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7:50 PM ET, February 27, 2015

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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Chaos in House as lawmakers reject DHS bill; shutdown nears  —  A short-term funding measure to keep the Department of Homeland Security open (DHS) was defeated on Friday in a stunning vote that could result in a partial government shutdown at midnight.  —  The bill failed 203-224 …
Discussion: Politico
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
STUNNER: House GOP Votes Down Own Bill To Avert Shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — In a huge embarrassment for Republican leaders, the House voted down their bill Friday to avert a Homeland Security shutdown hours before the midnight deadline.  —  The House GOP plan was to pass a three-week stopgap bill …
Discussion: Liberaland
The Hill:
House will vote Friday to prevent Homeland Security shutdown  —  The House will vote Friday on a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security for three weeks in an attempt to avert a shutdown slated for Saturday at the massive agency.  —  If the bill is approved by the House …
Politico:
John Boehner scrambles for Plan B  —  Boehner and the GOP leadership searching for a way to keep DHS from shutting down at midnight.  —  What's the Plan B?  —  After 52 GOP lawmakers brought down a three-week spending bill for the agency, House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team …
Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
House GOP Fails to Advance 3-Week DHS Funding Bill
Discussion: FreakOutNation and Political Wire
Virginia Heffernan / New York Times:
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83  —  Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” …
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Natasha Vargas-Cooper / Jezebel:
Scott Walker Wants Colleges to Stop Reporting Sexual Assaults  —  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's proposed budget—which would cut $300 million dollars out of the state's beloved public university system—has a non-fiscal bombshell tucked in between its insane pages.
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Ronald Reagan, Scott Walker, and the ISIS Gaffe  —  How Scott Walker's fandom of the 40th president hurts him.  —  The ledes were written, the narrative was set.  At CPAC, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was going to have another knockout speech in front of conservatives and national media.
Featured stories:
Boy, Blowing Up A DNC Media Hit Job On Scott Walker In Realtime Sure Is Fun!
Discussion: Hot Air
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush was very, very good at CPAC today  —  Did people walk out when Jeb Bush started speaking at CPAC today in Maryand?  Sure.  Did he get heckled and booed at times during his q and a with conservative commentator Sean Hannity?  Sure.  Did Bush more than hold his own with an audience …
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Rubio: I've learned lesson on immigration  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that he's learned he was wrong on his approach to immigration reform.  —  Rubio, a onetime Tea Party favorite whose support for a comprehensive immigration reform package hurt …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Jeb Bush: 'I'm not backing down' from immigration stance  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — In perhaps his most campaign-style speech so far, not-yet-official GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush vowed Thursday not to alter his views on immigration despite intense opposition among some parts of the Republican base.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Nick Gass / Politico:
12 questions for John Ellis Bush
Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg Business
Adam Rogers / Wired:
The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress  —  The original image is in the middle.  At left, white-balanced as if the dress is white-gold.  At right, white-balanced to blue-black. swiked  —  Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation.
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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
A White and Gold (No, Blue and Black!) Dress Melts the Internet
BuzzFeed:
What Colors Are This Dress?  —  There's a lot of debate on Tumblr …
BBC:
Russia opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead  —  A leading Russian opposition politician, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian officials say.  —  An unidentified attacker in a car shot Mr Nemtsov four times in the back as he crossed a bridge in view of the Kremlin, police say.
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Washington Post:
Putin critic, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov killed in Moscow  —  MOSCOW — Boris Nemtsov, a longtime Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladi­mir Putin, was shot and killed in central Moscow, the Russian Interior Ministry said early Saturday.
Discussion: Fox News and Hit & Run
Joel Gehrke / National Review:
CPAC Hails ‘President Paul’  —  CPAC activists waited an hour-and-a-half for Senator Rand Paul after congressional votes delayed his speech, and the pent-up energy made for a rowdy welcome.  —  “President Paul!  President Paul!  President Paul!” the attendees chanted in the middle …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:   Does Hillary Clinton Have Anything to Say?
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Marco Rubio looks forward at CPAC, calls Hillary Clinton ‘yesterday’
Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg Business
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP scrambles to keep Obamacare subsidies flowing in case of Supreme Court victory  —  What happens if Republicans win the Supreme Court case against Obamacare?  They might end up like the dog that caught the car.  —  Next Wednesday the court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell …
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Agence France-Presse:
American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh  —  Protests in Dhaka after Avijit Roy, whose blog championed liberal secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation, was attacked along with his wife  —  A prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin has been hacked to death …
 
 
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Cory Bennett / The Hill:
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Failure  —  Barack Obama wants us all to simmer down about Iran.
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Brian Faler / Politico:
George Bush vet Keith Hall named as CBO chief
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Tracy Walsh / Talking Points Memo:
Rev. Franklin Graham Warns Fox Viewers DC Has Been ‘Infiltrated By Muslims’
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Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
From voicemail to voicemail: The short political life and times of Tom Schweich
Josh Hicks / Washington Post:
Investigators probing for criminal activity with Lois Lerner's missing emails
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Uninsured Ex-Sheriff Who Fought O-care Struggles To Pay Medical Bills
 

 
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Reuters:
Iran confirms the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala; Italy declines to say whether the case might be linked to the arrest of an Iranian in Italy

The Guardian:
Tortoise Media reports a pre-tax loss of £3.8M for 2023, down from previous year's loss of £4.6M, after reducing spending and cutting some staff

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Salem agrees to sell its seven contemporary Christian radio stations to Educational Media Foundation for $80M and repays all $159.4M of its long-term debt
 
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