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9:40 AM ET, March 6, 2015

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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
The Hillary Camp's Rationale for Staying Quiet  —  Hillary Clinton won't be presiding over a soul-searching press conference or sitting down for a come-clean interview about her use of a private email address any time soon — at least if everything goes according to her team's plan.
Discussion: Politico, ABC News, Hot Air, Fox News and TMZ.com
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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 …
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
GOP giddy over Hillary's problems  —  Republicans believe Hillary Clinton's fundamental political weaknesses have been exposed by the controversy surrounding her use of personal email while secretary of State — and they couldn't be more delighted.  —  GOP figures are happy to see troubles befall Democrats in general.
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Clinton e-mail review could find security issues
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Hillary Clinton's stumbles fuel Democratic critics
Mark DrajemIndira Lakshmanan / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Wants You to See Her E-Mails, Except Those She Didn't Hand Over
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems vow to protect Boehner from conservative coup  —  Tea Party Republicans contemplating a bid to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) shouldn't count on Democrats to help them unseat the Speaker.  —  And without their support, there is no chance to topple Boehner in this Congress.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Politico:
Rebels with a cause  —  A new group of far-right House Republicans tries to show they're not just a band of demagogues.  —  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is a member of the right-leaning Freedom Caucus.  Getty  —  Sitting in a room on the fourth floor of the Cannon building …
Politico:   GOP leaders to skip Selma event
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Lucy Nicholson / NBC News:
Harrison Ford Injured in Plane Crash
Discussion: CNN, NPR, Mediaite, The Week and The Verge
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Supreme Court Weighs Health Law, G.O.P. Plans to Replace It  —  WASHINGTON — The legal campaign to destroy President Obama's health care law may be nearing its conclusion, but as the Supreme Court deliberates over the law's fate, the search for a replacement by Republican lawmakers is finally gaining momentum.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's Churchillian warning  —  Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress was notable in two respects.  Queen Esther got her first standing O in 2,500 years.  And President Obama came up empty in his campaign to preemptively undermine Netanyahu before the Israeli prime minister could present his case on the Iran negotiations.
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Philip Stephens / Financial Times:   The answer for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is war against Iran
Nicholas Bagley / The Incidental Economist:
Deferring to the IRS  —  Given the Chief Justice's near-silence at oral argument in King v. Burwell, much will be made of Justice Kennedy's sensitivity to the argument that accepting the plaintiffs' interpretation of the statute would raise serious federalism concerns.  That's completely appropriate.
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Roberts will uphold ObamaCare
Discussion: RedState
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 …
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.
CNN:
Jeb Bush aides used private domain for public business  —  Photos: Political families 28 photos  —  Photos: Political families - Debbie Dingell announced Friday, February 28, that she would run for the seat held for 58 years by her husband, Rep. John Dingell, D-Michigan, who announced earlier that he was retiring.
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post and Dorf on Law
Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Did Jeb Bush Go Far Enough to Try to Save Terri Schiavo to Save His Iowa Chances?  —  Standing at the pulpit of his Sioux City, Iowa, mega-churche a decade ago, Reverend Cary Gordon wept over the death of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman who had her feeding tubes removed more than 1,500 miles away in Florida.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and The Week
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
What Obama's trip to Selma means
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
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NOAA: Elusive El Niño arrives
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Eye for an eye: Iran blinds acid attacker
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Q13 FOX News:
Daring octopus escape at Seattle Aquarium or something else entirely? (VIDEO)
Discussion: FOX2now.com and fox13now.com
Daily Mail:
Yemeni boy, 10, locked in a cage and set alight by his friends in sickening imitation …
Amie Steffeneicher / KWWL-TV:
DEVELOPING: Train derails near Galena; crude oil burning
Discussion: Associated Press and The PJ Tatler
 Earlier Items: 
Science:
Strong water isotopic anomalies in the martian atmosphere: Probing current and ancient reservoirs
Julia A. Seymour / NewsBusters:
And That's the Way It Was: In 1972, Cronkite Warned of ‘New Ice Age’
Tony Dejak / FiveThirtyEight:
Are Republicans Or Democrats More Likely To Survive The Apocalypse?
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Post
Politico:
Mitch McConnell postpones Iran vote
Bloomberg Business:
Who's to blame when fraudsters use TurboTax to steal refunds?
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Bloomberg View
Reuters:
Islamic State torches oil field east of Tikrit: witness
Discussion: The Week and The Daily Banter
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

 
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