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Cover Story: John Cuneo's “Carlos Danger” — “With a topic like Anthony Weiner, how can you find anything broad or funny that he hasn't already personally breached?” says John Cuneo, the artist who painted next week's cover. He continues: “Free association made me think of the Empire State Building …
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EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Leathers Details Being At Center Of Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal — We're hearing for the first time from the young woman at the center of the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal. — Twenty-three-year-old Sydney Leathers spoke exclusively to INSIDE EDITION about the raunchy text messages …
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Senator Calls For Further Investigation Into Huma's Money — Huma Abedin, the wife of New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, AKA Carlos Danger, is facing an ongoing Senate investigation into the consulting fees she earned while also working as a State Department employee for then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Chris Christie: Rand Paul ‘dangerous’ — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is ripping libertarians - including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). - for challenging government surveillance programs and failing to understand the dangers of terrorism. — “This strain of libertarianism that's …
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Christie Cites 9/11 in Assailing Libertarian Trend in G.O.P. — ASPEN, Colo. — Invoking the families of 9/11 victims, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey on Thursday heatedly denounced the growing libertarian drift on national security in the Republican Party that is favored by Senator Rand Paul …
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Rand Paul to Chris Christie: You need to talk to more real Americans
Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Christie goes after libertarians — hard
Christie goes after libertarians — hard
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Fiscal Armageddon could remake Hill in 2014 elections — Not again. — That's the message several national GOP strategists and some lawmakers have for Republicans hell bent on waging another fiscal fight this fall. — The 2014 midterm season is about to heat up - and President Barack Obama …
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No, the GOP is not going to defund Obamacare
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Drop the Disastrous Plan to Defund Obamacare
Drop the Disastrous Plan to Defund Obamacare
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Burr: Shutdown over defunding ObamaCare ‘dumbest idea’ ever
Burr: Shutdown over defunding ObamaCare ‘dumbest idea’ ever
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EXCLUSIVE: Fed-up Silda Spitzer plans to divorce Eliot after election — Silda Spitzer is privately telling friends she plans to divorce her hooker-loving husband, Eliot Spitzer, Page Six can exclusively reveal. — Multiple sources tell us long-suffering Silda — who, he last night admitted …
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Four More Women Accuse Filner … Four prominent San Diego women came forth today accusing Mayor Bob Filner of unwanted sexual advances. They related specific incidents in an exclusive interview with KPBS News. — The latest accusers —a retired Navy rear-admiral, a dean at San Diego State University …
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Work To Turn “War On Women” Attack Back On Democrats
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
U.S. Tells Russia It Won't Torture or Kill Snowden — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a letter sent to the Russian minister of justice this week that the United States would not seek the death penalty against Edward J. Snowden, and would issue him a passport immediately …
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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Says Snowden Wouldn't Face Death Penalty
U.S. Says Snowden Wouldn't Face Death Penalty
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Student Drought Hits Smaller Universities — By - CAMERON MCWHIRTER and - DOUGLAS BELKIN - — Loyola University New Orleans faces a $9.5 million budget gap caused by 25% fewer freshmen this fall than it had expected. — As Loyola University New Orleans gears up for fall classes next month …
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College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers
College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers
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Lincoln Memorial vandalized with splashes of green paint — The Lincoln Memorial was shut down Friday morning after vandals splashed the statue of the nation's 16th president and the marble floor around it with green paint, U.S. Park Police said. — Police are reviewing surveillance footage …
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Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed Students At Occupy Protest Wants Worker's Compensation For ‘Psychiatric Injury’ — DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is appealing for worker's compensation …
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Uh Ho: Obama Says Vietnamese Dictator Inspired by Founding Fathers — “...we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.” — It may come as some unwelcome news to the families …
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IRS employee union: We don't want Obamacare — IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law. — National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama's health care law.
Robert Costa / National Review:
Trump Heads to Iowa, Plots a 2016 Run — Donald Trump has long resisted calls for him to run for president. But now, at age 67, he tells me he's considering a bid. — “I'm looking,” Trump says. “I have a large following of people who are tired of seeing this country ripped off …
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Few See Adequate Limits on NSA Surveillance Program — But More Approve than Disapprove — OVERVIEW — A majority of Americans - 56% - say that federal courts fail to provide adequate limits on the telephone and internet data the government is collecting as part of its anti-terrorism efforts.
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Roberts's Picks Reshaping Secret Surveillance Court — WASHINGTON — The recent leaks about government spying programs have focused attention on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its role in deciding how intrusive the government can be in the name of national security.
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Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords — Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form. — The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet …
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Charlie LeDuff / New York Times:
Come See Detroit, America's Future — DETROIT — I KNOW an old woman who hasn't opened her windows in a decade, afraid that what's outside will climb inside. Inside, there is the stale odor of dead air. — I know another woman who called me about a corpse lying outside her window for six and a half hours.
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Steve King Says He Has Personally Caught Undocumented Drug Mules With Cantaloupe Calves — Rep. Steve King (R-IA) defended his claim that undocumented youths are drug mules with cantaloupe-sized calves on Friday, telling The Laura Ingraham Show that he would not apologize for the remarks.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republican Health Care Panic — Leading Republicans appear to be nerving themselves up for another round of attempted fiscal blackmail. With the end of the fiscal year looming, they aren't offering the kinds of compromises that might produce a deal and avoid a government shutdown; instead …
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Exclusive: Kathleen Sebelius on Obamacare's ‘very tight’ deadlines — Update: This post was initially published with a typo in the headline. — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently began ramping up her travel around the country to promote the Affordable Care Act …
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GOP's state victories haunt Obama — Barack Obama has spent well over $1 billion on his political campaigns, but it's the $20 million to $30 million Democrats didn't shell out three years ago that is costing the White House as he slogs through the first six months of his second term.
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Larry Kramer Is Married in Hospital Ceremony — Larry Kramer, the award-winning playwright of “The Normal Heart” and longtime gay rights advocate, married his partner, David Webster, on Wednesday in the intensive care unit of NYU Langone Medical Center, where Mr. Kramer has been recovering from surgery for a bowel obstruction.
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Unions ask Obama for Detroit bailout — Union leaders are calling on Congress and President Obama to provide a federal bailout to the city of Detroit. — The executive council of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation, called for an “immediate infusion of federal assistance for Detroit” …
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