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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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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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Annrose / Daily Kos:
Interview with Victorian Prude the woman forcibly removed from testifying in Texas
Interview with Victorian Prude the woman forcibly removed from testifying in Texas
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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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Conservatives Hate All Legislation Now — Kill them all, actually. — One of the novel developments in conservative thought during the Obama years is a burgeoning hatred not merely for government but for lawmaking. Before the Obama era, the ends of crafting laws divided the parties, but the means did not.
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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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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Docs: Justice Department facilitated anti-Zimmerman protests — A division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was deployed to Sanford, Florida in 2012 to provide assistance for anti-George Zimmerman protests, including a rally headlined by activist Al Sharpton, according to newly released documents.
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Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler:
Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests — Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman.
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Russell Simmons / The Huffington Post:
Just in Case George Zimmerman Walks Free...
Just in Case George Zimmerman Walks Free...
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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.
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
Public documents reveal US bankrolled Morsi opponents
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Begich: Is Palin even a resident? — Sarah Palin “quit on Alaska” as governor and “ has lost touch” with her home state, Mark Begich told POLITICO. — The Democratic senator said Palin, who said Tuesday she's considering challenging him for his seat in 2014, might not even be a resident …
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James Hohmann / Reuters:
Sarah Palin considering 2014 Senate bid
Sarah Palin considering 2014 Senate bid
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Steve Saleeba / CBS Boston:
‘Free Jahar’ Chant As Boston Bombing Suspect Heads To Court — BOSTON (CBS/AP) - A small group of demonstrators showed up at Moakley Federal Courthouse in South Boston on Wednesday to show support for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. — Tsarnaev was set to appear in court for his first public hearing.
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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.
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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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Linchpin for Obama's plan to predict future leakers unproven, isn't likely to work, experts say — WASHINGTON — In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based …
Felix Salmon:
Wage deflation charts of the day — NELP, the National Employment Law Project, has taken a detailed look at what happened to wages during the recovery — specifically, between 2009 and 2012. They looked at the annual Occupational and Employment Statistics for three years — 2007 …
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.