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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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Yahoo! News:
Reid says GOP may have helped Russia annex Crimea — WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Republicans may have helped Russia annex Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
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Business Insider, The Daily Beast and Weasel Zippers
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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Republicans may have helped Russia annex Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. — The surprising accusation came ahead of a Monday test vote on a Russia sanctions and Ukraine aid bill that Republicans blocked before Congress left for recess two weeks ago.
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CNN, Hot Air and The Lonely Conservative
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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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Contraception Ruling Could Have Reach Far Beyond Women's Rights
Contraception Ruling Could Have Reach Far Beyond Women's Rights
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The Federalist, ThinkProgress, RH Reality Check, Wonkblog and Washington Post
George Brown / WREG-TV:
Judge Joe Brown Released From Jail — (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.
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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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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 …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Four years later, Democrats wait for ObamaCare popularity bounce — Democrats have been waiting for ObamaCare to become popular for four years. — And counting. — Congressional leaders and senior White House advisers have been saying since 2010 that public opinion will turn their way sometime soon.
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Politico, Weasel Zippers and The Moderate Voice
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 …
ThinkProgress:
Jimmy Carter: Violence Against Women Is The Most Pervasive Human Rights Violation In The World — Former President Jimmy Carter is issuing a call to action to end the abuse and subjugation of women, which he refers to as the “worst and most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on Earth.”
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NBC News:
DAVID GREGORY: — The current, the issue that oceanographers …
DAVID GREGORY: — The current, the issue that oceanographers …
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Rebecca I. Denova / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Jimmy Carter's ‘A Call to Action’: Women's rights are universal
Jimmy Carter's ‘A Call to Action’: Women's rights are universal
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Guardian
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.
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Nearly Half of Public Says ‘Right Amount’ of Malaysian Jet Coverage — One-in-Three Thinks Coverage Has Been Excessive — The public followed news about the missing Malaysia Airlines plane more closely than any other story last week. While the story has attracted extensive news coverage …
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Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
Obama Trolls Libertarians And Tea Partiers With New Obamacare Bumper Sticker — Don't tread on my Obamacare. — theamericanmaverick.com — AP — Now Obama allies have made their own version of the emblematic banner in support of Obamacare: — The sticker replaces …
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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.”
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Washington Examiner:
Examiner Editorial: Desperate about Keystone XL? Throw mud at the Kochs — EDITORIAL CAMPAIGN FINANCE KEYSTONE XL ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT KOCH BROTHERS TIDES FOUNDATION — Controversy erupted last week when Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post's Wonkblog posted a story headlined …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
BROWN FACES HISTORY, RESIDENCY QUESTIONS IN NH BID — You are here — Home » United States Senate » Brown faces history, residency questions in NH bid — MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown is suiting up his campaign armor again — faded blue jeans …
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Roll Call and The Boston Globe
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete — have more botox in me than any ten people," Dr. Seth Matarasso told me in an exam room this February. — He is a reality-show producer's idea of a cosmetic surgeon—his demeanor brash, his bone structure preposterous.
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Wall Street Journal, Inc.com and Forbes