memeorandum: Snowden seeks asylum in Russia (Ian Swanson/The Hill)

6:10 PM ET, July 1, 2013

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Edward Snowden asking 15 countries for asylum, Russian official says — Passengers sleep outside Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport on June 29, 2013. (Sergei Ilnitsky / EPA / June 29, 2013) — MOSCOW — Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Guardian, New York Times, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, bigstory.ap.org and The Hinterland Gazette, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:

Putin Says Snowden Must Stop Hurting U.S. to Stay in Russia — MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin said on Monday that Edward J. Snowden, the former national security staffer accused of espionage, would not receive political asylum in Russia unless he stops publishing classified documents that hurt the interests of the United States.

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Jethro Mullen / CNN:
George W. Bush on Mandela, Snowden and his legacy

Discussion: Firedoglake, Daily Mail, Washington Wire, Crooks and Liars, The Hinterland Gazette, Connecting.the.Dots, msnbc.com, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Wall Street Journal

Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Snowden seeks asylum in Russia

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Vox Popoli

John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Russia's Putin signs draconian anti-gay law banning speech, rainbows, holding hands

Discussion: Guardian and Washington Blade

Vladimir Isachenkov / bigstory.ap.org:
PUTIN: SNOWDEN MUST STOP LEAKING SECRETS TO STAY

Discussion: Associated Press, BBC, Weasel Zippers, AMERICAblog, Mashable and Yahoo! News

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Rep. Peter King: ‘KGB thug’ Putin outsmarting Obama over Snowden

Discussion: Politico

RT:
Putin: Snowden can stay in Russia if he stops damaging USA

Discussion: Mediaite, The Hinterland Gazette, Business Insider and The Gateway Pundit

Reuters:
Snowden applies for asylum in Russia: immigration source

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Weekly Standard

Susan Page / USA Today:

Poll: Support for gay marriage hits high after ruling — WASHINGTON — A record majority of Americans approve of same-sex marriage in the wake of two landmark Supreme Court decisions, a USA TODAY poll finds. But the high court's rulings that struck down provisions of the Voting Rights Act …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, CNN, Hot Air and Taegan Goddard's …

Brian Brown / NOM Blog:

Meet Kamala Harris (and the Future We Must Avoid) — Kamala Harris may not yet be a household name across the nation, but she's the uber-liberal state Attorney General of California. She hails from San Francisco and she doesn't much care for people who believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, as God created it.

Discussion: Good As You

Tamara Audi / Wall Street Journal: Worries Swirl Over California's Initiatives

Sarah Desprat / Twitchy:

‘Future lawsuit’: CNN broadcasts George Zimmerman's Social Security number — CNN viewers were shocked to see George Zimmerman's personal information, including his Social Security number, broadcast live on TV. … A screenshot of the information shown on CNN, with the confidential information redacted by Twitchy:

Discussion: Mediaite, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, The Hinterland Gazette, Ed Driscoll, TVNewser and Weasel Zippers, more at Mediagazer »

BBC:

Brotherhood HQ in Cairo stormed — Anti-government protesters in Egypt have stormed the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo. — People are reported to have ransacked the building in the capital's Moqattam district, throwing objects out of its windows, before setting it on fire.

Discussion: NPR, Al Jazeera English, Reuters, The Week, Quartz, The PJ Tatler, americanthinker.com, Taylor Marsh and Power Line

New York Times:
Egyptian Protesters Storm Headquarters of Ruling Party

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Reuters:
Egypt's Brotherhood HQ overrun after protests

Discussion: The Spectacle Blog, The Verge, ThinkProgress and Guardian

Fernanda Santos / New York Times:

Fast-Moving Blaze Kills 19 Firefighters in Central Arizona — CONGRESS, Ariz. — Nineteen firefighters were killed on Sunday battling a fast-moving wildfire menacing a small town in central Arizona. — The firefighters died fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire near the town of Yarnell, about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Campaign for America's Future, The Week, Taylor Marsh, The Lede, Hot Air, Eschaton, Making Light and Balloon Juice

Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
President: ‘Painful’ wildfire deaths in Arizona raise ‘broader questions’

Discussion: The Hill

Philip Messing / New York Post:

JFK Airport security supervisor axed after accidentally sending XXX photo of his genitals in mass email blast — A JFK Airport security supervisor has been fired for mistakenly sending out a mass e-mail blast — of his genitals — to nearly two dozen shocked underlings, supervisors and Port Authority executives.

