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Emma Dumain / Goppers:
Farm Bill's Failure Poisons Well in House — Updated 6:23 p.m. | The House's stunning defeat of the farm bill Thursday dealt another blow to Speaker John A. Boehner's leadership and set off a poisonous round of partisan finger-pointing that raised questions about the ability of the chamber …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
The dysfunctional House — Someone in House leadership screwed up again. — The defeat of the farm bill — after both parties were privately bullish it would pass with large margins — shows, once again, how massively dysfunctional the House and its leadership has become.
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Ron Nixon / New York Times:
House Rejects Farm Bill as Food Stamp Cuts Prove Divisive
House Rejects Farm Bill as Food Stamp Cuts Prove Divisive
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Pelosi Stops Talking About Abortion
Pelosi Stops Talking About Abortion
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House rejects farm bill, 195-234
House rejects farm bill, 195-234
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Guardian:
Revealed: top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant — Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication — • Document one: procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
New documents reveal parameters of NSA's secret surveillance programs — The National Security Agency may keep the e-mails and telephone calls of citizens and legal residents if the communications contain “significant foreign intelligence” or evidence of a crime, according to classified documents …
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Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal:
FAA to Relax Rules for Gadgets in Flight — Airline passengers irritated at having to turn off their devices could soon see some reprieve, with regulators set to allow wider use of gadgets in flight. — The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to relax the ban on using some types …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Obama hits a wall in Berlin — The question of whether Barack Obama's second term will be a failure was answered in the affirmative before his Berlin debacle, which has recast the question, which now is: Will this term be silly, even scary in its detachment from reality?
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Michael Hastings / Rolling Stone:
The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis — It's long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it — By — W — hat about the ratings agencies?
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
On the left, Howard Dean open to presidential bid — San Jose, California (CNN) - Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who electrified anti-war liberals during the 2004 presidential race, said Thursday he would consider another run for the White House - a statement that will surely be met …
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Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Revealed: Bush ancestor was heavily invested in kidnapping Africans into slavery — Thomas “Beau” Walker, the great-great-great grandfather to U.S. President George W. Bush, was a notorious slave trader who either personally led or heavily invested in expeditions to kidnap Africans …
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Simon Akam / Slate:
George W. Bush's Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Was a Slave Trader
George W. Bush's Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Was a Slave Trader
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Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:
Russ Tice, Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004 — Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps …
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Telegraph:
WikiLeaks says Michael Hastings contacted it just before his death. Are they implying he was murdered? — WikiLeaks just threw some gasoline onto the conspiracy fire. On Wednesday night, they Tweeted: “Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died …
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Andrew Blankstein / Los Angeles Times:
No foul play suspected in Michael Hastings' death, LAPD says
No foul play suspected in Michael Hastings' death, LAPD says
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Orlando Sentinel:
George Zimmerman trial: Jury selected, opening statements begin Monday — SANFORD - A jury has been seated and sworn for the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, after more than a week of intensive jury selection in the high-profile case.
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Yahoo! News:
The top 9,486 ways Jay Carney won't answer your questions (interactive) — Jay Carney doesn't have an answer for that. He hasn't discussed that subject with the president. He will refer you to the Department of [insert agency here]. He refuses to speculate on that. He'll have to get back to you.
Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:
Gov. Cuomo was death ray target of Ku Klux Klansman — Nutty Glen Crawford, an industrial mechanic at General Electric, and Hudson man Eric Feight have been accused of building a deadly radiation-emitting device, which Crawford planned to use it on Gov. Cuomo, sources say.
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Hundreds Of Texans Stand Up Against Sweeping Anti-Abortion Bill, Block It From Coming To A Vote — Protesters projected “End the War on Women” onto the building where the hearing on SB 5 was held. (Credit: @TaneneAllison) — Texas lawmakers are currently rushing an omnibus anti-abortion bill through …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
White House Offers Stealth Campaign to Support Immigration Bill — WASHINGTON — The hide-out has no sign on the door, but inside Dirksen 201 is a spare suite of offices the White House has transformed into its covert immigration war room on Capitol Hill. — Strategically located down the hall …
Politico:
Inside the border deal that almost failed — Sen. Chuck Schumer spent Tuesday privately urging President Barack Obama and the entire Democratic caucus to just be patient — a border security deal they could accept was still within reach. — But after a testy, 45-minute call that night …
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Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. / LifeNews.com:
Chelsea Clinton Laments: My Great Grandmother Did Not Have Access to Planned Parenthood — New York, NY (CFAM) — From the stage at the recent Women Deliver conference, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's daughter Chelsea revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother …
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Reuters:
Icelandic Businessman Has Jet Ready For Snowden — REYKJAVIK, June 20 (Reuters) - An Icelandic businessman linked to WikiLeaks said he has readied a private plane to take Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed secret U.S. surveillance programmes, to Iceland if the government grants him asylum.
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Experts: Tough to stick perjury to Holder — Legal experts say Republicans don't have much of a chance at making perjury charges stick to Attorney General Eric Holder. — “Perjury is a very tough charge to prove because you have to show that the statement he made was a false statement …
Neil Irwin / Wonkblog:
This is why global markets are freaking out — Around the world, markets were frazzled by the latest out of the Fed. (Kin Cheung/AP) — A wave of selling washed across the financial world Thursday, driving the stock market down, interest rates up, and bringing new tremors of concern …
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Richard Gunderman / The Atlantic Online:
The Incarceration Epidemic — About one-fourth of all incarcerated people on Earth is in the U.S. That constitutes a public health problem. — The U.S. incarceration rate has more than quadrupled since 1980. It's now the highest in the world, just ahead of Russia and Rwanda.
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David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
FEDERAL NULLIFICATION EFFORTS MOUNTING IN STATES … JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested - charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws.
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Washington Post:
In Syrian chemical weapons claim, criticism about lack of transparency — UNITED NATIONS — Despite months of laboratory testing and scrutiny by top U.S. scientists, the Obama administration's case for arming Syria's rebels rests on unverifiable claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons …
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