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Reuters:
U.S. House passes border-security funding bill to speed deportations — (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to crack down on Central American migrants, including unaccompanied children, who are flooding to the U.S. border with Mexico, as lawmakers passed a $694 million border security bill.
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House approves border funding — House Republicans earned a victory Friday night by approving a $694 million border bill, one day after they were on the verge of leaving Washington empty-handed. — President Obama opposes the House measure and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared it dead on arrival.
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House GOP Votes To Spurn Obama, Deport Dreamers Before Leaving Town — In a vote likely to exacerbate their party's demographic problems, House Republicans passed legislation on Friday night to effectively require the deportation of everyone in the U.S. illegally, including young people brought …
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The Moderate Voice
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
An upending of reason in the House
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Capitol Report and The PJ Tatler
Roll Call:
GOP Leaders Pitch Revised Border Package, Hope to Vote Today (Updated)
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House GOP's New Plan: Rebuke Obama With Border Bill Then Leave Town
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Dozens Of Democrats Line Up On House Floor To Stand Up For Children At The Border
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Igor Bobic / The Huffington Post:
GOP Admits It's Hypocritical To Sue Obama Yet Urge Him To Act Alone On Border Crisis
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Obama: ‘We Tortured Some Folks’ — President Obama eschewed the opaque language of his predecessor on Friday and acknowledged that the United States engaged in “torture” after 9/11. — Obama made the comment while discussing CIA Director John Brennan, who was forced to apologize to members …
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Dan Froomkin / The Intercept:
It's About the Lying — John Brennan at the Council …
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Key Republican defends CIA head
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John Parkinson / ABC News:
Pelosi Chases Republican Tom Marino Across House Chamber — In an unusual breach of decorum, even for the divided Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chased Rep. Tom Marino across the House floor, taking offense at comments by the Pennsylvania Republican during debate on the border funding bill Friday night.
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Pelosi to Boehner: I Quashed Impeachment, and So Can You
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Plain Dealer:
Call about suspicious car led Westlake police to Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald and an unidentified woman in 2012, records show — The Mayo Society of Greater Cleveland identifies the woman in this photo as Joanne Grehan, who was found by Westlake Police in a parked car …
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Jeff Greenfield / The Daily Beast:
The Coming Democratic Midterm Collapse — History tells us the “six-year itch” is a very real thing, and there's little Obama's Democrats can do to stave off a big loss this November. — Time has been cruel to many once-revered political assertions. No, all politics is not local.
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
NETANYAHU TO US: DON'T SECOND GUESS ME ON HAMAS — WASHINGTON (AP) — Following the quick collapse of the cease-fire in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the White House not to force a truce with Palestinian militants on Israel. — Sources familiar with conversations between Netanyahu …
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
BOOM: The Historic Proof Obamacare Foes Are Dead Wrong On Subsidies — The story of whether Congress ever intended to limit Obamacare subsidies to state-based exchanges begins and ends with the Congressional Budget Office. And what it reveals about the latest legal threat …
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Dr Margaret Chan / who.int:
WHO Director-General assesses the Ebola outbreak with three West African presidents — Director-General of the World Health Organization — Excellencies, honourable ministers, members of the press, ladies and gentlemen, — West Africa is facing its first outbreak of Ebola virus disease.
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The United States Department of Justice:
Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 57th Annual Meeting and 13th State Criminal Justice Network Conference — Thank you, Norman [Reimer], for those kind words - and for your exemplary leadership as Executive Director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
Porn-surfing feds blame boredom, lack of work for misbehavior — Employees rarely face criminal prosecution for time and attendance fraud — For one Federal Communications Commission worker, his porn habit at work was easy to explain: Things were slow, he told investigators, so he perused it …
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