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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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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.
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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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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Taxpayer tab for Clinton Inc.: $16 million
Taxpayer tab for Clinton Inc.: $16 million
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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.”
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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 …
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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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.
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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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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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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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:
For 20 years I fought the law. Today the law won — The police have been trying to nail an editor for years. This morning, on Hampstead Heath, they finally got one — ell, I nearly made it. More than 20 years of editing, with all kinds of people wanting to sue me and do me for sedition …
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Elias Isquith / Salon:
The media s**t-show is back: Why coverage of Hillary Clinton has been an embarrassment — A bit less than a year ago, Politico Magazine released an in-depth piece by Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman about Hillary Rodham Clinton's long and incredibly fraught relationship with the national, mainstream media.
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KMOV-TV:
SWAT team responds to Ferguson home; 3 in custody — FERGUSON, Mo. (KMOV.com) - A SWAT team was outside a Ferguson home in reference to an officer shooting from overnight, according to police. — SWAT was called in to assist local police after two officers were shot outside …
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Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Insider Buzz Grows for Marco Rubio — Are we on the cusp of a Rubio moment? — 'E — verybody's talking about Rubio. So says a top Republican operative who's been in touch with nearly every potential presidential campaign, as well as with several top donors.
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