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4:55 PM ET, April 3, 2015

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Max Fisher / Vox:
This is an astonishingly good Iran deal  —  When Aaron Stein was studying nuclear non-proliferation at Middlebury University's Monterey graduate program, the students would sometimes construct what they thought would be the best possible nuclear inspection and monitoring regimes.
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Jeff Dunetz / “The Lid”:
France: The US Capitulated To Iranian Demands  —  Not all of America's negotiating partners were happy with the deal announce by President Obama.  As talks proceeded past two deadlines last year, and the deadline earlier this week, the U.S. made a host of concessions.  The American positions drew ire from France.
Washington Post:
Obama's Iran deal falls far short of his own goals  —  THE “KEY parameters” for an agreement on Iran's nuclear program released Thursday fall well short of the goals originally set by the Obama administration.  None of Iran's nuclear facilities — including the Fordow center buried under a mountain — will be closed.
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Statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding …
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Ron Ben-Yishai / Ynetnews:
A better deal than we expected
New York Times:
A Promising Nuclear Deal With Iran
Reuters:
Iranians celebrate, Obama hails ‘historic’ nuclear framework
Terence Burlij / CNN:
Iran deal: 2016 GOPers and Hillary Clinton react
Annie Karni / Politico:
Source: Lease signed for Hillary Clinton headquarters in Brooklyn  —  The lease is signed: Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters will work out of 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights, according to a source familiar with the deal.  —  The campaign will occupy two full floors of the office building …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In emerging Dem race, O'Malley new target of Clinton machine  —  Recently, a representative from the Hillary Clinton camp delivered a message to Martin O'Malley, the former Maryland governor preparing to challenge Clinton for the 2016 Democratic nomination.  —  I have some good news and some bad news, the messenger said.
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Tom Cotton Is Not Mailing It In  —  Your last name is Cotton, and this interview was arranged by your communications director, Caroline Rabbitt.  Who is your chief of staff, Beatrix Potter?  If only.  No, my chief of staff is Doug Coutts.  —  You were raised in rural Arkansas …
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Carly Fiorina: Tim Cook Opposition to Indiana Religious Freedom Law Hypocritical  —  Once a Fortune 50 chief executive herself, Carly Fiorina is disgusted with how CEOs rushed to condemn Indiana's new religious freedom law.  —  Mrs. Fiorina, who is weighing a bid for the 2016 Republican …
Discussion: The Hill and Business Insider
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Why Ted Cruz is Fighting ‘the Fortune 500’ on Gay Marriage
Washington Post:
These are the racially charged e-mails that got 3 Ferguson police and court officials fired  —  City officials in Ferguson, Mo., on Thursday evening released the full, unredacted content of racially charged and religiously insensitive e-mails sent by the city's former court clerk …
Ali Meyer / CNSNews:
Americans Not in Labor Force Exceed 93 Million for First Time; 62.7% Labor Force Participation Matches 37-Year Low  —  (CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans 16 years and older who did not participate in the labor force—meaning they neither had a job nor actively sought one in the last four weeks …
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Kevin Miller / The Portland Press Herald:
LePage forum comes to abrupt end as Democratic ex-lawmaker confronts him and gets taken away  —  Joanne Twomey, who is also a former Biddeford mayor, shouts at LePage over his budget proposals and flips a jar of Vaseline onto the stage.  —  207-791-6312  —  SACO — Gov. Paul LePage's town …
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Talking Points Memo:
A New Supreme Court Ruling On Medicaid Just Put 68 Million People At Risk  —  When it comes to health care at the Supreme Court this year, all eyes are focused on the Obamacare tax credits case, King v. Burwell.  But a case decided this week, Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc. …
New York Sun:
The Shape of Things to Come  —  President Obama's vow to seek support in Congress for his proposed deal with Iran reminds us of the Norway Debate.  This is the argument that erupted in the Mother of Parliaments in May 1940, after the Nazis invaded Norway.  When the debate began …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Steven Crowder / Louder With Crowder:
HIDDEN CAMERA: Gay Wedding Cake At Muslim Bakeries  —  Gay wedding cakes!  —  Yes folks, I did this.  I went there.  You have this now.  As I was discussing on last week's radio show/podcast...  Actually, I taped this video a long time ago but due to audio corruption issues, was never able to upload it.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Power and Paychecks  —  On Wednesday, McDonald's — which has been facing demonstrations denouncing its low wages — announced that it would give workers a raise.  The pay increase won't, in itself, be a very big deal: the new wage floor is just $1 above the local minimum wage …
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Atlanta Educators Convicted in School Cheating Scandal  —  ATLANTA — In a dramatic conclusion to what has been described as the largest cheating scandal in the nation's history, a jury here on Wednesday convicted 11 educators for their roles in a standardized test cheating scandal that tarnished …
James B. Nelson / @politifact:
Gov. Scott Walker says he bought a sweater for $1 at Kohl's  —  When Gov. Scott Walker took his presidential ambitions to New Hampshire, he shared a penny-pinching story that would have been right at home in bargain-hunting Wisconsin.  —  At the center of the story: A new sweater, a dollar and Menomonee Falls-based Kohl's.
Arnold Schwarzenegger / Washington Post:
Indiana's religious freedom law is bad for Republicans  —  Hasta la vista, culture wars.  —  I became a proud Republican before I even understood English.  —  I immigrated to the United States in the heat of the 1968 presidential campaign, when the choice — as I heard it through a friend's translation — was simple.
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Could Chris Christie Appoint Himself To The U.S. Senate?  Yes, He Can  —  Thought exercise: What if the indictment of Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez... could once again potentially place an appointment of a U.S. senator in the hands of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
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Campaign 2016: Modest Interest, High Stakes
 
 
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Why Rand Paul's been MIA on the Iran deal and the Indiana law
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