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Corrie MacLaggan / Reuters:
Texas House approves sweeping abortion restrictions — (Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives approved sweeping abortion restrictions on Tuesday, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy and tougher standards for clinics that perform the procedure.
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Annrose / Daily Kos:
Interview with Victorian Prude the woman forcibly removed from testifying in Texas — Feel free to ignore any questions you would not care to respond to no explanation needed. Also feel free to add anything you would like to say that I don't cover or ask about. — First off, what was your prepared statement?
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Texas Abortion Bill Author In 2007: No Health Care For Unborn Because 'They're Not Born Yet'
Texas Abortion Bill Author In 2007: No Health Care For Unborn Because 'They're Not Born Yet'
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Chris Tomlinson / Associated Press:
Texas House Provisionally Approves Draconian Abortion Law
Texas House Provisionally Approves Draconian Abortion Law
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Texans Call Out Rick Perry: If You Want To Reduce Abortions, Then Back Sex Ed
Texans Call Out Rick Perry: If You Want To Reduce Abortions, Then Back Sex Ed
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Trishula Patel / Washington Post:
Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms — Police searched the Northern Virginia home of activist Adam Kokesh Tuesday evening and took him into custody on a charge of being in possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms while also having a gun, authorities said.
Politico:
Immigration reform heads for slow death — Republicans walked away from their 2012 debacle hell-bent on fixing their problems with Hispanics. Now, they appear hell-bent on making them worse. — In private conversations, top Republicans on Capitol Hill now predict comprehensive immigration reform …
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Michael O'Brien / NBC Politics:
Bush urges ‘positive resolution’ for ‘broken’ immigration system
Bush urges ‘positive resolution’ for ‘broken’ immigration system
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Emad Mekay / Al Jazeera English:
Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists — Berkeley, United States - President Barack Obama recently stated the United States was not taking sides as Egypt's crisis came to a head with the military overthrow of the democratically elected president. — But a review of dozens …
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Public documents reveal US bankrolled Morsi opponents — The State Department bankrolled key political figures involved in protests to topple Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, Al Jazeera reports, raising questions about President Obama's repeated assertions that his administration isn't picking sides.
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Russell Simmons / The Huffington Post:
Just in Case George Zimmerman Walks Free... Like so many people across the country, I have followed the murder trial of George Zimmerman very closely. As we enter what is probably the last week of the trial, I am sure that everyone is anxious about the outcome.
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Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler:
Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Martin Was Shot as He Leaned Over Zimmerman, Court Is Told
Martin Was Shot as He Leaned Over Zimmerman, Court Is Told
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TMZ.com:
Justin Bieber Pisses Into Restaurant Mop Bucket — ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’ [VIDEO] — PISSES INTO RESTAURANT MOP BUCKET — ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’ — EXCLUSIVE — Justin Bieber is an oblivious, self-important little twit who goes out of his way to make the working man's life miserable …
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
ENDA advances with bipartisan backing — Following up on an item from late yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (better known as the HELP Committee) easily approved the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (better known as ENDA) this morning.
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Senate Democrats set for decisive meeting on ‘nuclear option’
Senate Democrats set for decisive meeting on ‘nuclear option’
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New York Times:
The Decline of North Carolina — Every Monday since April, thousands of North Carolina residents have gathered at the State Capitol to protest the grotesque damage that a new Republican majority has been doing to a tradition of caring for the least fortunate.
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Lori Mitchell / WKRN-TV:
Naked wife distracts victim while husband burglarizes home — A woman distracted a man by skinny dipping in his pool while her husband burglarized the man's home. — The incident occurred on the afternoon of June 27 at the victim's home on Canterbury Lane in the Camelot subdivision in Crossville, about 100 miles east of Nashville.
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Associated Press:
John Kerry: Wife's condition improving — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry has paid tearful thanks for the outpouring of good wishes for his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry and says her condition is improving. — Kerry, looking weary, was speaking at the opening of U.S.-China talks at the State Department Wednesday.
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Kerry chokes back tears in first comments on wife's health scare
Kerry chokes back tears in first comments on wife's health scare
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Wal-Mart says it will pull out of D.C. plans should city mandate ‘living wage’ — The world's largest retailer delivered an ultimatum to District lawmakers Tuesday, telling them less than 24 hours before a decisive vote that at least three planned Wal-Marts will not open in the city if a super-minimum-wage proposal becomes law.
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
McDonnell's corporation, wife allegedly benefited from $120,000 more from donor — RICHMOND — A prominent political donor gave $70,000 to a corporation owned by Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his sister last year, and the governor did not disclose the money as a gift or loan, according to people with knowledge of the payments.
John O'Connor / Associated Press:
Illinois enacts nation's final concealed-gun law — SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois became the last state in the nation to allow public possession of concealed guns as lawmakers rushed Tuesday to finalize a proposal ahead of a federal court's deadline. — Both chambers of the Legislature voted …
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WMUR:
Romney to headline NHGOP fundraiser next month — Mitt Romney will headline a fundraiser for the New Hampshire Republican Party next month, in what is believe to be his first political fundraiser since last year's presidential campaign, WMUR Political Scoop has learned.
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Lee Drutman / Sunlight Foundation:
Why the 2012 election was unusual — and why it wasn't — Back in the days after the 2012 election, when it became clear that despite losing the popular House vote, Republicans had actually won a sizeable majority in the House, plenty of speculation set in as to why: Was it gerrymandering?
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Talking Points Memo:
Mike Lee Slams Obama For Trying To Fill Judicial Vacancies — Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) attacked President Obama on Wednesday for seeking to fill three judicial vacancies on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that those seats need not be filled before the court can function without them.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
A brand-new U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan. And nobody to use it. — The U.S. military has erected a 64,000-square-foot headquarters building on the dusty moonscape of southwestern Afghanistan that comes with all the tools to wage a modern war. A vast operations center with tiered seating.
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