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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
TIME Cover Gives Hillary Horns — The latest cover of Time magazine gives Hillary Clinton horns: — Look carefully at the space between the top of Clinton's head and the M in Time's logo. — The move by Time, whether on purpose or not, has been noticed on Twitter:
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David Brock / USA Today:
Benghazi truthers should release their e-mails — With nothing to hide, Hillary stands strong against Republican smear tactics. — Even though Hillary Clinton fully and clearly answered questions regarding her e-mail usage yesterday, the Benghazi truthers on Capitol Hill refuse to give up.
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
No one read Hillary emails before destruction — **Want FOX News First in your inbox every day? Sign up here. Buzz Cut: — How did Hillary Clinton know that the tens of thousands of emails from her time in office she ordered destroyed were personal? Did she or even her staff scroll through …
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Taxpayer tab for Clinton Inc.: $16 million
Taxpayer tab for Clinton Inc.: $16 million
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
White House frets return of ‘Clinton way’
White House frets return of ‘Clinton way’
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Fox & Friends’ tweet links Eric Holder, shootings of police in Ferguson … Above is a tweet from the official account of “Fox & Friends,” the morning show of Fox News. It hints at a causal link between the following two news events: — * Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters …
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Susan Weich / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Two police officers are shot in Ferguson
Two police officers are shot in Ferguson
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host: Eric Holder Is ‘An Attorney General For The Criminal’ (VIDEO)
Fox Host: Eric Holder Is ‘An Attorney General For The Criminal’ (VIDEO)
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Washington Post:
Secret Service agents disrupted bomb investigation at White House — Two Secret Service agents suspected of driving under the influence and striking a White House security barricade disrupted an active bomb investigation and may have driven over the suspicious package itself …
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Arit John / Bloomberg Business:
A Brief History of the Secret Service's Drinking Problem
A Brief History of the Secret Service's Drinking Problem
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BBC:
Sir Terry Pratchett, renowned fantasy author, dies aged 66 — Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett has died aged 66, having had Alzheimer's disease for eight years. — “The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds,” said Larry Finlay of his publishing company, Transworld.
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Guardian:
Terry Pratchett, Discworld series author, dies aged 66 — Author of more than 70 novels, who ‘fired the imagination of millions’, dies at his home eight years after Alzheimer's diagnosis — The writer Terry Pratchett, who took millions of readers on a madcap journey to the universe of Discworld, has died aged 66.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Iran letter blowback startles GOP — John McCain: “It was kind of a very rapid process. Everybody was looking forward to getting out of town because of the snowstorm.” — Some Republican senators admitted Wednesday they were caught off guard by the backlash to a letter warning Iranian leaders …
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Jennifer Fermino / NY Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani says Obama should be more like Bill Cosby, blames Brooklyn McDonald's fight, Ferguson cop shootings on President — Just when you thought Rudy Giuliani couldn't get crazier, the former NYC mayor blamed Obama for the brutal beatdown at a Brooklyn McDonalds — and said the president should be more like Bill Cosby.
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Javier Ceriani / msnbc.com:
Univision host fired for ‘Planet of the Apes’ Michelle Obama remark — A popular Univision talk show host has been fired for making derogatory comments about Michelle Obama during a popular television show; the comments were widely circulated on social media.
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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Poll: America's most important problem? Government — The government is America's most important problem, according to a new poll. — In a Gallup poll released Thursday, 18 percent of Americans named government as the biggest problem facing the U.S. — Story Continued Below
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Without Applause is the Most Gripping Video You'll See All Day — The Texas senator tanks at a presidential forum. — If, like many Americans, your job involves watching a lot of speeches by Ted Cruz, you have grown familiar with the Texas senator's applause lines.
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New York's PIX11:
VIDEO: 4 teens viciously beat girl in Brooklyn McDonald's as crowd cheers … FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (PIX11) - Cell phone video shows a 15-year-old girl being beaten to the ground by 4 other teens inside a Brooklyn McDonald's as dozens watched and cheered. — The savage fight broke out inside …
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Kimberly Houghton / UnionLeader.com:
NH's first transgender lawmaker arrested for hospital bomb threat — NASHUA — Stacie Laughton, the state's first openly transgender legislator who was elected to the House of Representatives and then withdrew her candidacy days later, said Thursday that she is the person responsible for calling …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Justice Obama — So in his turn writing “Tilting at Windmills” in the latest issue of the Washington Monthly, contributing editor (and esteemed friend) Steven Waldman needs just three sentences to toss out a very interesting idea: … Jeffrey Toobin actually devoted a long op-ed back in 2010 …
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Alexander Panetta / Canadian Press:
Hillary Clinton email excuses ‘laughable,’ says top freedom-of-information official — News conference ‘grossly misleading’ — Hillary Clinton's defenders say she's sufficiently explained why she set up a do-it-yourself home email system when she was secretary of state, insist there's nothing to see here, and it's time to move on.
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Charles Homans / Washington Monthly:
Last Secrets of the Bush Administration — How to find out what we still don't know. — In March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W. Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush. It concerned an important deadline that was looming—one that Bush owed to Richard Nixon.
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Kerry Washington to Star as Anita Hill in HBO Movie ‘Confirmation’ (Exclusive) — Oscar nominee Susannah Grant will pen the script for the TV movie. — Anita Hill, left, and Kerry Washington — Kerry Washington is headed for HBO. — The Scandal star has signed on to play Anita Hill …
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Progressives: We've Never Heard Of This “Progressive” Group Backing Obama's Trade Deal — The “Progressive Coalition For American Jobs,” run by former Obama campaign staffers, purports to represent the progressive left on the trade deal that the progressive left hates. — Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
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