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Michael Isikoff / Open Channel:
Holder OK'd search warrant for Fox News reporter's private emails, official says — Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Roger Ailes: Obama administration efforts to intimidate Fox will fail — Fox News CEO Roger Ailes condemned the Department of Justice's actions against his company as intimidation in a Thursday memo to his employees. — Ailes said the efforts would not succeed, and compared the Obama administration's actions to the McCarthy era.
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Roger Ailes' letter to Fox employees — The recent news about the FBI's seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
There's a fly in my soup
There's a fly in my soup
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Gabriel Gomez calls Ed Markey ‘pond scum’ — Massachusetts GOP Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez called his opponent, longtime Rep. Ed Markey, “pond scum” during an interview with an NPR reporter on Thursday. — “I don't think there's anything more offensive,” Gomez said …
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DAngelo Gore / FactCheck.org:
A False Claim of Blame in Mass. Senate Race
A False Claim of Blame in Mass. Senate Race
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KOMO News:
Cars, people sent tumbling into Skagit River as I-5 bridge collapses — By KOMO Staff & news services Published: May 23, 2013 at 7:39 PM PDT Last Updated: May 23, 2013 at 11:20 PM PDT — MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapsed Thursday evening …
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Associated Press:
Interstate Bridge Collapses in Washington State
Interstate Bridge Collapses in Washington State
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Obama debates Obama — A heckler briefly interrupted President Barack Obama while he was arguing with himself on Thursday. — Days after Obama told reporters he makes “no apologies” about surveillance of Associated Press reporters, the president summoned his inner Constitutional law professor …
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Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Medea Benjamin Surprised Obama Drones Speech Protest Worked — WASHINGTON — Even Medea Benjamin was surprised she managed to get into President Barack Obama's major national security address at National Defense University on Thursday. The long-time Code Pink protestor (and HuffPost blogger) …
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New York Times:
The End of the Perpetual War
The End of the Perpetual War
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New York Times:
Huma Abedin Is an Unexpected Driving Force in Weiner's Comeback — When Chelsea Clinton wanted to make a low-key visit to the hurricane-stricken Rockaways last fall, she arranged to take a trip with her close friend Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Wesley Pruden / Washington Times:
Bubba, the weenie and a New York minute
Bubba, the weenie and a New York minute
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Cuomo's Attack on Weiner? It's Now Called a Joke
Cuomo's Attack on Weiner? It's Now Called a Joke
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Nigel Atkins / Mirror.co.uk:
Woolwich attack: Watch shocking video of terrorists charging at police car in attempt to kill WPC — The footage obtained by the Daily Mirror reveals how, after beheading the soldier, they hatched a plot to ambush and murder the first police officers to come to his aid
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Tom Whitehead / Telegraph:
Woolwich attack: Suspect Michael ‘Mujahid’ Adebolajo led away in handcuffs at fanatic's trial
Woolwich attack: Suspect Michael ‘Mujahid’ Adebolajo led away in handcuffs at fanatic's trial
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Jonathan Cohn / New Republic:
California Will Be Spared the Obamacare Apocalypse — No sticker shock here—just affordable insurance premiums — Predictions of an Obamacare apocalypse seem a little less credible today, thanks to California. — On Thursday, officials in that state offered the first detailed glimpse …
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
No Wonder Republican Criticism of Obama Isn't Working — They're attacking the president where he's least vulnerable at a time when they have minimal credibility. — Henny Youngman, the late borscht belt comedian, told hundreds of politically incorrect jokes. One of them was his response when asked, “How's your wife?”
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Conservatives Became Targets in 2008 — The Obama campaign played a big role in a liberal onslaught that far pre-dated Citizens United. — The White House insists President Obama is “outraged” by the “inappropriate” targeting and harassment of conservative groups.
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Budget Cuts Get Personal; Those Who Are Hurt, Holler — The federal budget sequester may be dampening a rise in economic optimism: Nearly four in 10 Americans now say sequestration has hurt them personally, up substantially since it began in March - and they're far less sanguine than others about the economy's prospects overall.
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Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Fewer Americans Identify as Economic Conservatives in 2013 — Thirty percent say they are liberal on social issues, a new high — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forty-one percent of Americans now characterize their economic views as “conservative,” or “very conservative,” the lowest since President …
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Three big federal agencies to close Friday — Three of the largest federal agencies will close to the public on Friday, the first time since the government shutdowns of the 1990s that large corners of the government have ceased operations on a weekday. — The mass furlough of 115,000 employees …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
IRS, three other federal agencies closed Friday due to sequestration
IRS, three other federal agencies closed Friday due to sequestration
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Quin Hillyer / American Spectator:
Laying Down My Pen — When an opportunity comes to do something good, one must grab it. — At 2 p.m. central time Thursday afternoon in Mobile, word spread that U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, a six-term Republican from a dark red district, would announce that he is resigning mid-term (Aug. 15) …
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Daily Mail:
Scores of TGI Fridays in New Jersey ‘busted for selling caramel-colored rubbing alcohol as top-shelf scotch’ in statewide crackdown dubbed Operation Swill — At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles …
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Obama warns sexual assaults threaten to weaken military — President Obama used his commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday to argue sexual assaults in the ranks are threatening the military's strength. — Obama said assaults “threaten the trust and discipline that makes our military strong.”
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Chris Trenkmann / WFTS:
Paula Broadwell says she's sorry — Former mistress of David Petraeus speaks out — CHARLOTTE, NC - The woman at the center of a scandal that helped bring down the director of the CIA said she is sorry about what happened. Paula Broadwell told TV station WSOC in Charlotte that she regrets …
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Governor Finally Remembers He Has One Latino On His Staff — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) remembered the one Latino in his administration on Thursday, one day after ThinkProgress highlighted an exchange in which he said “we do not have any staff members” who are Latino.
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Asianews.it:
Afghan university students protest against women's rights — During yesterday's protest in Kabul, protesters called for the repeal of a decree that defines domestic violence as a crime, bans child and forced marriages and says that rape victims cannot be prosecuted for adultery.
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BBC:
High court: Sally Bercow's Lord McAlpine tweet was libel — The High Court has ruled that a tweet by Sally Bercow about Lord McAlpine was libellous. — A subsequent hearing will determine the damages she now owes him. — Mrs Bercow, the wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow …
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Office Of The Governor:
[Press Release] Statement by Gov. Rick Perry on Decision by the Boy Scouts of America — Statement by Gov. Rick Perry on Decision by the Boy Scouts of America — The Boys Scouts of America has been built upon the values of faith and family for more than 100 years and today's decision …
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Paul Tudor Jones: In macro trading, babies are a ‘killer’ to a woman's focus — Paul Tudor Jones, the hedge fund billionaire, told an audience of University of Virginia students, alumni and others that it is difficult for mothers to be successful traders because connecting with a child is a focus “killer.”
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