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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.
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Erin Whitney / The Huffington Post:
Trevor Noah To Replace Jon Stewart As The New ‘Daily Show’ Host
Trevor Noah To Replace Jon Stewart As The New ‘Daily Show’ Host
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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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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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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.
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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 …
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
Iran's Nuclear Breakout Time: A Fact Sheet
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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
Binyamin Netanyahu denounces Iran nuclear negotiations
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
What to Worry About in an Iran Nuclear Deal
What to Worry About in an Iran Nuclear Deal
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Horizons
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Boehner, Israel and race — Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) trip to Israel this week is so blatantly political that even the avowedly impartial Associated Press describes it as looking “like a jab at the White House.” — It is worse than that. President Obama can jab back in any political fight.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Clinton Wants to Improve Ties With Israel
Clinton Wants to Improve Ties With Israel
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
White House to Netanyahu: Your move
White House to Netanyahu: Your move
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
White House: Nuclear talks' success depends on Iran
White House: Nuclear talks' success depends on Iran
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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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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Why Hillary Clinton Will Launch 2016 Campaign Soon — It's a near certainty that a few weeks from now Hillary Clinton will be a full-fledged presidential candidate, campaigning through New Hampshire and Iowa with a vast press corps in tow. — Some politicians relish the campaign trail: the rope lines, rallies and photo ops.
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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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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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Political Wire and The Daily Caller
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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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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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
You are probably breaking the law right now — When lawmakers don't even know how many laws exist, how can citizens be expected to follow them? — Ignorance of the law, we are often told, is no excuse. “Every man is presumed to know the law,” says a long-established legal aphorism.
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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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