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Hillary Clinton breaks silence on email controversy — She calls on the State Department to release her emails. — After two days of silence, Hillary Clinton weighed in on the controversy surrounding her use of a personal email address during her tenure as secretary of state late on Wednesday night …
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Democrats See a Familiar Pattern in the Clinton E-mail Story — Reports of Democrats fretting about Hillary's future have been overstated. — “You're not going to be the sixteenth writer who asks me about Hillary, are you?” says Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. “I know you would not do that.

Clinton State Department Ousted Ambassador Using Private Email — In 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration abruptly stepped down from his post. According to a Foreign Policy report by Josh Rogin (now a reporter for Bloomberg), Gration was the subject of a whithering evaluation from the State Department:
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The Federalist, Power Line, Fox News, “The Lid”, Hot Air, Ed Driscoll, Political Wire and BuzzFeed


House Dem suggests Clinton is raising the bar for transparency — The top Democrat on the House Select Committee on Benghazi is praising former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for announcing that she wants messages from her personal email accounts to be made public.
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National Review and Politico


Hillary Clinton Email Mystery Man: What We Know About Eric Hoteham … One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the discovery that Hillary Clinton used a personal email account and private server during her time as Secretary of State was the fact that the system was registered to a man that no one had ever heard of.
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Politico


Source: Obama counsel not aware of Clinton's email practice
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The Texas Tribune, Politico, The Daily Beast, Hot Air, Mediaite, ABC News, Bloomberg Business, Washington Free Beacon and BuzzFeed

TMZ asks Hillary Clinton a question
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Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg Business, BREITBART.COM, Firedoglake, The Daily Caller and TMZ.com

Biden should run. Now — It's the only way to know what Hillary is willing to risk
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National Journal, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, BREITBART.COM, USA Today and The Daily Caller

Membership in Clinton's Email Domain Is Remembered as a Mark of Status
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Politico, Reuters, Mediaite, The Stranger …, msnbc.com, Bloomberg Business, naked capitalism, Engadget and Hullabaloo

Hillary Clinton's penchant for secrecy rattles Democrats
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Mediaite and New York Times

House Oversight chairman: Clinton acting like Petraeus?
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McClatchy Washington Bureau, The Huffington Post, New York Times, The Verge, ABC News and Politico

Did John Roberts Tip His Hand? — The Supreme Court oral argument on Wednesday in King v. Burwell featured thousands of words, dozens of provocative questions, two engaged and skillful lawyers—and one very striking silence. Chief Justice John Roberts, usually among the most active questioners …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Hullabaloo, Washington Post, Shakesville, Washington Monthly, Bloomberg View, Gawker and New York Times
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Roberts will uphold ObamaCare — In this “friend of the court” column, I suggest with 90 percent confidence that Chief Justice John Roberts, who remained virtually silent during oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, will join a majority of justices to uphold the subsidy provision of the Affordable Care Act.

Triumph of the leftist will — The Supreme Court held oral argument in King v Burwell yesterday. The Supreme Court has posted the transcript of the oral argument here. — At issue in King is the legality of the IRS's provision of tax credits in Obamacare exchanges established by the federal government.
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neo-neocon and Patterico's Pontifications

A State Reply to Justice Kennedy
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Power Line, National Review, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Forbes and Weekly Standard

Release Detail — March 5, 2015 - Walker, Bush In Tight Race Among U.S. Republicans, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Clinton Sweeps Dem Field, With Biden In The Wings — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, with 18 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 16 percent …
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Washington Post, Fox News, ABC News, OnPolitics, Hinterland Gazette, Real Clear Politics and Washington Times
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Likely 2016 GOP hopefuls recast immigration views
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Politico and American Principles Project


Michael Brown's parents announce civil lawsuit in death — 3 photos — ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lawyers for the parents of an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson said Thursday that they would file a civil lawsuit in Michael Brown's death.
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The Feds vs. Ferguson
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CNN, Washington Post and Hullabaloo


The 12 key highlights from the DOJ's scathing Ferguson report
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Boston Globe, Raw Story and American Spectator

Ferguson Police Official Fired Over Racist Emails, 2 Others on Leave
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Shakesville


Kathleen Matthews likely to run for Van Hollen's seat — Kathleen Matthews, Marriott International's executive vice president and chief global communications and public affairs officer, and wife of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, is planning to run for the seat of Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
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Real Clear Politics, Washington Blade, The Week and OnPolitics


ONE LAST ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’ Q&A WITH MIKE SCHUR — ON HILLARY CLINTON, THE SWANSON BROTHERS, HARRIS WITTELS, AND MORE


N. Korea: U.S. ambassador attack ‘just punishment’ — North Korea called the knife attack on the U.S. ambassador to South Korea on Thursday “just punishment” for U.S. military exercises with its southern neighbor. — Ambassador Mark Lippert was slashed in the face early Thursday while speaking at a breakfast forum in Seoul.
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The Atlantic Online, Reuters, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Chicago
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Speculation over successor after Iran's Khamenei reportedly hospitalized in serious condition — Media blitz on Khamenei's health raises questions abo... Khamenei on Twitter: No cure for barbaric Israeli reg... Iran's Khamenei: 'Increasing global hatred of Israel ...
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The Gateway Pundit and Jewish Telegraphic Agency


Ringling Bros. Circus to give up elephant acts in 3 years — 12 photos — POLK CITY, Fla. (AP) — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press exclusively that growing public concern …
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Bloomberg Business, BBC, USA Today, NPR, The Verge, Common Dreams, The Week and Gothamist


Christie's Office Drove Exxon Settlement, Ex-Official Says — For more than a decade, the New Jersey attorney general's office conducted a hard-fought legal battle to hold Exxon Mobil Corporation responsible for decades of environmental contamination in northern New Jersey.
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Wall Street Journal and The Week