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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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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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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Giuliani: 'White police officers wouldn't be there if you weren't killing each other.' — Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani faced immediate Web backlash Sunday morning after he asked why people protest the killing of unarmed Ferguson, Mo., teenager Michael Brown but not black-on-black crime.
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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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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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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
‘Shame on us’ for not passing immigration reform, Graham says
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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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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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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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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Rocco Parascandola / NY Daily News:
9-month-old girl shot inside Brooklyn home while dad cleaned gun: police — Jessica Rosales' parents will face criminal charges, police say, after the little girl was hit with a bullet while dad Pedro Rosales cleaned his illegal handgun. — A Brooklyn man shot his 9-month-old daughter …
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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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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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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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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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