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Culture Desk:
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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New York Magazine, Poynter, BuzzFeed, Post Politics, NewsBusters blogs, Business Insider and The Dirty
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Inside Edition:
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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New York Post, ABC News, Runnin' Scared, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, American Spectator, Althouse, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Jezebel and Politico
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Senator Calls For Further Investigation Into Huma's Money
Senator Calls For Further Investigation Into Huma's Money
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Post Politics, Weasel Zippers, The Hinterland Gazette, Simply Left BehindThe …, Jammie Wearing Fools and The Hill
Pat Buchanan / Townhall.com:
Weiner & Spitzer — Now More Than Ever!
Weiner & Spitzer — Now More Than Ever!
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Equality Matters and Right Wing Watch
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Drop the Disastrous Plan to Defund Obamacare — Conservatives on Capitol Hill think they have a chance to strike a mortal blow against President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul this fall. If their plan goes forward, however, it will backfire. — The plan is to oppose any bill to fund …
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Washington Monthly, National Review, A plain blog about politics and Politico
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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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First Read, Politico, The Raw Story, SoundCloud, Taegan Goddard's …, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The World's Greatest …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
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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Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
What the Chris Christie-Rand Paul Ruckus Really Means
What the Chris Christie-Rand Paul Ruckus Really Means
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Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
KPBS San Diego:
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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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
San Diego mayor to seek therapy for ‘inexcusable’ behavior
San Diego mayor to seek therapy for ‘inexcusable’ behavior
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CNN
Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times:
Democratic Party officials ask San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to quit
Democratic Party officials ask San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to quit
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ThinkProgress, KGTV-TV, Post Politics and Jammie Wearing Fools
Joey Fishkin / Balkinization:
And the Shenanigans Begin — After Shelby County v. Holder, the big question was how different things would really be. After all, plenty of places, including states with highly contentious fights about election procedures and redistricting such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, have never been covered anyway.
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msnbc.com, Crooks and Liars, The Volokh Conspiracy and NewsBusters blogs
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
GINSBURG SAYS PUSH FOR VOTER ID LAWS PREDICTABLE
GINSBURG SAYS PUSH FOR VOTER ID LAWS PREDICTABLE
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ThinkProgress, Trail Blazers Blog, Yahoo! News, Election Law Blog, Law Blog, SSRN and New York Times
New York Times:
U.S. Assures Russia Snowden Will Not Face Death Penalty — 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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Hill, The Verge and The PJ Tatler
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
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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Politicker, Jezebel, Yahoo! News, New York Magazine and ABC News
WITN:
McCrory Signs State Budget, Says He Will Sign Abortion Bill & Voter ID Law — Governor Pat McCrory on Friday signed the new state budget, two days after state lawmakers approved the $20.6 billion spending plan. — Lawmakers finished their session this morning, passing a flurry of bills.
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Salon, ThinkProgress, Taking Note, Daily Kos and msnbc.com
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Craig Jarvis / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC abortion bill headed to McCrory
NC abortion bill headed to McCrory
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Taegan Goddard's …, The Spectacle Blog and Yahoo! News
Politico:
House ethics panel investigating four members — The House Ethics Committee is reviewing cases against four members of Congress, including Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and one member of GOP leadership, the panel announced Friday. — The Ethics Committee is probing Rep. John Tierney …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Taiwan trip center of Peter Roskam investigation
Taiwan trip center of Peter Roskam investigation
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Washington Monthly, New York Times and Illinois Review
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Ethics Committee extends reviews of Bachmann, three other lawmakers
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Bank Reposseses Wrong House, Refuses To Compensate Victim — Katie Barnett, a resident of MacArthur, OH, claims that a bank she doesn't belong to — Barnett says she has since presented the president of the bank with an $18,000 estimate to compensate her for the loss, but he has refused to pay her.
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Booman Tribune
CNN:
Scarlett Johansson, Lena Dunham to help out Spitzer's opponent — (CNN) - Some big Hollywood names are turning out to support Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer as he tries to regain lost ground after former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer jumped into the Democratic primary race for New York City comptroller.
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Politico
Associated Press:
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
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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American Prospect and Campaign for America's Future
Washington Post:
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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Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway, The Hill and Associated Press
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
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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Power Line, Hot Air, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, TheBlaze.com, The Gateway Pundit and The PJ Tatler
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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Crooks and Liars
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
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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Weekly Standard, The Moderate Voice, Hit & Run, The Week, Hullabaloo, Yahoo! News, Prairie Weather, Informed Comment and ProPublica