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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Porn star's tweet prompts Steve Stivers aide Adam Kuhn to resign — The chief of staff to Ohio GOP Rep. Steve Stivers has resigned after a former porn actress posted an explicit photo of the aide online. — Adam Kuhn, a longtime Stivers' aide and chief of staff, resigned on Tuesday.
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David Catanese / U.S. News:
'She'd Probably Get Shot At The State Line' — A local district chairman says there's no love for Hillary in the Natural State. — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has apparently worn out her welcome in the state where her husband served as governor.
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Hillary Clinton sign defaced: ‘Benghazi’ scrawled in red
Hillary Clinton sign defaced: ‘Benghazi’ scrawled in red
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Hillary Clinton to collect $225,000 for keynote at UNLV fundraiser
Hillary Clinton to collect $225,000 for keynote at UNLV fundraiser
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Democrat: IRS chief ‘arrogant’ — Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said Tuesday that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has done “a terrible job communicating” in the investigation into former IRS official Lois Lerner's missing emails. — “Obviously, I think he is doing a terrible job communicating …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Testy Exchange Erupts as I.R.S. Chief Is Questioned on Messages — WASHINGTON — Representative Darrell Issa of California, the Republican who is leading one of the investigations into the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of Tea Party groups, accused the I.R.S. commissioner on Monday of lying …
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Brett Taylor / Twitchy:
‘Just nailed Koskinen to the wall’: Trey Gowdy brings the heat to IRS hearing [video] — Conservatives cheered Rep. Trey Gowdy's line of questioning tonight at the House Oversight Committee's hearing featuring IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
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New York Times:
2nd Bridge Inquiry Said to Be Linked to Christie — Investigations into the Christie administration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have zeroed in on possible securities law violations stemming from a $1.8 billion road repair agreement in 2011, according to people briefed on the matter.
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
BridgeGate II: Pulaski Skyway Reportedly At Center Of Separate Christie Probes
BridgeGate II: Pulaski Skyway Reportedly At Center Of Separate Christie Probes
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Law Is An Ass — There's been a bubbling hum of controversy surrounding the Senate Daily Press Gallery's decision to deny credentials to SCOTUSBlog. And as it happens, the issues involved here are ones I know fairly well since I'm the owner of a new media company and had to navigate …
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Karoli / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Scott Walker Fan Indicted For Massive Voter Fraud — True the Vote was nowhere to be found when Robert Monroe stuffed the ballot box for Scott Walker and Alberta Darling? — Repeat after me: Consistently documented voter fraud is a Republican phenomenon, not a Democratic one.
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Bruce Vielmetti / JSOnline:
Shorewood man charged with 13 counts of voter fraud
Shorewood man charged with 13 counts of voter fraud
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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Will Mississippi mudslinging give Dems a chance in South? — If Chris McDaniel on Tuesday knocks off Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), national Democrats will have a rare offensive opportunity in the Deep South. — The nasty, divisive primary fight comes to a close in tonight's runoff election …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Cochran Courts Blacks, Tea Party Vows to Police Polls
As Cochran Courts Blacks, Tea Party Vows to Police Polls
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Gallup:
After Exchanges Close, 5% of Americans Are Newly Insured — More than half of newly insured in '14 got insurance through exchanges — PRINCETON, NJ — Five percent of Americans report being newly insured in 2014. More than half of that group, or 2.8% of the total U.S. population …
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CNN:
Sudanese Christian woman rearrested, legal team says — (CNN) — A Sudanese Christian woman who'd been sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her faith — and then released — was rearrested Tuesday at an airport as she was trying to leave the African country, her legal team told CNN on Tuesday.
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Disastrous Iraq Policy: An Autopsy — The president ignored the country for years, with tragic results. And liberals shouldn't be afraid to admit it. — Yes, the Iraq War was a disaster of historic proportions. Yes, seeing its architects return to prime time to smugly slam President Obama …
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Jamie Dettmer / The Daily Beast:
Washington and London Ignored Warnings about the ISIS Offensive in Iraq
Washington and London Ignored Warnings about the ISIS Offensive in Iraq
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Kerry: 'We Don't Do Foreign Policy By Polls' — Secretary of State John Kerry tells Fox News's James Rosen that the Obama administration does not “do foreign policy by polls.” That, the sescretary of state said, is “a good thing.” — The claim came in a response to a question …
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Rebecca Leber / The New Republic:
What Climate Change Looks Like on Your Front Porch — If you are like the typical American, then you think climate change is a real problem, but you're not clamoring for action. Yes, you've heard that the planet is getting warmer—that the sea levels are rising and, somewhere, storms probably getting worse.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senator: 'I'm Not Going To Oppose' Gay Marriage If Voters Want It — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Tuesday he wouldn't oppose gay marriage if voters decided that's what they wanted. — “I'm a pretty traditional guy,” Johnson said, in comments reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
If the voters want it, Ron Johnson won't oppose gay marriage
David Hochman / Playboy:
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: GARY OLDMAN — When actors list other actors they deeply admire, Gary Oldman's name inevitably shoots to the top. Sid Vicious, Dracula, Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald, The Dark Knight's Commissioner Gordon, Harry Potter's Sirius Black—Oldman's range is so staggering …
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Politico:
The existential crisis of the liberal millionaire — David Brock has a message for liberal millionaires: Don't sweat being called hypocrites. — Brock, a former “right-wing hit-man"-turned-top-big-money- Democratic-operative, is part of a behind-the-scenes campaign to convince donors it's OK …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Reality of Student Debt Is Different From the Clichés — The deeply indebted college graduate has become a stock character in the national conversation: the art history major with $50,000 in debt, the underemployed barista with $75,000, the struggling poet with $100,000.
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Dennis Welch / KASW-TV:
Pressure builds for Huppenthal to quit — PHOENIX — Pressure on the state's top school official to resign continued to mount Monday as more anonymous blog posts from John Huppenthal emerged. — Using an online alias, the superintendent of public instruction posted several comments …
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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
Should Principals Be Treated Like CEOs? — It's a widely held belief that a talented leader is the key to a successful school. Research shows that highly effective principals put a student's achievement gains two to seven months ahead in a single school year—while weak leaders slow a student's progress by the same amount.
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Jonathon Sharp / CBS Minnesota:
Police: Thief Forgets To Log Off Facebook After Burglarizing Home — MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minnesota man is in jail because he logged on to Facebook. — Police say 26-year-old Nicholas Wig checked his profile from a home he broke into, and then he didn't log off. It happened June 19 in South St. Paul.
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