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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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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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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 — What's to stop President Obama from refusing to enforce the Senate bill's border-security promises? — America is a nation of immigrants, but we're also a nation of laws, and the U.S. immigration system should respect both traditions.
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — July 11, 2013 - American Voters Say 2-1 Stay …
Release Detail — July 11, 2013 - American Voters Say 2-1 Stay …
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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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Politico:
GOP reaching out to Dems on immigration
GOP reaching out to Dems on immigration
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Showdown Nears in Senate Over Filibusters Change — 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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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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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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Lee Stranahan / BREITBART.COM:
TRAYVONGATE: NEWEST OBAMA SCANDAL IS 17 MONTHS OLD
TRAYVONGATE: NEWEST OBAMA SCANDAL IS 17 MONTHS OLD
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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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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.
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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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.
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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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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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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Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Pelosi: The Employer Mandate ‘Was Not Delayed’ — (CNSNews.com) - During a press conference on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked if she thinks there is “any virtue” in delaying Obamacare's individual mandate as well as the employer mandate: — “No. Absolutely not.
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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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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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Jeffry Bartash / MarketWatch:
Weekly U.S. jobless claims jump 16,000 to 360,000 … WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits in the first week of July jumped by 16,000 to a seasonally adjusted 360,000, marking the highest level in two months, the Labor Department said Thursday.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Rubio: GOP should reject funding bills that don't cut ObamaCare — Republicans should reject stop-gap measures to fund the government if Democrats do not agree to defund ObamaCare, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Thursday. — Rubio said Republicans should reject any continuing resolution …
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