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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Obama to Pick Former Bush Official to Lead F.B.I. — WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to nominate James B. Comey, a former hedge fund executive and a former senior Justice Department official under President George W. Bush, to replace Robert S. Mueller III as the director of the Federal Bureau …
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Carrie Johnson / Law:
Former Justice Official In Line To Be Named FBI Chief … NPR has learned that former Justice Department official James B. Comey is in line to become President Obama's choice as the next FBI director, according to two sources familiar with the search. — Comey, 52, has an extensive track record …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Too dumb to check: Holder's huddle with media on press freedoms will be ... off the record; Update: NYT to boycott; Update: DNC spokesman whines at NYT — Gut-check time for the press: If they're truly offended by the DOJ's secret snooping on James Rosen and the AP, they won't agree …
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama to nominate Comey as next FBI director, sources say — President Obama will nominate former Deputy Attorney General James Comey to be the next director of the FBI, according to sources. — Comey is a Republican who served in the Justice Department under President George W. Bush …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Associated Press will not attend off-the-record DOJ session — The Associated Press says it will not attend this week's off-the-record meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder unless the Justice Department decides to change its mind and conduct the meeting on the record.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times will not attend DOJ session, citing opposition to off-the-record provision
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
ACLU Defends News Organizations For Rejecting Off-The-Record Meeting With Attorney General
ACLU Defends News Organizations For Rejecting Off-The-Record Meeting With Attorney General
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CBS News:
House Republicans express “great concern” about possible Holder perjury
House Republicans express “great concern” about possible Holder perjury
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Eric Holder To Meet With Washington Bureau Chiefs Amid Leak Investigation Criticism (UPDATE)
Eric Holder To Meet With Washington Bureau Chiefs Amid Leak Investigation Criticism (UPDATE)
Devlin Barrett / Washington Wire:
Holder to Get New Spokesman at Justice
Holder to Get New Spokesman at Justice
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Des Moines Register:
Michele Bachmann's Iowa court date set … A trial date has been set in an Iowa lawsuit alleging that Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., stole and misused an e-mail distribution list maintained by an Iowa home school group during her failed 2012 presidential campaign.
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Reading Between the Lines of Michele Bachmann's Retirement Speech
Reading Between the Lines of Michele Bachmann's Retirement Speech
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Gerry Mullany / New York Times:
Bachmann Won't Seek Re-election Next Year
Bachmann Won't Seek Re-election Next Year
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Michele Bachmann: A Fact Checker's dream
Michele Bachmann: A Fact Checker's dream
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
James Carville on Michele Bachmann: ‘Sad day’
James Carville on Michele Bachmann: ‘Sad day’
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
The 8 Most Outlandish Moments Of Michele Bachmann's Time In Congress
The 8 Most Outlandish Moments Of Michele Bachmann's Time In Congress
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Adam Harrington / CBS New York:
2 Letters Addressed To Mayor Bloomberg Found To Contain Ricin — NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Threatening letters addressed to Mayor Michael Bloomberg in both New York and Washington, D.C. have been found preliminarily to contain ricin, police said Wednesday. — The anonymous threats to Bloomberg …
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Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Letters Threatening Mayor and Referring to Gun Control Test Positive for Ricin
Letters Threatening Mayor and Referring to Gun Control Test Positive for Ricin
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: MSNBC Falls Below HLN in May, Rachel Maddow Hits Lows — Fox News Channel maintains a handsome lead in primetime and total day, while primetime runner-up CNN continues a healthy climb from the lows of 2012. — “The Rachel Maddow Show” — HLN's wall-to-wall coverage …
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Joe Muto / Salon:
I was a liberal mole at Fox News: From Bill O'Reilly to Roger Ailes, here's all the inside dope — Inside the beast: O'Reilly hates Hannity. Producers know what's acceptable. Everyone fears a call from Roger Ailes — Excerpted from “An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside …
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State Rep. Doug Cox / Daily Oklahoman:
The GOP and abortion legislation — All of the new Oklahoma laws aimed at limiting abortion and contraception are great for the Republican family that lives in a gingerbread house with a two-car garage, two planned kids and a dog. In the real world, they are less than perfect.
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Oklahoma Lawmaker Blasts GOP's War On Women: ‘What Happened To The Republican Party That I Joined?’
Oklahoma Lawmaker Blasts GOP's War On Women: ‘What Happened To The Republican Party That I Joined?’
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Sources: Lincoln Chafee to switch parties — Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee has notified senior Democratic Party officials that he intends to switch his party registration and join the Democratic Party, multiple sources familiar with Chafee's decision told POLITICO.
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Jenn Taylor / Twitchy:
Adam Levine caught on hot mic: ‘I hate this country’; Responds to backlash with douche-tweets … Yes, yes he did. On “The Voice” Tuesday night, a hot mic picked up coach Adam Levine saying, “I hate this country,” as one member of Team Adam advanced and two others were voted off the show.
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Miranda / Right Wing Watch:
Schlafly Encourages GOP to Ignore Latinos, Focus on White Turnout — Eagle Forum's Phyllis Schlafly is riled up about comprehensive immigration reform, and she has hardly been hiding the reason why. Last month, Schlafly predicted that comprehensive reform would be “suicide for the Republican Party” …
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Michelle Malkin:
Confirmed: Polk County, FL schools conducted iris scans on students without permission — Florida parents are right to be outraged at the outrageous privacy violations that took place late last week in at least 3 Polk County, Florida schools. — I just got off the phone with Rob Davis …
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Eric Russell / Portland Press-Herald:
LePage renews claims of State House censorship — ‘The minute we start stifling our speech, we might as well go home, roll up our sleeves and get our guns out,’ the governor says. — AUGUSTA - Gov. Paul LePage is still upset about being silenced during a recent meeting …
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Gulf News:
Working women should be molested: Saudi writer — Writer campaigning against moves to bring women into mixed-gender work environments — Abu Dhabi: A Saudi writer has urged his Twitter followers to sexually molest women hired to work as cashiers in big grocery stores …
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Bob Young / The Seattle Times:
Former Microsoft manager has big ideas about marketing retail pot — Former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively wants to create the first national brand of retail marijuana — and to open pot trade with Mexico. He plans to announce that and more Thursday. — Former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively wants …
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
Michelle Obama's new ‘baller’ motto — First lady Michelle Obama debuted a new motto as she hit DNC fundraisers in New York on Wednesday. — “We need you to keep on writing those checks, and if you haven't maxed out, you know, what's my motto? Max out,” she told attendees at the DNC's LGBT Gala on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Why the Clinton Scandals Were a Bigger Deal Than the Obama Ones — Or, how to tell a personal scandal from a policy controversy — President Obama visited the Jersey Shore Tuesday, where Gov. Chris Christie presented him with a stuffed bear at an arcade and the two declared the shore open …
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WMTW-TV:
Missing man found, walks up to WMTW News 8 crew — Robert McDonough, 73, safe after 14-hour ordeal — A 73-year-old Limington man who had been missing for more than 14 hours was found Tuesday morning after he walked up to a WMTW News 8 crew. — Robert McDonough approached WMTW News 8 …
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