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Stephen Braun / Associated Press:
Bill Clinton company shows complexity of family finances — WASHINGTON (AP) — The newly released financial files on Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's growing fortune omit a company with no apparent employees or assets that the former president has legally used to provide consulting and other services …
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David Sirota / International Business Times:
Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department — Even by the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous. A consortium of American defense contractors led by Boeing would deliver $29 billion worth …
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Hot Air, Mediaite, RT, Washington Free Beacon, The Week and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
State Department proposes Hillary Clinton email releases every 2 months — The State Department is proposing to release batches of former Secretary of State and current Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's emails every 60 days beginning next month.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Agrees to Settle Meaning of ‘One Person One Vote’ — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a case that will answer a long-contested question about a bedrock principle of the American political system: the meaning of “one person one vote.”
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Major test on voter equality set for review — SCOTUS takes Evenwel v. Abbott (Art Lien) — The Constitution has been understood for the past half-century to require that no individual's vote count more at election time than anyone else's. The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday …
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Nathan Koppel / Wall Street Journal:
Appeals Court Keeps Block of Obama Immigration Plan — Decision preserves lower-court hold on White House plan to shield millions from deportation — A federal appellate court on Tuesday sided with states challenging the Obama administration's plan to defer deportations for millions of undocumented immigrants.
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Julia Preston / New York Times:
Appeals Court Denies Bid to Let Obama Immigration Plan Proceed
Appeals Court Denies Bid to Let Obama Immigration Plan Proceed
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Politico:
Ruling puts Obama's immigration legacy in jeopardy
Ruling puts Obama's immigration legacy in jeopardy
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Power Line, SCOTUSblog, Washington Post and neo-neocon
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Federal appeals court deals blow to President Obama's amnesty
Federal appeals court deals blow to President Obama's amnesty
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Mediaite, Rush Limbaugh and The Gateway Pundit
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Obama immigration overhaul, ‘Dreamers’ handed another legal setback
Obama immigration overhaul, ‘Dreamers’ handed another legal setback
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Hit & Run and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
John Harwood / CNBC:
10 questions with Bernie Sanders — Bernie Sanders questions morality of US economy — Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders talks with CNBC's John Harwood about his views on income inequality, Hillary Clinton and whether he stands a chance of winning.
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
It's not your everyday Americans at Bernie Sanders' kickoff rally
It's not your everyday Americans at Bernie Sanders' kickoff rally
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Yahoo Politics and ABC News
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Bernie Sanders is a totally legitimate presidential candidate. And it's time the press started treating him like one.
Bernie Sanders is a totally legitimate presidential candidate. And it's time the press started treating him like one.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Vox Media Adds ReCode to Its Stable of Websites — ReCode, the news website led by the veteran journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is being acquired by Vox Media, a deal that reflects the turmoil among digital organizations focused on covering the tech industry.
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Walt Mossberg / Re/code:
A Note to Our Readers — We are thrilled to announce that Re/code's parent company, Revere Digital, is being wholly acquired by the highly respected digital-native media company Vox Media. This is the next big step in our mission to bring you quality tech journalism, because our work …
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Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: IRS Says Thieves Stole Tax Info From 100,000 — Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said Tuesday. — The information included tax returns and other tax information on file with the IRS.
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irs.gov:
Get Transcript … You can get a transcript online or by mail …
Get Transcript … You can get a transcript online or by mail …
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Brendan Pierson / Reuters:
Data thieves gain access to 100,000 U.S. taxpayers' information: IRS
Data thieves gain access to 100,000 U.S. taxpayers' information: IRS
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David Brody / CBN.com:
Rubio Warns of ‘Clear, Present Danger’ to Christianity — WASHINGTON — Nearly eight years have passed since a young Democrat named Barack Obama captured the White House. Now, another up-and-coming politician has a chance to take a similar path. — This time it's a Republican and his name is Marco Rubio.
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Marco Rubio: Gay Rights ‘A Real And Present Danger’ To Freedom
Marco Rubio: Gay Rights ‘A Real And Present Danger’ To Freedom
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Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Advocate
Allie Jones / Gawker:
Duggar Dad's Political Platform: Incest Should Be Punishable by Death — Last week, 19 Kids and Counting's Josh Duggar admitted that he molested his sisters when he was a teenager. Though his parents Jim Bob and Michelle successfully helped him avoid prosecution for his crimes …
Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Scott Walker Suggests He May Sit Out Florida Primary — The not-yet-declared candidate may take a state off the map. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker hasn't even officially declared his presidential candidacy but he's already considering sitting out at least one state.
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Washington Monthly, Hot Air and The Week
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Jeb Bush Signals More Funding and Faster Drug Approval for Alzheimer's
Jeb Bush Signals More Funding and Faster Drug Approval for Alzheimer's
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Naked Politics and No More Mister Nice Blog
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Scott Walker May Let Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio Fight Over Florida
Scott Walker May Let Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio Fight Over Florida
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Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg Business and Washington Post
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Carly Fiorina: The Chinese “Can't Innovate, Not Terribly Imaginative, Not Entrepreneurial” — “I have been doing business in China for decades, and I will tell you that yeah, the Chinese can take a test, but what they can't do is innovate.” — View Video › — buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com
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Joel Gehrke / National Review:
Carly Fiorina Is a Great Communicator
Fox News:
29 shot, 9 dead in bloody Memorial Day weekend in Baltimore — The city of Baltimore saw a bloody Memorial Day weekend, with a total of 29 people being shot, including nine who died, as the city scrambles to deal with its deadliest month since 1999. — The Baltimore Sun reported …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The Law of Unintended Consequences Hits Liberals Again — We've noted here many times the economic illiteracy of the minimum wage, and even the media are picking up on the perverse effects the $15 minimum wage is having on low-margin businesses such as San Francisco comics shops …
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New York Times, Hot Air and Hit & Run
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Four Words That Imperil Health Care Law Were All a Mistake, Writers Now Say — WASHINGTON — They are only four words in a 900-page law: “established by the state.” — But it is in the ambiguity of those four words in the Affordable Care Act that opponents found a path to challenge the law, all the way to the Supreme Court.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Publisher To Correct Rand Paul's Book After He Writes That Six People Died In Benghazi — “We will correct the error in the next printing.” — Scott Olson / Getty Images — The publisher behind Rand Paul's new book will update future editions to correct a mistake …
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Talking Points Memo
Jessica Hill / Associated Press:
Ex-Santorum Campaign Worker Jumps To Death After Stabbing Former Classmate — NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A man who graduated from Yale University last week stabbed a fellow student at an off-campus apartment building Tuesday morning before jumping out of a ninth-floor window to his death, police said.
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New York Post:
Televangelist warns men who masturbate: Your hands will be pregnant in afterlife — A Muslim televangelist has advised male followers to stop masturbating — because it will leave their hands pregnant in the afterlife. — Turkish preacher Mücahid Cihad Han told viewers that masturbation was forbidden in Islam.
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