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8:20 PM ET, August 5, 2013

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos  —  The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family's stewardship of one of America's leading news organizations after four generations.
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Washington Post:
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos  —  Bezos, in an interview, called The Post “an important institution” and expressed optimism about its future.  “I don't want to imply that I have a worked-out plan,” he said.  “This will be uncharted terrain, and it will require experimentation.”
The Atlantic Online:
The Politics of New Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos  —  The Amazon.com founder and CEO is a strong backer of gay marriage and an internet sales tax but otherwise fairly opaque.  —  In a shocking announcement late Monday, The Washington Post Co. announced that it's selling its eponymous newspaper …
Jeff Bezos / Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos on Post purchase
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Amazon.com Founder to Buy The Washington Post
Discussion: GigaOM
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Washington Post sold to Amazon's Jeff Bezos for $250 million
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
TIME:
The Hidden Motivation Behind GOP Threats to Boycott NBC, CNN  —  The Republican Party threatened Monday to pull 2016 Republican primary debates from CNN and NBC if they do not drop plans for special programs on potential 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton—a move that could help …
Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Week and The Dish
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Jillian Rogers / GOP.com:
RNC Chairman Calls on NBC and CNN to Stop Promoting Hillary Clinton  —  RNC will not partner with networks in 2016 primary debates  —  WASHINGTON - Today Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment …
Jonathan Bernstein / The Plum Line:
GOP threatens to retreat deeper into closed information feedback loop
Variety:
CNN Calls Republicans' Hillary Clinton Threat 'Disservice to ‘Voters’
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans  —  (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Howard Kurtz responds to Tina Brown  —  Howard Kurtz says he will “take the high road” in response to Newsweek editor Tina Brown's public attack on him earlier today, in which she admitted that Kurtz had been fired for “serial inaccuracy.”  —  “I'm going to take the high road and say I'm proud …
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New York Times:
The Last Temptation of Tina Brown  —  On Nov. 12, 2010, Tina Brown gathered the staff of her Web site The Daily Beast in the third-floor conference room at its Chelsea offices with its commanding views of the Hudson.  Brimming with the fervor she has brought to all her endeavors …
New York Times:
Qaeda Leader's Edict to Yemen Affiliate Is Said to Prompt Alert  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's decision last week to close nearly two dozen diplomatic missions and issue a worldwide travel alert resulted from intercepted electronic communications in which the head of Al Qaeda …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: ‘Core’ of al Qaeda remains ‘greatly diminished’
Discussion: Politico
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Wendy Davis: 'I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case'  —  Texas state senator Wendy Davis spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday afternoon about her 13-hour filibuster of a bill limiting late-term abortion, her life story, and her future in politics.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Texas governor race 2014: Wendy Davis: I will run for reelection or governor
Discussion: CNN
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans Against Reality  —  Last week House Republicans voted for the 40th time to repeal Obamacare.  Like the previous 39 votes, this action will have no effect whatsoever.  But it was a stand-in for what Republicans really want to do: repeal reality, and the laws of arithmetic in particular.
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Budget Bedlam This Fall
Hilary Andersson / BBC:
Boston bomber ‘had far-right papers’  —  What was behind Boston bombing?  Hilary Andersson reports  —  One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings was in possession of right-wing American literature in the run-up to the attack, BBC Panorama has learnt.
Christine McCarthy / KUTV-TV:
Beauty Queen Arrested For Throwing Homemade Bombs  —  (KUTV) Miss Riverton, crowned in June and set to compete in the Miss Utah pageant, was arrested early Saturday morning along with her three friends after allegedly throwing homemade bombs at people and homes.
Makiko Kitamura / Bloomberg:
Brin's $332,000 Lab-Grown Burger Has Cake-Like Texture  —  The world's first beef burger created from stem cells has a texture that's closer to cake than steak.  —  The burger, fried in a public unveiling in London today, lacks the fattiness of regular meat and could be described as an …
Discussion: American Prospect, Quartz and Guardian
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Associated Press:
Dead people gave nearly $600K to campaigns since 2009  —  WASHINGTON — The dead can't vote, but they can give money to politicians.  —  Thirty-two people listed on federal campaign records as “deceased” have contributed more than $586,000 to congressional and presidential candidates …
CNN:
First on CNN: FEC Republican tells CNN of new IRS links  —  Washington (CNN) — The vice chairman of the Federal Elections Commission told CNN on Monday he has seen numerous undisclosed e-mails between FEC staffers and the Internal Revenue Service that raise new questions about potential collusion between …
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Rep. Ted Yoho Praises Birther Conspiracy, Calls Obamacare Racist Against White People  —  UPDATE: More of Yoho's far-right comments here.  —  Speaking at a town hall meeting earlier this month, Florida Republican congressman Ted Yoho promised that he would support possible birther legislation floated …
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Republicans Don't Need to Sabotage Obamacare  —  David Morgan, who reports on health care at Reuters, could teach a class on how to spin a story.  The Obama administration, he tells us in the lead of a recent article, is “poised for a huge public education campaign” about the health-care law.
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity  —  Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network.
Antoni Slodkowski / Reuters:
Exclusive: Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an ‘emergency’  —  TOKYO - Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Rep. Gohmert: Closing embassies made US look ‘like a bunch of cowards’
Jeremyhooper / GLAAD:
Harry Jackson thinks he's found Hollywood's big secret: Fake gays
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Sarah Stillman / New Yorker:
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
The Other Benghazi Scandal: Journalists Worry Covering The Attack Threatens White House Access
New York Post:
Vote por Carlos! Weiner campaigns at Ecuadorian parade
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
 Earlier Items: 
Chad Scarborough / Politico:
Why the GOP's big money is failing
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP pollster: Yes, Republican primary voters do support immigration reform
Discussion: PostPartisan and Daily Kos
Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
Alan Chambers, Exodus International's Former President, On Sexual Labels, ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Luxury toilet users warned of hardware flaw
Discussion: GigaOM and Althouse
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Olivia Nuzzi won't defend herself against the latest lies, so allow me
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
What Is Chris Christie Doing Right?
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Reaction
 

 
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Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Sony buys ~$320M of shares in Japanese media powerhouse Kadokawa, which owns FromSoftware, taking its stake to ~10% and becoming Kadokawa's top shareholder

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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Neil Cavuto is leaving Fox News after 28 years at the network; source: Fox offered him a new deal that he declined to accept and ultimately decided to leave

 
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