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Scott Stump / TODAY.com:
Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman — Facebook - Twitter - Reddit - Pinterest - Email — Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman. — “I am Chelsea Manning.
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Chelsea E. Manning / TODAY.com:
‘I am Chelsea’: Read Manning's full statement — Video: “I am Chelsea Manning. I am female,” explains the Army private via a statement read on TODAY Thursday. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday for leaking classified government documents.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Guardian, Telegraph, msnbc.com, Mashable, New Orleans Times-Picayune and Gawker
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Bradley Manning: ‘I am a female’ — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman, his lawyer announced Thursday morning. — Manning, who was sentenced on Wednesday to 35 years in prison, asks to be called Chelsea Manning in a statement Manning's lawyer read Thursday morning on the “Today” show on NBC.
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Guardian and Courthouse News Service
Michael Pearson / CNN:
Bradley Manning says he wants to live as a woman, be called Chelsea — (CNN) — Bradley Manning wants to be a woman. — The U.S. Army soldier sentenced this week to 35 years in prison for leaking 750,000 pages of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said Thursday …
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Guardian and KTLA 5, more at Mediagazer »
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
NSA gathered thousands of Americans' e-mails before court struck down program — The National Security Agency unlawfully gathered as many as tens of thousands of e-mails and other electronic communications between Americans as part of a now-discontinued collection program, according to a 2011 secret court opinion.
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New York Times:
Secret Court Rebuked N.S.A. on Surveillance — WASHINGTON — A federal judge sharply rebuked the National Security Agency in 2011 for repeatedly misleading the court that oversees its surveillance on domestic soil, including a program that is collecting tens of thousands of domestic e-mails …
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MiamiHerald.com and TalkLeft
Mark Rumold / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Victory Results in Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional
EFF Victory Results in Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional
Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
Court: NSA collected domestic emails, violating the Constitution
Court: NSA collected domestic emails, violating the Constitution
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ABC News and Yahoo! News
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Jindal plummets and other notes from Louisiana — Three years ago in August PPP declared Bobby Jindal to be the most popular Governor in the country. 58% of voters approved of him to only 34% who disapproved. Jindal's fortunes have seen an amazing shift since that time though …
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Lauren McGaughy / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Polls show Louisianians disappointed with Jindal, blame Obama for post-Katrina response
Polls show Louisianians disappointed with Jindal, blame Obama for post-Katrina response
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Taegan Goddard's … and Prairie Weather
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Poll: Louisiana GOPers Unsure If Katrina Response Was Obama's Fault
Poll: Louisiana GOPers Unsure If Katrina Response Was Obama's Fault
Steve Benen / The Rachel Maddow Show:
Forgetting the relevant Katrina detail, eight years later
Forgetting the relevant Katrina detail, eight years later
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FIRST DRAFT and Washington Monthly
jhnewsandguide.com:
Breaking news: Cheney pays $220 for fishing license ticket — Angus M. Thuermer Jr., Jackson Hole News&Guide — U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Lynne Cheney posted a $220 bond in Ninth Circuit Court in Teton County on Monday on a charge of making a false statement to procure a fishing license.
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The Fix, Taegan Goddard's …, Politico, Ballot Box and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Talking Points Memo:
Liz Cheney Pays Fine For Fishy Fishing License — Republican Wyoming Senate candidate Liz Cheney paid a $220 bond Wednesday for making a false statement on an application for a fishing license last year, Jackson Hole News&Guide reported. — Records show that the daughter …
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Daily Kos
Sam Baker / The Hill:
University of Virginia cuts some health benefits, citing ObamaCare costs — The University of Virginia said Wednesday that it will stop offering health insurance to some employees' spouses because of rising costs under ObamaCare. — The university said the Affordable Care Act will add $7.3 million to its healthcare costs next year.
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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
U.P.S. to End Health Benefits for Spouses of Some Workers
U.P.S. to End Health Benefits for Spouses of Some Workers
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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Illinois Offering $9-An-Hour Jobs To Have Workers Sign People Up For ‘Obamacare’
Illinois Offering $9-An-Hour Jobs To Have Workers Sign People Up For ‘Obamacare’
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Scared Monkeys and Weasel Zippers
Seth / GLAAD:
Wentworth Miller rejects Russian film festival invitation; ‘As a gay man, I must decline’ — Actor and screenwriter Wentworth Miller today rejected an invitation to attend the St. Petersburg International Film Festival, citing Russia's anti-LGBT laws. In a letter to the Festival's Director …
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CBS News, BBC, The Moderate Voice, CNN, Gawker, BuzzFeed, LGBTQ Nation, Towleroad News #gay, PinkNews.co.uk, Deadline.com and Good As You
Scott Gordon / nbcdfw.com:
Police: Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst Asked to Get Relative Out of Jail — In statement, Dewhurst says he acted as “concerned family member” — The Allen Police Department released the full audio of a call Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst made to police to find out what he had to do to get a recently arrested relative out of jail.
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Taegan Goddard's … and Washington Post
Eli Stokols / KDVR.com:
Sparks fly after Sen. Marble's ‘chicken’ comment in poverty hearing — DENVER — Democratic lawmakers couldn't believe their ears as they listened to Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, deliver a long soliloquy explaining that more blacks and Hispanics live in poverty, in part, because of fried chicken.
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ThinkProgress, Taegan Goddard's … and WTVR-TV
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Recession's pain reaching deep into the economic recovery — The buying power of Americans continues to be weaker than it was when the recession ended four years ago, underscoring the lasting damage wrought by the downturn, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Sense of Events
The White House:
Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria — The United States is deeply concerned by reports that hundreds of Syrian civilians have been killed in an attack by Syrian government forces, including by the use of chemical weapons, near Damascus earlier today.
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Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:
Obama Hasn't Evolved on Pot — Yet — President Barack Obama doesn't favor changing marijuana laws “at this point” but he also believes that federal law enforcement resources should not be focused on individual users, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday.
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JustOneMinute, Takoma Wellness Center and The Huffington Post
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
NSA scandal looms large in German election — ‘Germany is not a nation of surveillance. Germany is a nation of freedom,’ Merkel says. AP Photo — Close — BERLIN — It's election season in Germany and there's one campaign issue that won't go away: the NSA surveillance scandal.
Mario Trujillo / Ballot Box:
Brown opts out of run for Mass. governor — Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said Wednesday night he will not run for Massachusetts governor in 2014. — Brown said he wanted to remain in the private sector, noting that another run for public office would take a lot of “thought, analysis, money and sometimes personal sacrifice.”
Associated Press:
Feds running out of wildfire money — Running out of money to fight wildfires at the peak of the season, the U.S. Forest Service is diverting $600 million from timber, recreation and other areas to fill the gap. — The nation's top wildfire-fighting agency was down to $50 million …
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Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
Mayor Bob Filner / Most Recent:
Proposed Filner settlement reached — City Attorney Jan Goldsmith said Wednesday night that a proposed resolution has been reached to a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Mayor Bob Filner and the city. — Goldsmith said the City Council, which must approve any settlement, will review the proposal on Friday.
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NPR and Taegan Goddard's …
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Ted Cruz, traitor to his class — Henry Adams said that politics is the systematic organization of hatreds. For the left, over the past year it has seemed at times to be the systematic organization of hatred of Ted Cruz. — The freshman senator is not the first Texan to be so honored.
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National Review and Slate
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
Obama's Plan Aims to Lower Cost of College — President Obama plans to announce a set of ambitious proposals on Thursday aimed at making colleges more accountable and affordable by rating them and ultimately linking those ratings to financial aid. — A draft of the proposal …