Top Items:
Politico:
Rep. Aaron Schock resigns — Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock is resigning his seat in Congress. — The 33-year-old Republican has been dogged by questions about his spending of taxpayer and campaign dollars. On Monday afternoon, POLITICO posed a lengthy set of questions about charging …
Discussion:
Guardian, Yahoo! News, ABC News, Associated Press, Liberaland, The Atlantic Online, American Spectator, New York Magazine, Business Insider, US News, The Hill, ThinkProgress, PoliticusUSA, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Journal Star, Advocate, Ben Swann Truth In Media, FreakOutNation, State Journal Register, Political Wire, Hit & Run, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Jezebel, Joe. My. God., NPR, Talking Points Memo, The Week, The Gateway Pundit, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Chicago, Balloon Juice and Common Dreams
RELATED:
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Rep. Aaron Schock Resigns After Questions Raised About Finances
Rep. Aaron Schock Resigns After Questions Raised About Finances
Discussion:
Chicago, ABC News, Yahoo! News, Business Insider, BillMoyers.com, No More Mister Nice Blog and Guardian
Haaretz:
LIVE BLOG: Netanyahu: The right-wing is in danger - Arabs are voting in droves — Live Updates: 36/7% of eligible Israelis cast their ballots by 2 P.M.; 5.8 million Israelis are expected to head to the polls Tuesday. — Israelis are voting on Tuesday in an election called last December by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
RELATED:
Jerusalem Post:
Race to the Knesset: Follow the latest Election Day updates — Candidates on the cusp: Voters to decide their fate — With Bader-Ofer method, not every ballot counts How the parties stand on the Israeli-Palestinian peac... Jpost reporters give you the latest updates on the battle for the prime minister's office.
Discussion:
US News, New York Times, “The Lid”, Lawfare, Mondoweiss, Hot Air, The Tower, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Israel's Gilded Age
Israel's Gilded Age
Discussion:
Bloomberg Business, The Nation, PoliticusUSA and Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Netanyahu Expresses Alarm That Arab Voter Turnout Could Help Unseat Him
Netanyahu Expresses Alarm That Arab Voter Turnout Could Help Unseat Him
Discussion:
Politico, Jerusalem Post, The Daily Caller, The Times of Israel, Raw Story and Haaretz
Josef Federman / Associated Press:
Israel's Netanyahu declares victory in tight race
Starbucks Newsroom:
What ‘Race Together’ Means for Starbucks Partners and Customers — It began with one voice — As racially-charged tragedies unfolded in communities across the country, the chairman and ceo of Starbucks didn't remain a silent bystander. Howard Schultz voiced his concerns with partners …
Discussion:
Business Insider, The Urban Daily, BuzzFeed, Talking Points Memo, CNNMoney, Mashable, Colorlines, The Huffington Post, ThinkProgress, Hinterland Gazette, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Jezebel, Tech Times, Shakesville, NPR, CBS DC, The Week, Politico, The PJ Tatler, Washington Post and The Daily Caller
RELATED:
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Starbucks now serving coffee with a dose of debate on race
Starbucks now serving coffee with a dose of debate on race
Discussion:
protein wisdom, Yahoo Food, Talking Points Memo and UT San Diego
Bruce Horovitz / USA Today:
Starbucks, USA TODAY team to tackle racial issues
Starbucks, USA TODAY team to tackle racial issues
Discussion:
Washington Post and The Daily Caller
Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
According To Dick Cheney, This Is Why President Obama Is The Worst President In His Lifetime — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said that President Barack Obama was “playing the race card” to excuse criticism of his record as president. — “I think they're playing the race card, in my view.
Discussion:
Business Insider and Hinterland Gazette
RELATED:
Colin Campbell / Business Insider:
Dick Cheney accused Obama of ‘playing the race card’ in a Playboy interview — Former US Vice President Dick Cheney doesn't mince words when it comes to President Barack Obama. — In a new interview for the April issue of Playboy, Cheney repeatedly tore into Obama on a wide array of issues …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Balloon Juice and The Huffington Post
David Rogers / Politico:
Republicans try end run around spending caps — A similar strategy led to a government shutdown two years ago. — The great Achilles' heel in the House Republican budget Tuesday can be found in a blue-and-white chart, tucked away on Page 40 and mapping out a 10-year path …
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online and Hit & Run
RELATED:
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
House GOP budget again repeals ObamaCare — The House budget unveiled Tuesday again includes a full repeal of ObamaCare. — The 43-page proposal offered by House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) would eliminate all mandates, taxes, regulations and subsidies under the healthcare law …
Discussion:
Hit & Run, ABC News, FreakOutNation and Daily Kos
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Iowa G.O.P. to Walker: Drop Adviser Who Trashed State — Iowa's Republican leadership blasted Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin on Tuesday for hiring a senior adviser who has mocked the state's caucus and its voters, and called on Mr. Walker to fire her. — Jeff Kaufmann, the state Republican chairman …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and The PJ Tatler
RELATED:
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
Honeymoon Over: Scott Walker Under Fire for New Open Borders Amnesty Advocate Staffer Who Mocks Iowa
Honeymoon Over: Scott Walker Under Fire for New Open Borders Amnesty Advocate Staffer Who Mocks Iowa
Discussion:
Hullabaloo, Bloomberg Business, Mediaite, Weekly Standard and CNN
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Scott Walker's digital consultant has taken swipes at Iowa
Scott Walker's digital consultant has taken swipes at Iowa
Discussion:
BREITBART.COM, The Daily Caller, Washington Monthly, Fox News and Bloomberg Business
Erin Calandra / WJAC-TV:
Penn State fraternity suspended after secret Facebook discovered — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A Penn State fraternity is suspended after police said they created a secret Facebook page where they posted offensive pictures. — We got our hands on the search warrant.
