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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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Jenna Levy / Gallup:
U.S. Uninsured Rate Continues to Fall — Uninsured rate drops most among lower-income and black Americans — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of Americans without health insurance continues to fall, measuring 15.9% so far in 2014 compared with 17.1% in the fourth quarter of 2013.
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Erica Goode / New York Times:
Little-Known Health Act Fact: Prison Inmates Are Signing Up
Little-Known Health Act Fact: Prison Inmates Are Signing Up
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NewsBusters, Mediaite and Fox News
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Morning Plum: As GOP certainty about Obamacare's collapse deepens, number of uninsured falls again
Morning Plum: As GOP certainty about Obamacare's collapse deepens, number of uninsured falls again
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Politico, The Hill, The Fix and ThinkProgress
Andrew Solomon / New Yorker:
The father of the Sandy Hook killer searches for answers. — In Peter Lanza's new house, on a secluded private road in Fairfield County, Connecticut, is an attic room overflowing with shipping crates of what he calls “the stuff.” Since the day in December, 2012, when his son Adam killed his own mother …
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Sen. Rand Paul / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE-RAND PAUL: STOP WARPING REAGAN'S FOREIGN POLICY — Every Republican likes to think he or she is the next Ronald Reagan. Some who say this do so for lack of their own ideas and agenda. Reagan was a great leader and President. But too often people make him into something …
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Sen. Rand Paul / TIME:
U.S. Must Take Strong Action Against Putin's Aggression
U.S. Must Take Strong Action Against Putin's Aggression
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American Spectator, Mediaite, Post Politics, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh and CNN
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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Susan Davis / USA Today:
Democrats plan all-night ‘talkathon’ on climate change
Democrats plan all-night ‘talkathon’ on climate change
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Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
Democrats to stage climate ‘talkathon’
Democrats to stage climate ‘talkathon’
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
John Kerry's brutal CNN joke — Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a knife to the heart of CNN during Saturday night's address at the annual Gridiron Club dinner, the white-tie-and-tails event hosted by Washington's most prestigious press group. — During a humorous and well-received speech …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
CPAC BONUS SATURDAY — THE PRINCESS IN EXCELSIS … WASHINGTON, D.C. — By now, and by god, it should have settled permanently in the consciousness of the nation what a huge and untoward gamble with the country John McCain and his campaign took in 2008 when they elevated Sarah Palin …
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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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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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Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
'True Detective's' predictable, simplistic finale — Editor's note: Alyssa Rosenberg is PostOpinions's new culture blogger. Her own blog will be launching in the coming days. This post discusses the season finale of “True Detective” in extensive detail.
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John Tierney / The Atlantic Online:
The True Detective Finale: That's It?
The True Detective Finale: That's It?
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Bill Clinton slams ‘crazy’ moves on Ukraine — Former President Bill Clinton on Monday jabbed Russian President Vladimir Putin for treating Ukraine as a “piece on the international chessboard” without concern for its people, and added that pushing the country toward a split was a “crazy,” outdated maneuver.
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Jethro Mullen / CNN:
Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: What we know and don't know — (CNN) — Three days ago, a Malaysian passenger jet with more than 200 people on board vanished in the skies over Southeast Asia. — On Monday, investigators appeared to be no closer to explaining how a large plane could seemingly disappear into thin air.
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Siva Govindasamy / Reuters:
Exclusive: Malaysia plane probe narrows on mid-air disintegration - source
Exclusive: Malaysia plane probe narrows on mid-air disintegration - source
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Israel Matzav, Shakesville and National Review
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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Justin McCurry / Guardian:
Fukushima operator may have to dump contaminated water into Pacific — Senior adviser to Tokyo Electric Power says controlled release into sea is much safer than keeping contaminated water on-site — A senior adviser to the operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant …
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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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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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ThinkProgress:
Meet America's Most Hated Doctors — You received years of specialized training in a field that you're passionate about. You've decided to work in an area of the country where you feel you can make a difference. You have a family, and you're primarily concerned about helping other families thrive.
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Colleen Crinion / Talking Points Memo:
Today We Honor Abortion Providers
Today We Honor Abortion Providers
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Eliana Johnson / National Review:
The New Glenn Beck — Glenn Beck is tired of politics. — “I think politics is a game, and I think people watch politics as a game, like they watch the NFL,” he tells me, leaning back in his chair. He once thought Washington politicians “actually believed in something.” Now, he says, “I don't think they do.”
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Republican Congressman Says The Government Didn't Shut Down During The Government Shutdown — South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Sanford says the government shutdown wasn't really a shutdown. — South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Sanford claimed in an interview that was posted on YouTube Sunday that the …
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