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Lori Hinnant / Associated Press:
France cracks down on hate speech, sends carrier to Mideast — PARIS (AP) — France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism and announced Wednesday it was sending an aircraft carrier to the Mideast to work more closely …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
With New Charlie Hebdo Cover, News Value Should Have Prevailed — Readers responded passionately, and in large numbers, to my post last week about The Times's decision not to publish the now-famous Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. (In fact, I've never had more comments on a post or column.)
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Does free media have an obligation to Islam?
Does free media have an obligation to Islam?
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Lori Hinnant / Associated Press:
France arrests 54 for defending terror; newspaper sells out
France arrests 54 for defending terror; newspaper sells out
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Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Romney crafting a rationale for 2016 run — Focus on poor, foreign policy
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Romney Recycled — Mitt would have to explain why he'd be a better candidate now.
Romney Recycled — Mitt would have to explain why he'd be a better candidate now.
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James Carville / The Hill:
Obama's 2015 — As on most NFL Sundays in south Louisiana …
ABC News:
Ohio Man Arrested for Alleged ISIS-Inspired Plot on US Capitol, FBI Says … The FBI has arrested an Ohio man for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol, where he hoped to set off a series of bombs aimed at lawmakers, whom he allegedly considered enemies.
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Reuters:
U.S. House passes security funding bill blocking immigration actions — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans drew a hard line against President Barack Obama's executive immigration initiatives on Wednesday, voting to block them as they passed a Department of Homeland Security spending bill.
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House votes to overturn Obama immigration actions, bill heads to Senate
House votes to overturn Obama immigration actions, bill heads to Senate
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
4 top Secret Service executives told to leave their posts in agency shake-up — Members of the Secret Service follow President Obama as he arrives at Northwestern University on Oct. 2, 2014, in Evanston, Ill. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) — The Secret Service has decided …
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TMZ.com:
Jimmy Carter — Huckabee's Wrong on Everything ... Not Just Obamas' Parenting Skills — HUCKABEE'S WRONG ON EVERYTHING — Not Just Obamas' Parenting Skills — EXCLUSIVE — Jimmy Carter slammed Mike Huckabee Tuesday for criticizing the Obamas' parenting skills.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Jimmy Carter Defends Obama Letting Daughters Listen To Beyoncé — Former President Jimmy Carter defended Barack Obama's parenting skills Wednesday, after former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee expressed dismay that the President would let his teenage daughters listen to singer Beyoncé.
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Victor Paul Alvarez / Boston Globe:
Bartender's Threat against John Boehner Thwarted — The FBI says an Ohio bartender planned to kill House Speaker John Boehner last October by poisoning his drink at a country club. — The question is: Would anyone have noticed? Stories about Boehner's drinking have circulated for years.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Boston.com's questionable Boehner joke
Boston.com's questionable Boehner joke
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Paul Ryan isn't running for president. He's after something even bigger. — Most politicians who can gin up presidential speculation do (see Gingrich, Newt). It means more reporters covering their speeches, more money for their PAC, more invitations to the Sunday shows.
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Mike Clary / Sun-Sentinel:
Arrested teen hailed as hero after helping cop who collapsed … Get unlimited digital access. 99¢ for 4 weeks.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Obama Job Rating Ticks Higher, Views of Nation's Economy Turn More Positive — But Most Still Say They Are ‘Falling Behind’ Financially — President Obama enters the seventh year of his presidency in a familiar position when compared with his recent predecessors.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center's Social …:
Women and Leadership — Public Says Women are Equally Qualified, but Barriers Persist — According to the majority of Americans, women are every bit as capable of being good political leaders as men. The same can be said of their ability to dominate the corporate boardroom.
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Jason Silverstein / NY Daily News:
Donald Trump suing Florida county for $100 million for allegedly flying planes over his oceanside mansion — A Jan. 6 lawsuit says the Palm Beach County airport is deliberately rerouting planes over Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion as revenge for past legal squabbling.
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Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
Former highest-ranking U.S. cardinal blames ‘feminization’ for the Catholic Church's problems — Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke is a man with a lot of enemies. The former archbishop of St. Louis, who once said supporters of abortion rights shouldn't receive communion, became the highest-ranking American …
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Commentary Magazine:
The Existential Necessity of Zionism After Paris: A COMMENTARY Editorial — I. — The jihadist siege of a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris on January 9 was not the beginning of a new threat to French Jews and the Jews of Europe. Rather, it was the culmination of a decade of crisis.
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Cahal Milmo / The Independent:
The new anti-Semitism: Majority of British Jews feel they have no future in UK, says new study — More than half of British Jewish people fear Jews have no future in the UK, according to a new study which also reveals that antisemitic sentiments are more prevalent than widely believed.
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Leslie H. Gelb / The Daily Beast:
This Is Obama's Last Foreign Policy Chance — The failure of Obama or Biden to show up in Paris made clear that most of the president's team can't be trusted to conduct U.S national security policy and must be replaced—at once. — Here's why America's failure to be represented at the Paris unity march was so profoundly disturbing.
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Howard Dean's Advice to White House Hopefuls: Look the Part — Howard Dean knew his 2004 presidential campaign was in big trouble weeks before he punctuated a third-place Iowa caucus finish with the infamous “scream speech.” — By that point Mr. Dean, then the Vermont governor who went …
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Obama's calls for government-run Internet service stoke GOP ire — President Obama's call for more cities and towns to create their own broadband Internet services to compete with private companies like Comcast is meeting stiff opposition from many Republicans.
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Ashley Judd: ‘I might run some day’ — Ashley Judd says voters shouldn't count her out of the political arena just yet. — “I might run some day,” she tells ITK, “I don't know.” — The “Divergent” actress famously flirted with a Kentucky Senate bid against Sen. Mitch McConnell (R).
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