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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
U.S. Congressman Mistakes U.S. Gov't Officials For Indian Officials (VIDEO) — In an extraordinary — and extraordinarily awkward — failure of basic situational awareness, a U.S. congressman apparently mistook American government officials for Indian government officials during a congressional hearing.
Alexandra Zavis / Los Angeles Times:
Palestinians say they were waiting to evacuate when UN shelter was hit — It was supposed to be a place of refuge from a devastating war. — Hundreds of people were crammed into a United Nations-run elementary school in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday when the converted shelter was hit by a series of explosions.
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Associated Press:
Reports: ‘Extremely short’ cease-fire in Gaza … GAZA CITY - Britain's U.N. ambassador says there may be “an extremely short” humanitarian pause in the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on Saturday lasting several hours. — Mark Lyall Grant told reporters Friday that Britain …
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Reuters:
Israel cabinet rejects Kerry cease-fire proposal in Gaza
Israel cabinet rejects Kerry cease-fire proposal in Gaza
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Israel Can Win — Slandered, despised, insulted, degraded …
Israel Can Win — Slandered, despised, insulted, degraded …
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John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:
Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Once Again Ties Subsidies to State-Based Exchanges — Did Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber make the same mistake twice? A new audio clip finds him once again explaining that Obamacare subsidies are tied to state health exchanges.
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Did Jonathan Gruber Just Endorse the Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit? — Obamacare architect offers an explanation for his 2012 quote — Did the people who designed Obamacare intend to deprive millions of people of health insurance, just because officials in their states decided not to operate their own insurance marketplaces?
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Adam Serwer / msnbc.com:
Adviser's past remarks could give Obamacare a headache
Adviser's past remarks could give Obamacare a headache
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Editor's Note: An Apology To Our Readers — What we're doing about an episode of plagiarism. — Starting this Wednesday, Twitter users began pointing out instances in which a BuzzFeed writer, Benny Johnson, had lifted phrases and sentences from other websites.
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Doug Sosnik / Politico:
Blue Crush — How the left took over the Democratic Party. — From 2000 to 2008, no one did more to unite the Democratic Party than George W. Bush. But Democrats haven't fallen apart in the years since Bush exited the political stage. Instead, President Barack Obama has maintained …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
Obama's immigration flip flop
Obama's immigration flip flop
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Tom Williams / Roll Call:
Simas Ignores Subpoena Again as White House Defies Issa (Updated) (Video) — Top White House political adviser David Simas refused again Friday to honor a congressional subpoena, prompting Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to vote to rebuke the administration.
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TMZ.com:
Joan Rivers — GOES OFF on Epic Israel/Palestine Rant — GOES OFF ON EPIC — Israel/Palestine Rant — EXCLUSIVE — Joan Rivers jettisoned comedy for politics ... unleashing an impassioned defense of Israel that included an awesome New York/New Jersey analogy.
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Lawrence A. Franklin / Gatestone Institute:
Hamas Mega-Attack Planned through Gaza Terror Tunnels … Hamas had apparently been preparing a murderous assault on Israeli civilian targets for the coming Jewish New Year Holiday, Rosh Hashanah, which begins on September 24, according anonymous sources in the Israeli security services, as reported today by the Israeli daily Maariv.
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Joe Miller / BBC:
Wikipedia blocks ‘disruptive’ page edits from US Congress — Computers on Capitol Hill have been banned from making edits to Wikipedia in the past — Wikipedia administrators have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of Representatives, following “persistent disruptive editing”.
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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Who's banned from editing Wikipedia this week? Congress
Who's banned from editing Wikipedia this week? Congress
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ABC News:
Inside the Furious, Close-Range Gun Battle at Pennsylvania Hospital … A doctor with a semi-automatic gun and a caseworker who was “nothing short of heroic” were able to wound and then subdue an armed psychiatric patient after he had killed another caseworker and appeared intent of reloading …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Lawmaker to Push Bill Requiring Dinesh D'Souza's ‘America’ Be Shown in Schools — Florida GOP state senator Alan Hays said he'll propose a bill mandating that students in the 1,700 Florida public high schools and middle schools are to be shown the film unless their parents object.
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