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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
Just got this document from FNC's Catherine Herridge about Secretary Clinton and personal emails — Per FNC's Catherine Herridge... Fox Exclusive: Clinton Internal Cable Forbids Use Personal Accounts — Fox News has exclusively obtained an internal 2011 State Department cable …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
‘Who knows? She could implode totally’ — Clinton email scandal alarms Democrats. — Three days into the rolling controversy over Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email address as Secretary of State, Democrats are showing signs of stress. — In interviews with more than three dozen …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton private email violated ‘clear-cut’ State Dept. rules — The policy warns against routine use of personal e-mail accounts. — The State Department has had a policy in place since 2005 to warn officials against routine use of personal e-mail accounts for government work …
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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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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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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Hillary Clinton's stumbles fuel Democratic critics
Hillary Clinton's stumbles fuel Democratic critics
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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
TMZ asks Hillary Clinton a question
TMZ asks Hillary Clinton a question
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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, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, ABC News and National Review
Mark DrajemIndira Lakshmanan / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Wants You to See Her E-Mails, Except Those She Didn't Hand Over
Clinton Wants You to See Her E-Mails, Except Those She Didn't Hand Over
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TMZ.com:
Harrison Ford — Plane Crashes ... Actor Seriously Injured (VIDEO UPDATE: Paramedics Treat Harrsion) — PLANE CRASHES — [Video Update: Paramedics Treat Harrison] — 6:20 PM PT — A rep for Ford says, “Harrison was flying a WW2 vintage plane today which stalled upon takeoff.”
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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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Scott Pruitt / Wall Street Journal:
A State Reply to Justice Kennedy
A State Reply to Justice Kennedy
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Did John Roberts Tip His Hand?
Did John Roberts Tip His Hand?
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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Ban or not, kids allowed to sled at Capitol … From sledding to snowball fights, dozens of children and their parents took to Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon to protest a controversial sledding ban. — Capitol Police have refused to lift the sledding ban, but some parents organized a …
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Fred Klonsky:
Rahm screams at mental health activists, “YOU'RE GONNA RESPECT ME!” — Photo montage of Rahm at Wicker Park incident: Kenzo Shibata. — By Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle as posted on the Mental Health Movement's Facebook page. — Mental Health Movement members Debbie Delgado and Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle …
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Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Rahm Snaps at Mental-Health Advocates: 'You're Gonna Respect Me!'
Rahm Snaps at Mental-Health Advocates: 'You're Gonna Respect Me!'
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John R. Morris / The Hill:
Modern media and the destructive representation of conservativism — Although rightfully excoriated for his comments comparing public unions to ISIS, Gov. Scott Walker's (R-Wis.) treatment by the media continues to highlight the gross disparity in the way with which conservative candidates …
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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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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Gangsters of Ferguson — Yesterday the Justice Department released the results of a long and thorough investigation into the killing of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson. The investigation concluded that there was not enough evidence to prove a violation of federal law by Officer Wilson.
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Abbe R. Gluck / Politico:
How States' Rights Shapes King v. Burwell — Understanding this is the key to knowing how the court will rule. — At long last, the federalism implications of the Obamacare challenge, King v. Burwell, appear widely understood. This is in no small part thanks to the justices themselves …
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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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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Did the Obama Administration Lie to the Federal Court About Implementation of Executive Amnesty? — We wrote here about State of Texas et al. v. United States, in which 26 states sued to enjoin the Obama administration from implementing its illegal executive amnesty program.
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Philip Stephens / Financial Times:
The answer for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is war against Iran — A statesman would have made his country a partner in the talks, not an angry voice on the side — Irony is not Benjamin Netanyahu's strong suit. Israel's prime minister was in Washington this week to issue another …
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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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Tony Dejak / FiveThirtyEight:
Are Republicans Or Democrats More Likely To Survive The Apocalypse? — The polling firm YouGov released a poll Tuesday asking respondents: “How would you fare during the apocalypse?” The results, and especially the partisan split, engendered a healthy debate among the FiveThirtyEight staff.
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Amie Steffeneicher / KWWL-TV:
DEVELOPING: Train derails near Galena; crude oil burning — Updated: — A train carrying crude oil derailed Thursday in Illinois, and smoke from the burning crude could be seen for miles. — Updated: — Part of Interstate 380 in Cedar Rapids will be blocked Sunday morning as crews …
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