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Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
Aide to Kamala Harris, 2 others accused of running rogue police force — An aide to state Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris and two others are accused of operating a rogue police force that claimed to exist for more than 3,000 years and have jurisdiction in 33 states and Mexico, authorities said Tuesday.
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, CANNONFIRE, Mediaite, Business Insider, The Week, Washington Free Beacon and Althouse
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Peter Bernard / WFLA-TV:
Woman's 911 call to order pizza saves her from domestic abuse — A quick-thinking Highlands County woman saved herself and her children from possible harm when she ordered an online pizza with a secret message saying she was being held hostage. — Highlands County Sheriff's Office investigators …
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NBC News, Tech Times, Gizmodo, The Week and The Verge
Nick Gass / Politico:
New Iowa poll: Scott Walker leads, Jeb Bush in 7th place — The latest Iowa polling numbers are great news for Scott Walker, and terrible news for Jeb Bush. — The Wisconsin governor retains his advantage among Iowa Republican caucus-goers, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday …
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Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress, Shakesville, Business Insider, Booman Tribune, Bloomberg Business, The Week and PUNDIT PRESS
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Robert Frank / CNBC:
Hillary is the favorite among millionaire voters: Survey
Hillary is the favorite among millionaire voters: Survey
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Washington Examiner, Power Line, Washington Post and New York Times
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Republicans pass a budget, flexing power of majority — Congressional Republicans scored a major legislative victory on Tuesday as the Senate adopted the first bicameral GOP budget agreement in a decade. — The 51-48 vote capped weeks of work by Republican leaders in the House and Senate …
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Washington Monthly, Moe Lane, Hot Air, The Stranger …, PUNDIT PRESS and Politico
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell praises Obama for a change
McConnell praises Obama for a change
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The Huffington Post and Campaign for America's Future
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Bill Clinton concedes role in mass incarceration — Bill Clinton addresses foundation donations 01:34 — (CNN)President Bill Clinton on Wednesday conceded that over-incarceration in the United States stems in part from policies passed under his administration.
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Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Bill Clinton says Hillary right to step away from his criminal justice legacy
Bill Clinton says Hillary right to step away from his criminal justice legacy
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The Huffington Post and The Week
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Clinton Foundation backer lashes out at ‘political assassination process’
Clinton Foundation backer lashes out at ‘political assassination process’
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Washington Post, Bloomberg Business, The Week and Washington Free Beacon
New England Patriots:
Statement from New England Patriots Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft on the Wells Report — “When I addressed the media at the Super Bowl on January 26 - over 14 weeks ago - I stated that I unconditionally believed that the New England Patriots had done nothing inappropriate in this process …
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Deadspin, ProFootballTalk, New York Times, The Huffington Post, CNN, Mediaite, SportsGrid, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway and Mashable
Adam B. Vary / BuzzFeed:
Joss Whedon Calls “Horsesh*t” On Reports He Left Twitter Because Of Militant Feminists — “I just thought, Wait a minute, if I'm going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place, and this is the least quiet place I've ever been in my life,” Whedon told BuzzFeed News.
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Tech Times, Screen Rant, Comicbook.com, The Verge, Mediaite, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Week, The Stranger … and Boing Boing
CBC News:
Alberta election 2015 results: NDP wave sweeps across province in historic win — Wildrose Party, led by newly elected leader Brian Jean, once again Alberta's Official Opposition — It's a massive shock that turns Canadian politics on its head: the NDP has won a majority government in Alberta.
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Common Dreams and The Mahablog
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
Leftist Party in Alberta Ends Long Dominance of Conservatives
Leftist Party in Alberta Ends Long Dominance of Conservatives
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Outside the Beltway and The Week
Sasha Goldstein / NY Daily News:
ISIS threatens controversial blogger Pamela Geller in message boasting of ‘71 trained soldiers in 15 different states’ — ISIS appears to declare war on controversial blogger Pamela Geller on Tuesday in an ominous online message claiming it has fighters across America ready to attack “any target we desire.”
