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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court: EPA can regulate greenhouse gas emissions, with some limits — The Supreme Court on Monday mostly validated the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to regulate power plant and factory emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, while imposing some limits on the agency's reach.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices, With Limits, Let E.P.A. Curb Power-Plant Gases — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday handed President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency a victory in its efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources like power plants.
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ThinkProgress, The Verge and Hullabaloo
Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Supreme Court Hampers EPA on Greenhouse Gases But It Could Have Been Worse
Supreme Court Hampers EPA on Greenhouse Gases But It Could Have Been Worse
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Daily Kos and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jedediah Purdy / The Daily Beast:
God Save the United States From This Anti-Democratic Court
God Save the United States From This Anti-Democratic Court
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Althouse and Booman Tribune
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots try to prove their worth — Never mind that it's 92 degrees and nearing the end of the day: Jenny Beth Martin has started jogging between houses. — “I've gotta get my steps,” she calls back to the rented Suburban with the Florida license plates …
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
McDaniel Campaign Attacks Sen. Cochran's Daughter With '#Who'sYaDaddy' Meme — Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel's (R-MS) campaign started a #Who'sYaDaddy meme to attack Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) by using a partial quote from his daughter. — “Thad Cochran's daughter has some ‘damaging’ words …
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
COCHRAN CAMPAIGN STAFFER ARRESTED FOR STEALING CAMPAIGN SIGNS
COCHRAN CAMPAIGN STAFFER ARRESTED FOR STEALING CAMPAIGN SIGNS
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Talking Points Memo and RedState
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel Make Closing Arguments
Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel Make Closing Arguments
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RedState
Danielle Sacks / Telegraph:
Chelsea Clinton interview: ‘I will always work harder than anyone’ — It was almost inevitable that Bill and Hillary's daughter would join the Clinton machine - try as she might to resist. But can she ever emerge from their shadows? — Once upon a time, Chelsea Clinton was a little girl from Arkansas.
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Leslie Larson / NY Daily News:
Chelsea Clinton: I tried to care about money but couldn't — The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and ex-secretary of state Hillary Clinton explained in a recent interview why she left lucrative professions and opted for working with her family's philanthropic foundation.
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Politico, Weasel Zippers, National Review, Hot Air and Rush Limbaugh
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Court releases memo of U.S. justifying drone attacks on citizens — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday released a redacted version of the U.S. Justice Department's memorandum of justification for a 2011 drone attack that killed Anwar al Awlaki, an American-born Islamist preacher suspected of having ties to al Qaeda.
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Skip Navigation / ACLU:
U.S. Releases Targeted Killing Memo in Response to Long-Running ACLU Lawsuit
U.S. Releases Targeted Killing Memo in Response to Long-Running ACLU Lawsuit
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Here's When It's Legal To Kill An American Citizen With A Drone
Here's When It's Legal To Kill An American Citizen With A Drone
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Free Beacon's ‘Hillary Files’ under scrutiny — A Republican opposition researcher who obtained Hillary Clinton-related documents from the University of Arkansas and provided them to the Washington Free Beacon signed an agreement stating that those documents would not be published without permission …
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Conservative Website Relied On Republican Opposition Researcher For Clinton Stories — The Center for American Freedom is free of the traditional lines between politics and journalism. Reinschmiedt helped with paperwork, research assistance. — Eric Gay / AP Photo
Fox News:
Sudanese mom sentenced to die for Christian faith is freed — Meriam Ibrahim and Daniel Wani married in a formal church ceremony in 2011. — Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman who gave birth in a Khartoum prison after being sentenced to death in May for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity …
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Rick Perlstein / Salon:
Gun nuts are terrorizing America: The watershed moment everyone missed — From Cliven Bundy defeating the cops to “open carry” movement's menace, the left's timidity has spawned a nightmare — Here is a truth so fundamental that it should be self-evident: When legitimately constituted …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Inside the vast liberal conspiracy — Picture this: millionaires and billionaires gathering under tight security in fancy hotels with powerful politicians and operatives to plot how their network of secret-money groups can engineer a permanent realignment of American politics. — Only, it's not the Koch brothers.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Dems Ain't Happy Either — In addition to the rank and toxic politics of ‘vote fraud’ bamboozlement and voter suppression of African-American votes from the likes of J Christian Adams and crew (remember, this was actually what was at the heart of the US Attorney firing scandal) …
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Washington Post:
Iraqi military facing ‘psychological collapse’ after losses, desertions — Iraqis prepare to fight militants — After militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took Mosul and other Iraqi cities, the government issued a call for volunteers to join the army. Many Iraqis answered.
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Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
CHOICES AT THE TOP — President Obama won the White House …
CBS News:
Poll: Many Americans wary of U.S. role in Iraq — Shares - — NEW YORK — Fifty percent of Americans think the U.S. doesn't have a responsibility to do something about the recent violence in Iraq, while fewer - 42 percent — think the U.S. does, a CBS News/New York Times poll reveals.
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Obama Flips on Immunity for U.S. Troops in Iraq — American forces could be prosecuted by Iraq's famously compromised courts as they defend Baghdad. No wonder the Pentagon is so reluctant to send 'em. — President Obama pulled U.S. forces out of Iraq in 2011 because he couldn't get Iraq's parliament …
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Washington Free Beacon:
Opening Day Loss — New White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest received quite a bit of backlash for playing coy during the White House Press Briefing Monday afternoon. Following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Jay Carney, Earnest dodged a question and was quickly reprimanded for it.
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Red Alert Politics, BizPac Review and The Huffington Post
Philip Oltermann / Guardian:
US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany — More than 20 firefighters free exchange student from the artwork Chacán-Pi (Making Love) by Fernando de la Jara in Tübingen — In the space of 24 hours last week, two spectacular rescue operations were carried out in southern Germany.
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Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Georgia GOP candidate Jody Hice: Muslims not protected by the First Amendment — A Republican candidate seeking to represent Georgia's 10th U.S. House district believes that the First Amendment's guarantee of religious liberty does not apply to followers of Islam.
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Talking Points Memo and Hinterland Gazette
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
The walls erected by traditional media — This was a morning of ironies. At 9:30 a.m., six members of the blog staff were live-blogging the Supreme Court's orders, followed by opinions at 10 a.m. There were 10,000 readers. The Standing Committee of Correspondents chose that time to release …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Conservatives and Climate Change — On Sunday Henry Paulson, the former Treasury secretary and a lifelong Republican, had an Op-Ed article about climate policy in The New York Times. In the article, he declared that man-made climate change is “the challenge of our time,” …
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