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Margaret Thatcher dies — Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died “peacefully” at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced. — David Cameron called her a “great Briton” and the Queen spoke of her sadness at the death. — Lady Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
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Andrew Sparrow / Guardian:
Margaret Thatcher dies: live reaction and updates — Sort by: — 4.05pm BST — There are few places in the UK where Lady Thatcher was as unpopular as she was in Liverpool. This is what Joe Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool, is saying about her today. … 4.02pm BST
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister, dead at 87 — View Photo Gallery — Margaret Thatcher: 1925-2013: Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter whose overpowering personality, bruising political style and free-market views transformed Britain …
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Sky News:
Margaret Thatcher Dies After Stroke — Baroness Thatcher, Britain's Iron Lady, has died after suffering a stroke at the age of 87. — Her children Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother had died peacefully following a stroke this morning. — Speaking to Sky News …
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Telegraph:
Margaret Thatcher dies of stroke aged 87 — Baroness Thatcher, Britain's greatest post-war prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced. — Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning.
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Joseph R. Gregory / New York Times:
Margaret Thatcher, Who Remade Britain, Dies at 87 — Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” of British politics who pulled her country back from 35 years of socialism, led it to victory in the Falklands war and helped guide the United States and the Soviet Union through the cold war's difficult last years, died Monday.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Margaret Thatcher, UK's first female prime minister, dies aged 87 — Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died early Monday at the age of 87, after suffering a stroke. — Thatcher, whose tough-as-nails style earned her the nickname “The Iron Lady,” served as Britain's leader from 1979 to 1990 …
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Michael White / Guardian:
Margaret Thatcher dead at 87 following stroke — The first woman elected to lead a major western state changed way Britons viewed politics and economics — Margaret Thatcher, the most dominant British prime minister since Winston Churchill in 1940 and a global champion of the late 20th-century free market economic revival, has died.
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Richard Allen Greene / CNN:
Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female PM, dead at 87 — Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to become British prime minister, has died at 87, a spokeswoman said Monday, April 8. Known as the “Iron Lady,” Thatcher, as Conservative Party leader, was prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
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Fox News:
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies after suffering stroke
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies after suffering stroke
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David Wright / ABCNEWS:
Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Iron Lady, Dead at 87
Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Iron Lady, Dead at 87
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Hill holds Obama's legacy in its hands — It's now or never for the White House. — President Barack Obama's second-term agenda is in doubt as Congress returns to Washington this week for a spring and summer stretch that could go a long way to define the scope of Obama's legacy.
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Must Walk Fine Line as Congress Weighs Agenda
Obama Must Walk Fine Line as Congress Weighs Agenda
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Obama Takes Control In The Second Term
Washington Post:
Gun legislation's prospects improve
Gun legislation's prospects improve
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Hollywood Reporter:
Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Roger Ebert's Funeral — The anti-gay group says it will protest outside the movie critic's memorial service Monday in Chicago. — Leaders of Kansas' Westboro Baptist Church, notorious for picketing at the funerals of soldiers and gay teenagers …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Insurance and Freedom — President Obama will soon release a new budget, and the commentary is already flowing fast and furious. Progressives are angry (with good reason) over proposed cuts to Social Security; conservatives are denouncing the call for more revenues. But it's all Kabuki.
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Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Pentagon to Seek Less for Missile Defense in 2014 Budget — The Pentagon will request $9.16 billion for missile defense programs for the 2014 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, about $550 million less than this year's $9.71 billion, according to internal budget figures obtained by Bloomberg News.
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David W. Chen / New York Times:
Outside Group Invests in Effort to Block Quinn's Campaign for Mayor — The imagery conjures up “The Wizard of Oz”: as smoke fills the screen, the head of a frowning Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, materializes. — “She wants you to think that she's a progressive …
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Jeff Mapes / Oregonian:
Gay marriage opponents lose first round of fight over ballot title for Oregon initiative — The Oregon attorney general's office isn't buying an attempt by gay marriage opponents to radically rewrite the ballot title for a proposed initiative that would allow same-sex marriages in Oregon.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans' Concerns About Global Warming on the Rise — Majority believe global warming is happening, but many still say it's exaggerated — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. worry about global warming is heading back up after several years of expanded public skepticism.
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