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Pedro Fonseca / Reuters:
Glenn Greenwald To Publish UK Secrets After Britain Detains Partner — The journalist who first published secrets leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed on Monday to publish more documents and said Britain will be “sorry” for detaining his partner for nine hours.
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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face — As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing — In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly …
Jonathan Watts / Guardian:
David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate' — Partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald gives his first interview on nine-hour interrogation at Heathrow airport — David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance …
Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention
White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention
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Nick Cohen / Spectator:
David Miranda's arrest proves how sinister the state has become
David Miranda's arrest proves how sinister the state has become
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Dallas Morning News:
Canada-born Ted Cruz became a citizen of that country as well as U.S. — Sen. Ted Cruz's birth certificate shows he was born in Canada in 1970. It was released exclusively to The Dallas Morning News.
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Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same — Can a master debater who wore a paisley bathrobe to creepily stroll by the women's wing of the dorm be the next president? Patricia Murphy talks to Ted Cruz's college roommates about his stint at Princeton.
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Washington Post:
Cruz will renounce Canadian citizenship — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship. — “Now the Dallas Morning News …
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Bill Keller / New York Times:
War on the Core — I respect, really I do, the efforts by political scientists and pundits to make sense of the current Republican Party. There is intellectual virtue in the search for historical antecedents and philosophical underpinnings. — I understand the urge to take what looks …
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Paul Krugman:
Stupid Is A Strategy — Bill Keller has a strong, stinging column about Republican attacks on the entirely praiseworthy, up to now bipartisan effort to create a Common Core curriculum. But I think we need to say more than this: … First of all, right-wing leaders don't strike me as being at all stupid …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Business groups aren't too happy about Tea Party mania they helped unleash — GOP-aligned business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business, and others played a key role in helping elect dozens of conservatives to the House and Senate.
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Wall Street Journal:
Confident Biden Team Sows Seeds For 2016 — Backers Consider Steps for White House—Even If Hillary Clinton Enters Race — Political allies of Vice President Joe Biden have concluded that he can win the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination—even if Hillary Clinton enters the contest …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
RNC: CNN Films hiring Courtney Sexton ‘puts the p in puff piece’
RNC: CNN Films hiring Courtney Sexton ‘puts the p in puff piece’
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White House.gov Blog:
Meet Sunny: The Obamas' New Puppy — Today the Obamas welcomed the newest member of their family - a little girl (puppy) named Sunny! — Pin — Sunny was born in Michigan in June 2012, and arrived at the White House today. Just like Bo, she's a Portuguese Water Dog …
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
In classified cyberwar against Iran, trail of Stuxnet leak leads to White House
In classified cyberwar against Iran, trail of Stuxnet leak leads to White House
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
New member of the Obama family introduced
New member of the Obama family introduced
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Mitch Blacher / KGTV-TV:
Sources: Mayor Bob Filner's attorneys in mediation that includes possible resignation — Two sources reveal meeting to Team 10 — SAN DIEGO - Two inside, anonymous sources told Team 10 Mayor Bob Filner's attorneys were in a mediation session Monday morning with City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and LA-based attorney Gloria Allred.
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Andrew Kaczynski:
This Video Of A Pro-Bob Filner Rally Has To Be Seen To Be Believed
This Video Of A Pro-Bob Filner Rally Has To Be Seen To Be Believed
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R. Stickney / KNSD-TV:
Filner Is More Than Sloppy Kisses: Supporters
Filner Is More Than Sloppy Kisses: Supporters
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Hunter Schwarz / BuzzFeed:
Map: What Religion Does Your Member Of Congress Identify With? — A breakdown of Congress' religious makeup. One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all. — BuzzFeed has mapped out the religions of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives by their districts …
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Washington Monthly and Post Politics
Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz returns to weekdays, Chris Matthews's ‘Hardball’ to 7 p.m. — MSNBC's Ed Schultz will return to weekdays later this month after a brief hiatus as weekend host, signalling a reversal of fortunes for the bombastic television personality who has become a champion to union workers and blue-collar liberals.
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC Moves Ed Schultz Back to Weeknights (Exclusive)
MSNBC Moves Ed Schultz Back to Weeknights (Exclusive)
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems have an ace in the hole in coming battle — Most observers expect Congress will somehow pass a measure this fall funding the government temporarily at current levels, pushing the real fights over the sequester, spending and the size of government into the new year.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Analyst: Most Arabs Supported Bin Laden's Efforts To Kill Americans — On Monday, during a panel discussion about the launch of Al Jazeera America, a Fox News political analyst explained the channel's popularity in the Arab world by claiming that most Arabs sympathize with Osama bin Laden's efforts to kill Americans.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Al Jazeera America Promises a More Sober Look at the News
Al Jazeera America Promises a More Sober Look at the News
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The Atlantic Online:
Are the Rich Getting Too Much of the Economic Pie? — Inequality explained in pie charts (made of actual pie) — When one of you asked, “Are the rich getting too much of the economic pie?” the team behind Economics in Plain English got pretty excited. Because you said “pie.”
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The Moderate Voice
Malcolm Byrne / Foreign Policy:
CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran's Coup — The agency finally owns up to its role in the 1953 operation. — Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country's prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.
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Ian Floyd / The Texas Tribune:
Plan to Convert Roads to Gravel Begins Despite Pushback … As he witnesses the roads around his South Texas farm crumble and deteriorate, Dane Elliot is aware that he is both a victim of the problem and part of it. The farmer and rancher in Live Oak County also owns a small trucking company that hauls oil field equipment.
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Aaron Kase / Salon:
“Indescribably insane”: A public school system from hell — Pennsylvania's right-wing governor drains public schools of basic funds — and the sickening details will shock you — Want to see a public school system in its death throes? Look no further than Philadelphia.
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Trayvon Martin Shooting Reenacted In New Ad Calling For End To Stand Your Ground Laws — WASHINGTON — The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has released a chilling new online ad reenacting the night Travyon Martin was killed, in an effort to stop the controversial Stand Your Ground laws nationwide.
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Eric Russell / Portland Press-Herald:
LePage is heard to say Obama ‘hates white people’ — Two Republican lawmakers confirm that the governor made the remark at a fundraiser last week. — Gov. Paul LePage last week told a group of Republicans that President Barack Obama “hates white people,” according to two state lawmakers who heard the remark directly.
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Reid Wilson / GovBeat:
Democrats push back on voting rights — After crying foul over Republican efforts to modify election laws in key states, Democrats are launching their own wide-ranging push to change the way Americans vote, kicking off the latest battles in a fight over voting rights that's as old as the republic itself.
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msnbc.com
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary — Technical information: — Employment: (202) 691-6559 * sminfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/sae — Unemployment: (202) 691-6392 * lausinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/lau — Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * PressOffice@bls.gov
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