Victor Fiorillo / Philadelphia Magazine:
Penn State Abington Professor Speaks Out About Her Miami Arrest — At left is the staff photo of Penn State Abington sociology professor Dr. Karen Halnon. But the photo on the right is what she looked like over the weekend when she was arrested at Miami International Airport after a bizarre incident on a plane.
Discussion:
Miami New Times, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
RELATED:
William Baude / New York Times:
Could Obama Bypass the Supreme Court? — CHICAGO — IT is time to talk about President Obama's contingency plan for health care. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this month in King v. Burwell, a case challenging the provision of tax credits on federal insurance exchanges.
Discussion:
Bloomberg View
RELATED:
Ralph S. Tyler / The Hill:
King v. Burwell - Subsidies on federal exchanges will survive
King v. Burwell - Subsidies on federal exchanges will survive
Discussion:
SCOTUSblog and New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
Apple Plans Web TV Service in Fall — In talks with programmers to offer a slimmed-down bundle of about 25 channels — Shalini Ramachandran and Daisuke Wakabayashi — Apple Inc.'s lofty plans to build an online television service are coming into sharper focus.
Discussion:
New York Post, 9to5Mac, Engadget, New York Times, Business Insider, USA Today, CBS San Francisco, The Verge, Tech Times, Reuters, The Mary Sue, The Week and Joe. My. God., more at Mediagazer »
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
State: No record Hillary Clinton signed exit form — The State Department has no record that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a standard form declaring that she surrendered all official records before leaving her post in 2013, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Daily Kos and Hot Air
Daily Mail:
Dramatic moment passenger who yelled 'Jihad! Jihad!' was pinned by terrified fellow fliers on board Washington United flight — This is the dramatic moment passengers on board a United Airlines flight tackled a young man to the ground after he shouted ‘Jihad, Jihad’ and threatened to hijack the aircraft.
Discussion:
Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit and Clash Daily
RELATED:
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Inside The Senate GOP's Self-Made Debacle On Sex Trafficking And Abortion — WASHINGTON — It's common in Congress for the parties to rip each other apart over the contents of a bill. But it's exceedingly rare for one party to accuse the other of trying to sneak a law into existence without telling them.
Discussion:
Right Wing Watch, Daily Kos and Horizons
RELATED:
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Mickey Kaus quits Daily Caller after Tucker Carlson pulls critical Fox News column — The blogger Mickey Kaus has quit his job at The Daily Caller after the conservative site's editor-in-chief, Tucker Carlson, pulled a critical column about Fox News from the site, Kaus told the On Media blog on Tuesday.
Discussion:
Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ben Carson Operative Deletes Tweets Telling Obama To “Bend Over Bitch,” Among Others — “I'm looking forward to McConnell shoving his fist up Obama's ass. Although, he will, no doubt, like it. #tcot” — The team building out Dr. Ben Carson's likely presidential campaign includes …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Beck / The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu pounded for expressing worry over high Arab turnout — Over 26 percent of Israeli voters cast ballots by noon; fraud suspected at Umm al-Fahm ballot booth; grandfather of Likud MK dies at polling station — Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. on Tuesday as Israeli citizens headed …
Discussion:
New York Times, Power Line, Jerusalem Post, The PJ Tatler, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Atlantic Online
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand — While Microsoft has dropped hints that the Internet Explorer brand is going away, the software maker has now confirmed that it will use a new name for its upcoming browser successor, codenamed Project Spartan.
Discussion:
USA Today, Fox News, The Atlantic Online, CBS DC and The Week
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Clinton team picks Justice spokesman Brian Fallon as lead press secretary — Hillary Rodham Clinton's press shop is taking shape, with word Tuesday that longtime Democratic spokesman Brian Fallon will be the lead press secretary for the yet-to-be-announced campaign.
Discussion:
Politico and Talking Points Memo