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Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Netanyahu's Favorable Rating Improves in U.S. — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the U.S. Congress that has strained relations between Israel and the White House, nearly twice as many Americans view Israel's leader favorably (45%) as unfavorably (24%).
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Danger Ahead for Obama on Iran — Uranium-enriching centrifuges on display in Tehran (Caren Firouz/Reuters) — The perverse genius of Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides (and their Republican handmaidens) is that they have managed to turn a moment in which President Obama should have been busy defending …
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Maan News Agency:
Report: Obama threatened to fire on Israeli jets attacking Iran
Report: Obama threatened to fire on Israeli jets attacking Iran
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Washington Post:
Retired Israeli veterans warn against speech
Retired Israeli veterans warn against speech
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
White House and Netanyahu Are Set to Make Dueling Cases in Washington
White House and Netanyahu Are Set to Make Dueling Cases in Washington
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Mark Langfan / Reuters:
Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike
Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Nearly Half of Voters Object to Netanyahu Speech: Poll
Nearly Half of Voters Object to Netanyahu Speech: Poll
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William Booth / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's address to Congress will be most important speech of his life
Netanyahu's address to Congress will be most important speech of his life
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Julia Edwards / Reuters:
Obama to veto bill letting Congress weigh in on Iran deal
Obama to veto bill letting Congress weigh in on Iran deal
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Los Angeles Times:
LAPD fatal shooting of man caught on tape — Authorities said Sunday night that Los Angeles police fatally shot a man on skid row during a struggle over an officer's weapons. — Police officials offered a detailed account of what they say prompted the Sunday morning shooting, which was captured on video by a bystander.
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Los Angeles Times:
LAPD seeks more videos in officers' shooting of man on skid row — Investigators are looking for additional video that could shed light on Sunday's fatal shooting of a man on skid row by Los Angeles police officers. — The shooting was captured on a graphic video shot by a bystander, who posted it on Facebook.
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Is Supreme Court's chief justice ready to take down ObamaCare? — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts faced a conservative backlash after casting a decisive vote to save ObamaCare in 2012. — Now he must weigh in on the law once again. — The case of King v. Burwell …
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Politico:
No easy fix if Supreme Court halts Obamacare cash — The administration says it has no contingency plan for 7 million to 8 million people. — HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell denies that her agency has contingency plans. John Shinkle/POLITICO — The Obama administration …
Washington Post:
We have a plan for fixing health care
We have a plan for fixing health care
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Hard Cases — The great Supreme Court cases turn on the …
Hard Cases — The great Supreme Court cases turn on the …
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Washington Post:
Sources: Sen. Mikulski to retire from Senate — Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), who has served in Congress longer than any woman in history, will announce at a news conference Monday that she is retiring from the Senate after five terms in office, three sources familiar with her plans said.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
CPAC: Hackneyed and Hollow — I never know how to set my expectations for the Conservative Political Action Conference, also known as CPAC. — I try to approach it with as much of an open mind as I can muster, understanding that I am at odds, fundamentally, with many conservative principles …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Eric Braverman tried to change the Clinton Foundation. Then he quit. — Inside the power struggle at Clinton, Inc. — In December, the board of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation approved a salary of more than $395,000, plus bonus, for its Yale-educated CEO, Eric Braverman …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
The O'Reilly tapes: Phone recordings raise new questions about JFK story — One evening in March more than 30 years ago, Gaeton Fonzi received a call from a man whose voice and name are now instantly recognizable. — “Hi Gaeton,” the caller said. “Bill O'Reilly.” — The year was 1977.
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David Mack / BuzzFeed:
ISIS Threatens Twitter Founder And Employees Over Blocked Accounts — “Your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you.” — justpaste.it — ISIS supporters on Sunday called on jihadis around the world to kill Twitter employees because of the company's frequent blocking of their social media accounts.
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Fox News:
Walker: ‘My view has changed’ on immigration reform — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a presumptive 2016 Republican presidential candidate, says he has changed his immigration stance and no longer backs comprehensive reform that would allow illegal immigrants to be penalized but remain in the country.
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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
GOP infighting in Va. may harm party's White House bid in 2016 — Feuding within Virginia's state GOP is alarming prominent national Republicans who think the infighting in a crucial swing state threatens the party's quest to recapture the White House in 2016.