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ThinkProgress:
Meet The 7 Democrats Who Just Voted Down A Civil Rights Nominee For Supporting Civil Rights — Civil Rights nominee Debo Adegbile speaks before the Supreme Court — Debo Adegbile, who previously served as the acting head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, is one of the nation's top civil rights attorneys.
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Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Senate rejects Obama nominee who defended cop killer — The Senate voted 47-52 Wednesday to reject controversial nominee Debo Adegbile as an assistant attorney general. — Seven Democrats voted against moving forward with President Obama's nomination of Adegbile, which the Fraternal Order …
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CNN, his vorpal sword, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Lonely Conservative and Balloon Juice
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats help block Obama's DOJ pick
Democrats help block Obama's DOJ pick
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CNN and The Heritage Foundation
Wesley Lowery / Post Politics:
Senate rejects Obama appointment of Debo Adegbile to top civil rights post
Senate rejects Obama appointment of Debo Adegbile to top civil rights post
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Right Wing News, Right Turn, Right Wing Watch, Power Line and The Fix
Ari Berman / thenation.com/blogs/163253:
Willie Horton Politics: Senate Votes Against Civil Rights
Willie Horton Politics: Senate Votes Against Civil Rights
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The Plum Line, The Fix and PoliticusUSA
Susan Davis / USA Today:
Senate blocks Obama nominee over Mumia Abu-Jamal case
Senate blocks Obama nominee over Mumia Abu-Jamal case
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Washington Free Beacon, Washington Monthly and Jammie Wearing Fools
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Senate Rejects Obama Nominee Linked to Abu-Jamal Case
Senate Rejects Obama Nominee Linked to Abu-Jamal Case
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The Plum Line, Bloomberg View and Weekly Standard
The Daily Beast:
Video: RT Anchor Quits On Air — An American anchor working for state-owned television station Russia Today quit on air on Wednesday. Liz Wahl, in the network's D.C. bureau, announced she could no longer be “part of a network that whitewashes the actions of Putin.
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Talking Points Memo, Guardian, RT, The Verge, Associated Press, WorldViews, Gawker, The New Civil Rights Movement, Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite
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James Kirchick / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: RT Anchor Liz Wahl Explains Why She Quit — Liz Wahl wasn't just disgusted by the Kremlin-funded TV network's handling of Ukraine, she says in an exclusive interview. RT's coverage of the entire world “made me feel sick.” — American journalist Liz Wahl just made Vladimir Putin's enemies list.
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Little Green Footballs, Yahoo! News, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, AMERICAblog News, Gawker, The Huffington Post and The Raw Story
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air
Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Ranking Dem Flips Out At IRS Hearing After Issa Cuts His Mic — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) had looked forward to Wednesday. — The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee planned to haul former IRS official Lois Lerner back before the committee.
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Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, Balloon Juice, The Raw Story, Little Green Footballs and Americans Against the …
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Fox News:
Issa, Cummings clash at hearing after ex-IRS official Lerner takes 5th — A House hearing on the IRS targeting scandal rapidly broke down into a heated and deeply personal argument between a top Democrat and Republican, moments after former IRS official Lois Lerner once again invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to testify.
Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Darrell Issa Holds Absurd IRS Hearing In Which He Is The Only One Allowed To Speak
Darrell Issa Holds Absurd IRS Hearing In Which He Is The Only One Allowed To Speak
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Mediaite and Liberaland
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Probe: Did the CIA spy on the U.S. Senate? — WASHINGTON — The CIA Inspector General's Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of malfeasance at the spy agency in connection with a yet-to-be released Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA's secret detention …
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Firedoglake, The Intercept, The Week, The Dish, emptywheel, ACS Blog, Shakesville, The World's Greatest …, Gawker, Mediaite and Hot Air
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims — White House declines to comment after Mark Udall says agency spied on staffers preparing scathing report into CIA torture after 9/11 — A leading US senator has said that President Obama knew of an “unprecedented action” …
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CANNONFIRE, Hot Air, Hullabaloo, Sister Toldjah, Firedoglake, Techdirt, emptywheel and The Agonist
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Employees Face New Inquiry Amid Clashes on Detention Program
C.I.A. Employees Face New Inquiry Amid Clashes on Detention Program
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The Raw Story, Techdirt, Hit & Run, The Daily Beast, Discourse.net, Prairie Weather, Liberaland, Talking Points Memo and The Week
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Why Putin Doesn't Respect Us — Just as we've turned the coverage of politics into sports, we're doing the same with geopolitics. There is much nonsense being written about how Vladimir Putin showed how he is “tougher” than Barack Obama and how Obama now needs to demonstrate his manhood.
