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School district apologizes over yearbook quote incident — Sponsored Links — CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — UPDATE: Paris Gray and her family met with the school's principal and the area superintendent on Tuesday. They apologized for the miscommunication and said they would not deny her giving a speech at graduation.
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The Chemistry Joke That Got a Student Suspended — Paris Gray, upstanding vice president of her about-to-graduate high-school class in Jonesboro, Georgia, was suspended last Friday when administrators figured out what her yearbook quote meant. It read:
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Quiz: How Dumb Does Obama Think We Are? — The Veterans Affairs policy fiasco is magnified by an insulting-public relations strategy. — News quiz: President Obama and his communications team hope that Americans are: 1) Dumb; 2) Distracted; 3) Numb to government inefficiency; 4) All of above.
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ABC, National Journal: White House fumbling VA scandal
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Ron Christie / The Daily Beast:
The Scandal at the VA Is Real, and Obama Is Ducking It
The Scandal at the VA Is Real, and Obama Is Ducking It
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Talking Points Memo, Hot Air and National Review
David Martosko / Daily Mail:
White House says Obama only learned of VA wait-list scandal on TV (just like the IRS …
White House says Obama only learned of VA wait-list scandal on TV (just like the IRS …
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
White House Distorts American Legion Position on Veterans Controversy
White House Distorts American Legion Position on Veterans Controversy
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Pennsylvania Same-Sex Marriage Ban — “We now join the twelve federal district courts across the country [that] ... have concluded that all couples deserve equal dignity in the realm of civil marriage.” — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett delivers an address …
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Rick Santorum Endorsed the Judge Who Just Legalized Gay Marriage in Pennsylvania
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Bush-Appointed Judge Cites Scalia In Axing Pennsylania Gay Marriage Ban
Bush-Appointed Judge Cites Scalia In Axing Pennsylania Gay Marriage Ban
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Reid Hints at ‘Nuclear’ Summer Over Debate Time — On the morning of his Republican counterpart's primary back home in Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he would not change the chamber's rules in his absence. — But Minority Leader Mitch McConnell might well be advised …
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The Sequel To Rand Paul's Epic Filibuster Is Happening Tomorrow — On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, will filibuster President Barack Obama's nomination of David Barron to fill a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Paul first threatened to filibuster Barron last week.
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D'Souza pleads guilty to U.S. campaign finance law violation — (Reuters) - The conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a campaign finance law violation, averting a trial that had been expected to begin the same day in Manhattan federal court.
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Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Jeff Zucker talks CNN's post-plane plans — Last night, CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker gave a hint of where the network will go next now thats its two-plus-month coverage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is subsiding. — “I don't think there's any question about our commitment …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
CNN President: We Won't Be ‘Shamed’ Into Covering Benghazi
CNN President: We Won't Be ‘Shamed’ Into Covering Benghazi
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Comey: FBI ‘Grappling’ With Hiring Policy Concerning Marijuana — Monday was a big day for the nation's cyber police. The Justice Department charged five Chinese military officials with hacking, and brought charges against the creators of powerful hacking software.
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Biggest Loser: Thawing Greenland Competes With Collapsing Antarctic For Fastest Ice Loss — Several new studies underscore scientists' concerns we're headed toward a coastline at least this flooded (20 meters or 69 feet) over many hundreds of years: — The worst-case scenario for sea level rise …
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Arthur Sulzberger's First Interview About the Turmoil at The New York Times: “I Would Have Done It Differently” — A week after the firing of Jill Abramson as executive editor of The New York Times, the newspaper's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., sat down with V.F.'s Sarah Ellison for an exclusive interview about the controversy.
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur Gelb, Critic and Editor Who Shaped The Times, Dies at 90
Arthur Gelb, Critic and Editor Who Shaped The Times, Dies at 90
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Businesses Turn Out Workers' Votes to Stomp Tea Party — Photographer: Joe Jaszewski/The Idaho Statesman/AP Photo — Ben Tarbutton has never worked so hard in a primary election to urge his company's employees to vote early or educate them on a candidate's record.
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NPR To End ‘Tell Me More,’ Eliminate 28 Positions — NPR announced Wednesday that it would cease broadcast of the weekday program Tell Me More on Aug. 1 and eliminate 28 positions as part of a larger effort to end the company's persistent budget deficits. — “These times require …
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Exclusive: Al Qaeda's American Fighters Are Coming Home—And U.S. Intelligence Can't Find Them — The number of American extremists who have flocked to Syria is higher than previously understood, American intelligence sources say. And some of the fighters are coming home.
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No prison time for Indiana man convicted of drugging, raping wife — Nation Now — The nation's news, events, people and culture
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Convicted former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.: Presidential pardons for all ex-offenders — Former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., who is serving the end of his federal prison term in a Montgomery federal prison. — ctoner@al.com By Casey Toner | ctoner@al.com
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Wife, attorney say blogger was pawn — It's still unclear how a political blogger gained access to the bedridden wife of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in her nursing home, but the man's wife and his attorney said he didn't sneak into the facility, and that he appears to be a pawn in a big political game.
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Jackson Jambalaya
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The next big fight over the safety net — Word has it that Democrats are set to take a shellacking in the 2014 elections, in part because midterm electorates tends to be older and whiter. So what if Dems campaigned on expanding Social Security, rather than allowing themselves to get drawn …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Extreme Weather: How El Niño Might Alter the Political Climate — How El Niño Might Alter the Political Climate — A rise in sea surface temperatures could presage a season of weather extremes, as it did in 2002 when tuna crabs washed ashore north of their usual habitat.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Hillary Clinton to sit down with Diane Sawyer for first interview on her new book — (CNN) - Promotion of Hillary Clinton's book “Hard Choices” will begin in earnest on Monday, June 9 when ABC's Diane Sawyer interviews her in a one-hour prime time special. — The prime time hour was announced …
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