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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS News — CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has reached an agreement to resign from CBS News ahead of contract, bringing an end to months of hard-fought negotiations, sources familiar with her departure told POLITICO on Monday.
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Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Ukraine may have to go nuclear, says Kiev lawmaker — KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine may have to arm itself with nuclear weapons if the United States and other world powers refuse to enforce a security pact that obligates them to reverse the Moscow-backed takeover of Crimea, a member of the Ukraine parliament told USA TODAY.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
PUTIN'S PIQUE — In 1990, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn emerged …
PUTIN'S PIQUE — In 1990, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn emerged …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
26 Democrats Plan a Senate All-Nighter on Climate Change — WASHINGTON — The Senate was headed into another all-nighter Monday evening as 26 Democrats who call themselves the “climate caucus” planned to speak nonstop about climate change from about 6:30 p.m. until 9 a.m. Tuesday.
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ThinkProgress:
Neil DeGrasse Tyson To Science Deniers: ‘Science Is Not There For You To Cherry Pick’ — CREDIT: Frank Micelotta/Invision for FOX/AP Images — Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and host of National Geographic and Fox's new show Cosmos, said Sunday that he thinks the media needs …
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The PJ Tatler, The Huffington Post and The Raw Story
Manu Raju / Politico:
Harry Reid plots to block potential 2016 foe — Harry Reid isn't on Nevada's ballot this year, but he may as well be. — The shrewd Senate majority leader is putting the strength of his formidable political machine behind a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor whose fate …
Shawn Boburg / NorthJersey.com:
Feds withdraw subpoena of Port Authority chairman in conflict of interest investigation — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have withdrawn a subpoena seeking records related to Port Authority Chairman David Samson, knowledgeable sources said Monday afternoon.
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Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:
Federal Prosecutors Seek Records on Port Authority Chairman
Federal Prosecutors Seek Records on Port Authority Chairman
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Marisa Schultz / detroitnews.com:
Dexter cancer patient who called health care ‘unaffordable’ will save more than $1K — Washington— A Dexter cancer patient featured in a conservative group's TV ad campaign denouncing her new health care coverage as “unaffordable” will save more than $1,000 this year.
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Justin McCurry / Guardian:
Where to dump contaminated water — As Japan marks the third anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, Tepco is struggling to find a solution for hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated water — A senior adviser to the operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama's New Approach Takes a Humorous Turn — WASHINGTON — In “Between Two Ferns,” an off-color online parody of celebrity interview shows, the comedian Zach Galifianakis has spanked Justin Bieber with his belt, discussed Charlize Theron's thighs and asked Natalie Portman for her phone number.
Jim Sleeper / Washington Monthly:
Leon Wieseltier's Moral Posturing on Crimea Suggests He Learned Nothing From his Moral Posturing on Iraq — “There is the question of how to respond practically to Putin's aggression and there is the question of how to respond intellectually,” writes Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Snowden Inc. — First, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden popped up in Hong Kong. Then, Russia. By Monday, the fugitive from justice, a man regularly accused of treason, was in Austin, Texas, hitting the nation's hottest tech festival — via the Web, of course.
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Jeffrey Thompson, alleged ‘shadow campaign’ funder, is charged in federal court — D.C. businessman Jeffrey E. Thompson, once a major government contractor, was charged Monday in a campaign finance conspiracy that has tarnished the tenure of Mayor Vincent C. Gray and threatened his ambitions for a second term.
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Thomas Frank / Salon:
We are all right-wingers now: How Fox News, ineffective liberals, corporate Dems and GOP money captured everything — I used to talk to the political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. a lot back in the '90s when we both lived in Chicago and wrote for the same magazines.
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Wall Street Journal and VodkaPundit
Kevin Loker / Pew Research Center:
61% of young Republicans favor same-sex marriage — There is a little nuance here, right? Judging by the chart, the question asked whether they favor gays and lesbians to marry *legally*. That part doesn't really filter into the write-up: — A more accurate version of the second graph would read …
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Michele Bachmann Laments That ‘The Gay Community Have So Bullied The American People’ — Still reeling from the demise of Arizona's “right-to-discriminate” bill, Michele Bachmann said last week that she is tired of gay people “bullying” her and the American people.
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Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
Poll shows Paul Broun with double-digit lead in GOP Senate race — A poll released Monday conducted by left-leaning Public Policy Polling is showing some separation in the wide-open GOP contest to replace U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss. — The poll, commissioned by the lefty guerrilla group Better Georgia …
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Erica Goode / New York Times:
Little-Known Health Act Fact: Prison Inmates Are Signing Up — In a little-noticed outcome of President Obama's Affordable Care Act, jails and prisons around the country are beginning to sign up inmates for health insurance under the law, taking advantage of the expansion of Medicaid …
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