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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House votes 232-185 to block the IRS from enforcing ObamaCare — The House voted Friday to prevent the IRS from enforcing any aspect of ObamaCare, a bill meant to exact revenge against an agency that Republicans say is incapable of neutral enforcement of the law.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House GOP Passes 40th Obamacare Repeal Bill Before Going Home For Summer Recess — House Republicans passed their 40th bill to repeal or dismantle Obamacare on Friday before heading home for a month-long recess. — The mostly party-line vote was 232-185.
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Politico:
Hill gets Obamacare fix — Lawmakers and staff can breathe easy — their health care tab is not going to soar next year. — The Office of Personnel Management, under heavy pressure from Capitol Hill, will issue a ruling that says the government can continue to make a contribution …
Michael Kitchen / MarketWatch:
Congress to get Obamacare exemption: report
Congress to get Obamacare exemption: report
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Avik Roy / Forbes:
Congressmen Rejoice! Govt. To Subsidize Their Health Insurance Through Obamacare's Exchanges
Congressmen Rejoice! Govt. To Subsidize Their Health Insurance Through Obamacare's Exchanges
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Inside the Obamacare resistance
Inside the Obamacare resistance
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Charlie Rangel on Immigration, Pope Francis & His Successor — He's survived redistricting and a censure. At 83, Harlem's controversial House stalwart is finally confronting retirement. He won't be going quietly. By David Freedlander. — Charlie Rangel barged into his office …
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Charlie Rangel: Tea Party Is ‘Same Group’ Of ‘White Crackers’ Who Fought Civil Rights — In an interview with the Daily Beast published Friday, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) suggested Tea Partiers are the “same group” who fought for segregation during the Civil Rights movement.
Chris Lawrence / CNN:
U.S. issues global travel alert, to close embassies due to al Qaeda threat — (CNN) — A global travel alert issued Friday by the State Department said al Qaeda may launch attacks in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond in coming weeks, and the U.S. government prepared to close embassies …
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
State Department Issues Global Travel Alert
State Department Issues Global Travel Alert
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Washington Wire:
Text of State Department's Travel Alert on Terror Threat
Text of State Department's Travel Alert on Terror Threat
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Conor Friedersdorf / Reuters:
The Attack in Benghazi: Worth Investigating After All — CNN reports that dozens of CIA agents were on the ground there — and that they're being pressured to keep quiet. Why? — Suddenly it is imperative that Congress investigate details surrounding the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens.
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Brett Taylor / Twitchy:
Jake Tapper: Remember when Rand Paul asked Hillary about gun running in Libya? — Nearly a year out from the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, CNN's Jake Tapper unveiled what looks like an enormous puzzle piece that's been missing from the “phony scandal.”
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Allegra Stratton / BBC:
Tories hire key Obama strategist — The Conservative Party has hired Barack Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina for its general election campaign team, BBC Newsnight has learned. — Sources confirmed that he would act as a campaign strategy adviser to the Conservative party.
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Fox News:
Seattle officials call for ban on ‘potentially offensive’ language — Government workers in the city of Seattle have been advised that the terms “citizen” and “brown bag” are potentially offensive and may no longer be used in official documents and discussions.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Putin's ‘zero-sum’ misstep — President Barack Obama can't come close to living up to the fantasies of a showdown stirred by Vladimir Putin's international flip-off. — But for all the calls Thursday to reassess the Russia relationship in the wake of Russia's granting temporary asylum to Edward Snowden …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Sex, Money and Gravitas — Can a woman effectively run the Federal Reserve? That shouldn't even be a question. And Janet Yellen, the vice chairwoman of the Fed's Board of Governors, isn't just up to the job; by any objective standard, she's the best-qualified person in America to take over when Ben Bernanke steps down as chairman.
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Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Obama Narrows Field for Fed Chairman to 3
Obama Narrows Field for Fed Chairman to 3
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
How fractured is the GOP? — Acombination of early presidential maneuvering and internal policy debate is feeding yet another iteration of that media perennial: the great Republican crackup. This time it's tea party insurgents vs. get-along establishment fogies fighting principally over two things …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Neocon Revival — They say you can define what kind of conservative a person is by what year they want to go back to. Some conservatives, apparently including some in Senator Rand Paul's office, want to go back to the 1850s. They believe that Abraham Lincoln helped put us on the path to the leviathan state.
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New York Times:
Coming to an Old Friend's Aid, With an Eye on the Clinton Image — Moments before Huma Abedin stood amid a phalanx of television cameras last week and announced to a national audience that she was standing by her embattled husband, Anthony D. Weiner, she made a quick phone call to a trusted colleague.
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Yahoo! News:
The ‘Straight Talk Express’ is back: McCain on his fears about the future of the GOP — Sen. John McCain has a strong warning for Republicans: Falter on immigration reform and the party will lose in 2016. — “If we fail on immigration reform, it won't matter who our nominee …
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Kate Irby / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senators spar over definition of ‘journalist’ in seeking to protect them — WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee, looking to provide protections for journalists and their sources, ran into a roadblock Thursday when lawmakers couldn't agree on the definition of “journalist.”
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Talia Buford / Politico:
Martin family pushes Trayvon Martin amendment to black journalists — The family of slain teen Trayvon Martin said Friday they will continue to fight for an amendment to limit Stand Your Ground laws for as long as it takes. — “We understand sometimes it's a long journey to justice,” …
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Marina Galperina / ANIMAL:
Drunk Russian Soldiers Attack Lonely LGBT Rights Protestor, Fight Cops — Today is Russian Airborne Troops Day, an annual military pride celebration which traditionally involves gaggles of soldiers and pilots spilling into public square for merriment, flag waving, wallowing in public fountains and miscellaneous public drunkenness.
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