Discussion: Rush Limbaugh, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Gawker and The Raw Story

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

GOP could pay price for gerrymandering — No one disputes Republicans used the once-a-decade redistricting process to lock in their House majority — almost certainly through 2014 and possibly until the next round of line-drawing in 2020. — But the party could pay a steep price for that dominance.

Discussion: CNN, The Plum Line, First Read, The Hill and Campaign for America's Future

Wall Street Journal:
A Republican Case for Immigration Reform

Discussion: The Hill, CNN, Online NewsHour, The Gateway Pundit and Politico

Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:

Democrats land top recruit to challenge McConnell in Kentucky — Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced Monday she will challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), giving Democrats their favored candidate and turning the race one of the 2014 cycle's marquee contests.

Discussion: Politico and E2-Wire

Jack Brammer / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Grimes will challenge McConnell for U.S. Senate seat in 2014

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and Planet Washington

The Atlantic Online:

How North Carolina Became the Wisconsin of 2013 — With a Republican takeover of state government and weekly protests in Raleigh, the Tar Heel State is the front line in America's partisan battle. — Nowhere is the battle between liberal and conservative visions of government fiercer than North Carolina.

Discussion: National Review

Paul Krugman / New York Times:
War On the Unemployed — Is life too easy for the unemployed?

Discussion: The Plum Line, Paul Krugman, Daily Kos and Prairie Weather

Spiegel Online:

How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe — Top secret documents detail the mass scope of efforts by the United States to spy on Germany and Europe. Each month, the NSA monitors a half a billion communications and EU buildings are bugged. The scandal poses a threat to trans-Atlantic relations.

Discussion: Via Meadia, Quartz, Outside the Beltway, Law Blog, Boing Boing and Wall Street Journal

Malte Spitz / New York Times: Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don't Trust Him.

Greg Miller / Washington Post:

Misinformation on classified NSA programs includes statements by senior U.S. officials — Amid the cascading disclosures about National Security Agency surveillance programs, the top lawyer in the U.S. intelligence community opened his remarks at a rare public appearance last week with a lament …

Discussion: Guardian, Yahoo! News, susiemadrak.com, Hot Air and National Review

Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:

Surrounded By Men, Ohio Governor Signs Stringent Abortion Restrictions Into Law — Gov. John Kasich (R) signs the two-year budget bill on Sunday. (Credit: Karen Kasler) — Flanked by a group of other male officials, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) signed a contentious two-year budget bill into law on Sunday evening.

Discussion: WLWT-TV, Post Politics, Plain Dealer, The Huffington Post, msnbc.com, Taylor Marsh, Innovation Ohio and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Vivian Norris / The Huffington Post:

Texas Women: Stop Having Sex With Men Who Vote Against Your Best Interests — “A sex strike, sometimes called a sex boycott, is a strike, a method of non-violent resistance in which one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partner(s) to achieve certain goals. It is a form of temporary sexual abstinence.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Guardian

J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

CUNY is Paying David Petraeus $200,000 to Work Three Hours a Week — A first-time adjunct professor teaching a full course load at the City University of New York can expect to pull in around $25,000 per year. If you recently resigned as C.I.A. director over a long-time affair with your biographer …

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …

Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:

American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World — LACONIA, N.H. — Seven months pregnant, at a time when most expectant couples are stockpiling diapers and choosing car seats, Renée Martin was struggling with bigger purchases. — At a prenatal class in March, she was told …

Discussion: Washington Post, Economix, ThinkProgress and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Washington Post:

They said the sequester would be scary. Mostly, they were wrong. — Before “sequestration” took effect, the Obama administration issued specific — and alarming — predictions about what it would bring. There would be one-hour waits at airport security. Four-hour waits at border crossings.

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller

New York Times:

Paid via Card, Workers Feel Sting of Fees — A growing number of American workers are confronting a frustrating predicament on payday: to get their wages, they must first pay a fee. — For these largely hourly workers, paper paychecks and even direct deposit have been replaced by prepaid cards issued by their employers.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, No More Mister Nice Blog and Lawyers, Guns & Money