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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton Stepping Down — Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton is leaving the company in the wake of the PhoneGate hacking scandal. Hinton is the second high-ranking News Corp. executive to step down today, and the first major figure from the company's American operations.
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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
The Journal Becomes Fox-ified — It's official. The Wall Street Journal has been Fox-ified. — It took Rupert Murdoch only three and a half years to get there, starting with the moment he acquired the paper from the dysfunctional Bancroft family in December 2007, a purchase that was completed …
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Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Tea Party: Polls Show Importance To GOP Base
Tea Party: Polls Show Importance To GOP Base
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Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones CEO Resigns Over Scandal
Dow Jones CEO Resigns Over Scandal
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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Les Hinton's Resignation Letters
Les Hinton's Resignation Letters
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New York Magazine, The Lede, Daily Kos, Gothamist, The Moderate Voice and AMERICAblog News
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama's Haul: Big Money From Big Donors — Twenty-seven fund-raisers collected more than $500,000 each in contributions for President Obama and the Democratic Party in the past three months, helping Mr. Obama collect a record haul of campaign cash as he starts his re-election effort.
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The Politico:
Of Obama's $86 million, 40% from bundlers — About 40 percent of President Barack Obama's record-breaking $86 million second-quarter fundraising haul came from big-money bundlers, according to a POLITICO analysis of donors listed on Obama's campaign web site.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Obama fundraising report signals juggernaut campaign
Obama fundraising report signals juggernaut campaign
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James Oliphant / Los Angeles Times:
Michele Bachmann leaves church accused of anti-Catholic bias — Taking a page from President Obama's political playbook, Michele Bachmann has formally left a church in Minnesota accused of holding anti-Catholic views. — According to CNN, the church that Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus …
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Andy Birkey / Minnesota Independent:
‘Ex-gay’ conference headed to St. Paul in 2012
‘Ex-gay’ conference headed to St. Paul in 2012
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Bloomberg:
Obama Eliminates Warren as Consumer Head — President Barack Obama has chosen a candidate other than Elizabeth Warren as director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a person briefed on the matter. — The president's choice is a person who already works at the consumer agency, the person said today.
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Los Angeles Times:
House Republicans brace for compromise on debt — GOP leaders turn to their most trusted budget expert, Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), to explain to the rank and file what could happen if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling. — Reporting from Washington— Republican leaders in the House …
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James Pethokoukis:
Will coming debt ceiling deal save America's AAA credit rating?
Will coming debt ceiling deal save America's AAA credit rating?
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
GOP dissent complicates path to resolving debt-ceiling crisis
GOP dissent complicates path to resolving debt-ceiling crisis
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James Pethokoukis:
Panic at the White House? Gloomy Goldman Sachs sees high unemployment, possible recession — Last night in a new report, Democrat-friendly Goldman Sachs dropped an economic bomb on President Obama's chances for reelection (bold is mine): … Alarms bells must be ringing all over Obamaland today.
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Mitt Romney's cash advantage — Kasie Hunt does the math: … One of the more than incidental benefits to treading light in Iowa is that Romney will probably be able to keep a relatively low burn rate for much of the summer. At the end of the quarter, Pawlenty had just $1.4 million …
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Pawlenty Calls Out Romney On Debt Ceiling Debate
Pawlenty Calls Out Romney On Debt Ceiling Debate
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Media Matters for America:
REPORT: How CNN, MSNBC, And Fox Are Covering News Corp. Hacking Scandal — News Corp.'s long-simmering phone-hacking scandal has reignited, throwing its global media empire into turmoil. As allegations of hacking into private citizens' voicemail increase, media and tabloid practices have been called into question.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Fox And Friends Defends News Corp's Hacking Scandal: ‘We Should Move On’
Fox And Friends Defends News Corp's Hacking Scandal: ‘We Should Move On’
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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race. — “I do not understand …
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Dalai Lama to visit W.H. on Saturday — Part of the Dalai Lama's Washington visit will include a White House visit. — AP Photo — The White House announced late Friday that President Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama at the White House on Saturday, finally putting an end …
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Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Perry's Briefing — Word in Austin is that Rick Perry is doing everything necessary to prepare for a presidential run, including brushing up on foreign policy. — We hear that he recently met with top national-security experts Doug Feith and William Luti.
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ThinkProgress, Hot Air and The Daily Dish
Bloomberg:
Body Scanners Improperly Added by TSA: Court — Airport body scanners that create unclothed images of passengers were improperly adopted by the U.S. as a primary screening tool, a federal appeals court ruled, while allowing their use to continue. — The U.S. Transportation Security Administration …
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Court OKs Airport Body Scanners, Rejects Constitutional Challenge
Court OKs Airport Body Scanners, Rejects Constitutional Challenge
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
For First Time, Majority in U.S. Supports Public Smoking Ban — Little support for making smoking illegal, however — PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans (59%) support a ban on smoking in all public places for the first time since Gallup initially asked the question in 2001.
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
China Plans to Release Some of Its Pork Stockpile to Hold Down Prices — BEIJING — Some nations have strategic oil reserves. Some keep grain reserves. China has both, and something others have somehow overlooked: a national pork reserve. — And with the price of pig meat up 38 percent …
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