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10:45 AM ET, March 25, 2014

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.'s Bulk Data Collection  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agency's once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that — if approved by Congress …
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Obama to set out proposal to end NSA's mass collection of phone data  —  Administration plan would require NSA to seek a court order to search phone records held by telecoms companies  —  The Obama administration is to set out how it proposes to end the mass collection of Americans' phone call data …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
White House plan would end NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone data
Discussion: Hot Air and Marginal REVOLUTION
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters:
Obama to propose curbing NSA bulk collection of phone records: report
Discussion: Guardian and Liberaland
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH: Thrillseekers Base Jump From World Trade Center, Catch It On Helmet Cam  —  The world never got to see any of the photos a New Jersey 16-year-old took when he spent two hours at the top of 1 World Trade Center before getting caught last week, but this insane video makes up for it.
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Rocco Parascandola / NY Daily News:
Helmet camera shows skydiver's remarkable jump from World Trade Center  —  WARNING GRAPHIC LANGUAGE IN VIDEO: The three daredevils, along with their lookout, pulled off a breathtaking jump from the Freedom Tower.  But the price they paid was surrendering to cops Monday to face charges such as burglary.
Discussion: The Week
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP finds unwinding Obamacare vexing now that it's taken root  —  Republicans are still determined to repeal Obamacare, even though they have famously failed to unite behind an alternative.  Now, it is dawning on some in the GOP that even if they succeed in repealing the Affordable Care Act …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
David Brock reflects on his Clinton evolution  —  David Brock's long journey trailing Bill and Hillary Clinton — first as a nemesis and now as an ally — is leading him to the couple's former home state of Arkansas.  —  It's there, in a highly anticipated speech Tuesday …
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
McCaskill says relationship with Hillary Clinton is ‘fine’
Discussion: Politico
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Selling a Poison by the Barrel: Liquid Nicotine for E-Cigarettes  —  A dangerous new form of a powerful stimulant is hitting markets nationwide, for sale by the vial, the gallon and even the barrel.  —  The drug is nicotine, in its potent, liquid form — extracted from tobacco and tinctured …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Justice Scalia's Past Comes Back To Haunt Him On Birth Control  —  When the Supreme Court hears two landmark cases about birth control on Tuesday, few observers doubt that Justice Antonin Scalia's sympathies will be the Catholic business owners who charge that the mandate violates their religious liberties.
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Gabriel Malor / The Federalist:
Six Lies The Leftist Media Tells About The Contraception Mandate Cases
Washington Post:
Billionaire mogul Sheldon Adelson looks for mainstream Republican who can win in 2016  —  Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who along with his wife plowed more than $92 million into efforts to help mostly losing candidates in the 2012 elections, is undertaking a new strategy for 2016 …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Risen: Obama administration is this generation's ‘greatest enemy of press freedom’  —  “It won't take me long to alienate everyone in the room,” Jeffrey Toobin told an audience in New York Friday.  “For better or worse, it has been clear there is no journalistic privilege under the First Amendment.”
New York Times:
General Motors Misled Grieving Families on a Lethal Flaw  —  It was nearly five years ago that any doubts were laid to rest among engineers at General Motors about a dangerous and faulty ignition switch.  At a meeting on May 15, 2009, they learned that data in the black boxes …
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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Republicans may have …
CBS News:
Poll: Most say U.S. doesn't have a responsibility in Ukraine  —  Shares -  —  Most Americans don't think the U.S. is obliged to intervene in the recent annexation by Russia of the Ukrainian territory of Crimea.  A majority of 61 percent of Americans do not think the U.S. has a responsibility …
Guardian:
Air pollution ‘kills 7 million people a year’  —  WHO report says issue is now biggest single environmental health risk and the cause of one in eight deaths worldwide  —  Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves …
Discussion: who.int, The Verge and The Week
Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Davis Renews Equal Pay Attack on Abbott … After two weeks of debate in the Texas governor's race over equal pay, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis on Monday renewed her criticism of Republican opponent Greg Abbott on the issue, saying that the attorney general's statement that he supported the …
Discussion: Politico and Off the Kuff
George Brown / WREG-TV:
Judge Joe Brown: Hear What He Said That Got Him Arrested  —  (Memphis) Well-known TV court judge and former Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown has been released on his own recognizance from the Criminal Justice Center at 201 Poplar.  —  This comes after a request for bail was denied earlier this evening.
Robert Shrum / The Daily Beast:
The Indispensible Nancy Pelosi  —  Republicans turned the Democrats' leader in the House into the prime reason to keep a Florida district in GOP hands.  No wonder they fear her: she's as responsible for liberal success in Washington as President Obama has been.
Jim Acosta / CNN:
U.S., other powers kick Russia out of G8  —  The Hague, Netherlands (CNN) — U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders have decided to end Russia's role in the group of leading industrialized nations, the White House said Monday.  —  The move to suspend Russia's membership in the G8 …
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Fox News:
US, allies sideline Russia from G8; Moscow shrugs off summit snub
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
 
 
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Julian Zelizer / CNN:
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Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
AFP Airs New Anti-Obamacare Ad in Michigan
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Washington Examiner:
Examiner Editorial: Desperate about Keystone XL? Throw mud at the Kochs
J. Christian Adams / BREITBART.COM:
NO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CHARGES AGAINST OHIO WOMAN WHO VOTED SIX TIMES FOR OBAMA
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
PHOTOS: 25 Years Later, A Heartbreaking Look Back At Exxon's Alaska Oil Spill
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David Hogberg / The Federalist:
The “No Obamacare Horror Stories” Fairy Tale
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
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Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
Obama Trolls Libertarians And Tea Partiers With New Obamacare Bumper Sticker
Lloyd Green / The Daily Beast:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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New York Times:
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