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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
State Department proposes Hillary Clinton email releases every 2 months
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The Week
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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John Harwood / CNBC:
Bernie Sanders questions morality of US economy
Bernie Sanders questions morality of US economy
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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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The Week
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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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
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.
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
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
Donna St. George / Washington Post:
Maryland's ‘free range’ parents cleared of neglect in one case — A Maryland couple investigated for neglect after they let their two young children walk home alone from local parks have been cleared in one of two such cases, according to the family's attorneys and documents.
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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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