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Questions and Observations and National Review
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
How to Punish Putin — Ignore him. He's running a regional power …
How to Punish Putin — Ignore him. He's running a regional power …
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Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg View, The Week, The Dish and The Federalist
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
27 Democrats support House GOP measure to delay ObamaCare penalty — Twenty-seven Democrats on Wednesday sided with House Republicans on a bill to delay tax penalties for failing to buy health insurance this year under ObamaCare. — The vote, which reflects growing Republican frustration …
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Politico, CNN, ThinkProgress, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon and Daily Kos
Union-News:
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Upskirt photos not illegal under state law — A rusty Green Line train idles at Lechmere Station in January 2014. (Garrett Quinn, MassLive) — Garrett Quinn, MassLive.com By Garrett Quinn, MassLive.com — BOSTON — The Massachusetts Supreme …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, CBS Boston and The Week
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Mark Pratt / WBUR:
‘Upskirt’ Photos Not Illegal, Mass. High Court Rules
‘Upskirt’ Photos Not Illegal, Mass. High Court Rules
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ThinkProgress and Althouse
Natalie DiBlasio / USA Today:
Facebook cracks down on gun posts, sales — Facebook is cracking down on gun-related posts. — The social media giant is blocking minors from seeing postings of gun sales and will take down sales that don't require a background check or cross state lines.
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Washington Free Beacon and protein wisdom
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Mary Jo Pitzl / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Sen. Gallardo discloses he's gay — FONT: — State Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, disclosed he is gay at a news conference Wednesday morning, saying the furor over Senate Bill 1062 prompted his decision to go public. — “Two weeks ago was a difference, Feb. 19 was an actual game changer …
Kyle Whitmire / al.com:
Rep. Alvin Holmes says white Republican lawmakers would abort mixed-race grandchildren (audio) — MONTGOMERY, Alabama — A debate Tuesday over a bill to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected turned to race after Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, R-Indian Springs, compared her bill to Brown vs. the Board of Education.
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Francis: the Pope is “a normal person”, not Superman — In an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera, Pope Francis says he is a normal person, not superman, and speaks about the family, child abuse, foreign trips, relations with the Orthodox, China, and how he governs the Church
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Advocate
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Obama Extends Renewal Period for Noncompliant Insurance Policies — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Wednesday that it would allow consumers to renew health insurance policies that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act for two more years. — The action helps Democrats …
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Roll Call and Josh Blackman's Blog
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Americans will be able to keep old insurance plans longer under rewrite of health-care rules
Americans will be able to keep old insurance plans longer under rewrite of health-care rules
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NewsBusters and The Heritage Foundation
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
A New SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork — Saying its college admission exams do not focus enough on the important academic skills, the College Board announced on Wednesday a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong, cutting obscure vocabulary words and making the essay optional.
RT:
Estonian Foreign Ministry confirms authenticity of leaked call on Kiev snipers — Estonian foreign ministry has confirmed the recording of his conversation with EU foreign policy chief is authentic. Urmas Paet said that snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were hired by Maidan leaders.
Fox News:
Judge rejects financial support requests by New Jersey teen suing parents — A New Jersey honor student suing her parents in a potentially precedent-setting lawsuit had her motions for financial support, including high school tuition payment, denied Tuesday by a judge who said it would set …
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CNN, American Spectator and Rush Limbaugh