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New York Times:
Mr. Weiner and the Elusive Truth — At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told. In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye …
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Daily Mail:
REVEALED: The Obama election campaigner, 23, who ‘received illicit messages and had phone sex with Anthony Weiner’ a year after humiliated wife forgave him — Sydney Leathers, a liberal activist from Illinois, is allegedly the woman who revealed explicit images she received from Weiner
Andrew Kaczynski:
Here Is The Woman Linked To Anthony Weiner In Sex Chats — A progressive activist from Indiana in her early 20s who identifies herself online as “Sydney Leathers” and “sidneyelainexo” is the woman whose online profile is linked to the latest Weiner scandal. Weiner, she wrote, could “continue sending dick pics every single day.”
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New York Times:
Account of Weiner's Conversation Fits Pattern of Online Exchanges — The racy online conversations now convulsing Anthony D. Weiner's campaign for mayor began with an angry Facebook message, according to the editor of a blog that has communicated with the young woman involved.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Anthony Weiner Show — What he and Eliot Spitzer have in common. — Lewd tweets aside—there's a line we never thought we'd write— Anthony Weiner ought to drop out of the New York City mayor's race simply because of what he's forced his wife to endure.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
READ: Obama's Economic Speech In Illinois As Prepared For Delivery — Eight years ago, I came here to deliver the commencement address for the class of 2005. Things were a little different back then. I didn't have any gray hair, for example. Or a motorcade. I didn't even have a teleprompter.
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Washington Wire:
Transcript: Obama's Remarks on Middle-Class Prosperity — President Barack Obama returned to Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., Wednesday to discuss his plans for boosting the middle class. Here are Mr. Obama's remarks, as prepared for delivery: — Eight years ago, I came here to deliver …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: 'We've Come a Long Way Since I First Took Office. As a Country, We're Older and We're Wiser.' — In an economic speech today, President Obama will say that “We've come a long way since I first took office. As a country, we're older and we're wiser.” But more work remains.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House G.O.P. Sets New Offensive on Obama Goals — WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are moving to gut many of President Obama's top priorities with the sharpest spending cuts in a generation and a new push to hold government financing hostage unless the president's signature health care law is stripped of money this fall.
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Amanda Cochran / CBS News:
CBS News poll finds more Americans than ever want Obamacare repealed — (CBS News) A new CBS News poll finds more Americans than ever want the Affordable Care Act repealed. — According to the poll, 36 percent of Americans want Congress to expand or keep the health care law while 39 percent …
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Politico:
Denis McDonough to Democrats: We've got this
Denis McDonough to Democrats: We've got this
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Jay Carney: Get past ‘phony scandals’
Jay Carney: Get past ‘phony scandals’
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Meet President Obama's new economic message. Same as his old economic message. — You could be forgiven if you thought you had heard President Obama's speech on the economy today before. Because you have. For most of the 2012 campaign. (Don't trust us, read Obama's 2012 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.)
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama talks up economy, hits Republicans on ‘phony scandals’ — President Obama sought to take credit for the economic recovery on Wednesday with a speech that declared the country had “fought its way back” from a recession that threatened the American Dream.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama ‘Pivots’ for 19th Time
Obama ‘Pivots’ for 19th Time
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Older, But Not Wiser — “As a country, we're older and we're wiser …
Older, But Not Wiser — “As a country, we're older and we're wiser …
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Nate Cohn / New Republic:
Obama Is Losing the White Working Class — One of the funny things about electoral politics is that you can't always have the coalition you want, or even the coalition you think you'll get. When the Democratic Leadership Council was thinking about how to rebrand the party in the late '80s …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Poll: Obama approval nears record low
Poll: Obama approval nears record low
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Mark Murray / First Read:
NBC/WSJ poll: Faith in DC hits a low; 83 percent disapprove of Congress
NBC/WSJ poll: Faith in DC hits a low; 83 percent disapprove of Congress
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Mark Murray / First Read:
America's race relations take hit after Zimmerman verdict, NBC News/WSJ poll finds
America's race relations take hit after Zimmerman verdict, NBC News/WSJ poll finds
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Marist Poll:
7/24: A Look at the 2016 Presidential Contest — If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were to announce a candidacy for the Presidency, she would be the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. Clinton outdistances her closest potential opponent, Vice President Joe Biden …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
2016 poll: Clinton tops likely GOP rivals
2016 poll: Clinton tops likely GOP rivals
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Desperately Move To Shut Down Government Over Obamacare — Running out of time and options, conservatives are exploring new ways to corner Congress into shutting down the government this fall unless Obamacare is defunded. But they aren't likely to achieve much more than giving Republican leaders heartburn.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP senator: Don't hold debt limit ‘hostage’ over ObamaCare funds
GOP senator: Don't hold debt limit ‘hostage’ over ObamaCare funds
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Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Pennsylvania police chief: F*ck all you libtards out there, you take it in the a** — The mayor of Gilberton, Pennsylvania is standing by her city's police chief despite a series of profanity-laced and threatening videos. — In a video that has received wide attention …
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Mitch McConnell slams Matt Bevin in Senate race — Matt Bevin is getting a Mitch McConnell welcome in Kentucky: A slashing TV ad seizing on the political newcomer's problems with his Connecticut-based bell manufacturing business. — Bevin, a wealthy Louisville businessman …
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Americans turn against Edward Snowden — The American people, who once defended Edward Snowden's leaks of sensitive intelligence information gathered by the U.S. government, are starting to turn against him. — A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that a majority of Americans …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Attitudes Shift Against Snowden; Fewer than Half Say NSA is Unjustified
Attitudes Shift Against Snowden; Fewer than Half Say NSA is Unjustified
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Ben Goad / The Hill:
Home care workers press administration for minimum wage — Scores of health workers and their supporters gathered outside the Labor Department Tuesday, demanding long-sought minimum wage and overtime rights for home care workers. — In what would be a major victory for labor unions …
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KPBS San Diego:
Filner Harassment Scandal Grows As Second Woman Comes Forward … Another woman came forward today to report an unwanted advance by Mayor Bob Filner, telling KPBS News in an exclusive interview that the then-congressman patted her “posterior” while making a crude joke at a crowded fundraiser.
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