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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Hillary Clinton: Congenital Rule-Breaker. — It's past time she come clean for the sake of “restoring trust in our politics.” — Hillary Clinton doesn't play by the rules. — That's not a partisan attack. It's not a talking point. It's not a fantasy.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Clinton Foundation in campaign tailspin — Donors are having second thoughts about big giving as accusations fly about Hillary Clinton's role. — Getty — A handful of deep-pocketed donors are reconsidering their gifts to the $2 billion Clinton Foundation amid mounting questions …
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Clinton charity never provided foreign donor data — WASHINGTON — An unprecedented ethics promise that played a pivotal role in helping Hillary Rodham Clinton win confirmation as secretary of state, soothing senators' concerns about conflicts of interests with Clinton family charities …
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Washington Free Beacon, Business Insider, The Federalist, neo-neocon, @politifact and Fox News
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Senator Bernie Sanders Calls Hillary Clinton Foundation Money ‘A Very Serious Problem’
Senator Bernie Sanders Calls Hillary Clinton Foundation Money ‘A Very Serious Problem’
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Talking Points Memo, Hot Air and The Week
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Sanders: ‘I am running for president’
Sanders: ‘I am running for president’
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Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was ‘trying to injure himself,’ document says … BALTIMORE — A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself …
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Melinda Henneberger / Bloomberg Politics:
What Brought Carly Fiorina Down at HP Is Her Greatest 2016 Asset — More than 30 years ago, on Carly Sneed's third date with her co-worker, Frank Fiorina, he told his not-yet-30-year-old dinner companion that one day she would run AT&T, the company where he was at that point a rung ahead of her on the corporate ladder.
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Fiorina defends rocky tenure as HP CEO
Fiorina defends rocky tenure as HP CEO
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
James Risen / New York Times:
American Psychological Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program, Report Says — WASHINGTON — The American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration of President George W. Bush to bolster a legal and ethical justification for the torture of prisoners swept …
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Raw Story, Business Insider, Balloon Juice, The Intercept, The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, The Verge, The Week and Prairie Weather
Greg Abbott / Salon:
Right-wing lunatics think the military is planning to invade Texas. Here's why. — You have probably heard the selyrics at least a thousand times at televised Republican rallies: … Those of course are the words to “Proud to be an American” by Lee Greenwood, a song that could almost …
TIME:
Go Behind TIME's Baltimore Cover With Aspiring Photographer Devin Allen — Devin Allen, who shot this week's TIME cover, is a Baltimore resident
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Balloon Juice, Washington Post and Mediaite
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Protesters again return to Ferguson streets
Protesters again return to Ferguson streets
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CBS DC, Associated Press, ABC News and The Gateway Pundit
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
GOP delays vote on first spending bill — House Republicans delayed a vote Wednesday night on their first spending bill of the year amid concerns that a contentious amendment to terminate the use of a Pentagon war fund for military construction projects might have the votes to pass.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Daily Kos
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Mike Huckabee: The Supreme Court can't overrule God — Houston (CNN)Mike Huckabee rallied a crowd of Hispanic evangelicals on Wednesday night, pushing back in the debate over religious freedom just one day after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments to determine whether states have the right to ban same-sex marriage.
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Miles Weiss / Bloomberg Business:
George Soros's Tax Bill — Deferring income helped the billionaire hedge fund manager build his fortune — George Soros likes to say the rich should pay more taxes. A substantial part of his wealth, though, comes from delaying them. While building a record as one of the world's greatest investors …
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American Spectator, Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Maryland Legislator Discusses Taking Food Stamps From Parents of Protesting Youth — (This post is from our new blog: Unofficial Sources.) — Maryland State legislator Patrick McDonough, the guest host of a drive-time radio program on Wednesday morning, discussed the possibility …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Maryland lawmaker proposes law to take food stamps from families of kids who protest
Maryland lawmaker proposes law to take food stamps from families of kids who protest
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Shakesville
The Fiscal Times:
The Stagnant Economy Spells Trouble for Democrats — The Fiscal Times — So much for economic momentum. And perhaps, so much for Democratic hopes for a third straight term in the White House. — The Obama administration had made the argument just before last year's midterms that a spike …
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Hot Air
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Rachel Bernstein / Science:
Updated: Sexist peer review elicits furious Twitter response, PLOS apology — A peer reviewer's suggestion that two female researchers find “one or two male biologists” to co-author and help them strengthen a manuscript they had written and submitted to a journal has unleashed an avalanche …
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Jezebel, Retraction Watch, Pharyngula and Unfogged
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
The Strange Charisma of John Kasich — The last time John Kasich went to New Hampshire, the visit did not go well. It was 16 years ago, and Kasich, a 47-year-old Republican congressman who had made his name in D.C. as the budget-balancing enfant terrible of the Gingrich revolution, was running for president.
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Monthly
Nick Loeb / New York Times:
Sofía Vergara's Ex-Fiancé: Our Frozen Embryos Have a Right to Live — DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — LAST August, I filed a complaint in Santa Monica, Calif., using pseudonyms, to protect two frozen embryos I created with my former fiancée. I wanted to keep this private, but recently the story broke to the world.
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ThinkProgress, Gawker, The Daily Caller, Jezebel and TMZ.com
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama hints at return to community organizing — President Obama on Thursday dropped some hints about what he'll do after his time in office, saying he could return to his roots as a community organizer. — Speaking to a group of schoolchildren at the Anacostia Library in Washington …
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Mediaite and Political Wire
Ben S. Bernanke / Brookings Institute:
WSJ Editorial Page Watch: The Slow-Growth Fed? — For the second year in a row, the first-quarter Gross Domestic Product figures were disappointing. The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial entitled “The Slow-Growth Fed,” uses the opportunity to argue (again) for tighter monetary policy.
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Politico and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality