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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Cotton fires back at Biden over Iran letter — Sen. Tom Cotton is firing back at Vice President Joe Biden's criticism of his letter to Iran, saying: What does he know about foreign policy? — “Joe Biden, as [President] Barack Obama's own secretary of defense has said …
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GOP dissenters: Iran letter could backfire — Republicans could alienate Democrats whose votes are needed to override an Iran sanctions veto. — Not every Senate Republican signed on to Sen. Tom Cotton's extraordinary letter to Iran's leaders, and several of those who didn't are fuming …
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Bloomberg Business:
Tom Cotton Says Republicans Are Not Traitors for Letter to Iran — (Bloomberg) — A letter sent by 47 Republican senators to Iranian leaders in defiance of President Barack Obama is a civics lesson, not the act of traitors, said Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, the freshman Republican who drafted the message.
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Dr. Zarif's Response to the Letter of US Senators — Asked about the open letter of 47 US Senators to Iranian leaders, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Dr. Javad Zarif, responded that “in our view, this letter has no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy.
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Was the GOP's Iran letter really unprecedented? — From Reagan to Clinton, both Democrats and Republicans have tried to sabotage the other party's foreign policy. — The senator was outraged. Congress had challenged the foreign policy of the president, ignoring that he is …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
‘TRAITORS’: NY Daily News Slams GOP Senators Who Signed Iran Letter (PHOTO)
‘TRAITORS’: NY Daily News Slams GOP Senators Who Signed Iran Letter (PHOTO)
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Joe. My. God., Twitchy and The Hill
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Tom Cotton May Just Have Undermined His Own Cause
Tom Cotton May Just Have Undermined His Own Cause
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Detroit Free Press, Washington Post, Lawfare and Balloon Juice
Iran Primer / New Articles:
Part II: Iran Responds to GOP Letter
Part II: Iran Responds to GOP Letter
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NY Daily News, Power Line, Hit & Run, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Banter and The Hugh Hewitt Show
Editorials / NY Daily News:
Un-patriot games as GOP senators undermine President on Iran
Un-patriot games as GOP senators undermine President on Iran
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Daily Kos, Power Line, The Daily Caller, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Raw Story and The Daily Banter
ABC News:
Tom Cotton Denies GOP Letter Undermines Iran Nuclear Talks
Tom Cotton Denies GOP Letter Undermines Iran Nuclear Talks
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Tom Cotton hands Dems an easy way of siding with Obama on Iran
Morning Plum: Tom Cotton hands Dems an easy way of siding with Obama on Iran
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The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Power Line, CNN and The Huffington Post
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Clinton press conference threatens to be a media fiasco — Amid intense media scrutiny over her use of a private email account at the State Department, Hillary Clinton has finally agreed to take questions from the press: On Tuesday, she will hold a brief media avail at the United Nations …
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CBS News:
Hillary Clinton to respond to email controversy Tuesday — Shares - — A source close to Hillary Clinton tells CBS News that the former secretary of state will speak publicly about her use of a private email account, rather than a government address while she was secretary of state.
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh, National Review, NBC News and Balloon Juice
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Credentials for Hillary Press Avail Needed to Be Requested 24 Hours Ahead of Time — Hillary Clinton will be holding a press availability today at the United Nations in New York City. But all members of the press won't be able to attend. Only those who requested credentials 24 hours before the event …
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Clinton E-mails / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton Press Conference: The Live Blog — Bloomberg Politics is following the run-up to former Secretary of State's Hillary Clinton press conference on Tuesday—her first press availability since September, coming amid scrutiny of her family foundation finances and private e-mail use.
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Hillary's Choice
Hillary's Choice
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Kelly Ogle / news9.com KWTV:
SAE House Mom And Coach Switzer Get Emotional Over Controversial Video — NORMAN, Oklahoma - — Monday night as SAE members scrambled to empty their belongings out of the closed fraternity house their 79-year-old house mother, a longtime friend of Barry Switzer, did the same thing.
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Oklahoma Daily:
Sigma Alpha Epsilon house mom implicated in recently surfaced racist video — A video surfaced Monday evening appearing to depict OU's Sigma Alpha Epsilon house mom. — The Feb. 24, 2013 Vine, shows a woman who appears to be Beauton Gilbow saying the n-word repeatedly.
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NY Daily News, Liberaland, Gawker, FreakOutNation, Mashable, News One, KOCO and KFOR-TV
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
University of Oklahoma Expels 2 Students Over Racist Fraternity Video — NORMAN, Okla. — Officials with the University of Oklahoma here on Tuesday expelled two students they had identified as playing a leading role in singing a racist chant on a bus over the weekend that has sparked outrage across the country.
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New York Times:
Stop Spying on Wikipedia Users — SAN FRANCISCO — TODAY, we're filing a lawsuit against the National Security Agency to protect the rights of the 500 million people who use Wikipedia every month. We're doing so because a fundamental pillar of democracy is at stake: the free exchange of knowledge and ideas.
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
No, a public university may not expel students for racist speech [UPDATED in light of the students' expulsion] — Some Oklahoma University students in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity were videorecorded singing (as best I and others can tell), … Oklahoma University president David Boren said …
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KOCO, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, Inside Higher Ed, Reuters, ABC News and Hit & Run
Jeremy Scahill / The Intercept:
The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets — RESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple's iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept.
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Computerworld, Mashable, The Daily Caller, Techdirt, Common Dreams and The Verge
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Democrats are not so fired up about Hillary Clinton — The International Association of Fire Fighters attracted 10 possible presidential candidates to the union's conference in Washington this week, including Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren on the Democratic side and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz for the Republicans.
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The Moderate Voice
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Nearly 60% Looking For Change in '16. Will They Get It?
Poll: Nearly 60% Looking For Change in '16. Will They Get It?
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Hot Air, The Hill, Fox News, Guardian, OnPolitics, No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Times, Scared Monkeys, Daily Kos and Political Wire
WXIA-TV:
Unarmed naked man shot to death by DeKalb police officer — DEKALB COUNTY, GA (WXIA) - A DeKalb County police officer shot and killed a naked, unarmed man at an apartment complex Monday afternoon. — It happened in the parking lot at the Heights at Chamblee complex in the 3000 block of Chamblee Tucker Road.
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 …