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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Health Secretary Resigns After Woes of HealthCare.gov — WASHINGTON — Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, is resigning, ending a stormy five-year tenure marred by the disastrous rollout of President Obama's signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act.
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Bloomberg:
Sebelius to Resign as Chief of Obama's Health Programs — Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. health secretary who steered the troubled rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health-care law, will resign just as the program topped its first-year enrollment goal.
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Joanne Kenen / Politico:
Kathleen Sebelius resigns as HHS secretary — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning six months after a disastrous rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health law, according to administration sources. — She will be replaced by Sylvia Mathews Burwell …
USA Today:
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigns — WASHINGTON—After a difficult five years shepherding President Obama's signature health care law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has tendered her resignation, according to two senior administration officials.
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Rush Limbaugh:
CBS Declares War on Heartland of America — RUSH: Do you really care what I think about that? (interruption) Do you care what I think of Colbert getting Letterman's gig? (interruption) You really care about what I think about that? (interruption) Well, I'll give you the short version.
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CBS Press Express:
CBS ANNOUNCES STEPHEN COLBERT AS THE NEXT HOST OF “THE LATE SHOW” — The CBS Television Network today announced that Stephen Colbert, the host, writer and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “The Colbert Report,” will succeed David Letterman as the host of THE LATE SHOW …
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Colbert to Succeed Letterman on ‘Late Show’
Colbert to Succeed Letterman on ‘Late Show’
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Short on accomplishments, Hillary leans on Bill and Barack to sell candidacy — BARACK OBAMA HILLARY CLINTON BILL CLINTON 2016 ELECTIONS — Last week Hillary Clinton gave what appeared at first to be a rambling and unfocused answer when asked to name the proudest achievement of her four years as Secretary of State.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Reports: ‘Shoe’ thrown at Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas — Hillary Clinton is a pro at ducking 2016 questions. She's apparently also good at ducking shoes. — A woman threw what appeared to be a shoe at the former secretary of state in Las Vegas, but the potential presidential contender moved …
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Elizabeth Dias / TIME:
Jimmy Carter Talks About Iran, Campus Rape, Jesus Christ and the Paintings of W.
Jimmy Carter Talks About Iran, Campus Rape, Jesus Christ and the Paintings of W.
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Ted Barrett / CNN:
Anger over last year's filibuster fight rekindles on Senate floor — Washington (CNN) - Fallout from last year's fight over filibuster rules in the Senate is still being felt on Capitol Hill. — Senators had hoped to finish their work and begin a two week spring recess Thursday but instead ran …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell battle on the floor
Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell battle on the floor
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Democrats' revolting equal-pay demagoguery
Democrats' revolting equal-pay demagoguery
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The IRS Scandal Comes Into Focus — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp lays out damning evidence of Lois Lerner's targeting of conservative groups. — Nearly a year into the IRS scandal, we still don't know exactly what happened—though we are finally getting an inkling.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
House panel holds ex-IRS official Lerner in contempt
House panel holds ex-IRS official Lerner in contempt
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Next Target: Condoleezza Rice — Having won a victory against one brilliant black woman, the Tolerance Brigade is now moving onto another. Enter the “Drop Dropbox” campaign: … This campaign makes pretty much no sense. The authors start out by explaining that “Condoleezza Rice is both an …
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Steven L. Spiegel / Los Angeles Times:
Memo to John Kerry: Stay strong on the Middle East — Wading into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not for the weak-hearted. — Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, left, and Secretary of State John Kerry speak to the media before meeting privately at the U.S. State Department.
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Yahoo! News:
Kerry ‘betrayed and surprised’ by McCain onslaught
Kerry ‘betrayed and surprised’ by McCain onslaught
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
State Department: No decision on Jonathan Pollard
State Department: No decision on Jonathan Pollard
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Miss. Republican Senate Candidate's Thoughts On Gays, Drugs, Libertarians — Mississippi Republican state senator Chris McDaniel, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran in GOP primary made these comment on his radio show The Right Side circa 2005 and 2006.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Wall Street Journal:
Here's What I Would Have Said at Brandeis — We need to make our universities temples not of dogmatic orthodoxy, but of truly critical thinking. — On Tuesday, after protests by students, faculty and outside groups, Brandeis University revoked its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to receive …
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Tax Revenue Rockets Up, Helping Lessen the Deficit, Treasury Department Says — The economy may be plodding along. But business is booming for Uncle Sam. — The Treasury Department said on Thursday that the federal budget deficit for the first half of the 2014 fiscal year totaled $413 billion …
Yu Hua / New York Times:
China Waits for an Apology — BEIJING — In 1970, when China was in the grip of the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Hongbing, a 16-year-old in Guzhen, a county in Anhui Province, made a fateful decision. During a family debate that year, his mother, Fang Zhongmou, had criticized Mao Zedong for his cult of personality.
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