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10:35 PM ET, April 23, 2015

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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Disastrous Clinton Post-Presidency  —  The best-case scenario: They screwed everything up.  —  Shares  —  The qualities of an effective presidency do not seem to transfer onto a post-presidency.  Jimmy Carter was an ineffective president who became an exemplary post-president.
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New York Times:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company  —  The headline in Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin's latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when the newspaper served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
5 things we learned about ‘Clinton Cash’ without reading it  —  (CNN)It's not even out yet, but Peter Schweizer's “Clinton Cash” is already being talked up as the first major test of Hillary Clinton's nascent presidential campaign's ability to fend off attacks from detractors.
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh
ABC News:
Bill Clinton Cashed In When Hillary Became Secretary of State … After his wife became Secretary of State, former President Bill Clinton began to collect speaking fees that often doubled or tripled what he had been charging earlier in his post White House years, bringing in millions of dollars …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Brian Fallon / Medium:
‘Clinton Cash’ & NYT Fail to Prove Any Connection Between Hillary Clinton & Russian Purchase of Uranium Assets  —  Relying largely on research from the conservative author of Clinton Cash, today's New York Times alleges that donations to the Clinton Foundation coincided with the U.S. government's 2010 approval …
Discussion: Hot Air
Lauren French / Politico:
Trey Gowdy asks Hillary Clinton to appear twice on emails, Benghazi
Discussion: Daily Kos and Liberaland
Charles Pierce / Esquire:
The Return To Mena Airport: It Begins Again
Discussion: Washington Post
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal  —  Comcast Corp. is planning to walk away from its proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc., people with knowledge of the matter said, after regulators decided that the deal wouldn't help consumers, making approval unlikely.
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New York Times:
David Petraeus Is Sentenced to Probation in Leak Investigation  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced David H. Petraeus, the highest-profile general from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to two years' probation for disclosing classified information.
New York Times:
Comcast Is Said to End $45 Billion Bid for Time Warner Cable
USA Today:
Apologetic Petraeus gets probation for leaking secrets to his mistress
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Week
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Is Guest of Two Gay Businessmen  —  Senator Ted Cruz has positioned himself as a strong opponent of same-sex marriage, urging pastors nationwide to preach in support of marriage as an institution between a man and a woman, which he said was “ordained by God.”
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Bobby Jindal / New York Times:
I'm Holding Firm Against Gay Marriage  —  BATON ROUGE, La. — THE debate over religious liberty in America presents conservatives and business leaders with a crucial choice.  —  In Indiana and Arkansas, large corporations recently joined left-wing activists to bully elected officials …
Vincent Schilling / Indian Country Today Media …:
Native Actors Walk off Set of Adam Sandler Movie After Insults to Women, Elders  —  Approximately a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler's newest film production, The Ridiculous Six, on Wednesday.
Erin Dooley / ABC News:
Obama: ‘I Take Full Responsibility’ For US Operation That Killed Innocent Hostages Held By Al Qaeda … President Obama said today that he takes “full responsibility” for a U.S. government counterterrorism operation that killed two innocent hostages held by al Qaeda.
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Adam Entous / Wall Street Journal:
American, Italian Hostages Killed in CIA Drone Strike in January
Washington Post:
U.S. drone strike killed al-Qaeda hostages, including American
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Apologizes After Drone Kills American and Italian Held By Al Qaeda
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate votes 56-43 to confirm Lynch as attorney general  —  The Senate confirmed Loretta Lynch's long-delayed nomination Thursday, giving the country its first female African American attorney general.  —  Senators voted 56-43 to confirm Lynch, more than 160 days after she was nominated by President Obama.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch as Attorney General After Long Delay
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch To Be The First Black Female Attorney General
Discussion: RH Reality Check
Tom McCarthy / Guardian:
Loretta Lynch confirmed as US attorney general after delay ‘to spite Obama’
Discussion: Mediaite, Progress Pond and The Week
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
Steve King unveils radical court scheme  —  Under the American system of government, elected legislators are responsible for writing laws.  If those statutes are legally controversial, they're challenged in the courts and evaluated by judges.  It's Civics 101.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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The Huffington Post:
Conservatives Argue The Obamacare Lawsuit Won't Be So Bad After All.  That's Nonsense.  —  WASHINGTON — Get ready for a new line from the crowd that brought a lawsuit before the Supreme Court threatening to devastate Obamacare and snatch health insurance away from millions of people …
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Not The Onion: China Cracks Down on Funeral Strippers  —  As the headline suggests, this is a real thing: Chinese families often hire strippers to dance graveside at funerals.  And now the Chinese government wants that to stop.  —  The Wall Street Journal's China Real Time blog reported Thursday …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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Wall Street Journal:
China Says Please Stop Hiring Funeral Strippers
Discussion: VICE and The Week
Ashley Goudeau / KVUE-TV:
Video shows DWI suspect knocked unconscious during arrest  —  ROUND ROCK, Texas — Video captured by a man inside the Wing Stop on East Palm Valley in Round Rock Tuesday afternoon shows Officer Ben Johnson arresting Viviana Keith.  —  The video shows Johnson and Keith talking …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘F*ck this court — I AM Justice’: Woman uncorks berserk legal rant after civil rights suit tossed  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A self-described “Floridian-American” sovereign citizen submitted a nine-page, profanity-laced tirade against a judge who dismissed a lawsuit she filed on behalf of her husband and son.
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Scott Lively: Only ‘Pitchforks And Torches’ Can Stop Gay Marriage  —  Anti-LGBT pundit Scott Lively argues in a column today that the only way to stop the legalization of gay marriage is to form an “angry mob” that will take to “the streets, pitchforks and torches held aloft …
Mark Halperin / Bloomberg Business:
Boehner Opens Door to House Subpoena of Clinton's E-mail Server  —  In his ceremonial office in the Capitol building, the speaker flared with outrage at Clinton's conduct, asserting she broke the law by failing to use a government e-mail account as secretary of state.  —  t MarkHalperin
Discussion: OnPolitics and Political Wire
 
 
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Tylar Bacome / WGCL-TV:
Atlanta students face charges for fight with gay classmates
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KHOU-TV:
3 suspects charged with 2012 shooting death of Iranian activist
Paul Barrett / Bloomberg Business:
Supreme Court Justices Are Getting ‘Grumpier,’ Study Finds
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CBS News:
​Deputy who fired gun instead of taser was investigated in 2009
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LSU drafting ‘academic bankruptcy’ plan in response to state budget crisis
 

 
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