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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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Michael Pearson / CNN:
Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman, be known as Chelsea — (CNN) — “I am Chelsea Manning.” — With those words, read from a statement on NBC's “Today” on Thursday, Bradley Manning immediately shifted public conversation away from the Army private's conviction on espionage charges to gender identity.
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John Knefel / Rolling Stone:
Chelsea Manning Reveals Herself to the World: ‘I Am a Female’
Chelsea Manning Reveals Herself to the World: ‘I Am a Female’
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
After Sentencing, Manning Says, ‘I Am Female’
After Sentencing, Manning Says, ‘I Am Female’
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New York Times:
Bradley Manning's Excessive Sentence
Bradley Manning's Excessive Sentence
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Bradley Manning: ‘I am a female’
Bradley Manning: ‘I am a female’
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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:
Reports: Bob Filner to resign
Reports: Bob Filner to resign
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EndPlay / KGTV-TV:
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner prepared to resign from office, sources tell Team 10
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner prepared to resign from office, sources tell Team 10
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Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times:
Mayor Bob Filner expected to resign in sex harassment lawsuit deal
Mayor Bob Filner expected to resign in sex harassment lawsuit deal
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Conservatives Finally Announce Alternative To Obamacare: Just Go To The Emergency Room — Heritage president and former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint continued his campaign to convince Republicans to shut down the government in a ploy to defund the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday …
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
University of Virginia cuts some health benefits, citing ObamaCare costs
University of Virginia cuts some health benefits, citing ObamaCare costs
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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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Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Americans Still Wary of, Not Too Familiar With, Health Law
Americans Still Wary of, Not Too Familiar With, Health Law
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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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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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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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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013
The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013
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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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Washington Post:
Obama proposes college-rating system that could increase affordability
Obama proposes college-rating system that could increase affordability
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Obama Goes Back to School
Obama Goes Back to School
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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.
The United States Department of Justice:
Justice Department to File New Lawsuit Against State of Texas Over Voter I.D. Law — The Department of Justice announced today that it will file a new lawsuit against the State of Texas, the Texas Secretary of State, and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety …
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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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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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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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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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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Wall Street Journal:
For ‘the Fun of It’ — The debate we aren't having about a murder in Oklahoma. — Three teenagers were charged Tuesday in the killing of a white college student in Duncan, Oklahoma, and part of the story is what didn't happen. There was no saturation cable TV coverage …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Black teen who allegedly murdered Australian jogger posted racist Tweets
Black teen who allegedly murdered Australian jogger posted racist Tweets
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Nasdaq Market Halts Trading — Large Chunk of U.S. Stock Market Paralyzed by Technical Problem — A trading halt on the Nasdaq Stock Market neared an hour after an unexplained technical issue, paralyzing the market for thousands of securities and raising new questions about the robustness …
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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