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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Biden Agenda — Reckoning with Ukraine and Iraq, and keeping an eye on 2016. … “No pressure, but I do have another couple who are very interested.” — BUY AS PRINT» … “In closing, I would like to remind the jury that he says he didn't do it.” — BUY AS PRINT»
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New Yorker:
A Note to Our Readers … “Tell everyone it was a bigger bird.” — BUY AS PRINT»
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Jacob Fischler / Monitor:
Gov. Rick Perry to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to RGV — National Guard Capt. Martha Nigrelle takes a photo of a washed-out bridge to show the hazardous terrain Border Patrol agents encounter on May 19, 2014, in Laredo, Texas. Border Patrol agents are guided to illegal immigrants …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Castro: Rick Perry ‘militarizing’ border — Texas Rep. Joaquín Castro on Monday said Gov. Rick Perry's is “militarizing our border” with his reported decision to deploy state National Guard troops there. — “We should be sending the Red Cross to the border not the National Guard …
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / CNN:
Perry to send 1,000 National Guard troops to border
Perry to send 1,000 National Guard troops to border
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ThinkProgress and Daily Signal
Peggy Fikac / MySanAntonio.com:
Perry to send 1,000 Texas Guard troops to South Texas border
Perry to send 1,000 Texas Guard troops to South Texas border
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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — And it's more of a problem than you think. — Did you know Malaysia Air Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
MSNBC Contributor Slams Network For Pro-Israel Coverage: ‘We Are Ridiculous!’ — An MSNBC contributor used her appearance on the cable news channel Monday to sharply criticize its coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict. — During an interview on “Ronan Farrow Daily,” Palestinian journalist …
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Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
MSNBC Contributor Criticizes MSNBC On MSNBC For Air Time Given To Palestinian Voices — MSNBC contributor Rula Jebreal criticizes the network and Andrea Mitchell by name. — View Video › — Monday's edition of MSNBC's Ronan Farrow Daily featured criticism of the network's coverage …
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The Huffington Post and Washington Free Beacon
Noah Pollak / Weekly Standard:
All The News Hamas Sees Fit to Print
All The News Hamas Sees Fit to Print
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New York Times, The Huffington Post, Ed Driscoll, Algemeiner.com, Israel Matzav, The Other McCain, RedState, NewsBusters, Jihad Watch and Mashable
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Dim views of Hillary Clinton's time at State — A majority of voters are unimpressed with Hillary Clinton's performance as secretary of state, according to a new POLITICO poll. — Just 14 percent described her time at State — she served four years ending in February 2013 — as “excellent,” while 28 percent defined it as “good.”
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
POLITICO poll: Stay out of Ukraine, Middle East — Amid deepening violence across Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Americans are recoiling from direct engagement overseas and oppose U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine by large margins, according to a POLITICO poll of 2014 battleground voters.
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Is the White House Lying or Just Bad at Crisis Communications? — Ordering a cheeseburger with fries while a downed airline smolders may not have been a great decision. — President Obama walks into the Charcoal Pit restaurant to eat lunch with a single mother in Wilmington, Del.(Getty Images)
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Bloomberg:
Clinton Earns $12 Million Speaking, Writing After Service — Hillary Clinton has earned at least $12 million in 16 months since leaving the State Department, a windfall at odds with her party's call to shrink the gap between the rich and the poor. — Clinton's income since her resignation …
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Bruce Japsen / Forbes:
Hospitals See Troubles In Red States That Snubbed Obamacare's Medicaid Deal — While record numbers of Americans sign up for the larger Medicaid health insurance program for the poor, financial issues are emerging for medical care providers in the two dozen states that didn't go along with the expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
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The New Republic:
The Explosive, Inside Story of How John Kerry Built an Israel-Palestine Peace Plan—and Watched It Crumble — I. — At around noon on March 20 last year, Air Force One landed at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport for Barack Obama's first presidential visit to Israel.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
An Imaginary Budget and Debt Crisis — For much of the past five years readers of the political and economic news were left in little doubt that budget deficits and rising debt were the most important issue facing America. Serious people constantly issued dire warnings that the United States risked turning …
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Washington Monthly, Patterico's Pontifications, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the lost emails are still backed up somewhere.
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Washington Post, “The Lid”, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers