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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, Telegraph, Mediaite, 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, Guardian, Talking Points Memo, WorldViews, Gawker, Mediaite, The Verge, The New Civil Rights Movement and Washington Free Beacon
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, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Business Insider and Telegraph, more at Mediagazer »
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, 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 Watch, Right Wing News, Right Turn, Power Line, 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, PoliticusUSA, The Plum Line, USA Today 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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Fox News, The Heritage Foundation and CNN
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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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
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
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton: I'm Not Comparing Putin To Hitler, I'm Just Saying He's Acting Like Hitler — “I'm not making a comparison certainly, but I am recommending that we perhaps can learn from this tactic that has been used before.” — View Video › — Former Secretary …
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Politico and PoliticusUSA
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Why Putin Doesn't Respect Us
Why Putin Doesn't Respect Us
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Hot Air, Questions and Observations, The Week and National Review
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, Bloomberg View, Talking Points Memo, The Dish and The Federalist
Max Seddon / BuzzFeed:
Inside Vladimir Putin's Paranoid Vision
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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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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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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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, Daily Kos, Washington Free Beacon, ThinkProgress and CNN
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
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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The Moderate Voice and Politico
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, Mediaite and The Raw Story
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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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
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 …
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, CNN, Bloomberg View and The Verge
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
New Democratic Strategy Goes After Koch Brothers — WASHINGTON — Charles G. and David H. Koch, the billionaire brothers who are perhaps the best-known patrons of conservative Republican politics, are bespectacled and in their 70s. They look genial enough.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Some Policies Get More Time in Health Shift — 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 for two more years …
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Roll Call and Josh Blackman's Blog
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