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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.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
After Sentencing, Manning Says, ‘I Am Female’ — Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army private who pleaded guilty to leaking government files to WikiLeaks and was sentenced on Wednesday to 35 years in military prison, said in a statement Thursday that “I am female” and wants to begin living life that way.
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New York Times:
Bradley Manning's Excessive Sentence
Bradley Manning's Excessive Sentence
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Michael Pearson / CNN:
Bradley Manning says he wants to live as a woman, be called Chelsea
Bradley Manning says he wants to live as a woman, be called Chelsea
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The Atlantic Online:
The Movement to Defund Obamacare, Explained — The activists pushing the latest Tea Party cause can't explain how their effort to stop health-care reform could ever possibly succeed. Will they shut down the government? — The Tea Party has a new obsession: killing Obamacare by stripping the funding needed to implement the law.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The great Democrat hope: Government shutdown — They'd never say it publicly. But catch many Democrats in an honest moment and they would admit that a Republican-led government shut down this fall might be the best thing — perhaps the only thing — that could revive their fading hopes of capturing the House next year.
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Caren Bohan / Reuters:
Republicans weigh using debt limit as leverage on Obamacare — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers, who staunchly oppose President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, are considering using a fall showdown over the country's borrowing limit as leverage to try to delay the law's implementation.
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KNSD-TV:
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to Resign — San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has agreed to resign as part of a deal reached this week with city officials, NBC 7 News has learned. — Filner, spotted leaving City Hall with packing boxes Wednesday night, will formally vacate the office following …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Report: Bob Filner expected to resign
Report: Bob Filner expected to resign
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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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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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Jay Hancock / Kaiser Health News:
UPS Won't Insure Spouses Of Some Employees
UPS Won't Insure Spouses Of Some Employees
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Republican Governors: Shhh, Don't Call Our Obamacare Money Obamacare!
Republican Governors: Shhh, Don't Call Our Obamacare Money Obamacare!
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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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Andrew Stiles / National Review:
Liberals' Ted Cruz Obsession
Liberals' Ted Cruz Obsession
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Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Why Assad Will Win — The U.S. is giving up on the Arab Spring, and the Syrian dictator knows it. — This undated photo posted on the official Instagram account of the Syrian Presidency purports to show Bashar Assad visiting with soldiers in Baba Armr, Homs province, Syria.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Meet the privileged Obama-supporting white kids who perpetrated cruel Oberlin race hoax — One of the two students removed from Oberlin College earlier this year for allegedly circulating virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages around campus is an ardent leftist and committed supporter …
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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 …
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Libby A. Nelson / Politico:
Obama launches fresh push for college cost reforms
Obama launches fresh push for college cost reforms
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John_Frank / Raleigh News & Observer:
Speaking in Raleigh, Colin Powell blasts North Carolina voting law — UPDATED: With Gov. Pat McCrory in the audience, former Secretary of State Colin Powell took aim at North Carolina's new voting law Thursday, saying it hurts the Republican Party, punishes minority voters and makes it more difficult for everyone to vote.
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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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Mike Levine / ABC News:
White House Picks Panel to Review NSA Programs — A group of veteran security experts and former White House officials has been selected to conduct a full review of U.S. surveillance programs and other secret government efforts disclosed over recent months, ABC News has learned.
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Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:
Obama Hasn't Evolved on Pot — Yet
Obama Hasn't Evolved on Pot — Yet
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
GALLUP: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE JUMPS FROM 7.7% TO 8.9% IN 30 DAYS — 'Outside of the federal government's Bureau of Labor statistics, the Gallup polling organization also tracks the nation's unemployment rate. While the BLS and Gallup findings might not always perfectly align …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP poll finds strong opposition to government shutdown — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CONGRESS OBAMACARE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE — A new poll done for Republican members of Congress has found huge public opposition, and solid opposition among Republicans, to the idea of shutting down the government over the issue of funding Obamacare.
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Pew Social Trends / Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
King's Dream Remains an Elusive Goal; Many Americans See Racial Disparities — Five decades after Martin Luther King's historic “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., a new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that fewer than half (45%) of all Americans say the country …
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Yahoo! News and New York Times
Alex Pareene / Salon:
The rich, summed up: Nepotism, cronyism, narcissism — The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin defends corrupt hiring practices — Here's what we know about the rich: They have a lot more money than everyone else, and they have more money than everyone else by a larger margin than they used to.
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Stephen Wilson / ABC News:
Russia Defends Anti-Gay Law in Letter to IOC — The Russian government assured the IOC on Thursday it will not discriminate against homosexuals during the Sochi Olympics, while defending the law against gay “propaganda” that has provoked an international backlash.
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