memeorandum: Israel's Netanyahu declares victory in tight race (Josef Federman/Associated Press)

8:25 PM ET, March 17, 2015

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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 …

Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Rep. Aaron Schock Resigns After Questions Raised About Finances

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The Hill:
Rep. Aaron Schock will resign

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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.

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.

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New York Times:

Netanyahu Expresses Alarm That Arab Voter Turnout Could Help Unseat Him — JERUSALEM — Increasingly worried that he could lose Tuesday's elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel lashed out at the country's Arab voters, expressing alarm that a large turnout by them could determine the outcome.

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Israel's Gilded Age — Why did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel feel the need to wag the dog in Washington? For that was, of course, what he was doing in his anti-Iran speech to Congress. If you're seriously trying to affect American foreign policy, you don't insult the president …

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Josef Federman / Associated Press:
Israel's Netanyahu declares victory in tight race

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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.

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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 …

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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 …

Hayley Peterson / Business Insider:
A Starbucks exec deleted his Twitter account after backlash over the company's ‘race together’ campaign

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Bruce Horovitz / USA Today:
Starbucks, USA TODAY team to tackle racial issues

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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.

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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.

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CBS Miami:
Woman Arrested For Smoking, Ranting On Plane Explains Herself

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Kyle Munzenrieder / Miami New Times:
VIDEO: WOMAN ARRESTED AT MIA AFTER YELLING ABOUT “WAR ON VENEZUELA,” SMOKING ON PLANE

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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 …

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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
House GOP budget again repeals ObamaCare

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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House Republican Budget Overhauls Medicare and Repeals the Health Law

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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 …

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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Scott Walker's digital consultant has taken swipes at Iowa

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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
Honeymoon Over: Scott Walker Under Fire for New Open Borders Amnesty Advocate Staffer Who Mocks Iowa

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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.

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Ralph S. Tyler / The Hill:
King v. Burwell - Subsidies on federal exchanges will survive

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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CNN:
Official: United flight turns around after passenger runs up aisle yelling ‘jihad’

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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.

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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.

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