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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, No More Mister Nice Blog, his vorpal sword, Weekly Standard, The Lonely Conservative and Balloon Juice
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 Wing Watch, Power Line, Right Turn, Washington Monthly 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 Fix, USA Today, The Plum Line, PoliticusUSA and Jammie Wearing Fools
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
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, Telegraph, Mediaite, Bloomberg View, The Daily Caller, Gawker, AMERICAblog News, The Raw Story and The Huffington Post
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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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RT, Talking Points Memo, Guardian, WorldViews, The Verge, Gawker, The New Civil Rights Movement, Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air — “I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government which whitewashes the actions of Putin.” — youtube.com — WASHINGTON — Russia Today America anchor Liz Wahl resigned Wednesday live on air, saying she could no longer work …
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The Wire, The Raw Story, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Mediaite and Telegraph, more at Mediagazer »
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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Mediaite, Taylor Marsh, ThinkProgress, The Raw Story, Little Green Footballs and Americans Against the …
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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Darrell Issa Holds Absurd IRS Hearing In Which He Is The Only One Allowed To Speak — WASHINGTON — A congressional hearing into the furor over political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service descended into political theater of the absurd Wednesday, as the former IRS official at the heart …
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Mediaite and Liberaland
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Darrell Issa silences Democrats and hits a new low
Darrell Issa silences Democrats and hits a new low
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Balloon Juice and The Raw Story
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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New York Times, Firedoglake, Obsidian Wings, 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
Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims
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CANNONFIRE, Sister Toldjah, Hot Air, Hullabaloo, 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 Verge, The Raw Story, Techdirt, The Daily Beast, Hit & Run, Liberaland, Discourse.net, Prairie Weather, 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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Hot Air, Questions and Observations, The Week and National Review
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton: I'm Not Comparing Putin To Hitler, I'm Just Saying He's Acting Like Hitler
Hillary Clinton: I'm Not Comparing Putin To Hitler, I'm Just Saying He's Acting Like Hitler
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Politico and PoliticusUSA
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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Agence France Presse, BuzzFeed, Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg View, The Dish and The Federalist
Mark Pratt / WBUR:
‘Upskirt’ Photos Not Illegal, Mass. High Court Rules — BOSTON — A man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of women riding the Boston subway did not violate state law because the women were not nude or partially nude, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Wednesday.
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ThinkProgress and Althouse
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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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Hot Air, Politico, CNN, Daily Kos, Washington Free Beacon and ThinkProgress
CNN:
Republican Rand Paul: There ‘should be a struggle to make the party better’ — Washington (CNN) - Sen. Rand Paul delivered a fervent plea Wednesday to expand the Republican Party and make the GOP more compassionate toward those “who aren't treated fairly by the criminal justice system,” …
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Politico and The Moderate Voice
CBS News:
Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize — Shares - — OSLO — Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize but the conflict in Ukraine is also likely to be on the Nobel committee's agenda. — A record 278 candidates, including 47 organizations …
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The Daily Caller
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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NY Daily News, protein wisdom, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, The Raw Story and Mediaite
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 …
Telegraph:
Welcome to Paradise — When Germany legalised prostitution in 2002 it triggered an apparently unstoppable growth in the country's sex industry. It's now worth 15 billion euros a year and embraces everything from 12-storey mega-brothels to outdoor sex boxes. Nisha Lilia Diu visits some of them to find out who won and who lost
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.
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News Desk, Bloomberg View, CNN and The Verge
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Obama Extends Renewal Period for Noncompliant Insurance Policies — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, grappling with continued political fallout over its health care law, said Wednesday that it would allow consumers to renew health insurance policies that did not comply with the new law …
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Roll Call and Josh Blackman's Blog
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