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Matt Viser / The Boston Globe:
Warren memoir offers revealing inside tales — WASHINGTON - Summoned to the White House in September 2010, Elizabeth Warren met President Obama in the Oval Office and he escorted her outside to a garden patio. Obama described it to Warren as a hidden retreat.
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MJ Lee / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren: ‘I was hurt, and I was angry’ — Elizabeth Warren “was hurt” and “angry” about attacks on her family and ancestry in the 2012 Senate race, she writes in a new book, defending at length her characterization of her background as rooted in Native American ancestry.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
CPI Director On ABC Pulitzer Feud: 'I Don't Take Well To Being Bullied' (VIDEO) — Center for Public Integrity Director Bill Buzenberg on Wednesday criticized ABC News for demanding credit for an investigative series that won a Pulitzer Prize this week. — “I will say that I don't take …
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Bill Buzenberg / The Center for Public …:
The Center for Public Integrity's response to ABC News
The Center for Public Integrity's response to ABC News
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Pulitzer Prize fight
Pulitzer Prize fight
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Scarborough blasts Krugman — MSNBC's Joe Scarborough is returning fire on Paul Krugman after the New York Times columnist accused him of being an “Obamacare truther” who was didn't know his facts and was “against covering the uninsured.” — In an email to POLITICO, Scarborough suggested …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Obama nominee warned about politicizing the census. — It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. In February 2009 a new Democratic president reached across party lines and nominated a Republican senator, New Hampshire's Judd Gregg, as commerce secretary.
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Kathleen Belew / New York Times:
Veterans and White Supremacy — EVANSTON, Ill. — WHEN Frazier Glenn Miller shot and killed three people in Overland Park, Kan., on Sunday, he did so as a soldier of the white power movement: a groundswell that united Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other fringe elements after the Vietnam War …
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Rand Paul's Putin problem — If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton runs against Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for president in November 2016, and Russian strongman-for-life Vladimir Putin remains in power, Clinton could win a victory approaching a 50-state landslide, including reluctant support …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
White House: More Russia sanctions likely — Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to Geneva to meet with his Russian counterpart Thursday as part of the Ukraine contact group — but administration officials said Wednesday they're already expecting the result will be more sanctions, not any kind of breakthrough.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Minimum Wage, Maximum Outrage — No one should ever endure the kind of economic humiliation that comes with working a full-time job and making a less-than-living wage. — There is dignity in all work, but that dignity grows dim when the checks are cashed and the coins are counted and still the bills rise higher than the wages.
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Judicial Watch:
JW Obtains IRS Documents Showing Lerner in Contact With DOJ about Potential Prosecution of Tax-Exempt Groups — May 9, 2013, email reveals IRS plans to meet with Department of Justice over whether to prosecute groups that “lied” about plans for political activity
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Halimah Abdullah / CNN:
Landrieu faces her toughest political storm to stay in Senate — Editor's note: The 2014 midterm elections will come down to a battle for control of the Senate. Should Republicans tip the balance, they'll control both chambers of Congress. CNN is looking at some of the key Senate races that will affect the balance.
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Stephanie McNeal / Fox News:
Sen. Landrieu takes heat for reenacting Senate hearing in campaign ad
Sen. Landrieu takes heat for reenacting Senate hearing in campaign ad
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James Carville / The Hill:
Clinton vs. Bush: The real debate — OPINION l This past Sunday I joined a panel of distinguished pundits on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” and to the surprise of no viewers we spent a considerable amount of time discussing the prospects of a presidential race between Hillary Clinton …
Fox News:
Feds accused of leaving trail of wreckage after Nevada ranch standoff — The federal agency that backed down over the weekend in a tense standoff with a Nevada rancher is being accused of leaving a trail of wreckage behind. — Fox News toured the damage — allegedly caused by the Bureau …
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Feds play waiting game at Nevada ranch
Feds play waiting game at Nevada ranch
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Julian Borger / Guardian:
Nato to step up presence near Russian borders — Air patrols and warships in Baltic and eastern Mediterranean will be increased to reassure Nato members in eastern Europe — Nato has announced it is stepping up its presence around Russian borders to reassure eastern European member states …
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James Kanter / New York Times:
Citing Russian Moves, NATO Plans New Deployments
Citing Russian Moves, NATO Plans New Deployments
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Progressives are wrong about the essence of the Constitution — In a 2006 interview, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said the Constitution is “basically about” one word — “democracy” — that appears in neither that document nor the Declaration of Independence. Democracy is America's way of allocating political power.
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Sebelius allies doubt Senate run — Friends and former colleagues of Kathleen Sebelius say the odds are low that she will jump into the Kansas Senate race this summer. — They overwhelmingly dismissed the idea of her entering into a heated campaign against Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) …
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