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7:15 AM ET, March 13, 2015

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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Nearly nine in 10 Americans have an opinion of Clinton  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Hillary Clinton is one of a few potential 2016 presidential candidates to have a significantly higher favorable (50%) than unfavorable (39%) rating among the American public.  And the 89% of Americans who are familiar enough …
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:
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  —  The Secret Service's latest embarrassment seems like a rejected plot point from a Judd Aptow movie.  —  The agency is investigating an incident involving two agents who crashed a car into a White House Security barricade after attending …
Discussion: Washington Post and News One
Michael Hirsh / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's enemy No. 1  —  Meet Trey Gowdy, the would-be president's reluctant nemesis.  —  Lead image by Getty.  —  It's late Wednesday afternoon, the day after Hillary Clinton's defiant I'm-telling-you-this-and-nothing- more news conference at the United Nations and Trey Gowdy …
Discussion: Moe Lane
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David Brock / USA Today:
Benghazi truthers should release their e-mails
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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Carolina Moreno / The Huffington Post:
Univision Host Rodner Figueroa Fired Over Racist ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Comment Towards Michelle Obama (UPDATED)  —  Univision host Rodner Figueroa was fired Wednesday after comparing first lady Michelle Obama's appearance to that of someone from the cast of the “Planet of the Apes.”
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.
Louis Charbonneau / Reuters:
Exclusive: Talks under way on ending U.N. sanctions on Iran - officials  —  (Reuters) - Major world powers have quietly begun talks on a U.N. Security Council resolution to lift U.N. sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck, a step that could make it harder for the U.S. Congress to undo a deal, Western officials said.
Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
The FAA Says You Can't Post Drone Videos on YouTube  —  If you fly a drone and post footage on YouTube, you could end up with a letter from the Federal Aviation Administration.  —  Earlier this week, the agency sent a legal notice to Jayson Hanes, a Tampa-based drone hobbyist …
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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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 …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
White House frets return of ‘Clinton way’  —  To sum up the feelings, all the way up to the highest levels: What.  The.  Hell.  —  They thought she'd changed.  They thought maybe she'd picked up a little bit from them about how people respond to awkward secret arrangements and contrived ways of not telling the full story.
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
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
 
 
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Charles Homans / Washington Monthly:
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Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Insider Buzz Grows for Marco Rubio
Politico:
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Lawmakers push Twitter to deactivate terrorist accounts
Discussion: Chicago
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
State defends email practices amid Clinton fallout
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