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Sky News:
Sky News Cameraman Killed In Egypt — Sky News cameraman Mick Deane has been shot and killed in Egypt this morning. — Mick had worked for Sky for 15 years, based in Washington and then Jerusalem. — He was part of our team covering the violence in Cairo. The rest of the team are unhurt.
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Gulf News, BBC, New York Times, Reporters Without Borders, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Macleans.ca, The Dish, Poynter, Guardian and Committee to Protect …, more at Mediagazer »
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Josh Levs / CNN:
Tent camps turned to bloody war zone: ‘Just the beginning’ for Egypt — Are you there? Send us your images, but please stay safe. — Cairo (CNN) — In a matter of hours Wednesday, two peaceful protest camps in Cairo turned into unrecognizable war zones. And the violence is still under way.
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The Spectacle Blog
Jerusalem Post:
Egypt's ElBaradei resigns as VP after violent crackdown on Morsi backers
Egypt's ElBaradei resigns as VP after violent crackdown on Morsi backers
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Israel Matzav
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
McCain suggests Kerry is partly to blame for violence in Egypt
New York Times:
Unease at Clinton Foundation Over Finances and Ambitions — Soon after the 10th anniversary of the foundation bearing his name, Bill Clinton met with a small group of aides and two lawyers from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Two weeks of interviews with Clinton Foundation executives …
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Power Line, First Read, The Week, Jezebel, Politico, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Taegan Goddard's …
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Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
The New York Times takes down the Clinton Foundation. This could be devastating for Bill and Hillary — Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh? Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation - that vast vanity project that conservatives are wary …
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CNN, Yahoo! News, JustOneMinute and Rush Limbaugh
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Gingrich: Republicans have ‘zero’ health care ideas — Boston (CNN) - Former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reprimanded his fellow Republicans in unusually harsh terms Wednesday, blaming GOP members of Congress for developing “zero” alternatives to President Obama's health care reform law.
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The Hill, Politico, The Plum Line, Mediaite, The Right Scoop and Washington Examiner
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Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
Ron Johnson, other Republicans say government shutdown unlikely
Ron Johnson, other Republicans say government shutdown unlikely
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Yahoo! News, Taegan Goddard's …, Business Insider, National Review, Post Politics, The Hill and Hot Air
Peter Grier / Christian Science Monitor:
Obama-mask clown gets lifetime Missouri fair ban. Just, or too harsh? — An Obama-mask clown at the Missouri State Fair was banned for life, after photos and video asking a crowd if they wanted to see Obama ‘run down by a bull’ went viral. The crowd cheered. Fair officials dubbed the stunt ‘unconscionable.’
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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
White House: President Has No Reaction To Rodeo Clown Wearing Obama Mask
White House: President Has No Reaction To Rodeo Clown Wearing Obama Mask
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Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Red Alert Politics
U.S. News:
Pentagon to extend benefits to same-sex military couples — including 10 days of marriage leave — The U.S. Department of Defense is set to announce Wednesday that same-sex spouses of military service members will become eligible for a range of federal benefits as early as September, a senior official told NBC News.
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Towleroad News #gay, Daily Kos and The Dish
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Chicago Tribune:
Jesse Jackson Jr., wife Sandi, await sentencing — WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who pleaded guilty to misspending about $750,000 in campaign funds, will learn today how much his crime will cost him. — A federal judge will sentence Jackson on a felony conspiracy count …
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. sentenced to 30 months in prison
Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. sentenced to 30 months in prison
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Associated Press
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Former Rep. Jackson Sentenced to 2½ Years
Former Rep. Jackson Sentenced to 2½ Years
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The Week
Peter Orszag / Bloomberg:
With So Many Job Openings, Why So Little Hiring? — An odd puzzle is taking shape in the labor market: Over the past three years, the number of job openings has risen almost 50 percent, but actual hiring has gone up by less than 5 percent. Companies are advertising a lot more jobs, in other words, but not filling them.
