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David S. Joachim / New York Times:
I.R.S. Head and Lawmakers Clash Over Missing Email — WASHINGTON — A Congressional hearing examining how the Internal Revenue Service lost thousands of emails sought by investigators turned into a shouting match on Friday, with Republicans on the panel accusing the I.R.S. commissioner of lying.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
IRS chief defiant on Lois Lerner email loss — A defiant IRS Commissioner on Friday refused to apologize for the loss of ex-IRS official Lois Lerner's emails, and said the agency produced what they could, at a combative hearing marked by accusations by Republicans of IRS deceit.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
IRS commissioner: You know, e-mail isn't necessarily an “official record”; Update: IRS Manual says it is — Two House committees plan to get more aggressive in the next few days in the IRS targeting scandal after finding out a week ago that the IRS only keeps six months of server backups …
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Susan Jones / CNSNews:
White House Learned of Lerner's Crashed Hard Drive 6 Weeks Before Congress
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
White House notified of missing IRS e-mail 6 weeks before Congress?
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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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John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Obama Has Two Options on Iraq. Both Are Terrible.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Abdication has a price — Yes, it is true that there was no al-Qaeda …
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
An enclave strategy for Iraq
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Kevin McCarthy to F&F crowd: Come visit — Incoming House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy reveled in his new title with the support of an enthusiastic crowd at a conference held Friday. — The California Republican, who was elected to the position Thursday, discussed his life story …
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Simon Maloy / Salon:
GOP's sudden scandal-mania: Why criminal probes and infighting are taking over the party
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Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:
Jeb Hensarling Sees ‘Green Light’ to Run for Leadership in November
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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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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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James Oliphant / NationalJournal.com:
Welcome to the White House's Nightmare
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Julia Preston / New York Times:
U.S. Plans to Step Up Detention and Deportation of Migrants
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Gabriel Malor / The Federalist:
A Basic Primer On The Scott Walker Case For Ignorant Reporters — I'm going to tell you a true story, and then tell you how the news media is covering it. — This is a true story: in 2012, Democratic district attorneys in Wisconsin launched a secret probe known as a John Doe investigation …
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Shadowy Obama Megadonor Indicted On Fraud And Manslaughter Charges — A California grand jury has indicted Kareem Ahmed, a major donor to President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, and 15 of Ahmed's associates in an alleged multimillion-dollar insurance kickback scheme.
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The New Map of the Middle East — So as I was saying.... First, a bit of housekeeping. I'm back at The Atlantic full-time. I'm going to be working mainly on stories for the magazine (I'm thinking of writing something on the case for reparations, for instance), but I'll …
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M.E. Synon / BREITBART.COM:
RISE IN FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION, INSPECTORS FIND ENTIRE SCHOOL CLASSES VICTIMS — School health services in the small Swedish city of Norrköping have found 60 cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) among schoolgirls since March, with evidence of mutilation found in all 30 girls in one class, 28 of the most severe form.
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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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David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
What We Can Learn From Eric Cantor's Defeat — On May 30, 11 days before one of the biggest upsets in modern American politics blocked Majority Leader Eric Cantor's path to speaker of the House, one of his top aides emailed me in an unusually defensive tone.
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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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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Virginia Governor Bucks GOP On Medicaid Expansion (UPDATED) — Gov. Terry McAuliffe delivering his inaugural address. — CREDIT: AP Images/Patrick Semansky — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) plans to move forward with Medicaid expansion even without lawmakers' support, the governor announced on Friday.
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Andrew Moseman / Popular Mechanics:
Harley—Yes, Harley—is Making an Electric Motorcycle — Electric motorcycles have been a niche space for California startups building mean, low-volume machines for buyers who want to save the world on two wheels. That is about to change. Today, Harley-Davidson (yes, that Harley-Davidson …
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