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7:50 PM ET, June 22, 2013

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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Nancy Pelosi booed, heckled at Netroots Nation 2013  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was booed by progressive activists Saturday for defending President Obama on the NSA's surveillance programs and suggesting that alleged leaker Edward Snowden broke the law.
Michael Gordon / The Charlotte Observer:
N.C. lawyers listen as Justice Scalia bemoans ‘moral arbiter’ on eve of gay marriage ruling  —  ASHEVILLE With a potentially ground-breaking decision on gay marriage expected next week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Friday morning that he and other judges should stop setting moral …
Jake Miller / CBS News:
White House: “We expect” Hong Kong to comply with Snowden extradition  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon told CBS News Saturday that the U.S. government has asked Hong Kong authorities to extradite Edward Snowden, the man behind the recent leaks …
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Climate plan to be unveiled Tuesday  —  President Barack Obama will unveil his plan to combat climate change in a speech Tuesday, detailing what's expected to be a proposal relying on executive actions, including the regulation of carbon emissions from existing power plants.
Discussion: CNN
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Juliet Eilperin / Post Politics:
Obama to announce Tuesday he will regulate existing power plants as part of climate strategy  —  President Obama will announce Tuesday that he plans to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from existing power plants, according to individuals who have been briefed on the plan but asked not to be identified.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and E2-Wire
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Waves of egyptian fighters and the shape of things to come  —  The Washington Post reports that “waves of Egyptians” are pouring into Syria to join the fight against the Assad regime and its allies, Hezbollah and Iran.  The Egyptians in question are “fired by the virulently sectarian rhetoric …
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Post:
‘Kill Whitey’ Panther is held on gun rap  —  The tattoo on his face says, “Kill Whitey” in block letters, and cops say the gun he carried was loaded and unlicensed.  —  But that didn't stop Maruse Heath — head of the Philadelphia chapter of the New Black Panther Party …
Associated Press:
GOP basic strategy for 2016 looks deeply unsettled  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican Party's road map for winning presidential elections looks hazier than ever as GOP lawmakers and others reject what many considered obvious lessons from Mitt Romney's loss last year.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Cantor, Hoyer trade blame on farm bill failure  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) blamed each other for the House's failure to pass the farm bill Thursday.  —  Hoyer started by accusing House Republicans of taking a bipartisan bill that was reported …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
House GOP ratchets up battle with Senate over student loan rates
Discussion: Kansas City Star, Firedoglake and CNN
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
House Republicans Hate Poor Too Much to End Farm Socialism
Judy Nicastro / New York Times:
My Abortion, at 23 Weeks  —  KIRKLAND, Wash. — I BELIEVE that parenthood starts before conception, at the moment you decide you want a child, and are ready and able to create a safe and loving home for her or him.  I support abortion rights, but I reject the false distinction between the terms “pro-choice” and “pro-life.”
Discussion: News Desk and LifeNews.com
Fox News:
Trail of Benghazi security lapses leads to State Department senior leadership, records show  —  The decision to keep U.S. personnel in Benghazi with substandard security was made at the highest levels of the State Department by officials who have so far escaped blame over the Sept. 11 attack …
Washington Post:
Probe into gifts to McDonnells finds new undisclosed items valued at tens of thousands  —  Federal authorities are asking Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's associates about previously undisclosed gifts given by a campaign donor to McDonnell's wife that total tens of thousands of dollars …
 
 
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
How Republicans stopped worrying and learned to love big government
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MINN.'S FRANKEN HARDLY A GOP TARGET FOR DEFEAT
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Tom Harper / The Independent:
The other hacking scandal: Suppressed report reveals that law firms, telecoms giants …
Discussion: Guardian, Spectator and BBC
Bob Sullivan / Red Tape:
Lawyers eye NSA data as treasure trove for evidence in murder, divorce cases
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Susan Donaldson James / ABCNEWS:
Mormon Mom Who Fought for Prop 8, Now Fights for Gay Son
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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