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Outside the Beltway, National Review and AEIdeas
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Google: Gmail users shouldn't expect email privacy — Critics call revelation ‘a stunning admission’ as Google makes claim in court filing in attempt to head off class action lawsuit — Gmail users have no “reasonable expectation” that their emails are confidential, Google has said in a court filing.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch and AllThingsD
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Braden Goyette / The Huffington Post:
Google: Gmail Users Can't Legitimately Expect Privacy
Google: Gmail Users Can't Legitimately Expect Privacy
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Mashable, GigaOM and Firedoglake
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — August 14, 2013 - Spitzer Has 19-Pt Lead In New York City Comptroller Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Men, Women, Blacks Back Him Big — With no gender gap and a lead among black voters of more than 3-1, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer tops Manhattan Borough President …
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Politico, Post Politics, CNN and theGrio
Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Bradley Manning Makes Statement During Sentencing Phase of His Trial (Live Updates) — 11:25 AM EST The Judge issued a ruling that much of militant Islam expert Youssef Aboul-Enein's testimony on Al Qaeda was admissible evidence. — 11:10 AM EST Cpt. Michael Worsley, a clinical psychiatrist expert …
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BuzzFeed, CANNONFIRE and BuzzFeed
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul: 'I Don't Think There Is Any Particular Evidence' Of Black Voters Being Prevented From Voting — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a tea party senator with a long history of opposition to civil rights laws, told an audience in Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday that there is no evidence of black voters being excluded from the franchise.
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Little Green Footballs and ThinkProgress
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
North Carolinians Fear the End of a Middle Way — EDEN, N.C. — When Pat McCrory, a Republican former mayor of Charlotte, was elected governor last year, he pledged to “bring this state together,” and to focus on bread-and-butter issues amid an ailing economy.
National Review:
No Conference — Chuck Schumer has spent the better part of a year saying how essential it is that immigration reform be dealt with in a comprehensive bill. But he has had a sudden change of heart. He now says he is fine with the incremental approach emerging in the House.
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Washington Monthly and Booman Tribune
WKYT-TV:
McConnell says government shutdown won't stop Obamacare — McConnell says government shutdown wouldn't stop Obamacare — CORBIN, Ky. (WYMT) - — A government shutdown would not prevent the Affordable Care Act from being funded, Kentucky's senior senator said Tuesday.
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First Read, Firedoglake, Daily Kos, The Plum Line and The Daily Caller
Fox Business:
Source: New York Times Website Hit by Cyber Attack — The corporate and media sites of The New York Times (NYT) experienced a lengthy outage on Wednesday that a source close to the matter said appeared to be caused by a cyber attack, although the newspaper cited a scheduled maintenance update.
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Gawker, Joe. My. God., Poynter and Runnin' Scared
James Arkin / Politico:
‘Duck Dynasty’ star: Too busy for Hill bid — “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson said talks of him potentially running for Congress were “news to me.” — Some Republicans want Robertson to run for the seat of retiring Rep. Rodney Alexander of Louisiana.
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Post Politics and Twitchy
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
The High Cost of ObamaCare — This is the reason many people don't like ObamaCare. It's also part of why people wind up making fun of the president at state fairs. (On that, everyone should breathe deep and remember, as the noted political philosopher Orson Welles once put it …
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Investigations, Mediaite, Betsy's Page and Hot Air
Josh Eidelson / Salon:
Fast food strikes to massively expand: “They're thinking much bigger” — Top union officials tell Salon the largest mobilization of fast food workers in U.S. history is about to get huge — Fast food strikers will escalate their campaign within the next week and a half, according to the key union backing their recent walkouts.
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susiemadrak.com
Phil Garber / New Jersey Hills Newspaper:
Dead body and drones greet visiting officials to Mexican border — The Texas public safety boat was cruising along the Rio Grande River that separates Texas and Mexico when Rep. Leonard Lance, R-7, and others spotted the body floating in the river. — It was a shocking site that dramatized …
American Bridge PAC:
MEMO/VIDEO - Steve Lonegan: The face of the “new” GOP — RE: Steve Lonegan: Face of the GOP Rebrand — With New Jersey's Senate race now entering the general election phase before the special election in October, the spotlight turns to Republican nominee Steve Lonegan as the face of the GOP rebrand.
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Crooks and Liars, NationalJournal.com and ABC News
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
DC Obamacare exchange awards $375k grant to Planned Parenthood — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE ABORTION — Washington, D.C.'s health insurance exchange has awarded a $375,000 grant to abortion provider Planned Parenthood to help enroll participants in Obamacare, the exchange announced on Tuesday.
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LifeNews.com, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, TheBlaze.com and The Daily Caller