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7:45 AM ET, March 19, 2015

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Michael Crowley / Politico:

Israel's shield no more? — Officials say they are revisiting the U.S. stance in light of Netanyahu rolling back his support of a Palestinian state. — In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decisive re-election, the Obama administration is revisiting longtime assumptions …

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Times of Israel, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Haaretz, Power Line and National Review

Foreign Policy:

From Tel Aviv to Turtle Bay — The White House hoped a new Israeli prime minister would resume peace talks with the Palestinians. With Netanyahu holding on, the administration is weighing a turn to the U.N. to help force a deal. — After years of blocking U.N. efforts to pressure Israelis …

Discussion: New York Times, The Gateway Pundit and Common Dreams

Jonathan Alter / The Daily Beast:
Bibi's Ugly Win Will Harm Israel

Discussion: Bloomberg View, Reuters, Lawfare, New York Times and RealClearWorld

Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Go Ahead, Ruin My Day — As the saying goes, “to err is human …

Discussion: Common Dreams, Hot Air, Gawker, Politico, Business Insider and Hullabaloo

Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
Likud's win: The ‘second Israel’ has spoken

Discussion: Agence France-Presse, Politico, Hot Air, BREITBART.COM, Washington Post, The Atlantic Online, Booman Tribune and RedState

New York Times:
Obama May Find It Impossible to Mend Frayed Ties to Netanyahu

Discussion: BREITBART.COM, Scared Monkeys, The Federalist, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard and Politico

Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
On Israeli election day, Netanyahu warns of Arabs voting ‘in droves’

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, US News, Business Insider, ThinkProgress, New York Magazine, Hit & Run, Power Line, The Times of Israel and France 24

Seung Min Kim / Politico:

GOP aims to sink Obamacare with reconciliation — But first they have to strike a difficult deal on an overall budget — Senate Republicans want to use a powerful procedural budget maneuver known as reconciliation to go after President Barack Obama's health care law …

Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and New York Times

Vicki Needham / The Hill:

Fiscal hawks scuttle House Republican budget efforts — Negotiations to resolve a dispute over defense spending blew up Wednesday night in the House Budget Committee, as the panel came up short of approving a nearly $3.8 trillion Republican blueprint. — Budget Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) …

Discussion: Political Wire

Manu Raju / Politico:

Budget debate could prove awkward for 2016 hopefuls — The four Republican senators considering a run for president will have to take sides. — Congress' battle of the budget could be coming soon to the 2016 Republican presidential primary. — The four Republican senators considering …

Ben Bradley / abc7chicago.com:

Aaron Schock ‘broken’ but a ‘fighter,’ dad says — “Two years from now he'll be successful, if he's not in jail,” Congressman Aaron Schock's father said of his son the day after he announced his resignation. — Schock, 33, is accused of congressional and campaign misspending.

Discussion: CBS Chicago, Fox News, Mediaite, Politico, Washington Post, Business Insider, Towleroad News #gay, Talking Points Memo and Joe. My. God.

John Parkinson / ABC News: Rep. Aaron Schock's Dad Speaks Out: 'He Will Be Successful If He's Not In Jail'

Anthony Weiner / Business Insider:
Anthony Weiner's 5 takeaways from the Aaron Schock scandals

Discussion: Politico, Mediaite, Weekly Standard and AMERICAblog News

Tina Nguyen / Mediaite:
Aaron Schock's Dad: 'Two Years from Now, He'll be Successful, if He's Not in Jail'

Discussion: FOX News Radio, Business Insider and Towleroad News #gay

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Beck: 'I'm out of the Republican Party' — Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck on Wednesday announced he is leaving the Republican Party. — “I've made my decision — I'm out,” Beck said Wednesday on “The Glenn Beck Program,” his broadcast on TheBlaze.com. “I'm out of the Republican Party.

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Glenn Beck ‘done’ with Republican Party

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, Hot Air, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:

For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that economic growth has moderated somewhat. Labor market conditions have improved further, with strong job gains and a lower unemployment rate. A range of labor market indicators suggests …

Discussion: Washington Post, Tim Duy's Fed Watch, Bloomberg View, US News, Wall Street Journal and NPR

Jeff Kearns / Bloomberg Business:
Fed Drops Patient Stance, Opening Door to June Rate Increase

Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg View and New York Magazine

Chloe Heskett / The Cavalier Daily:

University student, Honor Committee member Martese Johnson arrested — Johnson sustained head injury during arrest, released on bond Wednesday morning — This is a developing story, and will continue to be updated with the latest information available. — Martese Johnson …

Discussion: Washington Post, Bloomberg Business, WTVR-TV, NY Daily News, New York Magazine, Liberaland, Jezebel, Mashable, Raw Story and ThinkProgress

The Hill:

Warren has Fed chief's ear — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is upping her outreach to Capitol Hill, and one lawmaker is attracting the largest amount of her attention: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). — A review of Yellen's meeting records, obtained by The Hill …

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Politico:

IRS may broaden rule to police political nonprofits — The IRS may broaden a looming controversial rule to police political nonprofits to include political parties and political action committees, the IRS chief said Wednesday. — IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said the agency may expand …

Discussion: Betsy's Page and Liberaland

Reuters:

Exclusive: U.S. likely to delay planned closure of two Afghanistan bases — (Reuters) - The U.S. military bases in Kandahar and Jalalabad are likely to remain open beyond the end of 2015, a senior U.S. official said, as Washington considers slowing its military pull-out from Afghanistan to help the new government fight the Taliban.

Holly Otterbein / Philadelphia Magazine:

Member of Penn State's Kappa Delta Rho Defends Fraternity — Frat allegedly posted photographs of nude, unconscious women to Facebook. Member says it wasn't malicious. — When news broke this week that a Penn State fraternity had allegedly run two private Facebook pages …

Arthur Chu / Salon:

RaceTogether is a debacle: The real reason why Starbucks, McDonald's and Coke keep failing on Twitter — Well, it's only been 24 hours as I write this since Starbucks announced its #RaceTogether campaign and already it can safely be said to have transitioned from “experiment” to “debacle.”

Discussion: USA Today and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Elizabeth Sweetnam / CBS News:

Durst linked to disappearance of teen girls? — Shares - — The charge for Susan Berman's murder has brought the mysteries surrounding Robert Durst back into the spotlight. Investigators may now be looking at Durst in the disappearance of two teenage girls in California in the mid 90s …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and New York Magazine

Terry Myerson / Blogging Windows:

Windows 10 Launching This Summer in 190 Countries and 111 Languages — Today at the renewed Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) summit in Shenzhen, China, I had the honor of speaking about Windows 10 and the innovation and opportunity it offers our valued partners.

Discussion: Tech Times, Mashable, Engadget and The Daily Caller

Microsoft:
Windows 10 to launch this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages around the world

Discussion: Blogging Windows, New York Times and Reuters

Mark Potok / Hatewatch:

Suspect in Arizona Shooting Spree a White Supremacist Skinhead — The man reportedly arrested in the aftermath of a shooting spree in Mesa, Ariz., today sports tattoos that identify him as a neo-Nazi. What's more, a local retired detective says he is a longtime white supremacist skinhead associated with major racist groups.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Sarah Ferris / The Hill:

NIH doctor: States should do more on vaccinations — One of the Obama administration's top doctors on Wednesday said that state governments should be doing more to boost vaccination rates to halt the spread of highly contagious diseases like the measles. — “I'm totally in agreement …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online