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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
'C'mon, Man!' Exclaims VP in Deficit Meeting. 'Let's Get Real!' — Officials familiar with the negotiations say today's meeting began with President Obama asking House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., to lay out what was agreed upon in the deficit reduction talks led by Vice President Biden.
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Los Angeles Times:
Boehner-Cantor rivalry affecting debt talks — It's not the first sign of friction between the two Republican leaders. — The debt talks are not the first time friction has been apparent between House Speaker John A. Boehner, rear, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. (Win McNamee, Getty Images / July 12, 2011)
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Cantor conspicuous confusion over compromise
Cantor conspicuous confusion over compromise
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Offered To Raise Medicare Eligibility Age As Part Of Grand Debt Deal
Obama Offered To Raise Medicare Eligibility Age As Part Of Grand Debt Deal
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Republicans Say They've Already Agreed To A Concession In Debt Fight: Raising The Debt Limit
Republicans Say They've Already Agreed To A Concession In Debt Fight: Raising The Debt Limit
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Sen. Paul: Boehner has ‘no plan’ to balance the budget
Sen. Paul: Boehner has ‘no plan’ to balance the budget
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New York Times:
Half Brother of Afghan President Is Killed in Kandahar — By ALISSA J. RUBIN, CARLOTTA GALL and RUHULLAH KHAPALWAK — KABUL, Afghanistan — The powerful half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday by a close family associate, according to Karzai family friends who were nearby.
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Mirwais Khan / Associated Press:
Afghan president's half brother killed in south — KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — President Hamid Karzai's half brother, the most powerful man in southern Afghanistan and a lightning rod for criticism of corruption in the government, was assassinated Tuesday by a close associate.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Fresh doubt cast on Obama's health care story — During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama often discussed his mother's struggle with cancer. Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995, Obama said, fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment.
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Natalie Jennings / Washington Post:
Michelle Obama orders 1,556-calorie meal at Shake Shack — First lady Michelle Obama ordered a whopper of a meal at the newly opened Washington diner Shake Shack during lunch on Monday. — A Washington Post journalist on the scene confirmed the first lady, who's made a cause out of child nutrition …
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Lauraklairmont / CNN:
Huntsman goes on offense against Romney — Greer, South Carolina (CNN) - Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman signaled Monday that he intends to sharpen his campaign message against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the front-runner in the Republican presidential race and the candidate Huntsman's team views …
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Huntsman's two pledges — Jon Huntsman explains why he won't sign …
Huntsman's two pledges — Jon Huntsman explains why he won't sign …
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Darrell Issa questions White House's 2012 actions — House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is probing what he sees as signs of an unseemly overlap between President Barack Obama's official and political activities. — In what could be considered the committee's sharpest probe …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Bachmann opens door to raising debt limit — if it repeals healthcare bill — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) opened the door to voting to raise the debt ceiling on Monday — in the extraordinarily unlikely instance that it's tied to a repeal of President Obama's healthcare law.
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Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Obama: Job Losses Prove Stimulus Worked — (CNSNews.com) - Three days after the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the national unemployment rate had ticked up from 9.1 percent in May to 9.2 percent in June, President Barack Obama said that the loss of jobs in the public sector is …
Saeed Shah / Guardian:
CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA — Senior Pakistani doctor who organised vaccine programme in Abbottabad arrested by ISI for working with US agents — The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden …
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Vaccination Ruse Used in Pursuit of Bin Laden
Vaccination Ruse Used in Pursuit of Bin Laden
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Luis Martinez / ABCNEWS:
2nd Living Recipient Awarded Medal of Honor — At a White House ceremony later today, Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry, an Army Ranger, will become only the second living recipient of the Medal of Honor for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Petry lost his right hand while throwing a live grenade away from his fellow soldiers.
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Kenric Ward / Sunshine State News:
U.S. Jobless Numbers Dragging Obama Down in Florida — Romney beats president in hypothetical match-up as independents swing toward GOP — A slipping economy has Floridians moving away from President Barack Obama and warming up to Republican Mitt Romney, a Sunshine State News Poll shows.
