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David Corn / Mother Jones:
These Are the Questions Bill O'Reilly Won't Answer — Why won't the Fox News host address the evidence he mischaracterized his wartime reporting experience? — On Thursday, Mother Jones published an article by Daniel Schulman and me that documented how Fox News host Bill O'Reilly …
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Fox News:
Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo 2/20/15 Airing Tonight at 8PM ET — O'REILLY FACTOR TALKING POINTS MEMO — Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly ... thanks for watching us tonight ... more proof the American media is corrupt. — That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points memo.
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Brian Flood / TVNewser:
Bill O'Reilly Shoots Down ‘Mother Jones’ War Report: ‘A Giant Piece of Defamation’
Bill O'Reilly Shoots Down ‘Mother Jones’ War Report: ‘A Giant Piece of Defamation’
Dylan Byers / Politico:
David Corn hits back at Bill O'Reilly
David Corn hits back at Bill O'Reilly
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Mother Jones calls on O'Reilly to apologize
Mother Jones calls on O'Reilly to apologize
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Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Wayne Barrett / NY Daily News:
What Rudy Giuliani knows about love — a response to his 'doesn't love America' critique of Obama — Rudy Giuliani knows a lot about love. — Ask Regina Peruggi, the second cousin he grew up with and married, who was “offended” when Rudy later engineered an annulment from the priest …
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani: White House Says It Feels ‘Sorry’ For Him … White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said today that he feels “sorry” for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is under fire for recently questioning President Obama's love for America.
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Noah Rothman / Hot Air:
The media rushes to defend Obama's honor from Rudy Giuliani
The media rushes to defend Obama's honor from Rudy Giuliani
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Associated Press:
Unwelcome Mat: White House Tries to Counter Netanyahu Visit — In what is becoming an increasingly nasty grudge match, the White House is mulling ways to undercut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming trip to Washington and blunt his message that a potential nuclear deal with Iran is bad for Israel and the world.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama to seek emergency order restarting immigration programs
Obama to seek emergency order restarting immigration programs
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The CMS Blog:
What Consumers Need to Know about Corrected Form 1095-As — Last year, millions of Americans used advance payments of tax credits to help lower the cost of their monthly health insurance premiums. Now that tax season is here, individuals and families enrolled in a health plan through …
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Health Insurance Blog, Politico, Health Affairs Blog and KVNF Public Radio
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data — WASHINGTON — About 800,000 taxpayers who enrolled in insurance policies through HealthCare.gov received erroneous tax information from the government, and were urged on Friday to hold off on filing tax returns until the error could be corrected.
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Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
Health Exchange Sign-Up Period Extended Through Tax Season
Health Exchange Sign-Up Period Extended Through Tax Season
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Fire Bell in the Night — Dozing off as we pored through a raft of mostly meaningless polls this week, we were startled awake by one set of findings. The CNN/ORC survey released February 18 was The Weekly Standard's own little fire bell in the night. — What, you surely ask, alarmed us so?
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Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Opposition Research Hand Tim Miller Joins Jeb Bush Team
GOP Opposition Research Hand Tim Miller Joins Jeb Bush Team
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New Hampshire Journal, Metro Weekly, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
CNN:
DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat — Hunter: Terrorists crossed U.S. border — Story highlights — Intelligence assessment focuses on domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists — Some law enforcement groups view domestic terror threat …
Patrick Marley / JSOnline:
Scott Walker says he'll sign fast-tracked right-to-work bill — By Patrick Marley and Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — After saying in his re-election bid that he wouldn't push so-called right-to-work legislation, Gov. Scott Walker voiced support for it Friday and committed to signing it …
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E. J. Graff / New York Times:
Boston's Winter From Hell — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — BY now you've seen the starkly beautiful shots of Boston buried under snow: the panoramic city under a white blanket; snowbanks so high they crest over parked cars; piercing icicles glinting for two full stories from gutters dammed with ice …
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What Solutions Do You Think Are Most Critical To Countering Violent Extremism? — This week, the White House hosted a Summit to Counter Violent Extremism to highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting …
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Weekly Standard, The PJ Tatler, US Department of State, The Daily Caller and American Spectator
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
After MSNBC Axes Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid's Shows, Is Chris Hayes Next? — As its afternoon shows hosted by Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid are canceled due to poor ratings, MSNBC is reportedly planning to replace Chris Hayes with Rachel Maddow. — It was hardly a surprise Thursday …
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KUSA-TV:
Arrest made in Colorado Springs bombing — COLORADO SPRINGS - 9Wants to Know has learned a man has been arrested in connection with a bombing that occurred at a building housing the NAACP and other businesses. — Investigators are looking into the possibility a tax preparation business …
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Rent-stabilized tenant evicted after cashing in on Airbnb — This posh Hell's Kitchen apartment was advertised on Airbnb with a profile that featured Henry Ikezi (inset). — This could help doom scores of Airbnb rentals. — A Manhattan Housing Court judge has ruled that rent-stabilized tenants …
Richard Justice / MLB.com:
MLB announces pace of game initiatives, replay modifications — Richard Justice joins Fran Charles on MLB Tonight to discuss how baseball is incorporating new pace of play rules — Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr., Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark …
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KVNF Public Radio
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The Plot to Kill Health Care — Republicans hate activist judges — those black-robed elites who are willing to upset the lives of millions of people just to further a political cause. Ditto trial lawyers trolling for clients, the ambulance-chasing, “Better Call Saul” guys. They hate them, until they need them.
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Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:
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Martin Evans / Telegraph:
Three missing London schoolgirls ‘travelling to Syria to join Isil’ — Metropolitan Police ‘extremely concerned’ about three teenage girls from east London school believed to be attempting to travel to Syria via Turkey — Police are appealing for help to find three schoolgirls …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Hugh Hewitt Show and Truth Revolt