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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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Minnesotans United
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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, Daily Kos and Towleroad News #gay
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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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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Hot Air, Althouse, The Week and National Republican …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: US has a ‘moral obligation’ to help end civil war in Syria
Obama: US has a ‘moral obligation’ to help end civil war in Syria
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Politico
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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Hullabaloo
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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Tampa Bay Times:
Rubio sharply critical of Heritage study, offers parents as evidence of contribution of immigrants
Rubio sharply critical of Heritage study, offers parents as evidence of contribution of immigrants
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Mediaite, ThinkProgress and The Hill
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McCain, Graham wary of amendment
McCain, Graham wary of amendment
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BuzzFeed, Washington Blade, Towleroad News #gay, The Spot, The Raw Story, First Read and The World's Greatest …
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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Deadline.com, TVNewser, Mediaite and TheBlaze.com
USA Today:
Hagel orders changes to confront military sexual abuse — Report comes on the heels of Air Force chief sexual assault prevention officer's arrest for allegedly groping a woman. — WASHINGTON — A report showing that sexual assaults in the military jumped by more than one-third since 2010 …
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defense.gov, Weasel Zippers, The Week, Associated Press, The Raw Story, The Reaction and Arlington County Newsroom
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Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
Air Force Brochure Tells Sexual Assault Victims to ‘Submit’
Air Force Brochure Tells Sexual Assault Victims to ‘Submit’
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ThinkProgress, U.S. News, Mediaite, Taylor Marsh, The Raw Story, Crooks and Liars and Arlington, Va.
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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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
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 …
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The Maddow Blog, ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, Advocate, msnbc.com, The Week, Towleroad News #gay, Applesauce and Taylor Marsh
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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
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 …
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
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, Los Angeles Times, Wonkblog, Hot Air and Wake up America
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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Taylor Marsh and CNN
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
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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The Plum Line, Mother Jones, Via Meadia, New Republic, Scared Monkeys, National Republican …, Taylor Marsh, msnbc.com, Eschaton and Booman Tribune
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
Kathy Carvajal / myfoxny.com:
Gay couple attacked in Manhattan — By LUKE FUNK, Senior Web Producer - — NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) - — The NYPD is investigating a vicious attack on two men at the hands of a group who directed anti-gay remarks at them before the assault. — The attackers could be a crowd of New York Knicks fans …
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AMERICAblog, The Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and CBS New York
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Barrow won't run for Senate in Georgia — Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.) announced Tuesday he won't run for the Senate in Georgia, dealing a major blow to Democrats' hopes of picking up the seat. — “I'm grateful for the encouragement I've received from folks all across the State of Georgia …
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Politico and Booman Tribune
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
CIA selects new head of clandestine service, passing over officer tied to interrogation program — A CIA officer who was the first woman to lead the agency's clandestine service, but was also closely tied to the agency's interrogation program, will not get to keep that job as part …
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Firedoglake, Foreign Policy, emptywheel, Booman Tribune and The Dish
David Brown / Washington Post:
Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ — You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes! — It's an odd little speech. But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words …
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Wired, Guardian and Alan Colmes' Liberaland