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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Man arrested in ‘step-by-step’ plot to blow up Capitol, Pentagon — The FBI arrested and charged a man Wednesday for allegedly plotting to blow up the Capitol and the Pentagon. — The 26-year-old Massachusetts man, Rezwan Ferdaus, was arrested as part of an FBI sting operation …
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Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
FBI Arrests Man For Plotting To Attack Capitol, Pentagon With C-4 Loaded Remote Controlled Planes — Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old Massachusetts resident was arrested in an FBI sting on Wednesday after allegedly plotting to use large remote controlled model airplanes packed with C-4 plastic explosives …
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Boston Globe:
Federal agents charge Ashland man with targeting Pentagon, Capitol with aerial explosives — Federal authorities today arrested and charged a 26-year-old Ashland man with plotting to damage the Pentagon and US Capitol with a remote-controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives.
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The Other McCain, National Review, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Man Is Held in a Plan to Bomb Washington
Man Is Held in a Plan to Bomb Washington
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The Monkey Cage and New York Magazine
The Politico:
Obama's health reform law rests with the Supreme Court — “Unfortunately the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Affordable Care Act's individual responsibility provision. We strongly disagree with their decision and today, the Obama administration will ask the Supreme Court to hear this case …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case on Health Care Law — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to hear a case concerning the 2010 health care overhaul law. The development, which came unexpectedly fast, makes it all but certain that the court …
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Bloomberg, The Caucus, ACS Blog, Business Insider, TalkLeft and New York Magazine
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. asks Supreme Court to review health-care law
Justice Dept. asks Supreme Court to review health-care law
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Outside the Beltway, Balloon Juice, Firedoglake and Truthdig
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
U.S. appeals on health care (UPDATED)
U.S. appeals on health care (UPDATED)
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Stephanie Cutter / White House.gov Blog:
Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Hear Health Care Lawsuit
Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Hear Health Care Lawsuit
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Hot Air, Justice Blog, The Politico, Daily Kos, CNN, The 1600 Report and msnbc.com
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: GOP Race Top Tier Now Romney, Perry and Cain — Three September debates have shaken-up the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Herman Cain has jumped into the top tier. Rick Perry's stumbled. Mitt Romney's holding steady. — And Michele Bachmann is hitting bottom.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney up in Florida — Rick Perry's led the Republican field …
Romney up in Florida — Rick Perry's led the Republican field …
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LifeNews.com, Outside the Beltway, nation.foxnews.com and GOP 12
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Bachmann says she is “comeback kid”
Bachmann says she is “comeback kid”
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Iowa Caucuses, Guardian, HotAirPundit, Business Insider and The Politico
NewsMax.com:
Rick Perry to Newsmax: I Regret ‘Heartless’ Comment on Immigration — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — Presidential candidate Rick Perry on Wednesday apologized for saying …
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Jonathan Martin's post today on how Rick Perry's campaign has …
Jonathan Martin's post today on how Rick Perry's campaign has …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Rick Perry's wife says scrutiny faced during presidential campaign has been ‘intense’
Rick Perry's wife says scrutiny faced during presidential campaign has been ‘intense’
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ThinkProgress, USA Today and Washington Wire
Joel Siegel / ABCNEWS:
Chris Christie: Is New Jersey Governor Too Overweight to Become President? — For Chris Christie, there was no way around it. “In case you haven't noticed, I'm slightly overweight,” he said during a debate in his successful campaign for governor. — Two years later, Christie is the man …
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Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
Tea Partiers Want A New Dollar Coin And Refuse To Listen To The Free Market In The Process — Over at TPM, Ryan Reilly has an intriguing post about the interest of some tea partiers for a new circulating dollar coin because it supposedly will save the federal government money.
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Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice
Charlie GrapskiFollow / Daily Kos:
Bologna's Second Attack with Pepper Spray — Gradually the exploits of Detective Inspector Anthony (Tony Baloney) Bologna have eeked their way even into the mainstream media. It has become well known that he engages, in violation of policy, in an O.C. (Pepper) Spray attack on four defenseless women without provocation.
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Balloon Juice, City Room, emptywheel, New York Magazine and Gothamist
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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Setti Warren said to be quitting US Senate race — Newton mayor Setti Warren, whose US Senate campaign has been short on cash and eclipsed by the emergence of Elizabeth Warren, plans to announce tomorrow that he is dropping out, according to an early supporter who received a phone call this afternoon.
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Politics, Hotline On Call and Ballot Box
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Alabama Wins in Ruling on Its Immigration Law — A federal judge on Wednesday upheld most of the sections of Alabama's far-reaching immigration law that had been challenged by the Obama administration, including portions that had been blocked in other states.
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Washington Post and msnbc.com
Tim Mak / The Politico:
4 GOP senators in Libya to meet new leaders — Four Republican senators traveled to Libya on Thursday to meet with the former rebels who overthrew the regime of Col. Moammar Qadhafi. — Sens. Marco Rubio, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Mark Kirk will meet with members …
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Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
Companies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit — The men showed up in a small town in Australia's outback early last year, offering top dollar for all available lodgings. Within days, their company, Serco, was flying in recruits from as far away as London, and busing them from trailers …
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Annenberg Public Policy Center:
112th at Risk of Spike in Incivility, 5th Annenberg ‘Civility in Congress’ Report Warns — The Annenberg Public Policy Center has updated the work that it produced for the 1997, 1999, and 2001 House Bipartisan Retreats. The new report's analysis of the taking down processes …
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The Politico, JammieWearingFool, Washington Post and Nation Now
Kevinliptak / CNN:
TRENDING: Cain: Black community ‘brainwashed’ into voting for Dems — Washington (CNN) - The one African-American running for the GOP presidential nomination said Wednesday the black community was ‘brainwashed’ for traditionally siding with liberal politicians.
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Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Outside the Beltway
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Interns File Suit Against ‘Black Swan’ Producer — Two men who worked on the hit movie “Black Swan” have mounted an unusual challenge to the film industry's widely accepted practice of unpaid internships by filing a lawsuit on Wednesday asserting that the production company had violated minimum wage …
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Deadline.com, Runnin' Scared and Gawker