zimmerman. According to his Facebook page, Apperson is from San Diego, Calif.

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Watching the news these days is like watching a long-running soap opera. You can tune out for years, check back and discover that your favorite character is still dying or still having that baby.

The source of my aggravation? The casual assumption that there is a "Christian" position on the issue of sexual orientation and gender identity, an uncontroversial point of doctrine that all Christians share in common.

Who would have imagined that a national party, never mind the Republican Party, would be so opposed to finding any solution for the almost 12 million undocumented people already here that they would risk our national security during the dangerous time we are in now? Yet that's the reality of the GOP today, and it's our responsibility to hold them accountable.

When the people we entrust with our health and wellbeing use the term "retarded," they grant legitimacy to a word that has been deemed offensive by the culture at large. They cause harm to the very people they have pledged to heal.

This time around she's decided to offer up her wisdom on how the Republican Party ought to go about winning over Latino voters -- in her mind, by abandoning the effort altogether.

In Entebbe on August 9, more than one hundred LGBT Ugandans celebrated the first Pride Uganda since the Constitutional Court overturned the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) for being passed without a quorum.

What would be exceptional is if we looked at our border crisis as a humanitarian situation, and we reflected on our responsibility for helping fuel it in the first place. If we looked at it from the broader standpoint of what is compassionate, as opposed to the more narrower one of what is legal.

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