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Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: ‘Hillary Clinton Took Me Through Hell,’ Rape Victim Says — The woman at the center of the scandal over Hillary Clinton's defense of an alleged child rapist speaks out in depth for the first time. — Hillary Clinton is known as a champion of women and girls …
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Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
President Obama took credit in 2012 for withdrawing all troops from Iraq. Today he said something different. — President Obama surprised a few people during a news conference Thursday by claiming that the 2011 decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq, a politically popular move …
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James Oliphant / NationalJournal.com:
Welcome to the White House's Nightmare — Already swamped by domestic and foreign crises, Obama finds that even his self-proclaimed successes are at risk. That's just about the last thing he needs now. — President Obama speaks about U.S. military personnel returning to Iraq.
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Washington Post and National Review
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Hype Behind the Health Care Scandal — You've surely heard about the scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs. A number of veterans found themselves waiting a long time for care, some of them died before they were seen, and some of the agency's employees falsified records to cover up the extent of the problem.
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New York Times:
Good Progress on Affordable Health Care
Good Progress on Affordable Health Care
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Daily Kos, Democracy in America, ACASignups.net, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Firedoglake
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why Obamacare ‘good news’ applies only to the poor
Why Obamacare ‘good news’ applies only to the poor
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The Dish
Washington Post:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker suspected of coordinating with outside groups — Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) responds to prosecutors allegations that he is connected to a criminal scheme over campaign fundraising. In a statement, he called the allegations “categorically false.” ( AP)
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The Moderate Voice and Power Line
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New York Times:
Wisconsin Governor at Center of a Vast Fund-Raising Case
Wisconsin Governor at Center of a Vast Fund-Raising Case
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Hot Air, New York Magazine, The Federalist, Washington Post, Commentary Magazine, Angry Bear, Taylor Marsh, The Mahablog, Althouse and JSOnline
James Hohmann / Politico:
Prosecutors: Scott Walker part of ‘criminal scheme’
Prosecutors: Scott Walker part of ‘criminal scheme’
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The Moderate Voice and ThinkProgress
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
5 Exonerated in Central Park Jogger Case Will Settle Suit for $40 Million — The five men whose convictions in the brutal 1989 beating and rape of a female jogger in Central Park were later overturned have agreed to a settlement of about $40 million from New York City to resolve …
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NY Daily News, Guardian, The Week, Outside the Beltway, Althouse, Shakesville, Gawker and Washington Post
Parade:
The President and Michelle Obama on Work, Family, and Juggling It All — This week, America's foreign policy is dominating the headlines, but it's the White House's second-term domestic agenda that's the focus of our Parade cover story. On Monday, June 23, the President and Mrs. Obama …
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Politico, ABC News, PoliticusUSA, The Raw Story, The Week and The Huffington Post
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Presbyterians Vote to Allow Same-Sex Marriages — DETROIT — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted at its General Assembly on Thursday to change its constitution's definition of marriage from “a man and a woman” to “two people,” and to allow its ministers to perform same-sex marriages where it is legal.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Social Security, Veterans Affairs To Expand Some, But Not All, Same-Sex Marriage Recognition
Social Security, Veterans Affairs To Expand Some, But Not All, Same-Sex Marriage Recognition
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Sarah Smith / Politico:
Huckabee slams ‘judicial supremacy’
Huckabee slams ‘judicial supremacy’
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Shakesville, CNN and BarbWire.com
New York Times:
Cochran Asking Blacks to Rescue Him in Republican Primary — JACKSON, Miss. — Bishop Ronnie C. Crudup stood before roughly a dozen of his colleagues at a weekly Baptist fellowship meeting last week and asked for their help in a fight that, until now, would have been unthinkable for a black pastor …
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Washington Monthly, BREITBART.COM and Washington Post
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Shouting Match Erupts at Chris McDaniel Event
Shouting Match Erupts at Chris McDaniel Event
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The Dish and Talking Points Memo
Kurtis Lee / Denver Post:
HICKENLOOPER SILENT ON GUN LAW COMMENTS; SUPPORTERS AND FOES BAFFLED — After several days of fallout over his comments on gun control laws to a recent gathering of county sheriffs, Gov. John Hickenlooper has managed to baffle both victims-rights advocates and Second Amendment supporters.
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Clayton Cramer, RedState and Daily Surge
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Approval of Obama's Handling of Immigration Falls to 31% — Americans' approval falls eight percentage points since August — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' approval of President Barack Obama's handling of immigration has dropped to 31%, one of the lowest readings since 2010, when Gallup began polling on his handling of the issue.
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Firedoglake, Business Insider, Politico, The Other McCain and Washington Post
Economist:
A dog ate my e-mails — IF YOUR taxes are being audited and you tell the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that you just so happen to have lost the records relating to the period in question, you cannot expect much sympathy. The taxman has heard it all before, and “the dog ate my accounts” gets you nowhere.
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ProfessorBainbridge.com
Fox News:
IRS boss refuses to apologize over ‘cover-up’ claims ahead of Hill hearing on missing emails — June 10, 2014: Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen speaks at IRS headquarters in Washington.AP — IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Friday there is no need for his agency …
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Fox News Insider, Business Insider and The Gateway Pundit
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Obama talks tough to Mexico: Illegal-immigrant children won't get to stay — Tells Peña Nieto their countries must work to halt child surge — President Obama told his Mexican counterpart in a phone call Thursday that immigrants crossing into the U.S. illegally won't qualify …
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The PJ Tatler, American Thinker and The Gateway Pundit
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Rusty Humphries / Washington Times:
Exclusive inteview with Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Exclusive inteview with Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
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BREITBART.COM, Rush Limbaugh and National Review
David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
How Dallas County Accidentally Backed Reparations — Since Ta-Nehisi Coates's cover story on reparations was published this month, he's been asked repeatedly whether he really thought reparations for African Americans were politically feasible. His answer has been consistent: maybe not, and certainly no time soon.
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
2016 poll: N.H. GOP voters pick Mitt Romney — Republican voters in New Hampshire are apparently still ready for Mitt. — According to a Suffolk University/Boston Herald poll released Thursday, 24 percent of the likely New Hampshire Republican electorate would vote for Mitt Romney in the state's 2016 GOP presidential primary.
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