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Politico:
Hillary Clinton to address email controversy — Press conference likely, three sources close to the former secretary of state confirm. — Hillary Rodham Clinton will soon address the controversy over her use of a private email account at the State Department, and is likely to hold …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Voters see Hillary and Jeb as old hat — A majority of voters see 2016 frontrunners Hillary Clinton (D) and former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush (R) as a “return to the policies of the past,” according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that shows the potential perils for each party's biggest names.
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Poll Finds Big 2016 Field Divides GOP — While Democrats Back Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush Faces More Resistance From His Party — The two most recognizable figures in the 2016 presidential race start off in very different positions within their own parties, and with Americans overall feeling …
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Business Insider and Politico
Sarah Palin / Fox News:
Gov. Palin: I faced tough questions over email, so should Hillary Clinton — Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hands off her mobile phone after arriving to meet with Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague, Netherlands.
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The Huffington Post, FreakOutNation, Politico, Liberaland, Mediaite, The Other McCain and The Last Refuge
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Excited for Jeb and Hillary? Just wait for Chelsea v. George P. — Americans always love dynasties and sequels. — The inevitability of another Bush vs. Clinton presidential campaign has dispirited many in the campaign press corps. For obvious reasons, the boys and girls on the bus prefer …
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Bloomberg Business
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Earnest: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton corresponded via her personal email
Earnest: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton corresponded via her personal email
Russell Berman / The Atlantic Online:
Is Joe Biden Running for President?
Is Joe Biden Running for President?
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ABC News, The PJ Tatler, Fox News, Washington Post and Politico
Peter Baker / New York Times:
White House Faults G.O.P. Senators' Letter to Iran's Leaders — WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday sharply rebuked nearly four dozen Republican senators who sent a letter to Iranian leaders just as nuclear negotiations reach a pivotal moment, characterizing the correspondence …
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The Hill:
Outrage over GOP's letter to Iran — A letter from Senate Republicans to Iran about the pending nuclear deal undermines President Obama's authority to conduct foreign policy, the White House charged Monday. — White House press secretary Josh Earnest was unusually blunt in ripping the Senate GOP …
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ABC News, Fox News, Israel Matzav, Washington Post, Associated Press, Chicago and Bloomberg View
Senator Tom Cotton:
Search form — Washington, D.C.— Senator Tom Cotton …
Search form — Washington, D.C.— Senator Tom Cotton …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Reid: GOP ‘empowering the ayatollahs’
Reid: GOP ‘empowering the ayatollahs’
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New York Times, Mediaite, Watchdog.org, Politico and Bloomberg Business
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Dan Pfeiffer's Exit Interview: How the White House Learned to Be Liberal
Dan Pfeiffer's Exit Interview: How the White House Learned to Be Liberal
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RedState, Washington Post, Backchannel, The Daily Caller and Horizons
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
A war of Obama's making — The White House and some Democrats are livid over congressional Republican attempts to circumvent President Obama's authority to make a nuclear arms deal with Iran. They have a right to be angry — but not to be surprised. — There's a war going on between …
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Washington Post, Power Line and National Review
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Sedition in the Name of Patriotism — On many occasions during the last few years, as I heard talk of secession and nullification, and of defiance of the courts, and of duly enacted statutes representing slavery and tyranny, and of Higher Laws and a Right to Revolution, and most recently …
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The Moderate Voice and Washington Post
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Republicans are beginning to act as though Barack Obama isn't even the president — It's safe to say that no president in modern times has had his legitimacy questioned by the opposition party as much as Barack Obama. But as his term in office enters its final phase, Republicans are embarking …
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Venezuela Executive Order — President Obama today issued a new Executive Order (E.O.) declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela.
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Washington Free Beacon
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JSOnline:
Scott Walker signs right-to-work bill — Overhauling more than a half century of labor law in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker on Monday signed so-called right-to-work legislation banning labor contracts that require private sector workers to pay labor fees. — In a matter of weeks …
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Washington Examiner, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, The Atlantic Online, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
Noah Rothman / Hot Air:
Even a plurality of Democrats want to move on from Obama — The conventional wisdom inside the beltway and on the sets of cable news outlets is that the Democratic Party has grown, perhaps inexorably, more liberal over the course of the Obama era. It is not hard to find liberal Democrats …
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Moe Lane
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Former SEALs chaplain could be kicked out of Navy for Christian beliefs — Navy Chaplain Wes Modder is pictured with a ceremonial oar presented to him by Naval Special Warfare Command. He received the oar at the end of his tour. (Courtesy Wes Modder) — A chaplain who once ministered …
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The Daily Caller and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Chicago Tribune:
Family of 9-month-old girl killed in Little Village: ‘We have no idea’ — A 9-month-old girl was found dead in the Little Village neighborhood Monday morning, her throat cut by a power saw, authorities said. — Police found the child — named Rosie, according to relatives …
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Raw Story, WTVR-TV and FOX6Now.com
New York Times:
University of Oklahoma Cuts Ties to Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Over Racist Videos — NORMAN, Okla. — The University of Oklahoma severed ties to one of the nation's largest college fraternities on Monday, and ordered the campus chapter to vacate its fraternity house …
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Hatewatch, Daily Oklahoman, No More Mister Nice Blog and WQAD-TV
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New York Times:
Missouri Court Assigns a State Judge to Handle Ferguson Cases — FERGUSON, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court, citing the need for “extraordinary action” to restore trust in Ferguson's court system after the Department of Justice blasted it for routinely violating constitutional rights …
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York Magazine, News One and The Week
Edward Jay Epstein / Newsweek:
O'Reilly's JFK Reporting Was Impossible. I Know Because I Was There — I was recently bemused to see that Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News host, managed in 2012 to parachute himself back in time to March 29, 1977 so as to make himself a witness to the gunshot that killed George de Mohrenschildt.
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Washington Post, Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
It's Been 5 Years Since Rush Limbaugh Promised to Leave the Country in 5 Years — Exactly five years ago this week, as the Congressional debate over the Affordable Care Act was coming to its eventual conclusion, Rush Limbaugh made a bold statement about his future as a resident of the United State of America.