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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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Politico, The Huffington Post, Taylor Marsh, emptywheel, Firedoglake, Joe. My. God., Hullabaloo and Crooks and Liars, more at Mediagazer »
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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 …
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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Politico, The Huffington Post and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies
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The Hinterland Gazette, The Verge, Techdirt and emptywheel, more at Mediagazer »
Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
Report: NSA paid tech companies to comply with surveillance
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The Switch
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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Right Wing Watch, Crooks and Liars, No More Mister Nice Blog, American Thinker and National Review
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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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VICE, Ed Driscoll, Washington Monthly, theGrio, Shakesville and The Huffington Post
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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Washington Monthly
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Julie Pace / ABC News:
Obama Says Law School Should Be 2 Years, Not 3 — President Barack Obama says law schools in the U.S. should cut down to two years instead of three to cut costs for students. — Obama says students do most of their classroom learning in the first two years of law school.
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CNN and ProfessorBainbridge.com
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
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Los Angeles Times, The Hinterland Gazette, KHQ-TV, NBCNews, Scared Monkeys, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and BizPac Review
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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Associated Press, Weasel Zippers, Hit & Run, Firedoglake, Hillicon Valley, emptywheel, The Verge, Little Green Footballs, NPR, The Raw Story and Techdirt
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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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, KGTV-TV, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice and CNN
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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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Ed Driscoll, National Review and Weasel Zippers
USA Today:
Nidal Hasan found guilty in Fort Hood killings — The panel voted unanimously to convict the Army psychiatrist for the rampage that left 13 dead and 31 injured. — CONNECT — Maj. Nidal Hasan, the radicalized Army psychiatrist who turned his gun on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood four years ago …
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The Week, The PJ Tatler, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Daily Caller, The Raw Story and National Review
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Chelsea J. Carter / CNN:
Fort Hood shooter guilty of murder
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Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, Yahoo! News, KTLA 5, The Jawa Report, Washington Post, Ed Driscoll, Sic Semper Tyrannis and Shakesville
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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PoliticusUSA, NewsBusters, Deadline.com and Althouse
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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The Hill, News Desk, Mediaite, Hot Air and National Review
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Adam Housley / Fox News:
Team involved in tracking Benghazi suspects pulling out, sources say
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Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, BizPac Review and National Review
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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Politico, E2-Wire, National Review, Capital Weather Gang, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and Watts Up With That?
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Blake Neff / The Hill:
Obama joined by Biden in Scranton to close out college tour — President Obama closed out his two-day tour of colleges accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden as the two appeared together at Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pa. — The president has been promoting a plan to create a system …
Chicago Business:
James Pritzker opens new chapter in her life — Col. James Pritzker, the ever-private billionaire and an heir to the Pritzker fortune, has come out in the open about his personal life. — In a memo to employees at the Pritzker Military Library and Tawani Enterprises …
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BuzzFeed, Advocate and The Raw Story
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Bradley Manning Is Not a Woman — Dennis Avner was not a tiger, and Bradley Manning is not a woman. Mr. Manning, who upon his sentencing for his role in the WikiLeaks case announced that he desires to live out his days as a woman called Chelsea, is what he is, and no amount of pronoun play …
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ThinkProgress, Booman Tribune, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, Althouse, VICE, Ed Driscoll and TheBlaze.com
Investor's Business Daily:
Obama's Economy — We've Fallen And Can't Get Up — Economy: Household incomes are still down 4.4% since the recession ended four years ago. Meanwhile, the unemployment picture may be even worse than we think. The Obama “recovery” continues to impress. — According to a report released …
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The Impolitic
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
If This is Recovery, God Save Us from a Slowdown
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