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2:50 AM ET, June 25, 2013

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ABC News:
Officials: How Edward Snowden Could Hurt the U.S.  —  PIERRE THOMAS (@PierreTABC), MIKE LEVINE (@mlevinereports), JACK DATE (@jackdate), LUIS MARTINEZ (@LMartinezABC) and JACK CLOHERTY (@jjclo) report:  —  As the U.S. intelligence community struggles to complete a damage assessment …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
US-China relations chill over Snowden  —  Press secretary Jay Carney blasted China in unusually blunt terms as the administration hunted for Snowden, the leaker of National Security Agency documents who is now believed to be hiding out in Russia.  —  Carney dismissed Hong Kong's legal justification …
John Cassidy / News Desk:
Demonizing Edward Snowden: Which Side Are You On?
Discussion: ABC, Politico and Daily Kos
Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
Putin Is Cleaning Obama's Clock
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Hasty Exit Started With Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Assange: Snowden is ‘healthy and safe,’ awaiting asylum decision
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
IRS chief: Inappropriate screening was broad  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service's screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than has been previously disclosed, the new head of the agency said Monday.  —  An internal IRS document obtained …
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Immigration reform passes key Senate test in 67-27 vote  —  The Senate voted 67-27 Monday to advance a border security amendment to bipartisan immigration legislation, building momentum for a final vote later this week.  —  Fifteen of the yes votes were Republicans, suggesting supporters …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Immigration reform: Senate backs ‘border surge’ in test vote  —  The support of 67 senators on a test vote for a so-called “border surge” deal on Monday strongly signaled that a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws will clear the Senate later this week.
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Senate Passes Cloture Motion on Hoeven-Corker Immigration Amendment
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
Justice Alito's Inexcusable Rudeness  —  A justice of the Supreme Court should not act like a high schooler on the bench; when the target is a fellow justice, the offense is even greater.  —  I suspect that the cause of cameras in the Supreme Court suffered a blow on Monday.
Tor.com Frontpage Partial:
Richard Matheson, 1926-2013  —  Tor.com is saddened and staggered to learn of the passing of Richard Matheson, the esteemed author of I am Legend, The Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, Hell House, the script for the Steven Spielberg film Duel, and many Twilight Zone scripts, among many more works.
Mary Dudziak / CNN:
Opinion: Supreme Court micromanaging diversity  —  Editor's note: Mary L. Dudziak is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University.  She is the author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences, and Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
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The New / New York Times:
Supreme Court Orders Lower Court to Reconsider Affirmative Action Case
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers  —  Customers taunt Lisa Weiss.  “Talk dirty to me,” they joke.  “We know you like it.”  Colleagues refuse to speak with her.  Strangers mock her in nasty online messages.  —  “Clearly she's got mental issues,” declared the latest.
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Erik Wemple:
Greenwald: Beltway media types are ‘courtiers to power’  —  Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald yesterday clashed with “Meet the Press” host David Gregory, who'd asked Greenwald the following question: “To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements …
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David Carr / New York Times:
The Other Snowden Drama: Impugning the Messenger
Reuters:
Mitch McConnell Is Either Very Bad at Math or Horribly Disingenuous  —  The Senate minority leader took me to task on Friday.  Unfortunately, he had his facts wrong on virtually every count.  —  Last Friday morning, I attended a ballyhooed speech given by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at AEI …
Discussion: Brad DeLong
Jon Favreau / The Daily Beast:
When Journalists Attack  —  With its rush to compare Obama to Nixon and to overhype any and all scandals, the media is ruining America's ability to engage in nuanced debate, says Jon Favreau.  —  If you saw the news at any point in the last month, chances are that you heard Barack Obama compared …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll and The Moderate Voice
Mirwais Harooni / Reuters:
Afghan forces put down attack on presidential palace: police  —  (Reuters) - Afghan forces put down an early morning attack by Taliban insurgents on the presidential palace and nearby buildings in central Kabul on Tuesday, with police saying all the assailants had been killed after a 90-minute gunfight.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Ralph Nader outlines 2016 plan  —  Ralph Nader insists that he's done with his own presidential races, but he still has some plans for 2016.  —  “I'm going to find at least ten enlightened billionaires or multibillionaires and I'm going to have a criteria.  Have they spoken out about where they think the country is going?
Politico:
Obama in the doldrums  —  Not yet six months into his second term, Barack Obama's presidency is in a dead zone.  —  A combination of familiar Washington intransigence and a more recent run of bad news and political setbacks have left him with less influence over his circumstances …
CNN:
Santorum jumps into show business  —  (CNN) - Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum is getting into the movie business.  —  The staunch conservative, who also served as a senator from Pennsylvania, was named the chief executive of EchoLight Studios, his political action group said Monday.
Discussion: Politico
Fox News:
Why did China let Edward Snowden leave?  —  Also in this playlist...  Fox & Friends  —  Hired!  ‘Fox & Friends’ viewers become franchise owners … This transcript is automatically generated  —  Off the grass somebody else is an old friend of hers is Donald Trump club who joins us every Monday it had mr.
Discussion: The Raw Story and NewsHounds blog
Sally Gardner / Guardian:
Dyslexia is not a disability, it's a gift |  Sally Gardner  —  So much has changed since I was an undiagnosed dyslexic at school, but its wonders and contradictions remain hard to convey  —  At school I was the outsider, the odd one, the word-blind child who didn't fit in.
Discussion: Natalie Solent
 
 
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Angela Johnson / CNNMoney.com:
76% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Experts' verdict: Obama's climate effort a good first step but not enough
James Hohmann / Politico:
Obama energy push could loom large in 2014
New York Times:
Make Gun Companies Pay Blood Money
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists
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Paul Ryan: 'I'm Focused On Poverty These Days'
 

 
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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

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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