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New York Times:
Republicans in House Resist Overhaul for Immigration — WASHINGTON — Meeting for the first time as a group to hash out their approach to immigration, House Republicans on Wednesday came down overwhelmingly against a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws …
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Pelosi Draws Her Bright Lines On Immigration Reform — After a two-hour meeting Wednesday in the Capitol basement, House Republicans were no closer to an immigration reform consensus other than that they don't like the Senate bill, they don't like big bills, and they don't like a …
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Tom Cotton / Wall Street Journal:
It's the House Bill or Nothing on Immigration
It's the House Bill or Nothing on Immigration
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Harry Reid escalates nuclear threat in a big way — An important moment on the Senate floor just now: Harry Reid said he would be filing cloture today on a whole bunch of executive nominations, and challenged Republicans to act on them — a major escalation of the threat to change the Senate rules …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Democrats Poised to Limit Filibusters, Angering G.O.P. — WASHINGTON — A confrontation in the Senate between Republicans and Democrats over the confirmation of President Obama's cabinet nominees edged closer on Thursday toward a showdown over changing the rules on filibusters.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' Obamacare search-and-destroy mission — Watching House Republicans' latest complaint about Obamacare brings to mind the joke Woody Allen used to open “Annie Hall,” about two elderly women at a Catskills resort. — “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible,” says one.
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — July 11, 2013 - American Voters Say 2-1 Stay Out Of Syria, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Drop In Foreign Policy Approval Keeps Obama Score Low — American voters say 61 - 27 percent that it is not in the national interest to be involved in Syria and oppose 59 …
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Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Ex-Sanford police chief: Zimmerman probe ‘taken away from us’ — (CNN) — The George Zimmerman investigation was hijacked “in a number of ways” by outside forces, said the former police chief of Sanford, Florida. — Bill Lee, who testified Monday in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial …
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George Zimmerman / USA Today:
Judge considers lesser charges for Zimmerman
Judge considers lesser charges for Zimmerman
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Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
Obama's Big Problem Is Obama — For the White House, immigration reform perfectly encapsulates the most frustrating reality of President Barack Obama's second term: If it's to be a success, Obama needs to stay out of the lawmaking process. — That's the message he's gotten from Democratic and Republican legislators alike.
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Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:
House Republicans drop food stamps from new Farm Bill
House Republicans drop food stamps from new Farm Bill
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Jeff Sessions / National Review:
Sessions: How GOP Can Turn Immigration Debate On Its Head
Sessions: How GOP Can Turn Immigration Debate On Its Head
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Dr. Milton R. Wolf / Washington Times:
Obamacare's panicked Democrats — Why the employer mandate delay will backfire — Poor Democrats. An election looms and their Obamacare train wreck is deservedly being called the worst law in American history. Voters hate it, and why shouldn't they? The Democrats' promises …
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Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Pelosi: The Employer Mandate ‘Was Not Delayed’
Pelosi: The Employer Mandate ‘Was Not Delayed’
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: House to vote next week on delaying ObamaCare mandates
Boehner: House to vote next week on delaying ObamaCare mandates
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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Rand Paul Stands By His ‘Southern Avenger’ — WASHINGTON — In an interview with The Huffington Post, Sen. Rand Paul stoutly defended an aide who, as a radio shock jock in South Carolina, praised John Wilkes Booth, heaped scorn on Abraham Lincoln and wore a ski mask emblazoned with the stars and bars of the Confederate Battle Flag.
Samantha Maziarz Christmann / Buffalo News:
Wegmans cuts health benefits for part-time workers — Et tu, Wegmans? — The Rochester-based grocer that has been continually lauded for providing health insurance to its part-time workers will no longer offer that benefit. — Until recently, the company voluntarily offered health insurance …
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Sarah Palin · 3,554,768 like this — Really, Mark? Really? — Margaret Thatcher used to say, “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
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Mark Begich / CNN:
Palin fires back in war of words with Begich
Palin fires back in war of words with Begich
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New York Post:
Spitzer a no-show in 2012 election vote after writing column about voting for Obama — Eliot Spitzer failed to vote in last year's presidential election — just four days after penning a column proclaiming “Why I Am Voting for Barack Obama,” The Post has learned.
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Sheelah Kolhatkar / Businessweek:
Hedge Funds Are for Suckers — At the height of the financial crisis in 2008, a group of famous hedge fund managers was made to stand before Congress like thieves in a stockade and defend their existence to an angry public. The gilded five included George Soros, co-founder of the Quantum Fund …
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New York Times:
Sudden Improvements in Egypt Suggest a Campaign to Undermine Morsi — CAIRO — The streets seethe with protests and government ministers are on the run or in jail, but since the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi, life has somehow gotten better for many people across Egypt …
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Guardian:
Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages — • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism — • Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch — • Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
D.C. Council approves ‘living wage’ bill over Wal-Mart ultimatum — D.C. lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a bill requiring some large retailers to pay their employees a 50 percent premium over the city's minimum wage, a day after Wal-Mart warned that the law would jeopardize its plans in the city.
Esmé E. Deprez / Bloomberg:
Texas Threat to Abortion Clinics Dodged at Flea Markets — At an open-air flea market outside McAllen, Texas, near the Mexican border, shoppers can buy a goat and get their car windows tinted. Tables with handwritten signs touting Viagra are stocked with herbal remedies promising to burn fat and boost breast size.
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Regina Medina / Philly.com:
Kane won't defend Pa. in gay-marriage suit, sources say — Attorney General Kathleen Kane is expected to announce Thursday that her office won't defend the state in a federal lawsuit that challenges Pennsylvania's ban on gay marriage, the Daily News has learned.
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trapped: An air escape from Moscow unlikely for NSA leaker Snowden — WASHINGTON — Beginning a third week holed up in a Moscow airport's transit zone, Edward Snowden finds himself far enough away to evade U.S. authorities, but also too far from any of the sympathetic nations willing to shelter him.
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NME:
Jay-Z: ‘I get texts from President Obama, of course’ — Rapper opens up his relationships with Rihanna, Jack White and daughter Blue Ivy — Jay-Z has opened up about his life in a new radio interview, revealing that he texts President Obama as well as discussing his relationships with Rihanna, Jack White and daughter Blue Ivy.
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Lauren Pack / Dayton, Ohio, News and Information:
Man arrested for having sex with pool raft — HAMILTON — A Hamilton man repeatedly arrested for public indecency has again been indicted after a child saw him engaging in sex with a rubber raft last month, according to police. — Edwin Charles Tobergta, 34, of 1320 Harmon Ave. …
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Jeremy A. Kaplan / Fox News:
Gun Geo Marker app tries to locate homes, businesses of gun owners — A new Android app asks users to expose the home addresses of gun owners they deem “potentially unsafe” — and share that information with the world. — The Gun Geo Marker app, released to Google's Play app store on July 7 …
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