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
CNN Anchor Says Constitution Doesn't Protect Hate Speech, Try Reading It. Okay, Let's Do That. — Chris Cuomo is co-host of CNN's morning show. He's also a former law and justice correspondent for ABC News. He has a law degree from Fordham University and is a licensed attorney.
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Commentary Magazine, Twitchy, Hot Air, neo-neocon and Ed Driscoll
NPR:
Six Words: 'My Name Is Jamaal ... I'm White' — Listen to the Story — NPR continues a series of conversations from The Race Card Project, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. — People make a lot of assumptions based on a name alone.
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Weekly Standard
Aidan Gardiner / DNAinfo New York:
VIDEO: Gay Couple Bashed With Chair at Chelsea Dallas BBQ — MANHATTAN — A gay couple was bashed over the head with a wooden chair, knocked to the ground and kicked by two men hurling anti-gay slurs at the Chelsea Dallas BBQ Tuesday night, in an attack captured on a graphic video, according to police and the victims.
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Raw Story, New York's PIX11, Towleroad News #gay, CBS New York and Gothamist
Pamela Geller / TIME:
A Response to My Critics—This Is a War — Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and publisher of PamelaGeller.com. — Some are saying I provoked this attack. But to kowtow to violent intimidation will only encourage more of it.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and Taylor Marsh
CBS New York:
Obama Administration: Times Square's Iconic Billboards Must Be Removed Or Else — NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — You can call it a bureaucratic blunder ... or a Washington blooper. — But any way you slice it a move by the federal government to make the city remove Times Square's iconic billboards falls …
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Power Line, Business Insider, Washington Post, Fox News and Hot Air
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Surveillance planes spotted in the sky for days after West Baltimore rioting — As Benjamin Shayne settled into his back yard to listen to the Orioles game on the radio Saturday night, he noticed a small plane looping low and tight over West Baltimore — almost exactly above where rioting …
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Gawker, The Moderate Voice and The Week
Mike Allen / Politico:
Exclusive: Bill De Blasio plans ‘Contract with America’ for left — NYC's mayor will unveil his ‘Progressive Agenda’ next week at the U.S. Capitol. — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, using his muscular perch to try to nudge the national Democratic Party to the left, next week will unveil …
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The Hill, The Week and Balloon Juice
Shane Goldmacher / National Journal:
Rand Paul Apparently Paid $100,000 for RandPaul.com — The presidential hopeful's campaign recorded a large line-item purchase for a domain name just days before the candidate launched. — Days before Paul launched his bid for president, his campaign shelled out more than $100,000 to a domain-buying firm to purchase a “domain name.”
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The Hill, Business Insider, The Verge, Political Wire, Yahoo Politics, Washington Times, Mediaite and New York Times
BBC:
Germanwings crash: Co-pilot Lubitz ‘practised rapid descent’ — Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is known to have suffered depression in the past — The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps in March appears to have practised a rapid descent on a previous flight, a report by French investigators says.
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Mashable, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and neo-neocon
Annie Karni / Politico:
Warren met privately with ‘Draft Warren’ supporters — The Massachusetts senator recently huddled with progressives affiliated with the campaign urging her to run for president. Her office insists she was unaware of any connection. — Elizabeth Warren says she has no intention of jumping into the 2016 race.
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American Spectator, US News, Hot Air, Hullabaloo and The Daily Caller
esrl.noaa.gov:
March 2014: 398.10 ppm — The graph shows recent monthly mean carbon dioxide globally averaged over marine surface sites. The Global Monitoring Division of NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory has measured carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases for several decades at a globally distributed network …
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ThinkProgress, Office of Oceanic …, Guardian, Grist, Politico and Raw Story
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Catholicism Undervalues Women — Like a Pringles vendor sounding an alarm about obesity, Pope Francis fashioned himself a feminist last week. — You are not reading The Onion. — It was an epic mismatch of messenger and message, and I say that as someone who is thankful for this pope …
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The PJ Tatler
David McCabe / The Hill:
Democrat: My party didn't cause the problems in Baltimore — Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Wednesday rejected the idea that Democratic political leaders were responsible for problems in Baltimore. — “Chris, come on Chris,” he told CNN's Chris Cuomo on “New Day.”
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