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Washington Post:
Post-ABC News poll shows Democrats at risk in November as Obama's approval rating falls — Democrats face serious obstacles as they look to the November elections, with President Obama's approval rating at a new low and a majority of voters saying they prefer a Congress in Republican hands …
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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: April 2014 — Liz Hamel, Jamie Firth and Mollyann Brodie … Overall opinion remains unchanged from March — Despite the announcement that at least 8 million people have signed up for health insurance through the ACA's new marketplace, overall favorability …
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Washington Post, “The Lid” and The Week
ThinkProgress:
Shooter Injures Six In Georgia Town Where Everyone Is Required To Own A Gun — A gunman opened fire Tuesday morning at a FedEx facility in Kennesaw, Georgia. Six were shot, with their injuries ranging from minor to two in critical condition. Authorities report that the gunman is dead.
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Cobb Co. police say suspect in Kennesaw FedEx shooting is dead — KENNESAW, Ga. — Cobb County police say the person suspected of a shooting at a Kennesaw FedEx facility is dead. The body is on FedEx property, police said. — Police said the suspected gunman died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Mediaite, Hinterland Gazette and Business Insider
Donald Sterling / TMZ.com:
Donald Sterling Suspended From NBA INDEFINITELY After Racist Comments — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has tentatively decided to suspend Clippers owner Donald Sterling INDEFINITELY and impose a multi-million-dollar fine — but Sterling will NOT be forced to sell the team — sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ Sports.
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Brad Townsend / Dallas Mavericks Blog:
Mark Cuban calls Donald Sterling's comments “abhorrent,” endorses maximum league punishment — Apr 26, 2014; Dallas, TX, USA; Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban reacts during the game against the San Antonio Spurs in game three of the first round of the 2014 NBA Playoffs at American Airlines Center.
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Tim MacMahon / ESPN:
Cuban not in favor of booting Sterling
Cuban not in favor of booting Sterling
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The Daily Caller, Business Insider, ABC News and Talking Points Memo
Adriana Cohen / Boston Herald:
John F. Kerry's Israeli gaffe a diplomatic nightmare — Photo by: — MAKING A MESS: Secretary of State John F. Kerry's latest verbal faux pas, telling international officials that Israel risks becoming ‘an apartheid state’ was blasted by former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton as being ‘outrageous and defamatory.’
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Israel Matzav, JustOneMinute and The Gateway Pundit
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Kerry Expresses Regret After Apartheid Remark — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry issued an unusual statement Monday evening expressing his support for Israel after a controversy erupted over a politically charged phrase he used in a private appearance.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: No ‘secret conspiracy’ to jam through immigration overhaul — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday told a private Republican Party meeting that there is no “secret conspiracy” to jam through an immigration overhaul, according to one member in the room.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
John Boehner clarifies immigration joke
Reid Wilson / Washington Post:
Boehner rival loses job over campaign ad
Boehner rival loses job over campaign ad
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The Daily Beast:
Kerry: U.S. Taped Moscow's Calls to Its Ukraine Spies — The secretary of state claimed in a private meeting that the U.S. intelligence community has recordings of pro-Russian forces being managed by government handlers in Moscow. — The United States has proof that the Russian government …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Saving the System — All around, the fabric of peace and order is fraying. The leaders of Russia and Ukraine escalate their apocalyptic rhetoric. The Sunni-Shiite split worsens as Syria and Iraq slide into chaos. China pushes its weight around in the Pacific.
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Why Democrats Should Avoid the ‘R’ Word — From time to time, we all read something where suddenly words jump out from the page, grabbing our attention. This happened to me the other day while reading a memo from Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and strategist James Carville …
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Power Line
Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
How to Really Rein In the Super Rich — Thomas Piketty is right—inequality is on the rise. But until Wall Street gets out of Washington, neither the French economist nor regular Americans will be able to shift the status quo. — Thomas Piketty, meet Bobby Tolbert.
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Benjamin Domenech / Wall Street Journal:
What the Right Should Learn About Inequality
What the Right Should Learn About Inequality
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ThinkProgress:
Meet The Woman Who Did Everything In Her Power To Hide Her Pregnancy From Google — They see you when you're sleeping, they know when you're awake... CREDIT: Flickr/Robert Scoble — Janet Vertesi, assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, had an idea: would it be possible to hide her pregnancy from big data?
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Unfogged
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Ratings Slip at MSNBC as Jet Coverage Lifts CNN — April proved a cruel month for MSNBC, with the news channel hitting some of its lowest ratings in seven years, and its prominent morning show, “Morning Joe,” falling to third place in the cable news competition.
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, The Huffington Post and Washington Free Beacon
Yahoo! News:
Ralph Nader's America: Impeach Obama, decriminalize drugs, libertarians & progressives unite! — What if Washington politics were no longer defined by partisan gridlock but instead by a cross-party alliance that forged solutions? The alliance would be unstoppable.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, ABC News, The Week and National Review
New York Times:
Snowden Retained Expert in Espionage Act Defense — WASHINGTON — Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who provided journalists a trove of classified documents, retained a well-known Washington defense lawyer last summer in hopes of reaching a plea deal …
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Outside the Beltway, Business Insider, Washington Post, Hot Air and Prairie Weather
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run:
DOJ's ‘Operation Choke Point’ May Be Root of Porn Star Bank Account Closings — Despite being in good financial standing, adult film performers and others in the porn industry have had bank accounts abruptly terminated—and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) may have had something to do with it.
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Guardian and Outside the Beltway
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
FAKE HATE: Montclair State Muslim Charged After Bogus Hate Crime Report — An 18-year-old Montclair State University student was charged with filing a false report after he alleged three white men in hoodies beat him and called him an “Islamic terrorist” Thursday night. — It was all a lie.
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