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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republican leaders look for escape plan on immigration — Republican leaders in the House and Senate are boxed in on immigration and searching for a way out. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) are struggling to find a way to fund the Department …
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Politico:
Homeland Security funding on the brink — House has no solution for funding cliff. — The border security bill that the House was slated to bring up this week could now be delayed until sometime in late February. Getty — Top Republicans are increasingly unworried about missing …
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Daily Kos
Alex Roarty / National Journal:
The ‘War on Women’ Isn't Over Yet
The ‘War on Women’ Isn't Over Yet
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Washington Post and Instapundit
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Obama scraps plan to tax college accounts
Obama scraps plan to tax college accounts
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Politico and Weekly Standard
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House plots new lawsuit against Obama's immigration orders
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Michelle Obama's uncovered head draws Saudi Twitter critique — First lady Michelle Obama faced backlash from Twitter users in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for not wearing a head covering during her brief visit there with the president. — Obama wore loose-fitting clothes including a long blue jacket …
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Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
Michelle Obama forgoes a headscarf and sparks a backlash in Saudi Arabia
Michelle Obama forgoes a headscarf and sparks a backlash in Saudi Arabia
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Associated Press:
Michelle Obama navigates limits on women in Saudi Arabia
Michelle Obama navigates limits on women in Saudi Arabia
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Saudis on Twitter criticise Michelle Obama for visiting Saudi with her hair uncovered
Saudis on Twitter criticise Michelle Obama for visiting Saudi with her hair uncovered
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Josh Rogin / Bloomberg View:
Saudis Say Michelle Obama Not Blurred on TV
Saudis Say Michelle Obama Not Blurred on TV
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
What to call a president's husband? Bill Clinton has ideas — Bill Clinton has an interesting suggestion for what to call him if his wife becomes president: “Adam.” — In an interview with Rachael Ray airing Thursday, the cook-turned-talk show host asked the former president …
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Hillary Clinton agrees to testify on Benghazi, panel's ranking Dem says
Hillary Clinton agrees to testify on Benghazi, panel's ranking Dem says
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Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Clinton willing to testify before Benghazi panel, Democrat says
Clinton willing to testify before Benghazi panel, Democrat says
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Politico:
Koch donors give Marco Rubio early nod — Straw poll at donor summit rates 5 GOP hopefuls. — Getty — The Koch brothers' conservative network is still debating whether it will spend any of its massive $889-million budget in the Republican presidential primaries, but the prospect …
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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: January 2015 — Bianca DiJulio, Jamie Firth, and Mollyann Brodie … The Public's Views Of King V. Burwell And Exchanges — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case, King v. Burwell, in March about whether the health care law says people in all states …
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Domenico Montanaro / PBS NewsHour:
Republicans to vote on repealing Obamacare ... again
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
A Note To My Readers — One of the things I've always tried to do at the Dish is to be up-front with readers. This sometimes means grotesque over-sharing; sometimes it means I write imprudent arguments I have to withdraw; sometimes it just means a monthly update on our revenues and subscriptions …
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Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Anti-tank missile fired at Israeli military vehicle on Lebanon frontier: army — (Reuters) - An anti-tank missile was fired at an Israeli military vehicle near the Lebanon border on Wednesday, wounding four soldiers, a military source said. — The incident came several hours after Israel launched …
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New York Post:
Sheldon Silver to resign as Assembly speaker — Scandal-scarred Sheldon Silver Tuesday night agreed to resign as the powerful Assembly speaker. — Silver's decision to quit — amid calls from fellow Democrats to do so — came less than a week after being busted by the feds for allegedly using …
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Politico:
GOP lawmakers confront Jim DeMint over ratings — Conservatives accuse his group of being too harsh on them. — Long-simmering tensions between the Heritage Foundation, its sister political arm and House Republicans erupted Tuesday during a weekly meeting of conservatives …
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Politico:
The importance of being Ernst — The just-elected Iowa senator aims to be a player in 2016. — DES MOINES, Iowa — Sen. Joni Ernst hasn't been in office a month, but she's already delivered the GOP response to the State of the Union. And now the Iowa Republican is looking to parlay …
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Washington Monthly and No More Mister Nice Blog
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Obama drops proposal to cut tax benefits of 529 college savings plans — President Obama on Tuesday abandoned a proposal to end a major tax benefit of popular college savings accounts used by millions of American families after the White House faced mounting criticism from lawmakers and parents.
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Spokesman.com:
Testimony: ‘Ramifications upon my church,’ questions on bathroom use, ‘parading their genitalia’ — The first four people to testify this morning at the HB 2 hearing all spoke against the bill, including Pastor Jeff Estes of Fellowship Baptist Church in Meridian, who said …
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Addicting Info, KTFT and Raw Story
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
New All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Cast Chosen — The Paul Feig-directed reboot is eyeing a summer shoot in New York. — Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy — The all-new, all-female Ghostsbusters are here. — Melissa McCarthy, who was already in talks for one of the leads …
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Shakesville, Real Clear Politics, theGrio, Raw Story, Jezebel, Mashable and Gothamist
Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads — Canada's leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users' file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents. — The covert operation, revealed Wednesday by CBC News …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans think Pats cheated, rooting for Seahawks — Americans think the Patriots cheated in the AFC Championship game- and they're rooting for the Seahawks on Sunday- but in some ways their poll numbers haven't fallen that far because the Patriots weren't all that popular to begin with.
Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Mike Huckabee complains of ‘trashy’ women at Fox News — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in a recent radio appearance that while in New York for his Fox News show, he experienced significant culture shock from all the “trashy” women swearing in a professional setting.
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