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Los Angeles Times:
Schwarzenegger fathered a child with longtime member of household staff — His wife, Maria Shriver, moved out of their Brentwood mansion earlier this year after the former governor acknowledged the child was his. The staff member worked for the family for 20 years, retiring in January.
The Note:
How Serious Was Donald Trump About 2012? ‘More Serious Than...People Realize,’ Political Adviser Says — ABC News' Michael Falcone (@michaelpfalcone) reports: — Had Donald Trump decided to run for president he and his aides were planning an announcement event in an iconic location …
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Trump Not Running for President: ‘Decision Does Not Come Easily Or Without Regret’ — ABC News' Michael Falcone, Jennifer Wlach, Sara Just and Devin Dwyer report: — After a roller-coaster flirtation with a presidential bid, Donald Trump bowed out of the 2012 contest in true Trump fashion on Monday …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
What Trump can teach the GOP field
What Trump can teach the GOP field
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The Atlantic Online:
Why Trump Wimped Out — Per ABC News, Donald Trump has just put …
Why Trump Wimped Out — Per ABC News, Donald Trump has just put …
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Salon, The Reaction, Show Tracker, Washington Post, The Note and TPMDC
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Donald Trump: I'm fired
Donald Trump: I'm fired
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Happening Now / Fox News Insider:
FULL TEXT: Donald Trump Releases Statement Saying He Will Not Run for President
FULL TEXT: Donald Trump Releases Statement Saying He Will Not Run for President
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Libertarian Leanings, Don Surber, Ben Smith's Blog, The Superficial, Mediaite, Sister Toldjah and CNN
Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:
Iowan to Gingrich: Get out now before you make a bigger fool of yourself — Dubuque, Ia. — Newt Gingrich got a not-so-nice welcome here today. — As he was getting ready to leave a speaking engagement Dubuque resident Russell Fuhrman approached him in the lobby of the Holiday Inn:
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Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich to House GOP: Drop Dead — Newt undermines his former comrades on Medicare. — The Republican Presidential campaign is off to a slow start, but judging by the last week not slow enough. First Mitt Romney defends his ObamaCare prototype in Massachusetts, and now Newt Gingrich …
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Power Line, The Politico, Betsy's Page and National Review
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
CINDY CRAWFORD FLIP-FLOPS FOR MITT ROMNEY — During her modeling career, Cindy Crawford was skilled at switching outfits. Now, she's switching presidential candidates, it seems. — Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Mitt Romney, took to Twitter Monday to oh-so-subtly boast that Team Romney …
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Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Romney: One-day money haul brings in over $10 million
Romney: One-day money haul brings in over $10 million
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Mitt Romney's money machine cranks up
Mitt Romney's money machine cranks up
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Outside the Beltway and CNN
Donald Trump / Associated Press:
In effort to let money show his might, Team Romney raises $10.25 million in a single day
In effort to let money show his might, Team Romney raises $10.25 million in a single day
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Hot Air and The Daily Caller
The Lede:
French Shocked by I.M.F. Chief's ‘Perp Walk’ — As our colleagues Steven Erlanger and Katrin Bennhold report, “The arrest in New York of one of France's leading global figures and a possible next president, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, on charges of attempted rape produced an earthquake of shock …
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Laura Italiano / New York Post:
IMF chief to remain jailed, defense says alleged sex assault ‘not consistent with a forcible encounter’
IMF chief to remain jailed, defense says alleged sex assault ‘not consistent with a forcible encounter’
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Above the Law, ProPublica, Law Blog, Gothamist and EconomicPolicyJournal.com
WilliamPenn / The Smoking Gun:
Filing Details Alleged Attack By IMF Chief
Filing Details Alleged Attack By IMF Chief
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The Huffington Post:
Confidential Federal Audits Accuse Five Biggest Mortgage Firms Of Defrauding Taxpayers [EXCLUSIVE] … WASHINGTON — A set of confidential federal audits accuse the nation's five largest mortgage companies of defrauding taxpayers in their handling of foreclosures on homes purchased …
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Credit Slips, Suburban Guerrilla, naked capitalism, DownWithTyranny! and RADAMISTO
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Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
New York Investigates Banks' Role in Fiscal Crisis — Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, has requested information and documents in recent weeks from three major Wall Street banks about their mortgage securities operations during the credit boom, indicating the existence …
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Prairie Weather and naked capitalism
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
LED bulbs hit 100 watts as federal ban looms — NEW YORK - Two leading makers of lighting products are showcasing LED bulbs that are bright enough to replace energy-guzzling 100-watt light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January. — Their demonstrations at the LightFair trade show …
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Pirate's Cove, Outside the Beltway and The Lonely Conservative
Inside Higher Ed:
In for Nasty Weather — Maybe it's because tenured professors are so disproportionately white male baby boomers that classic rock seems like a natural way to capture the sense that tenured faculty existence is vanishing. — First, summon the image of a tweed-clad, gray-haired professor exiting …
The Politico:
Thompson plans to run for Senate — Tommy Thompson, the Republican former Wisconsin governor and George W. Bush's first secretary of Health and Human Services, has told friends he plans to run for the open Senate seat in Wisconsin, according to top Wisconsin sources.
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JSOnline and The Greenroom
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
OOPS! Historic ‘Spending Cut’ Bill Increased Spending By $3 Billion — Republicans stormed Capitol Hill in January vowing to slash discretionary spending by $100 billion right off the bat. In their pledge to America, they promised that, “[w]ith common-sense exceptions for seniors …
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi's district — Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama's administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels …
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Hot Air and The Lonely Conservative
David Catanese / The Politico:
Ryan telling GOPers he's unlikely to run — Rep. Paul Ryan is reaching out to potential Senate candidates in Wisconsin, informing them he's unlikely to run for Herb Kohl's seat next year, according to two sources familiar with the conversations. — The House Budget Committee chairman …
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Budget Committee:
Shared Scarcity versus Renewed Prosperity — Thank you so much, Anne, for the kind introduction. — I want to thank you all for inviting me to speak. It was especially gracious of you to host me, even though I'm a Packers fan and I assume most of you are Bears fans. — But that doesn't mean we can't work together.
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Josh Barro / National Review:
The Debt Limit and Uncertainty — Over the last couple of years, a common conservative talking point about federal policy changes has been that uncertainty is dangerous. When people don't know what future government policies will look like, the risk inherent in business investment is greater, without average returns being higher.
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New York Post:
Dems' thuggery knows no bounds — Orrin Hatch, the senior senator from Utah, didn't mince words the other day on Hugh Hewitt's national radio show. The Democrats, he said, “play politics very, very tough, they play it well, and they don't give a damn about what's right and what's wrong.”
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Cold Fury and National Review