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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
WHITE HOUSE: OBAMA TO DELAY IMMIGRATION ACTION — WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his pledge to act by the end of summer, President Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections, White House officials said.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Jorge Ramos Torches Obama For Punting On Immigration — The Obama administration's decision to delay taking executive action on immigration until after the November midterms did not site well with Fusion's Jorge Ramos. — Shortly after news of the delay broke on Saturday …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Delays Immigration Action, Yielding to Democratic Concerns
Obama Delays Immigration Action, Yielding to Democratic Concerns
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-BuzzFeed Editor Fired For Plagiarism Gets Second Chance At Conservative National Review — A little more than a month after he lost his job at BuzzFeed for widespread plagiarism, Benny Johnson has landed on his feet at National Review. — Politico's Mike Allen reported Saturday …
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Mike Allen / Politico:
BRUNCH EDITION - 59 days to midterms — BENNY JOHNSON's new job - OBAMA PUNTS ON IMMIGRATION — WENDY DAVIS discloses abortion of third daughter - JOE SCARBOROUGH signs NBC deal —CHRIS CHRISTIE is 52 — EXCLUSIVE: Benny Johnson, the BuzzFeed “viral politics editor” who was fired for plagiarism in July …
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Peggy Fikac / MySanAntonio.com:
Davis discloses terminating pregnancy in her memoir
Davis discloses terminating pregnancy in her memoir
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Daily Mail:
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Jack the Ripper unmasked: How amateur sleuth used DNA breakthrough to identify Britain's most notorious criminal 126 years after string of terrible murders — It is the greatest murder mystery of all time, a puzzle that has perplexed criminologists for more than a century and spawned books …
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Washington Examiner:
We still don't know why Lois Lerner's Blackberry was wiped clean — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL TAXES TEA PARTY IRS HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE SMARTPHONES LOIS LERNER SCANDALS — As lawmakers return to Washington to continue the search for thousands of missing subpoenaed emails related …
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
The 2016 Republican dark horses — As the 2016 White House race begins to form, more than a few dark horse GOP candidates could end up breaking away from the pack. — With the Republican presidential field wide open, the campaign could be a repeat 2012, when even candidates thought …
emptywheel:
Executive Still Hiding Its Phone Dragnet Self-Authorization, While Making Sure We Know It Has It — Back in February, Ron Wyden got then acting OLC head Caroline Krass to admit that Jack Goldsmith's May 6, 2004 Stellar Wind authorization remained active. Although they could rely on it at any time …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Legal memos released on Bush-era justification for warrantless wiretapping — The Justice Department released two decade-old memos Friday night, offering the fullest public airing to date of the Bush administration's legal justification for the warrantless wiretapping of Americans' phone calls and e-mails …
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Leading From Within — I DON'T know what action will be sufficient to roll back both the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, and Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, but I do know what's necessary. And it's not “leading from behind,” which didn't really work for President Obama in Libya …
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Emily Welker / INFORUM:
MSUM wrestler suspended from team after being accused of rape in dorm room — MOORHEAD - A Minnesota State University Moorhead wrestler is accused of getting another student drunk in his dorm room Labor Day evening, and raping her while videotaping it and after inviting other students on his floor to come watch.
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Cruz: Strip citizenship from Americans in ISIS — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is slated to introduce legislation next week that would revoke the U.S. citizenship of anyone fighting or providing support to terrorist groups working to attack the United States. — Cruz said he is filing …
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Nicholas Schmidle / New Yorker:
Inside the Failed Raid to Save Foley and Sotloff — In June, two teams of F.B.I. agents travelled to separate locations in Europe to interview two men who had been prisoners of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS. Both former hostages had been held in northern Syria and were released …
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
On Eve of the Democratic Primary, Cuomo Briefly Hits the Campaign Trail — Campaign signs were plentiful, and so was praise for his stewardship of state government. Handshakes with voters were evident, but still scarce. And the entire endeavor was over in just a few hours.
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