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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
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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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
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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Sam Biddle / Gawker:
How Unsafe Was Hillary Clinton's Secret Staff Email System? — When Hillary Clinton ditched government email in favor of a secret, personal address, it wasn't just an affront to Obama's vaunted transparency agenda—security experts consulted by Gawker have laid out a litany of potential threats …
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Hot Air and VodkaPundit
David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
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.
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
TMZ asks Hillary Clinton a question
TMZ asks Hillary Clinton a question
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
SCOOP: Hillary's State Dept. Forced The Resignation Of An Ambassador For Using Private E-Mail
SCOOP: Hillary's State Dept. Forced The Resignation Of An Ambassador For Using Private E-Mail
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ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Email Mystery Man: What We Know About Eric Hoteham
Hillary Clinton Email Mystery Man: What We Know About Eric Hoteham
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New York Times, Politico, naked capitalism and Engadget
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
House Dem suggests Clinton is raising the bar for transparency
House Dem suggests Clinton is raising the bar for transparency
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Politico and National Review
Lauren French / Politico:
Trey Gowdy: Not backing off subpoena of Hillary Clinton emails
Trey Gowdy: Not backing off subpoena of Hillary Clinton emails
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The Right Scoop and Mediaite
Associated Press:
Source: Obama counsel not aware of Clinton's email practice
Source: Obama counsel not aware of Clinton's email practice
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Bloomberg Business, The Texas Tribune, Reuters, Mediaite, The Daily Beast, Hot Air, Politico, ABC News and National Journal
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Hillary Clinton email flap creates awkward GOP silence
Hillary Clinton email flap creates awkward GOP silence
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
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.
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
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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Scott Pruitt / Wall Street Journal:
A State Reply to Justice Kennedy — We are not children who must be protected by the federal government from making choices. — By — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in King v. Burwell, a challenge to ObamaCare. At issue is wording in the 2010 Affordable Care Act stipulating …
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Triumph of the leftist will — The Supreme Court held oral argument …
Triumph of the leftist will — The Supreme Court held oral argument …
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USA Today, neo-neocon and Patterico's Pontifications
Facebook:
Dear Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, — My name is Rebekah Gregory. We don't really know each other and never will. But over the last two years, I have seen your face not only in pictures, but in almost every one of my nightmares. Moments before the first blast, your stupid backpack even brushed up against my arm …
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Jim Salter / Associated Press:
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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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Feds vs. Ferguson
The Feds vs. Ferguson
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
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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Mike Allen / Politico:
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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The Week, Washington Blade, Real Clear Politics, OnPolitics and Booman Tribune
Reuters:
Islamic State torches oil field east of Tikrit: witness — (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have set fire to oil wells in the Ajil field east of the city of Tikrit to try to hinder aerial attacks aimed at driving them from the oilfield, a witness and military source said.
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
U.S. Strategy in Iraq Increasingly Relies on Iran
U.S. Strategy in Iraq Increasingly Relies on Iran
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Hot Air, JustOneMinute, Business Insider, The Great Debate and Common Dreams
Bloomberg Business:
Who's to blame when fraudsters use TurboTax to steal refunds? — When Jeff Parish signed on to his TurboTax account recently, he was surprised to see that the popular online filing service had already calculated a federal refund — to the tune of more than $5,000. But there was a problem.
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Bloomberg View and FOX News Radio
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
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
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Bradley M. Campbell / New York Times:
Chris Christie's Exxon Settlement is Bad for New Jersey
Chris Christie's Exxon Settlement is Bad for New Jersey
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Talking Points Memo and Blue Jersey
Politico:
Mitch McConnell postpones Iran vote — Mitch McConnell is postponing a vote on the Senate's Iran legislation in the face of an expected Democratic filibuster. — The Senate majority leader has decided to delay a Tuesday vote on legislation that would allow Congress to approve or reject …
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Daily Kos and Wall Street Journal
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Cities Are Quietly Reviving A Jim Crow-Era Trick To Suppress Latino Votes — Pasadena City Councilman Ornaldo Ybarra talks about the district lines in his community in Pasadena, Texas. Pasadena is preparing to change the makeup of its city council in a way that city fathers hope fosters new development …
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Campaign for America's Future, Yakima Herald Republic, The Daily Nexus and Shakesville
Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
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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Yasser Okbi / Jerusalem Post:
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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Wall Street Journal, The Gateway Pundit and Jewish Telegraphic Agency