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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Shinseki resigns amid VA scandal over veterans' health care — Eric K. Shinseki resigned Friday as secretary of veterans affairs, taking responsibility for a scandal in the VA health-care system over excessive waiting times and coverups of what he called “systemic” problems.
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Dems help upend Obama's scandal playbook — President Barack Obama tried to handle the Veterans Affairs scandal like he had all the others. — He couldn't. — Democrats wouldn't let him. — There's a well-worn Obama playbook: Let conservative critics burn hot, put off decisions during …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Rep. Tammy Duckworth on Eric Shinseki: ‘I think he has to go’ — Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a former Veterans Affairs official who lost both of her legs while serving in combat during the Iraq war, said Friday that her former boss Eric Shinseki should resign.
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Washington Post:
Transcript: President Obama's remarks on resignation of VA secretary Eric Shinseki — President Obama delivered the following remarks announcing the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki at the White House on May 30. Transcript courtesy of Federal News Service.
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American Prospect and The Jawa Report
New York Times:
V.A. Chief Eric Shinseki, Set to Meet Obama, Apologizes for ‘Systemic’ Crisis
V.A. Chief Eric Shinseki, Set to Meet Obama, Apologizes for ‘Systemic’ Crisis
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Taylor Marsh, Gawker and Samizdata
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Shinseki Resigns as Veterans Affairs Chief Amid Furor Over Hospitals
Shinseki Resigns as Veterans Affairs Chief Amid Furor Over Hospitals
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CNN:
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigns
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigns
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems to push funding for more VA hospitals
Dems to push funding for more VA hospitals
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National Review, The Federalist and Independent Journal Review
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton's Benghazi chapter — Hillary Clinton offers a detailed account of the deadly attack on the American embassy in Benghazi — and a pointed rebuttal to Republican critics who've laced into her over the incident — in a much-anticipated chapter of her forthcoming book, “Hard Choices,” obtained by POLITICO.
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Clinton to talk Benghazi, ‘Hard Choices’
Clinton to talk Benghazi, ‘Hard Choices’
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Politico, Fox News, Taylor Marsh and Washington Post
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton's Benghazi chapter
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton's Benghazi chapter
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CNN and Talking Points Memo
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Big Money, the Koch brothers and me
WSB-TV:
Toddler critically burned during SWAT raid — ATLANTA — A family says a SWAT team raided their home in the middle of the night and seriously injured a 19-month-old boy with a stun grenade. — Alecia Phonesavanh told Channel 2's Ryan Young her child is at the Grady Memorial Hospital burn unit …
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Helen Pow / Daily Mail:
SWAT team throws a stun grenade into a toddler's CRIB during drugs raid leaving him in a coma with severe burns — Wisconsin mother Alecia Phonesavanh and her 19-month-old son, Bou, were visiting her sister-in-law in Atlanta, Georgia — Phonesavanh said officers threw a grenade …
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Washington Post:
Edward Snowden responds to release of e-mail by U.S. officials — Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden responded to questions from The Washington Post following the release of an e-mail he had sent while working for the National Security Agency. — Q: How do you respond …
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Gov. Steve Beshear / The Huffington Post:
The Affordable Care Act in Kentucky: It's Working — For months, critics of the Affordable Care Act boldly vowed to eradicate what they insisted was a failed health reform plan — vows they repeated even as thousands, then tens of thousands and now hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians began …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senate Candidate: UCSB Shooting An ‘Unfortunate Accident’ — Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst (R), a candidate for U.S. Senate, said Thursday that the recent mass shooting near the University of California, Santa Barbara was an “unfortunate accident.” — During a televised primary debate …
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The Daily Banter, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Hinterland Gazette, Shakesville and Business Insider
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to buy Clippers for $2 billion — Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer won a frenetic bidding war for ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, with his $2-billion offer setting a record price for an NBA team, The Times has learned.
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John Cherwa / Los Angeles Times:
Shelly Sterling: Trust agrees to sell Clippers to Steve Ballmer
Shelly Sterling: Trust agrees to sell Clippers to Steve Ballmer
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The Daily Caller, Business Insider and Vermont Public Radio
Jacob Fischler / BuzzFeed:
House Votes To End DEA Raids On Legal Medical Marijuana Operations — “Marijuana does not make people commit crime. It makes them overeat,” Rep. Steve Cohen said. The amendment passed 219-189. — WASHINGTON — The House passed an amendment late Thursday night to restrict …
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Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
House Blocks DEA From Targeting Medical Marijuana
House Blocks DEA From Targeting Medical Marijuana
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Nick Gillespie / The Daily Beast:
Libertarianism 3.0; Koch And A Smile — The visionary brothers' new paradigm will frustrate the left and alter the right by fusing social tolerance with fiscal responsibility. — As a libertarian, I'm always slow to tell people what they should do. But if you care about politics …
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Yahoo! News and Hit & Run
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House takes action on gun checks — The House on Thursday approved a funding increase for the national background check system in response to last week's mass shooting in Santa Barbara, Calif. — Adopted 260-145, the amendment to a 2015 appropriations bill provides an additional $19.5 million …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘Period Of Turmoil’ Preceded Abramson Firing, Says Top Editor At ‘Times’ — Dean Baquet sat in his new office in midtown Manhattan, the very picture of composure and precision, as he described the top-level dysfunction that led to the firing of Jill Abramson as executive editor of The New York Times …
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