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Ben Smith:
New York Times And Guardian Will Publish More Snowden Revelations — “A climate of intense pressure.” — Brad Barket / Getty Images — The New York Times is in the Snowden game. — The paper — which NSA leaker Edward Snowden deliberately avoided over his fear that it would cooperate …
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Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
The Suit in the Newsroom — An unusual Times executive— for unusual times. — When Mark Thompson, a former director general at the BBC, was appointed president and CEO of the New York Times Company, the reaction inside the company was a mix of relief and apprehension.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Guardian partners with New York Times over Snowden GCHQ files — Some of Edward Snowden cache shared with US paper after ‘climate of intense pressure’ from UK government — The Guardian has struck a partnership with the New York Times which will give the US paper access to some of the sensitive cache …
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Siobhan Gorman / Washington Wire:
NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests — WASHINGTON—National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency's enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said. — The practice isn't frequent — one official estimated a handful …
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
NSA Analysts Intentionally Abused Spying Powers Multiple Times — Some National Security Agency analysts deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade, contradicting Obama administration officials' and lawmakers' statements that no willful violations occurred.
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Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
Report: NSA paid tech companies to comply with surveillance
Report: NSA paid tech companies to comply with surveillance
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
The right's black crime obsession — There are a few black people up to no good in this country and Fox News is on it! So is Drudge Report. Vigilantly on the lookout, 24 hours a day, for stories about black youths behaving badly. — This isn't a particularly new phenomenon …
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Daily Mail:
‘Paula Deen SHOOTS Trayvon Martin’ in new SVU that wraps both scandals into one controversial episode... and Cybill Shepard plays gun-wielding TV chef — Cybill Shepard plays Jolene Castille, a famous southern chef who guns down an unarmed, hoodie-wearing black teen in New York
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Associated Press:
MILITARY JURY CONVICTS SOLDIER IN FORT HOOD ATTACK — You are here — Home » Nidal Malik Hasan » Military jury convicts soldier in Fort Hood attack — FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military jury on Friday convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood …
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USA Today:
Nidal Hasan found guilty in Fort Hood killings
Nidal Hasan found guilty in Fort Hood killings
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Chelsea J. Carter / CNN:
Fort Hood shooter guilty of murder
Fort Hood shooter guilty of murder
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Nathan Koppel / Wall Street Journal:
Hasan Found Guilty in Fort Hood Shooting
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama: Law School Should Be Two Years, Not Three — “This is probably controversial to say, but, what the heck, I'm in my second term, so I can say it.” — Jacquelyn Martin / AP — BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — President Barack Obama told a town hall crowd in Binghamton, New York …
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Julie Pace / ABC News:
Obama Says Law School Should Be 2 Years, Not 3
Obama Says Law School Should Be 2 Years, Not 3
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama talks race relations in Binghamton
Obama talks race relations in Binghamton
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Filner steps down in deal with San Diego city council — San Diego Mayor Bob Filner stepped down on Friday after the City Council voted to accept his resignation as part of a settlement deal concerning the embattled mayor's future. — Eighteen women have so far accused the Democratic mayor …
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Washington Free Beacon:
Filner Resigns, Plays the Victim — San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pointed fingers at the “media and their political agents” for executing a “political coup” to oust him from office following allegations of sexual misconduct Friday in his resignation speech. — Filner acknowledged he provided the …
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Rush Limbaugh:
Irrelevant? Obama Declares Your Host His #1 Obstacle as EIB Inks Deal with Cumulus, Gets New Station in the Big Apple — RUSH: So I got in here at the usual time after working very early this morning, late into last night on show prep and stuff, and at about ten o'clock I get an e-mail …
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Fox News:
Found: Samantha Power in Ireland during urgent Syria meeting, sources say — Mystery solved. America's ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power was in Ireland on a personal trip when she missed an emergency meeting on the alleged chemical gas attack in Syria, U.N. sources tell Fox News.
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Adam Housley / Fox News:
Team involved in tracking Benghazi suspects pulling out, sources say
Team involved in tracking Benghazi suspects pulling out, sources say
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
France cannot take any more taxes, government admits — France's Socialist government has admitted that the country cannot cope with any further tax rises and promised no more hikes just days ahead of the country's largest ever tax bill. — President François Hollande has enacted …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
NIH Director On Sequestration: ‘God Help Us If We Get A Worldwide Pandemic’ — BETHESDA, Md. — In his first-floor office in the main building of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the institutes, has hung a series of framed pictures.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Al Gore and ‘Category 6 hurricanes’ — On Wednesday, I published an interview with Al Gore in which he mentioned that the scientific community was beginning to consider Category 6 hurricanes. The line has attracted some criticism because there are no official plans to add a sixth category to the 1-5 scale.
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Dylan Wohlenhaus / KHQ-TV:
BREAKING UPDATE: One Suspect In Custody After WWII Veteran Beaten To Death — BREAKING NEWS: Major crimes investigators have just confirmed that one teenager has been arrested in the beating death of WWII veteran Delbert Belton. One suspect remains on the loose. Charges of 1st degree murder and 1st degree robbery pending.
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Sebastian Murdock / The Huffington Post:
Delbert Belton, WWII Vet, Beaten To Death By Teens
Delbert Belton, WWII Vet, Beaten To Death By Teens
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
If This is Recovery, God Save Us from a Slowdown — Is the economy heading for another recession? Heck if I know. — What we can tell, however, is how weak the current “recovery” is. Investors Business Daily runs down the dismal numbers in “Obama's Economy-Help, We've Fallen and Can't Get Up”:
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