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Rebecca Rosenberg / New York Post:
The ‘randy’ rabbi — A prominent Long Island Jewish leader was caught with his dreidel out in a string of sordid sex tapes, according to sensational Manhattan court records. — Rabbi Avraham Rabinowich — who leads the wealthy, Conservative Bellmore Jewish Center and is vice president …
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Mark Weiss / Telegraph:
Israel parliament passes anti-boycott bill — Israel's parliament has passed a controversial bill making it illegal for any citizen advocating a boycott of Israel or West Bank settlements. — The Knesset voted 47-38 in favour after a stormy debate, during which opposition members accusing …
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Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
Michele Bachmann Clinic: Where You Can Pray Away the Gay? — A former patient who sought help from the Christian counseling clinic owned by GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, told ABC News he was advised that prayer could rid him of his homosexual urges and he could eventually be “re-oriented.”
Bryan Preston / Pajamas Media:
Video: President Obama promises ‘massive job killing taxes’ if re-elected — From today's presser on the debt ceiling debate. Check out how the prez frames the debate over taxes. — Click here to view the embedded video. … Re-elect me to get massive job killing tax hikes when I'm a lame duck and you can't do a thing about it.
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Judson Berger / Fox News:
Ex-Aide's Lawsuit Claims Rep. Jackson Lee Mocked, Disregarded Her Disability — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's former legislative director is suing the Democratic congresswoman, claiming she made “humiliating” comments about her vision disability while refusing to do anything to accommodate her.
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Univision News Tumblr:
Senator Marco Rubio's Brother in Law: A Convicted Drug Trafficker — Senator Marco Rubio has provided generous details about his family, expressing time and again during his successful 2009 U.S. senate campaign that he was proud of his parents' efforts to build a better future for their four children in this country.
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
GOP looks for special election upset — Republicans are hopeful they can pick off a Los Angeles-based House seat long held by Democrats in Tuesday's special election. — The odds are against their candidate, businessman Craig Huey, but he's surprised observers on both sides of the aisle by making the race closer than expected.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Polygamist, Under Scrutiny in Utah, Plans Suit to Challenge Law — Kody Brown is a proud polygamist, and a relatively famous one. Now Mr. Brown, his four wives and 16 children and stepchildren are going to court to keep from being punished for it. — The family is the focus of a reality TV show …
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The Camp Of The Saints and The Other McCain
Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
TIR Poll: Look Out for Chris Christie — While Michele Bachmann is the frontrunner in the Iowa Caucuses, she has yet to seal the deal with Iowa caucus goers. TheIowaRepublican.com poll shows that Bachmann is head and shoulders above the current crop of candidates campaigning in Iowa …
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GOP 12 and Iowa Caucuses
Lawrence Hurley / New York Times:
Supreme Court Picks One EPA Enforcement Case Over Another and Attorneys Ask Why — When the Supreme Court decided last week to take up a case over whether U.S. EPA enforcement of the Clean Water Act can lead to constitutional violations, many veteran environmental lawyers scratched their heads.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann's unlikely model: Howard Dean — The party's grassroots are radicalized. A blunt-talking, anti-establishment presidential candidate draws big summer crowds by pledging to confront the opposition party president. The political pros, fearing a general election disaster, grow more anxious by the day.
The Hill:
Six months in, handful of House freshmen haven't offered a bill — More than six months after being sworn in to office, a handful of Republican freshman lawmakers have yet to introduce a single piece of legislation. — The three House Republicans and a GOP senator were swept into office …
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WFTV Channel 9:
Alan Grayson To Run For Office Again — ORLANDO, Fla. — WFTV learned on Monday that former U.S. Congressman Alan Grayson is running for office again. — On Monday, Grayson said he doesn't plan to do anything different. He said he's running again because of all the people who have reached out and asked him to.
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Mike Waterhouse / WEWS-TV:
Unruly passenger on flight diverted to Cleveland faces federal charges — Passenger helps flight crew restrain suspect — Last Updated: 14 hours and 16 minutes ago — CLEVELAND - The unruly passenger who caused a commercial jet flying from Chicago to Germany to divert to Cleveland Friday is facing federal charges.
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Chris McGreal / Guardian:
Bush ‘should be prosecuted over torture’ — Human Rights Watch claims Obama administration ‘failing to act on evidence’, and also names Cheney and Rumsfeld in report — A US human rights group has called on foreign governments to prosecute George W Bush and some of his senior officials …
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ThinkProgress and The Agonist
Des Moines Register:
Pawlenty: The answer is not more government spending — Democrats are saying we have no choice but to spend more and raise taxes, and they are willing to shut down government if they don't get their way. That's the scene in both our nation's and Minnesota's capitals, where Republicans …
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The New Republic and GOP 12