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Obama Seeks 2013 Tax Cuts Within Limits — WASHINGTON — With a torpid job market and a fragile economy threatening his re-election chances, President Obama is changing the subject to tax fairness, calling for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000.
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Tamara Keith / NPR:
GOP To Make 31st Attempt To Repeal Obamacare Act … The House Rules Committee takes up a bill Monday called the “Repeal of Obamacare Act.” And just like it says, the bill would wipe away the president's Affordable Care Act. A vote of the full House is planned for Wednesday.
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Obama Seeks to Shift Debate to Taxes
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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Donors arrive at Hamptons fundraisers with advice for Mitt Romney — Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event June 27 in Sterling, Va. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) — EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - As protesters assembled on a beach in advance of Mitt Romney's evening event at the home …
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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Two arrested trying to crash Romney fundraiser, police say
Two arrested trying to crash Romney fundraiser, police say
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Sheldon Alberts / The Hill:
Hill Poll: Majority feel Obama has changed country for worse — Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it's changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority. — A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent …
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GOP unnerved by Democrats' candid camera techniques — Politicians recognize they give up a degree of privacy when they run for office. — But Democrats are testing the outer limits of that understanding with a practice that raises questions about when campaign tracking becomes something more like stalking.
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Perry: TX Won't Implement Key Elements of Health Reform … Texas will not expand Medicaid or establish a health insurance exchange, two major tenets of the federal health reform that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld last month, Gov. Rick Perry said in an early morning announcement.
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Kathryn Smith / Politico:
Rick Perry rejects health care exchanges, Medicaid expansion
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Obama's Administration Killed a 16-Year-Old American and Didn't Say Anything About It. This Is Justice? — Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was 16 on the day he was killed. “I tried every legal means to stop the targeted killing of my son,” says his grandfather Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Eric Holder / CNN:
CNN Poll: Was politics behind Holder contempt vote? — Washington (CNN) - Most Americans approve of the decision by the House of Representatives to censure Attorney General Eric Holder, but a new national poll also indicates that a majority of the public thinks that House Republicans …
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CNN poll shows majority approves of Holder contempt vote
CNN poll shows majority approves of Holder contempt vote
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Obama campaign raises $71 million in June — In an email to donors, the Obama campaign announces that it has raised $71 million in June. — From Chief Operating Officer Ann Marie Habershaw: … To recap, that's a $35 million gap between Mitt Romney and Obama in June …
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Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals — WHO is happier about life — liberals or conservatives? The answer might seem straightforward. After all, there is an entire academic literature in the social sciences dedicated to showing conservatives as naturally authoritarian, dogmatic …
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Stacey Singer / Palm Beach Post:
Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret — State rushes closure of its only TB hospital in Lantana — Lilla Charline Burkhalter, 60, comes to the Clara White center for breakfast most mornings. It was here, in the soup kitchen, that a man with active, coughing TB was recently identified …
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Muriel Kane / The Raw Story:
Florida accused of concealing worst tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years
Florida accused of concealing worst tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years
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Jan Crawford / CBS News:
Discord at Supreme Court is deep, and personal — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — (CBS News) Discord at the Supreme Court is deep and personal after Chief Justice John Roberts' surprise decision to side with the liberal justices in upholding a large portion of the president's health care plan.
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View Photo Gallery — The Supreme Court gets political …
View Photo Gallery — The Supreme Court gets political …
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Cumulus: Limbaugh boycott cost ‘millions’ — Cumulus Media CEO Lew Dickey said yesterday that the advertiser boycott against Rush Limbaugh cost his company millions of dollars in revenue for the first two quarters of the year. — “It hit us pretty hard,” Dickey said during a call with financial analysts yesterday.
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Donald Trump gets ‘statesman of year’ award — Real estate mogul. Political pundit. “Apprentice” host. Birther. Sometime presidential candidate teaser. — Also: “Statesman.” — That's the latest title to be bestowed upon Donald Trump when he receives the 2012 “Statesman of the Year” …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Warren banks $8.6 million in second-quarter fundraising — Elizabeth Warren raised $8.6 million in the second quarter, her campaign announced Monday, offering further evidence of the Massachusetts candidate's fundraising prowess. — Warren's total outpaced her first-quarter haul by $1.7 million, and has $13.5 million cash on hand.
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The Newsroom's Third Episode Is Something ‘Every American Should See and Ponder’ — Dan Rather is reviewing HBO's The Newsroom for Gawker throughout the show's first season. — Episode 3 of HBO's “The Newsroom” is deeper, broader and better than the two previous installments.
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Romney Set to Counterattack on Bain — The L word. — Image by JASON REED / Reuters — The Romney campaign will begin to aggressively push back against President Obama's accusations that the Republican was an “outsourcing pioneer” today, a source privy to the the campaign's strategy told BuzzFeed.
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Wireless Firms Are Flooded by Requests to Aid Surveillance — WASHINGTON — In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a daunting 1.3 million demands for subscriber data last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages …
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