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Dylan Byers / Politico:
‘Journalism has died’ at New York Times: Graham, McCain slam Benghazi report — Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain harshly criticized The New York Times on Thursday over a recent report which concluded that Al Qaeda was not involved in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.
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Kyle Drennen / NewsBusters:
Network Coverage of ‘Scathing’ Benghazi Report Doesn't Mention Obama's Name Once
Network Coverage of ‘Scathing’ Benghazi Report Doesn't Mention Obama's Name Once
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NewsBusters blogs, No More Mister Nice Blog and Ed Driscoll
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Pentagon's hands tied on hunting down Benghazi attackers
Pentagon's hands tied on hunting down Benghazi attackers
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CNN, Politico and Jammie Wearing Fools
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Lawmakers seek to stymie plan to shift control of drone campaign from CIA to Pentagon
Lawmakers seek to stymie plan to shift control of drone campaign from CIA to Pentagon
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Guardian, Firedoglake, Wired, Post Politics, Hot Air, RT, emptywheel and National Review
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Stevens Cabled Washington: CIA Says ‘AQ [Al Qaeda] Training Camps Within Benghazi’
Stevens Cabled Washington: CIA Says ‘AQ [Al Qaeda] Training Camps Within Benghazi’
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Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Can Hillary Clinton survive Benghazi?
Can Hillary Clinton survive Benghazi?
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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Initial Thoughts on the Proposed Amendments to the Voting Rights Act — I have now had a chance to review the text the Voting Rights Amendments Act of 2014 introduced today by Representatives Sensenbrenner and Conyers (with parallel legislation being introduced by Senator Leahy in the Senate).
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Ari Berman / thenation.com/blogs/163253:
Members of Congress Introduce a new Fix for the Voting Rights Act — Marchers at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington, August 24, 2013. (REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan) — Today Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy …
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Connecting.the.Dots, ThinkProgress, Wonkblog, Election Law Blog and theGrio
Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Voting Rights Act Fix (Updated)
Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Voting Rights Act Fix (Updated)
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Daily Kos, Colorlines and Washington Monthly
Alan Duke / CNN:
'Gilligan's' ‘professor’ dies — (CNN) — Actor Russell Johnson, best known as Professor in the 1960s TV sitcom “Gilligan's Island,” died Thursday, his agent said. Johnson was 89. — Johnson played the iconic role of Professor Roy Hinkley, whose scientific schemes to get the castaways rescued …
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CNN:
CNN exclusive: Port Authority job created for Christie ally, source says — Who's who in Christie bridge scandal — (CNN) — Give him a position at the top of the agency; he's a good friend of the governor. — That's how David Wildstein was introduced to the Port Authority of New York …
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1/15: NBC News/Marist Poll: Are New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's Political Plans Bottlenecked?
1/15: NBC News/Marist Poll: Are New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's Political Plans Bottlenecked?
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / CNN:
Christie: What you need to know — (CNN) - New Jersey …
Christie: What you need to know — (CNN) - New Jersey …
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New Jersey Online, Politico, Right Turn and Ed Driscoll
Associated Press:
Executed Ohio killer Dennis McGuire took 15 minutes to die with never-before-tried drugs — The two-drug combination was used for the first time on the convicted killer and rapist, who stabbed pregnant woman Joy Stewart to death in 1989. — Condemned killer Dennis McGuire was executed using a never-tried lethal cocktail.
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Alan Johnson / The Columbus Dispatch:
Killer struggles, gasps repeatedly under new 2-drug combination
Killer struggles, gasps repeatedly under new 2-drug combination
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New York Times and NBCNews
James Ball / Guardian:
NSA collects millions of text messages daily in ‘untargeted’ global sweep — The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents.
Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security:
Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA — This morning I spent an hour in a closed room with six Members of Congress: Rep. Lofgren, Rep. Sensenbrenner, Rep. Scott, Rep. Goodlate, Rep Thompson, and Rep. Amash. No staffers, no public: just them. Lofgren asked me to brief her and a few Representatives on the NSA.
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Firedoglake, emptywheel and Techdirt
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Even Worse Than We Thought — Fascinating email from TPM Reader DW about the sheer level of attempted sabotage down at the ground level in GOP-run Obamacare rejectionist states.
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Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Movie mogul says new Streep film to make NRA 'wish they weren't alive' — Producer reveals secret project to Howard Stern — Movie producer Harvey Weinstein announced for the first time on Howard Stern's radio show that he is making a full feature drama to try to destroy the National Rifle Association.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Harvey Weinstein: I'm Working on Movie That Will Make NRA 'Wish They Weren't Alive'
Harvey Weinstein: I'm Working on Movie That Will Make NRA 'Wish They Weren't Alive'
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Politico, The Raw Story, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and TIME
David Rogers / Politico:
Senate approves $1.1 trillion spending bill — A landmark $1.1 trillion spending bill cleared Congress Thursday evening after conservative resistance collapsed in the Senate and tea party favorite Ted Cruz dropped his insistence on a vote on funding for President Barack Obama's health care plan.
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Ben White / Politico:
How Washington beat Wall Street — NEW YORK — In 2009, Washington went to war against big Wall Street banks hoping to blow up the kind of high-risk, high-reward strategies that helped spark the financial crisis. Five years later, that war is largely over. And Washington won in a blowout.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Who's Rubin's Early Fave for '16? — One of the more amusing pastimes in Washington on slow news days is to observe how certain pundits who are only happy if they are shilling for a presidential campaign seem to be lining up early in the 2016 cycle. Nobody was more prone to this malady …
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Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Presidential contenders' travails in the Senate
Presidential contenders' travails in the Senate
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South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Lauren Tannehill, wife of Dolphins quarterback, leaves rifle in rental car, deputies say — A New York mom vacationing in South Florida was expecting a healthy dose of sun, surf and fun. Imagine her surprise when her daughter unzipped a bag in their rental Nissan Rogue and found a rifle — a big rifle.
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Americans Against the …, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo and Liberaland
Ashlei King / 6:
Author Of Same-Sex Marriage Ban Speaks Out — The author behind Oklahoma's ban on gay marriage is speaking out. — It's been a part of Oklahoma's constitution for ten years. Now, it's been struck down by a federal judge. — That doesn't mean same-sex couples can run straight to the altar.
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LGBTQ Nation, Advocate, Mediaite and The Raw Story
ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Candidate's Ad Touts His ‘Sexy’ Wife And Large Testicles — California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R) wants voters to know that his testicles are very large. And that he wants to put “a gun in every Californian's gun safe.” — That's the image Donnelly's decided to present …