memeorandum: Men Dressed as Women Shot Outside NSA Gate, Tried to Ram Past Checkpoint, Officials Say (Justin Fishel/ABC News)

1:35 PM ET, March 30, 2015

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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:

Trevor Noah to Succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’ — In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider's perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States.

Erin Whitney / The Huffington Post:
Trevor Noah To Replace Jon Stewart As The New ‘Daily Show’ Host

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Justin Fishel / ABC News:

Men Dressed as Women Shot Outside NSA Gate, Tried to Ram Past Checkpoint, Officials Say … One man is dead and another severely injured after a shootout at one of the main gates of the National Security Agency located at Fort Meade, Maryland. — Two men dressed as women attempted to …

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myfoxdc.com:

1 dead after shooting at NSA gate at Fort Meade — Authorities say one person is dead and two people have been hospitalized following a shooting at the gates of the National Security Agency in Fort Meade. — FOX 5 has learned that around 9 a.m. Monday, a vehicle tried to bypass a secured entrance to the NSA complex.

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Washington Post:

One killed in incident at NSA on Fort Meade campus — Shots were fired Monday morning after two people in a vehicle tried to ram a gate at Fort Meade, a military installation in Anne Arundel County, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation.

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Cbssonia / CBS Baltimore:
1 Dead, 1 Injured In Shooting After Gate-Crashing Incident At NSA, Ft. Meade

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Tim Cook / Washington Post:

Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous — Tim Cook is chief executive of Apple. — There's something very dangerous happening in states across the country. — A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.

Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:

What Makes Indiana's Religious-Freedom Law Different? — In Indianapolis, a crowd protests the new law. (Nathan Chute/Reuters ) — No one, I think, would ever have denied that Maurice Bessinger was a man of faith. — And he wasn't particularly a “still, small voice” man either …

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ABC News:
Transcript for Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Says Religious Freedom Law ‘Absolutely Not’ a Mistake

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New York Times:

Iran Backs Away From Key Detail in Nuclear Deal — LAUSANNE, Switzerland — With a negotiating deadline just two days away, Iranian officials on Sunday backed away from a critical element of a proposed nuclear agreement, saying they are no longer willing to ship their atomic fuel out of the country.

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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
Iran's Nuclear Breakout Time: A Fact Sheet

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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Ramps Up Lobbying on Iran as Deadline Looms

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Mark Hensch / The Hill: O'Malley: Nuclear Iran ‘greatest man-made threat’

Julian Borger / Guardian:
Binyamin Netanyahu denounces Iran nuclear negotiations

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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:

Elizabeth Warren plays Ted Cruz card with House Democrats — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is meeting with House Democrats in an effort to push back against President Obama's trade agenda. — The liberal senator met Tuesday with a group of House Democrats before administration officials …

Juan Williams / The Hill: Boehner, Israel and race

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Clinton Wants to Improve Ties With Israel

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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
White House to Netanyahu: Your move

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Stacy Lange / WNEP-TV:

Man Killed by Falling Headstone While Decorating Family Grave … THROOP — A man was killed when a headstone fell on him Monday morning, according to police. — Throop police are calling this a horrible tragedy. The chief confirmed that a 74-year-old man was killed when one of the headstones …

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Kevin McDermott / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Spence Jackson, spokesman for the late Tom Schweich, found dead — UPDATED at 7:30 a.m. with comment from former Gov. Matt Blunt — JEFFERSON CITY • Veteran Missouri state official Spence Jackson, who was media director for the late state auditor Tom Schweich, was found dead Sunday, sources said.

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Roberta Rampton / Reuters:

Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat than Putin: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - A third of Republicans believe President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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Mother Jones:

O'Reilly Cameraman Disputes Fox News Host's Falklands “War Zone” Story — O'Reilly claimed he rescued his bleeding cameraman during a riot in Argentina. But the journo who shot O'Reilly's video says this didn't happen. — Fox News host Bill O'Reilly continues to insist that he never misrepresented …

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Steve Kornacki / msnbc.com:

The man who thinks he can beat Hillary — Hillary Clinton will be opposed by a real, actual, credible Democrat for her party's presidential nomination. — That's the takeaway from Martin O'Malley's Sunday appearance on ABC's “This Week,” during which the former Maryland governor previewed …

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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Why Hillary Clinton Will Launch 2016 Campaign Soon

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Paul Farrell / Guardian:

Personal details of world leaders accidentally revealed by G20 organisers — Exclusive: Obama, Putin, Merkel, Cameron, Modi and others kept in the dark after passport numbers and other details were disclosed in Australia's accidental privacy breach — Read the immigration department's letter outlining …

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Ben S. Bernanke / Brookings Institute:

Why are interest rates so low? — Interest rates around the world, both short-term and long-term, are exceptionally low these days. The U.S. government can borrow for ten years at a rate of about 1.9 percent, and for thirty years at about 2.5 percent. Rates in other industrial countries …

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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

State Attorneys Tell Supreme Court That Gay People Are Too Powerful To Have Equal Rights — Ohio does not want to recognize plaintiff Jim Obergefell's marriage to his late husband. — CREDIT: AP — Gay Americans simply have too much political power to be afforded equal rights under the Constitution …

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