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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
MH370: Australian plane detects new objects - live updates — Sort by: — 10.06am GMT — Here's the full-text of Hishammuddin's opening statement to today's breifing: … Updated at 10.06am GMT — 9.59am GMT — Malaysia's daily press briefing has come to an end.
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CNN:
Flight 370 passenger's relative: ‘All lives are lost’ — (CNN) — Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down over the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Monday, citing a new analysis of satellite data by a British satellite company and accident investigators, and apparently ending hopes that anyone survived.
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ABC News, Rush Limbaugh, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, Hot Air and The Week
Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals — The remains of more than 15,000 babies were incinerated as ‘clinical waste’ by hospitals in Britain with some used in ‘waste to energy’ plants — The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste …
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The Daily Caller, The Federalist, Mediaite, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Right Wing News and National Review
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Wealth Over Work — It seems safe to say that “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year — and maybe of the decade. Mr. Piketty, arguably the world's leading expert on income and wealth inequality …
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Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Mahablog and Daily Kos
Stephanie Simon / Politico:
Taxpayers fund creationism in the classroom — Taxpayers in 14 states will bankroll nearly $1 billion this year in tuition for private schools, including hundreds of religious schools that teach Earth is less than 10,000 years old, Adam and Eve strolled the garden with dinosaurs …
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Eduwonk, The Raw Story, Diane Ravitch's blog, Daily Kos, Mediaite and Hit & Run
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Inquiry Is Said to Clear Christie, but That's His Lawyers' Verdict — With his office suddenly engulfed in scandal over lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey two months ago summoned a pair of top defense lawyers from an elite law firm to the State House …
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Hunter Walker / Business Insider:
Meet Business Insider's Newest Political Columnist — Anthony Weiner — Business Insider is very pleased to announce former New York City mayoral candidate and Congressman Anthony Weiner will be contributing a new monthly column to our politics page. — The new column, which will be titled …
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Talking Points Memo, Post Politics, VodkaPundit and The Huffington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
Democrats to Nate Silver: You're Wrong — Guy Cecil says the famed statistician was wrong in 2012 and will be wrong again in 2014 with his prediction of a GOP Senate takeover. — NEW YORK, NY - MAY 21: Nate Silver attends the 16th Annual Webby Awards at Hammerstein Ballroom on May 21, 2012 in New York City.
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Karen Heller / Philly.com:
The gifts that keep on giving — The failed, shuttered, and yet much-debated attorney general's sting against Democratic elected officials is like a poor man's American Hustle, something David O. Russell wouldn't touch with a bad comb-over. — It seems so terribly Pennsylvanian.
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John Fund / National Review:
Philly DA Blows the Whistle on Pennsylvania's State AG
Philly DA Blows the Whistle on Pennsylvania's State AG
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Philly.com, Hit & Run and Power Line
Peter Baker / New York Times:
3 Presidents and a Riddle Named Putin — WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton found him to be cold and worrisome, but predicted he would be a tough and able leader. George W. Bush wanted to make him a friend and partner in the war on terror, but grew disillusioned over time.
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The Week, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: Russia will ‘pay a price’ — President Obama vowed Russia would “pay a price” for its annexation of Crimea as he kicked off a week of talks with European leaders focused largely on the crisis in Ukraine. — “Europe and America are united in our support of the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian people,” Obama said.
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Weekly Standard, Hot Air and Taylor Marsh
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Obama in Europe: Unity on Ukraine
Evie Salomon / CBS News:
New research points to Nixon in My Lai cover-up attempt — One of the most shameful chapters in American military history, the 1968 massacre of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops, just got worse — This past week marked the 46th anniversary of the My Lai massacre …
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Washington Monthly, susiemadrak.com and Liberaland
ThinkProgress:
Read This One Document To Understand What The Christian Right Hopes To Gain From Hobby Lobby — 2009 was a grim year for social conservatives. Barack Obama was an ambitious and popular new president. Republicans, and their conservative philosophy, were largely discredited in the public eye by a failed war and a massive recession.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Shakesville
Wall Street Journal:
In Crimea, Russia may have gotten jump on West by evading U.S. eavesdropping — In Crimea, U.S. intelligence officials are concluding that Russian planners might have gotten a jump on the West by evading U.S. eavesdropping.
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Power Line, Hot Air, Mediaite and Business Insider
Wall Street Journal:
Apple is in talks with Comcast about streaming-TV service. — Apple is in talks with Comcast about a streaming-TV service that would use an Apple set-top box and try to bypass congestion on the Web.
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Washington is headed for disaster: Column — New novel spotlights the weakness of our country in the face of crisis. — I've just finished reading Bill Quick's new disaster novel, Lightning Fall, and it's got me thinking about national disasters, and what to do about them.
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TheBlaze.com and Hit & Run
ThinkProgress:
American Workers Give Female Executives Poor Ratings As Bosses — In its annual report of the Highest Rated CEOs of 2014, based on employee feedback gathered during the last year, just two women appear on Glassdoor's list, and they don't break into the top 30. The top 10 are all white men.
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N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
When the Scientist Is Also a Philosopher — Do you want to know a dirty little secret of economists who give policy advice? When we do so, we are often speaking not just as economic scientists, but also as political philosophers. Our recommendations are based not only on our understanding …
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The New Republic and Washington Monthly
Lin-Fan Wang / Talking Points Memo:
The Danger Of Giving Science And Religion Equal Weight On Birth Control Cases — When it comes to women's health issues like contraception and abortion, why does the press so often present opinion and fact side by side? Recent pieces in Reuters,the New York Times and SCOTUSblog …
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Washington Monthly, New York Times and The Raw Story