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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Graham: House GOP Benghazi report ‘full of crap’ — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday blasted a House GOP-led investigation that recently debunked myths about the 2012 Benghazi attack. — “I think the report is full of crap,” Graham said on CNN's “State of the Union.”
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
‘Shame on us’ for not passing immigration reform, Graham says
Sara Fischer / CNN:
Sen. Lindsey Graham: GOP-led Benghazi report is ‘full of crap’
Sen. Lindsey Graham: GOP-led Benghazi report is ‘full of crap’
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Q13 FOX News and Time
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
G.O.P.-Led Benghazi Panel Bolsters Administration
G.O.P.-Led Benghazi Panel Bolsters Administration
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Christian Science Monitor, The Moderate Voice, Prairie Weather and Opinions You Should Have
Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
Hansen: “I need to step down” — One day after thnaking people for their support and saying he was the victim of character assassination, incoming Spesker Ira Hansen sent an early morning email to his caucus declaring his intention to step down: — Ironically for an email slugged “Irony …
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Little Green Footballs, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Time and Political Wire
Cory Shaffer / Plain Dealer:
12-year-old boy shot by Cleveland police has died — CLEVELAND, Ohio — The 12-year-old boy wielding what turned out to be a BB gun when he was shot by police outside a Cleveland recreation center died early Sunday morning, a police union official confirmed.
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Firedoglake, New York Times, ThinkProgress and NPR
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Cory Shaffer / Plain Dealer:
Cleveland police officer shoots 12-year-old boy carrying BB gun
Cleveland police officer shoots 12-year-old boy carrying BB gun
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Liberaland, Gawker and Hinterland Gazette
Blake Chenault / WOIO-TV:
12-year-old shot in officer-involved shooting at Cleveland rec center
12-year-old shot in officer-involved shooting at Cleveland rec center
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ABC News and Hinterland Gazette
Chelsia Rose Marcius / NY Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-NBC employee Frank Scotti claims Bill Cosby paid off women, invited young models to dressing room as he stood guard — Veteran NBC employee Frank Scotti says he helped Bill Cosby deliver thousands of dollars to eight different women in 1989-90 - including Shawn Thompson …
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Ed Driscoll, “The Lid”, Liberaland, Gawker, BuzzFeed, theGrio and Hinterland Gazette
Adam Serwer / BuzzFeed:
Why D.C. Will Always Love Marion Barry — The late mayor was a very flawed man. But he also gave Washington, D.C.'s working-class black residents a taste of the economic prosperity that racial apartheid had long denied them. — Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press / MCT / Via Associated Press
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Making of an Imperial President — LET me be clear, as he likes to say: I believe that President Obama was entirely sincere when he ran for president as a fierce critic of the imperial executive. I believe that he was in earnest when he told supporters in 2008 that America's …
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The Dish and Outside the Beltway
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Giuliani: 'White Police Officers Won't Be There' If Blacks 'Weren't Killing Each Other' (VIDEO) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) got into a heated argument about race and crime with Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson during a discussion on Ferguson, Mo.
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Hullabaloo
New York Times:
The Piecemeal Assault on Health Care — Now that they will dominate both houses of Congress, Republicans are planning to dismantle the Affordable Care Act piece by piece instead of trying to repeal it entirely. — They are expected to hold at least one symbolic vote for repeal in the next session …
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FOX News Radio and Liberaland
Matt Rourke / ABC News:
President Obama: American People Want ‘New Car Smell’ in 2016 Campaign — President Obama, acknowledging he's taken some political “dings” during his time in the White House, said in an exclusive interview with ABC News that the American people will want that “new car smell” …
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BBC:
Bomber ‘kills 45’ at Afghanistan volleyball match — A suicide bomber has killed at least 45 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. — A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province told the BBC that the attacker had detonated the bomb amid a crowd of people gathering for a game.
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Daily Mail:
'Everybody knows...that we're not going to deport 11 million people': Obama says the U.S. should use its ‘limited resources’ to remove felons and other dangerous criminals — Obama made the remarks during an interview with This Week host George Stephanopolous that was broadcast Sunday
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FOX News Radio
Tina Nguyen / Mediaite:
SNL's Obama Shoves The Schoolhouse Rock Bill Down The Capitol Steps — Finally, the first biting political spoof from Saturday Night Live in a while: the Bill from Schoolhouse Rock explains to a student how he becomes a law, only to be violently beat up by Barack Obama and his new best friend, “Executive Order.”
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Liberal Values, Scared Monkeys and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
Full Interview Transcript: President Obama on ‘This Week’ — Below is the full interview transcript for the interview conducted by ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos with President Barack Obama. This may contain errors and will be updated. — “THIS WEEK” PRESIDENT OBAMA INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT
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Time and Josh Blackman's Blog
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
For Democrats, Hillary Clinton just has to say ‘Go.’ For voters, she'll have to say much more. — NEW YORK — It was all Hillary Clinton, all day, Friday in New York, a day that helped crystallize how much already has been done for the prospective presidential candidate by others and …
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Hot Air
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