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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: Should Obamacare be kept or repealed? — Washington (CNN) - A majority of Americans want to keep the federal health care law as is, or make some changes to improve it, according to a new national poll. — But a CNN/ORC International survey released Sunday also indicates public attitudes …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
In memoir excerpts, Clinton honors her mom — Washington (CNN) - Hillary Clinton honored her late mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, as her life's biggest influence in excerpts from her upcoming memoir, “Hard Choices,” released Sunday by Vogue magazine. — Clinton, whose first grandchild …
Dana Davidsen / CNN:
DNC chairwoman: GOP using Benghazi to ‘gin up their base’ ahead of midterms — (CNN) - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Republicans are digging up the issue of the 2012 attack in Benghazi to drive turnout this election year. — Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee …
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Politico, The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
Mark Steyn / Steyn Online:
BringBackOurBalls — It is hard not to have total contempt for a political culture that thinks the picture at right is a useful contribution to rescuing 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by jihadist savages in Nigeria. Yet some pajama boy at the White House evidently felt getting the First Lady …
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JustOneMinute and The Gateway Pundit
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Nafeez Ahmed / Guardian:
Behind the rise of Boko Haram - ecological disaster, oil crisis, spy games — Islamist militancy in Nigeria is being strengthened by western and regional fossil fuel interests — The kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian school girls, and the massacre of as many as 300 civilians in the town of Gamboru Ngala …
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ThinkProgress, Right Wing News, Michael J. Totten's blog and The Gateway Pundit
Byron Tau / Politico:
Rogers: Foreign policy is ‘more than hashtags and selfies’
Rogers: Foreign policy is ‘more than hashtags and selfies’
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Mediaite
Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
Sen. Marco Rubio: Yes, I'm Ready to be President — He's a 42-year-old freshman senator, but when asked by Jonathan Karl on “This Week” if he's ready to be president, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida answered without hesitation. — “I do ... but I think that's true for multiple …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio: 'I Don't Agree' With ‘Notion’ Of Climate Change — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Sunday said he doesn't believe that human activity is behind climate change. — “I don't agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions …
Chris Reed / The Daily Caller:
30-year New York Times Science Writer Out After Writing Book About Genetics, Race — Nicholas Wade, a British-born science reporter and editor for more than 30 years with The New York Times, is no longer with the newspaper — just days after the release of his latest book …
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Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
Cantor faces tea party fury in his back yard — SHORT PUMP, VA. — Just a few miles from his family home, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) felt the wrath of the tea party Saturday, when activists in his congressional district booed and heckled the second-most powerful House Republican.
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Washington Monthly and Booman Tribune
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Secret Service agents pulled off White House patrol to help protect a top official's aide — The Secret Service monitored Brenda Allen and her family for months. The surveillance came after an altercation with her neighbor, who worked for former Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan.
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CNN
CNN:
Obama congratulates Michael Sam, first openly gay player drafted by NFL — (CNN) — President Barack Obama congratulated Michael Sam on Saturday for being the first openly gay football player taken in the National Football League draft, the White House said in a statement.
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New York Times, Towleroad and Rumproast
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Betsy Klein / ABC News:
Obama Congratulates Michael Sam, White House Says
Obama Congratulates Michael Sam, White House Says
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Talking Points Memo and Associated Press
Politico:
$474M for 4 failed Obamacare exchanges — Nearly half a billion dollars in federal money has been spent developing four state Obamacare exchanges that are now in shambles - and the final price tag for salvaging them may go sharply higher. — Each of the states - Massachusetts, Oregon …
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The PJ Tatler
Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel: Military's Transgender Policy ‘Continually Should Be Reviewed’ — Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told ABC News' Martha Raddatz that he believes the ban that prohibits transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military should be reviewed.
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Wall Street Journal, CNN, Washington Post and The Raw Story
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Biden takes shot at Clintons in SC — Vice President Joe Biden gave a closed-door speech Friday to South Carolina Democrats that included a shot at the Clintons. — Biden, a potential 2016 candidate, said the unraveling of middle-class financial security began in “the later years …
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Liberaland and Hot Air
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Biden delivers ‘Elizabeth Warren-type speech’ at fundraiser
Biden delivers ‘Elizabeth Warren-type speech’ at fundraiser
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Politico, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, America Rising and The Atlantic Online