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12:20 PM ET, June 24, 2012

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Morsi Is Winner of Egyptian Presidency  —  CAIRO — Election regulators named Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood the winner of Egypt's first competitive presidential elections, handing the Islamist group a symbolic triumph and a new weapon in its struggle for power with the ruling military council.
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AJE - Al Jazeera English:
Morsi wins Egypt's presidential election  —  Muslim Brotherhood candidate declared the official winner with 13.2 million votes.  —  The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi has officially won Egypt's presidential election and will be the country's next president, the electoral commission has announced.
Washington Post:
Morsi named new Egyptian president  —  CAIRO—Egypt's electoral commission announced Sunday that Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi would be sworn in as president, becoming the Arab world's first elected Islamist head of state after more than a year of popular uprisings that ousted autocrats …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Power Line
BBC:
Tense Egypt awaits presidential election results
Discussion: Guardian and Outside the Beltway
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Past Denials of Vulnerability Raise Health Act What-Ifs  —  WASHINGTON — With the Supreme Court set to render judgment on President Obama's health care law as early as Monday, the White House and Congress find themselves in a position that many advocates of the legislation once considered almost unimaginable.
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Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Obama's legal tactics seen as possibly hurting chances to save health-care law  —  Some prominent legal scholars say a series of tactical decisions by President Obama's legal team may have hurt the chances of saving his landmark health-care legislation from being gutted by Supreme Court conservatives.
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Six Of One  —  Supporters of the Affordable Care Act are having …
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
GOP Oversight Chair Admits There Is No Evidence Of White House Involvement In Fast And Furious  —  Last week, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) claimed that the White House decision to invoke executive privilege to prevent the release of some documents related to the “Fast and Furious” …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Issa confident House will vote to place Eric Holder in contempt  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) predicted Sunday that Republicans and Democrats would vote to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress this week.  —  “I believe they will …
Campbell Brown / New York Times:
Planned Parenthood's Self-Destructive Behavior  —  PLANNED PARENTHOOD has a large target on its back.  At no time in the organization's history has it faced such a concerted Congressional challenge to its agenda.  But most worrisome is the organization's shrinking number of defenders, and Planned Parenthood has only itself to blame.
Fox News:
New Hampshire town asks Obama campaign to pay for costs of upcoming visit  —  DURHAM, NH - A New Hampshire town is asking the Obama campaign to foot the up to $30,000 bill for the president's upcoming campaign stop in their city.  —  MyFoxBoston reports the town of Durham is asking Obama's campaign …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and CBS Boston
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
For Wealthy Romney Donors, Up Close and Personal Access  —  PARK CITY, Utah —They schmoozed with Mitt Romney at a barbecue cookout at the Olympic Park, pressing him on labor regulations and the threat of a nuclear Iran as downhill skiers performed midair flips behind them.
Washington Post:
Members of Congress trade in companies while making laws that affect those same firms  —  One-hundred-thirty members of Congress or their families have traded stocks collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars in companies lobbying on bills that came before their committees …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Jacqueline Stevens / New York Times:
Political Scientists Are Lousy Forecasters  —  DESPERATE “Action Alerts” land in my in-box.  They're from the American Political Science Association and colleagues, many of whom fear grave “threats” to our discipline.  As a defense, they've supplied “talking points” we can use …
 
 
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Reason's Nick Gillespie Schools Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher on Fast and Furious
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Jonathan Martinand Alexander Burns / Politico:
Mitt's no policy problem
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
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