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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Susan Rice defends Bergdahl comments, calls his service ‘honorable’ — Colleville-sur-Mer, FRANCE (CNN) — President Barack Obama's national security adviser said Friday that her full-throated praise of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was appropriate given the former Taliban prisoner's willingness …
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ThinkProgress:
Did Sergeant Bergdahl Desert The Army Or Did The Army Desert Him? — Vikram J. Singh is Vice President for National Security and International Affairs at the Center for American Progress. — The mental health issues of soldiers during our longest period of war are often overlooked.
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ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Won't Second Guess President Obama's ‘Very Hard Choice’ On Bergdahl … In an exclusive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, Hillary Clinton defended President Obama's decision to swap five Taliban prisoners for U.S. solider Bowe Bergdahl, saying she won't second guess him.
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Michael Crowley / TIME:
Susan Rice Is Under Fire Again
Susan Rice Is Under Fire Again
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Jason Stein / JSOnline:
Federal judge overturns Wisconsin's gay marriage ban — Judi Trampf (left) and her partner Katy Heyning speak during a news conference in February by the American Civil Liberties Union about a lawsuit challenging the state's seven-year-old ban on gay marriage. A federal judge in Madison on Friday overturned the ban.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Ban On Same-Sex Couples' Marriages — The ruling will not go into effect immediately. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Wisconsin Friday struck down the state's ban on same-sex couples marrying, joining federal judges across the nation to have reached …
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Kathleen Hunter / Bloomberg:
No Evidence of ‘Credible Threat’ to Bergdahl: Feinstein — The Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman said she hasn't been convinced that there was a “credible threat” against the life of freed Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl that motivated the White House to keep its plans secret from Congress.
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Dianne Feinstein: No threat to Bergdahl
Dianne Feinstein: No threat to Bergdahl
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Four Things To Keep In Mind Regarding Bowe Bergdahl
Four Things To Keep In Mind Regarding Bowe Bergdahl
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
John Podesta: U.S. can monitor detainees released in Bergdahl deal
John Podesta: U.S. can monitor detainees released in Bergdahl deal
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New York Times:
The Rush to Demonize Sgt. Bergdahl — Four months ago, Senator John McCain said he would support the exchange of five hard-core Taliban leaders for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. “I would support,” he told CNN. “Obviously I'd have to know the details, but I would support ways of bringing …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did John McCain flip-flop on the Bergdahl deal?
Did John McCain flip-flop on the Bergdahl deal?
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Jeff Bell / Wall Street Journal:
43 beats 44, 48% to 42%. — This has to hurt: A plurality …
43 beats 44, 48% to 42%. — This has to hurt: A plurality …
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WSB-TV:
Deputy shot at Forsyth Co. courthouse — FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Cumming police say a Forsyth County deputy was shot at the county courthouse. — The shooting happened at Forsyth County Administration Building on East Main Street Friday morning. Law enforcement sources told Channel …
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Mushtaq Yusufzai / NBC News:
Freed Taliban Commander Tells Relative He'll Fight Americans Again — “Noorullah Noori kept insisting he would go to Afghanistan and fight American forces there,” a Taliban commander told NBC News.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Unraveling — How the Obama administration's story …
The Unraveling — How the Obama administration's story …
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The Seattle Times:
Hero's quick thinking likely saved lives at SPU — He's described as quiet, gentle, outdoorsy; a young man of deep Christian faith and dedicated student on the cusp of a promising life beyond college. But by several accounts Thursday, a single word prevailed when describing Seattle Pacific University student Jon Meis: hero.
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
D-Day Interpretive Dance Caps Off Month of Disrespect for Vets — If you weren't sure that the Western world's supposed admiration for the sacrifices of military veterans was just lip service, you were privy to a rather definitive confirmation of that fact in the past four weeks.
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WTVC-TV:
Man Killed in Accidental Shooting While Driving — A family is grieving after a man, who was only a mile away from his home, accidentally shoots himself while driving Wednesday afternoon. — 49-year-old James McKenzie died from his injuries. — NewsChannel 9 has learned that the victim …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Dialing It In — One evening in March, during a visit to Italy, President Obama asked the U.S. ambassador to round up a bunch of—and I quote—"interesting Italians" for a dinner at the ambassadorial residence. The history of the property, the Villa Taverna, goes as far back as the tenth century.
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BBC:
D-Day: Hove veteran disappears for Normandy trip — Staff had not been able to get Bernard Jordan on to an accredited tour to Normandy, but he made his own way there — An 89-year-old WW2 veteran disappeared from his nursing home without saying where he was going and went to France for the D-Day commemorations.
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WAMC, Hullabaloo and The PJ Tatler
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Dem donor John Morgan blasts ‘irrelevant...irritant’ DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz over RX pot — Major Democratic donor John Morgan blasted the national party's chair, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as an “irritant” who is becoming “irrelevant” after she voiced concerns …
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TPNN and Washington Free Beacon
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Brooklyn Will Vie to Host 2016 Democratic National Convention, de Blasio Says — Brooklyn, a nexus of the new Democratic left that has morphed from working-class enclave to a gritty, global arbiter of cool, will vie to host the Democratic National Convention in 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City said on Friday.
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Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance — Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a ‘nightmare scenario’ — Vodafone, one of the world's largest mobile phone groups, has revealed the existence …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rand Paul: Let's trade Dems, not Taliban — FORT WORTH, Texas — Sen. Rand Paul on Friday likened Democrats to the recently released Taliban detainees at Guantánamo Bay in a speech here at the Texas GOP convention. — “Mr. President, you love to trade people,” …
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The White House:
Remarks by President Obama at the 70th Anniversary of D-Day — Omaha Beach, Normandy — Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial — PRESIDENT OBAMA: President Hollande; to the people of France; friends; the family; our veterans: — If prayer were made of sound, the skies over England that night would have deafened the world.
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