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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Delaware Becomes the 11th State to Allow Same-Sex Marriage — Delaware on Tuesday became the 11th state to permit same-sex marriage, the latest in a string of victories for those working to extend marital rights to gay and lesbian couples. — The marriage bill passed the State Senate by a vote of 12 to 9 Tuesday afternoon.
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Delaware Becomes 11th State With Marriage Equality [UPDATED] — Just now, the Delaware Senate voted 12-9, to approve marriage equality legislation (HB 75), guaranteeing that Delaware will become the 11th state that recognizes same-sex couples' marriages. The law will take effect July 1.
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Taylor Marsh, Towleroad News #gay and Daily Kos
Laurel Ramseyer / Firedoglake:
Delaware Becomes Eleventh State to Legalize Marriage Equality [Updated]
Delaware Becomes Eleventh State to Legalize Marriage Equality [Updated]
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Advocate, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Freedom to Marry Blog
Baird Helgeson / Hot Dish Politics:
Minnesota House to vote on same-sex marriage proposal Thursday
Minnesota House to vote on same-sex marriage proposal Thursday
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The Week, Reuters and Outside the Beltway
Jack Markell / CNN:
Delaware becomes eleventh state to approve same-sex marriage
Delaware becomes eleventh state to approve same-sex marriage
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Associated Press
New York Post:
Christie reveals secret stomach surgery to lose weight — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery to aggressively slim down for the sake of his wife and kids, he revealed to The Post last night. — The Garden State governor agreed to the operation …
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Irin Carmon / Salon:
Judge rips Obama's right-wing Plan B stance — “You're disadvantaging young people, African-Americans, the poor... that's the policy of the Obama administration?” — “It turns out that the same policies that President Bush followed were followed by President Obama,” said District Court Judge Edward Korman …
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
A Benghazi bombshell — The Obama administration wants to consign the Benghazi terrorist attack to the history books, but this week three State Department officials will tell Congress that the Obama administration's version of history is false — and that the falsehoods it told the American people were willful and deliberate.
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Politico, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler and Right Wing News
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
The Benghazi talking points: What's known and unknown
The Benghazi talking points: What's known and unknown
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Thomas Ott / Plain Dealer:
Berry, DeJesus, Knight found alive, police source confirms — Cheers as Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus, MIchelle Knight found alive — CLEVELAND, Ohio — Long-missing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found alive. — Berry called police Monday afternoon and frantically told …
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Umbrella Security Labs:
Breaking news: Traffic from Syria Disappears from Internet — At around 18:45 UTC the OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection, it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet. — The graph below shows DNS traffic from and to Syria.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly Renews Contract — Two of the best-known anchors on the Fox News Channel, Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly, have renewed their contracts, possibly foreshadowing the first change to the channel's prime time schedule in over a decade.
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Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
Air Force Brochure Tells Sexual Assault Victims to ‘Submit’ — An Air Force brochure on sexual assault advises potential victims not to fight off their attackers. — “It may be advisable to submit [rather] than resist,” reads the brochure (.pdf), issued to airmen at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina …
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Politico:
Immigration's new ally: Tea partiers — Immigration reform supporters are about to get some new conservative bonafides — prominent tea party backers. — Several conservative activists and tea party group leaders are meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio Tuesday afternoon to discuss immigration reform …
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Reuters, Salon, CNN, Rush Limbaugh and 24Ahead
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Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
'That's absurd beyond the word absurd' — You know Republican state lawmakers in Texas are pursuing a troubling agenda when “birther” legislation starts to move, and it's not the most ridiculous proposal worth watching. — Rather, this is (thanks to Anneli Kunze on our Facebook page for the tip).
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The Volokh Conspiracy and Mother Jones
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Cumulus CEO dings Limbaugh — Cumulus Media today reported a $2.4 million first-quarter decline in revenue related to talk programming, a loss that CEO Lew Dickey attributed, indirectly, to Limbaugh's controversial remarks about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke.
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Radio Ink Magazine and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
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CNN:
Breaking: Sanford wins South Carolina House vote, CNN projects — (CNN) - Former Gov. Mark Sanford will win the race for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, CNN projects. With 70% of the vote in, Republican Sanford leads Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, 54%-45%.
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Molly K. Hooper / Ballot Box:
Boehner on Sanford: House members 'don't get to choose' their colleagues
Boehner on Sanford: House members 'don't get to choose' their colleagues
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Politico, CNN and The Maddow Blog
WBFF-TV:
USAF Vet Willing to Offer National Cemetery Burial Plot to Bombing Suspect — US Air Force (USAF) veteran Julie Frein said she is willing to give up her burial plot at Arlington National Cemetery to Tamerlan Tsarnaev - the deceased Boston bombing suspect. — The Anne Arundel County woman told Fox45 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and TheBlaze.com
Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware — Pace of Decline Slows in Past Decade — CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW — National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime …
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Wake up America, Wonkblog and Los Angeles Times
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
GOP Benghazi hearings a partisan disgrace — Then House Republicans can testify en masse and offer a group apology for mocking and ignoring Clinton's warning. — The latest Issa public relations event, under the guise of a congressional hearing about the assault on the U.S Consulate in Benghazi …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Anne McNamara / FOX43tv.com:
Boy who held pencil like gun suspended — School has “zero tolerance” weapons policy — SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - A Suffolk school suspended a second grader for pointing a pencil at another student and making gun noises. — Seven-year-old Christopher Marshall says he was playing …
International Business Times:
Lauryn Hill Blames Slavery as She's Jailed for $500,000 Unpaid Tax Bill — By Dominic Gover: Subscribe to Dominic's RSS feed — Lauryn Hill outside Newark court in New Jersey — Reclusive soul superstar Lauryn Hill has been jailed over an enormous unpaid tax bill.
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Althouse and The Hinterland Gazette
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Joe Biden Tells Supporter He Opposes Keystone Pipeline, But Is “In The Minority,” She Says — The activist recalls a conversation on the controversial pipeline project. “He grabbed my Sierra Club hat on my head and said, 'Yes, I do — I share your views.”
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AMERICA RISING
Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Brady resigns as Illinois GOP chairman amid gay marriage controversy — Pat Brady, the chairman of the Illinois GOP announced his resignation amid controversy over his support for gay marriage legislation. (WGN-TV) — Pat Brady, the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party …
Danielle Dreilinger / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Louisiana Supreme Court rules voucher funding violates the state Constitution — The state Supreme Court has declared the funding mechanism for Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program unconstitutional. … The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that the current method of funding the statewide school voucher program is unconstitutional.
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Colorlines, msnbc.com and Joanne Jacobs
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Senators discuss revising 9/11 resolution — Top senators in both parties have begun talks to revise the congressional resolution authorizing the use of military force following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to lawmakers and aides involved in the discussions.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McCain, Graham wary of amendment
McCain, Graham wary of amendment
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Stop obsessing over Hillary — Bill Clinton's getting tired of all the speculation over whether his wife, Hillary, will run for president in 2016. — The former president hasn't shied away from encouraging his wife to seek the White House but in an appearance at a fiscal policy summit today …
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
G.O.P. Is Readying a New Offensive Over Health Care Law — WASHINGTON — As the administration struggles to put in place the final, complex piece of President Obama's signature health care law, an endeavor on a scale not seen since Medicare's creation nearly a half-century ago …
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