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Washington Post:
On IRS issue, senior White House aides were focused on shielding Obama — As soon as White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler heard about an upcoming inspector general's report on the Internal Revenue Service, she knew she had a problem. — The notice Ruemmler saw on April 24 gave …
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Mitch McConnell / Washington Post:
The IRS scandal and Obama's culture of intimidation — Mitch McConnell, a Republican, represents Kentucky in the Senate, where he is the minority leader. — Revelations about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups have raised important questions about the Obama administration's commitment to the First Amendment.
Wall Street Journal:
The Unaccountable Executive — If the President doesn't run the government, then who does? — Every day brings new revelations about who knew what about the IRS targeting conservative groups during President Obama's re-election campaign, but the overall impression is of a vast federal bureaucracy run amok.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Return of the Poor Little Rich Boys — You have to hand it to Mitch McConnell. While other scandal-mad Republicans are off on a wild goose chase that could well end in 1998, McConnell's focused on exploiting scandals to promote his very favorite cause, and his special gift to the corruption …
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Insurers feel pressure from health group with ties to White House
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Charles C. Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Ruemmler met one-on-one with Treasury lawyer long before April
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Boehner: ‘Inconceivable’ that Obama didn't know about IRS targeting
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Tensions Brew Inside White House Over Counsel's Role
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TIME:
TIME Exclusive: President Obama's 1979 Prom Photos — Tucked away in someone else's shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish clothes and with an outdated 'do, your arm around a high school squeeze. The President of the United States is no different.
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Max Rivlin-Nadler / Gawker:
At Long Last, Here are Obama's Prom Pics — Check out Obama in that cheesy suit! — TIME is running the never-before-seen photos of Barack Obama's prom as part of their coverage of prom season. — That champagne behind them is most definitely going to be popped because a prom in Hawaii …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes
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Syracuse Post-Standard:
What Gov. Andrew Cuomo has to say about Anthony Weiner — Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in Syracuse today to announce new tax incentives to attract businesses to state college campuses. After that he met with the editorial board of the Syracuse Media Groupâs Post-Standard and syracuse.com where he explained his new tax plan in depth.
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Weiner: Women may come forward with more e-mails, photos — Former congressman and newly announced New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner (D) said in an interview Thursday morning with WNYC-FM that there could be women coming forward with more e-mails or photos from the inappropriate digital conversations …
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
How Anthony Weiner Managed To Screw The NYC Tabloids
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Anthony Weiner Ready For Apology Campaign
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Reuters:
London attackers British, of Nigerian origin: source — (Reuters) - British authorities believe that two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, a source close to the investigation said Thursday.
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BBC:
Woolwich attack: Suspects known to security services
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Claire Duffin / Telegraph:
Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her: ‘We want to start a war in London tonight’
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Bill Hoffmann / NewsMax.com:
Alan Dershowitz: IRS Chief Lerner ‘Can Be Held in Contempt’ — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service's embattled director of Exempt Organizations …
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John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Issa gets what he wants: Pickering agrees to Benghazi interview
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Kyle Trygstad / Roll Call:
National Republicans Send Staff to Massachusetts #MASEN — Jerry Moran is the NRSC's chairman. (Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call File Photo) — National Republicans have dispatched staff to Massachusetts to assist with the Senate special election that has become tantalizingly close.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
How to Save the GOP — What Republicans can learn from the Democrats' revival — The party is in desperate straits. It has lost the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections. It consoles itself with a majority in Congress, but even there its ranks are dwindling.
Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange — Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California are all expected to participate in the state-run market for individual health coverage. — Aetna—along with UnitedHealth Group and Cigna …
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:
Exclusive - Bill O'Reilly Extended Interview Pt. 1 — In this exclusive, unedited interview, Bill O'Reilly explains his prolific book production, and admits to being too easy on President Obama.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Bloomberg:
Obama Probes Create Immigration Magic as Bill Advances — The trio of investigations causing headaches for President Barack Obama's administration has also provided a honeymoon period for the marquee element of his domestic agenda: revising immigration laws.
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