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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
The New Pope: Bergoglio of Argentina — VATICAN CITY — With a puff of white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and to the cheers of thousands of rain-soaked faithful, a gathering of Catholic cardinals picked a new pope from among their midst on Wednesday — choosing the cardinal from Argentina …
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Dylan Matthews / Wonkblog:
Everything you need to know about Pope Francis's macroeconomic views — Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio leads mass in Buenos Aires last month. The cardinal was elected pope on Wednesday. (Natascha Pisarenko — AP) — We have a new pope! Pope Francis I, formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio …
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Michael Potemra / National Review:
A Jesuit Named Francis! — The new pope, Jorge Maria Bergoglio, was the runner-up to Ratzinger in 2005, and received relatively little buzz in the run-up to this conclave. Some speculated that his time had passed, though John Allen had a good rundown of his plus and minuses a few days ago.
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
MEET YOUR NEW POPE — Newly elected Pope Francis I waves to a crowd from St Peter's Basilica today in Vatican City. — OK, so he's the first pope from Latin America, and the first Francis, which ties him with Hilarius and a few dozen others for last place in the papal names rankings.
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J. Lester Feder / BuzzFeed:
Pope Francis Brings Lessons Of Argentina's Marriage Fight To Rome — Then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio bungled the fight against Argentina's “Equal Marriage Law” in 2010. “Let's not be naive,” he wrote of same-sex marriage. “This is not a simple political fight; it is a destructive proposal to God's plan.”
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
New Pope Elected — The Catholic cardinals have elected a new pope on Wednesday after just two days of deliberations, selecting 76-year-old Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the fifth vote. He has taken the name of Francis and was not considered to be one of the front runners.
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Michael Martinez / CNN:
CNN Vatican analyst: Pope Francis' name choice ‘precedent shattering’
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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
New Pope Francis Called Abortion the “Death Penalty for the Unborn”
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Washington Post:
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina elected pope, takes name Pope Francis
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Colin M. Snider / Americas South and North:
On the Selection of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francisco
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Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Choosing a Pope, Day 1 — The exciting thing is the confounding thing …
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Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
ARGENTINE JORGE BERGOGLIO ELECTED POPE FRANCIS
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Damian Thompson / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Pope Francis I: a humble man from the New World whose first challenge is to end the scandals
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Politico:
OFA leader: ‘We are not a partisan organization’ — Top donors, volunteers and organizers for President Barack Obama's new nonprofit met Wednesday at a Washington hotel to discuss how the group can stay active and relevant in the president's second term — but Obama and the group's leader swears the effort is nonpartisan.
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Politico:
Tense meeting between President Obama, House GOP — President Barack Obama tangled with House Republicans for more than an hour Wednesday, answering questions on topics ranging from whether the White House spends too much time campaigning to how serious the administration is about slashing the nation's deficit.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Meet Scott Prouty, the 47 Percent Video Source — For months, he and I shared a big secret and repeatedly discussed whether he should go public or stay hidden. — “Scott Prouty.” — The fellow on the other end of the phone call pronounced his name with hesitation.
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Aaron Swartz Lawyers Accuse Prosecutor Stephen Heymann Of Misconduct — WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutor Stephen Heymann engaged in prosecutorial misconduct by withholding key evidence from the defense team of Aaron Swartz, the late Internet activist's legal team alleged in a letter to an internal Justice Department ethics unit.
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Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE - U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances — (Reuters) - The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters.
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Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
North Korea Trolls American Poverty In Greatest Propaganda Video Ever — Living in tents. Drinking coffee made from snow. This is your life in America, filtered through the incisive prism of North Korean propaganda. — The world's most militarized society is shaking its head …
The Official Google Blog:
A second spring of cleaning — We're living in a new kind of computing environment. Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It's been a long time since we have had this rate of change—it probably hasn't happened since the birth of personal computing 40 years ago.
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Alan Fram / Talking Points Memo:
Pro-Gun Measures Snuck into New Government Funding Bill — WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate bill preventing a federal shutdown would make four long-standing gun protections permanent, including one preventing the Justice Department from requiring firearms dealers to conduct inventories …
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Larry Page / The Official Google Blog:
Update from the CEO — Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google. He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry. Most people thought he was nuts.
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
GSA ordered to give job back to executive fired after Las Vegas conference scandal — The General Services Administration was ordered this week to reinstate a senior executive who lost his job last year amid revelations of lavish spending at a Las Vegas conference.
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Ana Isabel Martinez / Reuters:
Did Venezuela's Chavez nudge Christ to pick South American pope? — (Reuters) - Late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez's influence may have stretched into the afterlife and had a hand in Christ's decision to opt for a Latin American Pope, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday.
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