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Emily Smith / Page Six:
George Stephanopoulos' future — and $105M contract — in danger — ABC has plenty of reasons to be freaking out over the George Stephanopoulos scandal — $105 million, to be exact. — The “Good Morning America” and “This Week” anchor renewed his contract last year for $105 million, TV-industry sources told The Post Monday.
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Hillary Clinton on her emails: I want them out, too! — Clinton says she has limited say over timetable while judge orders up rolling release of emails. — Hillary Clinton and the State Department on Tuesday insisted they are not slow-walking the public release of her emails during …
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Michael Wessel / Politico:
I've Read Obama's Secret Trade Deal. Elizabeth Warren Is Right to Be Concerned.
I've Read Obama's Secret Trade Deal. Elizabeth Warren Is Right to Be Concerned.
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Los Angeles Times
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton May Not Need a Second Chance to Make a First Impression
Hillary Clinton May Not Need a Second Chance to Make a First Impression
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Snoop Dogg: I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton
Snoop Dogg: I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton
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ABC News:
Transcript for Hillary Clinton Breaks Silence on Wealth and Emails
Transcript for Hillary Clinton Breaks Silence on Wealth and Emails
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Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton made $3.2 million from the tech sector. Now she's hitting it up for campaign dollars.
Hillary Clinton made $3.2 million from the tech sector. Now she's hitting it up for campaign dollars.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
State Department plans to release Hillary Clinton's emails in January 2016
State Department plans to release Hillary Clinton's emails in January 2016
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Hillary Clinton on her emails: I want them released ASAP
Hillary Clinton on her emails: I want them released ASAP
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Learning From Mistakes — If you could go back to 1889 and strangle Adolf Hitler in his crib, would you do it? At one level, the answer is obvious. Of course, you should. If there had been no Hitler, presumably the Nazi Party would have lacked the charismatic leader it needed to rise to power.
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Simon Maloy / Salon:
David Brooks' sickening Iraq apologia: How the New York Times hack just rewrote history — New York Times columnist David Brooks was once an enthusiastic backer of George W. Bush's disastrous invasion of Iraq. He'd write columns for the Weekly Standard - the official journal …
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Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Stop It Liberals: Bush Didn't Lie About Iraq Having WMDs
Stop It Liberals: Bush Didn't Lie About Iraq Having WMDs
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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Staff quit Clinton Foundation over Chelsea — Chelsea Clinton is so unpleasant to colleagues, she's causing high turnover at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, sources say. — Several top staffers have left the foundation since Chelsea came onBoard as vice chairman in 2011.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Clinton Foundation-palooza Hurtles Toward Its Vince Foster Moment — I mentioned a couple months ago the quiet dread I experienced awaiting the Clinton campaign, the quite possible Clinton restoration and the drama both bring inevitably in their wake. There's another part of that story we're …
Los Angeles Times:
L.A. City Council approves increase in city's minimum wage to $15 by 2020 — The Los Angeles City Council tentatively agreed Tuesday to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 per hour, joining a trend sweeping cities across the country as elected leaders seek to address stagnating pay for workers …
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour
Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour
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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Record-High 60% of Americans Support Same-Sex Marriage — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty percent of Americans now support same-sex marriage, as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on its constitutionality next month. This is up from 55% last year and is the highest Gallup …
Kevin S. Held / FOX2now.com:
Woman says she killed cats because grandkids wouldn't clean rooms — GODFREY, IL (KTVI) - A grandmother in Godfrey, Illinois is facing animal cruelty charges after admitting to killing a cat and four kittens because her grandchildren would not clean their rooms, the Madison County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Lindsey Graham Is An Unhinged Kook Who Shouldn't Be Taken Seriously — Yesterday Lindsey Graham expressed his interest in yes, for real, becoming a presidential candidate for 2016. Spend any amount of time around the good senator and you'll hear more extreme sentiments expressed publicly …
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Lindsey Graham calls for 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq
Lindsey Graham calls for 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq
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Intern / fox4kc.com:
Police: Raytown mom uses hidden camera to catch her boyfriend taking pictures of daughter's privates — RAYTOWN, Mo. — A Raytown mother called police to arrest her 30-year-old boyfriend, whom police say she caught on a hidden camera sexually assaulting her six-year-old daughter.
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Are You Ready for President Biden? — Vice President Joe Biden might not be the heir apparent, but that's not stopping a small band of loyal supporters from rallying behind the RayBan-sporting veep in hopes of a long-shot bid. — If these were ordinary times, a happy warrior like Joe Biden …
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Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
The Real Problem in Iraq — Over the weekend, as ISIS fighters rolled into Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar Province, one of them posted a video to the Internet. It was shot from a recently captured Iraqi police station, and showed box after box of American mortar shells and bullets that appeared shiny and new.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Republicans' Early Views of GOP Field More Positive Than in 2012, 2008 Campaigns — Growing Interest in 2016 Campaign — From the start, the Republican presidential field for 2016 has been much more crowded than the Democratic field. But voters in each party have similar views of the quality of their party's candidates.
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Sandra Pedicini / Orlando Sentinel:
Disney World gets stronger with selfie stick warning — People just don't seem to get it. Theme parks don't want you using selfie sticks on their rides. — So on Friday, Walt Disney World went a step further to make that point. It posted a “No Selfie Sticks” sign at the Magic Kingdom's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
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David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
Biker Shootout Won't Stop Texas Governor from Signing Open Carry Bill into Law — For gun rights advocates, shootings such as Sunday's biker melee in Waco, Texas, only seem to prove the need for fewer gun restrictions. — The day after rival gangs opened fire on one another at a Waco restaurant …
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Jill Pantozzi / The Mary Sue:
We Will No Longer Be Promoting HBO's Game of Thrones — The Mary Sue has decided we will no longer be actively promoting the HBO series Game of Thrones. Allow us to explain. — As I write this, I sit within five feet of no less than ten Game of Thrones promotional products …
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Ilan Ben-Meir / BuzzFeed:
Congressman: I Felt Safer In Israel Than I Would In “Certain Parts Of New York City Or Chicago” Or Baltimore — “The whole time we were there, of course, we had security with us, but there was no restrictions on travel, we never felt threatened one bit — unless you're threatened by the merchants …
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Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Harvard professor apologizes to Rick Santorum — Harvard professor Robert Putnam apologized Tuesday to former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum for accusing him of saying “all black men are sexual predators.” — “Last week I carelessly but seriously misquoted Senator Santorum,” Putnam tweeted.
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