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Nick Gass / Politico:
Rand Paul clashes with Savannah Guthrie over changing views — Rand Paul clashed with Today Show host Savannah Guthrie over her line of questioning during an interview Wednesday morning, criticizing her for editorializing over perceived changes in his political views since his election to the Senate.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Rand Paul gets testy with NBC's Savannah Guthrie — Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy — An interview with Sen. Rand Paul (R) on Wednesday got testy as the libertarian-leaning Kentucky senator, fresh off launching his presidential campaign …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Rand Paul campaign: He wasn't talking about murder
Rand Paul campaign: He wasn't talking about murder
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Power Line and National Review
Scott Stump / Today:
Rand Paul on Iran nuclear deal: 'I'm going to keep an open mind'
Rand Paul on Iran nuclear deal: 'I'm going to keep an open mind'
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National Journal, Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney, Hot Air, WAVE-TV, Yahoo Politics, Political Wire, TVNewser and NBC News
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
The Rand Paul test: Clues to future of GOP
New York Times:
South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder in Black Man's Death — WASHINGTON — A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting and killing an apparently unarmed black man in the back while he ran away.
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CNN:
S. Carolina cop charged with murder for shooting black man; protesters gather — Video shows cop shoot unarmed man in the back 03:04 — Story highlights (CNN)New developments: — • 11:33 a.m.: The police chief of North Charleston, a chaplain and the mayor of North Charleston …
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Raw Story and American Spectator
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Everything The Police Said About Walter Scott's Death Before A Video Showed What Really Happened — CREDIT: Charleston County Police Department — On Tuesday, South Carolina police officer Michael Thomas Slager was charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of Walter Scott.
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The Atlantic Online, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh, Media and the courts, Balloon Juice, Post and Courier and Hit & Run
Andrew Knapp / Post and Courier:
North Charleston officer faces murder charge after video shows him shooting man in back
North Charleston officer faces murder charge after video shows him shooting man in back
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Business Insider, MintPress News, Hot Air, New York Magazine, Guardian, Mediaite, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hit & Run, Patterico's Pontifications, The Gateway Pundit, The Atlantic Online, Shakesville, Fox News Insider, Common Dreams, The Daily Caller, NPR and Mashable
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Walter Scott's Family Holds Presser on Shooting: ‘Justice Will Be Served’
Walter Scott's Family Holds Presser on Shooting: ‘Justice Will Be Served’
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Reuters, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
Mark Halperin / Bloomberg Business:
Exclusive: New Ted Cruz Super-PACs Take in Record Haul — Ted Cruz's presidential effort is getting into the shock-and-awe fundraising business. — An associate of the Texas senator, a recently announced presidential candidate, tells Bloomberg that a cluster of affiliated super-political action committees …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: When it comes to war, Congress has a double standard
Morning Plum: When it comes to war, Congress has a double standard
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Washington Monthly, Horizons, New York Times and Politico
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Tom Cotton: Bombing Iran Would Take “Several Days,” Be Nothing Like Iraq War — “All we're asking is that the president simply be as tough as in the protection of America's national security interest as Bill Clinton was.” — w.soundcloud.com — Sen. Tom Cotton says bombing Iran's nuclear facilities …
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Reuters, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, The American Conservative and Gawker
Derek Draplin / The College Fix:
Univ. of Michigan cancels ‘American Sniper’ screening: ‘Made students feel unsafe’ — University: ‘While our intent was to show a film, the impact of the content was harmful, and made students feel unsafe and unwelcome at our program’ — A scheduled movie screening of “American Sniper” …
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Power Line, Michigan Daily, Hit & Run, Mediaite and Washington Free Beacon
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Stephen Deere / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
High voter turnout in Ferguson adds two black council members, for three total — FERGUSON • For the first time in Ferguson's 120-year history, the City Council will have three African-American members, but even so, Tuesday's election was less than a clear victory for the throngs …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Dick Cheney calls Obama ‘worst president’ on foreign policy — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says President Barack Obama is the worst commander in chief the United States has ever had, in view of the recent Iranian nuclear agreement. — Asked about the deal by Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Political Wire and Israel Matzav
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Fox News:
Federal judge denies request to lift hold on Obama immigration action — A federal judge in Texas denied a Justice Department request Tuesday to lift his temporary hold on President Obama's executive action preventing the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, “The Lid” and National Review
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Court declines to lift hold on Obama's immigration actions
Court declines to lift hold on Obama's immigration actions
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
James Warren / Politico:
Rahm the Screwup — How one of the country's best mayors almost blew his chances for a second term. — Lead image by AP Photo. — Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday survived a political near-death experience entirely of his own making. — America's most compelling, and exhausting …
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Los Angeles Times:
Why the middle class is doing even worse than you think — One of the great mysteries about the U.S. economy today is the discrepancy between the objective and subjective pictures we have of the middle class. The numbers say that the middle class is doing OK or even improving its lot …
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Washington Center … and Washington Post
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
12 years ago today, Donald Rumsfeld sent the greatest memo of all time — Today is Vox's first anniversary, but it is also the 12th anniversary of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sending what was perhaps the greatest memo ever written. Titled “issues with various countries,” …
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Slate, Hullabaloo and Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Israel's Unworkable Demands on Iran — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has gone into overdrive against a nuclear agreement with Iran. On Monday, his government made new demands that it claimed would ensure a better deal than the preliminary one that Iran, President Obama …
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Israel Matzav, Politico, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Times of Israel, Associated Press and rubber hose
Hollywood Reporter:
Roger Ailes … WHY HE MATTERS The dominant cable news network for more than a decade, Ailes' Fox News funnels billions into the coffers of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox. SNL Kagan estimates the channel will earn $2.18 billion this year, the bulk of it from ad revenue and subscriber fees …
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
CNN:
How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House — Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.
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J. Michael Waller / Investor's Business Daily:
Hillary Clinton's Private Server A Foreign Spy Magnet
Hillary Clinton's Private Server A Foreign Spy Magnet
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The Gateway Pundit and Ed Driscoll