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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Trey Radel to resign House seat — Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) will resign from Congress on Monday, according to multiple sources. — Radel, 37, was caught buying cocaine in November from an undercover federal agent in Washington and spent nearly a month in a rehabilitation facility.
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Radel to resign on Monday
Radel to resign on Monday
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Leslie Larson / NY Daily News:
Trey Radel to resign from Congress after cocaine scandal
Trey Radel to resign from Congress after cocaine scandal
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James Ball / Guardian:
NSA and GCHQ target ‘leaky’ phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data — GCHQ documents use Angry Birds - reportedly downloaded more than 1.7bn times - as a case study for app data collection. — The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities …
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New York Times:
Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data — When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spy agencies have plotted how to lurk in the background to snatch data revealing the player's location, age …
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Time for Obama to punch hard — As President Obama goes to Capitol Hill for his State of the Union address he is telling the world he is fed up with Congress — the paralysis and the GOP obstruction — but his anger is secondary to signs that he is a demoralized lame duck.
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Assert Unilateral Agenda
Obama to Assert Unilateral Agenda
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Some Republicans Departing From Response Script
Some Republicans Departing From Response Script
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BBC:
Sochi 2014: No gay people in city, says mayor — The mayor of Sochi, host of the Winter Olympics, has said there are no gay people in the city. — Anatoly Pakhomov said homosexuals were welcome at the Games - as long as they “respect Russian law” and “don't impose their habits on others”.
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Ezra Klein / The Verge:
Vox is our next — Early last year, Melissa Bell, Matt Yglesias and I began wrestling with a question that had bugged all of us for a long time: why hadn't the Internet made the news better at delivering crucial context alongside new information? — This year, we're founding a new publication …
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David Carr / New York Times:
Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself
Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself
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Greg Richter / NewsMax.com:
D'Souza Producer: ‘I Never Feared My Govt Until Now’ — More ways to share... Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Newstrust — Tell my politician — Technocrati — Get Short Link — Gerald Molen, the producer of Dinesh D'Souza's documentary film “2016: Obama's America,” …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Dinesh D'Souza's ‘America’ Trailer Released (Video)
Dinesh D'Souza's ‘America’ Trailer Released (Video)
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Chicago News and Weather:
Gary woman admits selling baby for sex — HAMMOND, Ind. (Sun-Times Media Wire) - — A Gary, Ind. woman admitted this week that she sold a baby eight times to a Gary man for sex and was in the room for all the meetings except for the last one. — Natisha Hillard, 25 …
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Deficit Reduction Declines as Policy Priority — Just Half of Democrats Rate Deficit as ‘Top Priority’ — For the first time since Barack Obama took office in 2009, deficit reduction has slipped as a policy priority among the public. Overall, 63% say reducing the budget deficit …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Paranoia of the Plutocrats — Rising inequality has obvious economic costs: stagnant wages despite rising productivity, rising debt that makes us more vulnerable to financial crisis. It also has big social and human costs. There is, for example, strong evidence that high inequality leads to worse health and higher mortality.
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz's Father Blames Hackers For ‘Pornographic’ Facebook Post — Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) father, Rafael Cruz, issued an apology Sunday evening for what he described as a “pornographic picture” that was posted on his personal Facebook page. The elder Cruz, a pastor and popular conservative speaker, blamed the incident on hackers.
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Supporters Want Iowa To Want Her — “You guys want a list. Iowans want a sense of engagement and conversation and dialogue like they got on the Obama campaign.” The super PAC takes the first of what they say will be many trips to the early caucus state. — Justin Hayworth / Associated Press
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton supporters get a head start organizing for 2016 Iowa caucuses
Hillary Clinton supporters get a head start organizing for 2016 Iowa caucuses
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Matt West / Boston Herald:
Sheriffs cheer pot shot, say DEA chief ripped Obama remarks — Photo by: — WE'RE ‘FRUSTRATED’: Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson, above, lauded DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart after she criticized President Obama for comparing smoking marijuana to drinking alcohol. — By:
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Timothy P. Carney on Chuck Schumer: Voice of the little man, courtier of plutocrats — TEA PARTY CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS LOBBYING CHUCK SCHUMER REVOLVING DOOR — The favorite senator of Wall Street and K Street explained to a liberal D.C. audience last week how to defang the Tea Party …
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Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
How Scott Walker and the conservatives saved Wisconsin. America, take note — There was a time when Wisconsin was headline news. You must remember the story? Wisconsinites elected some caveman called Scott Walker as their governor on a platform of drowning government in the bath.
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Steve Stockman rips press over MIA claim — Rep. Steve Stockman says he has not been missing in action this month and blasted the media for claiming that no one knew where he was . — The Texas Republican slammed an Associated Press story last week that detailed him missing every vote …
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