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Alejandro Burzaco / U.S. Department of Justice:
Nine FIFA Officials and Five Corporate Executives Indicted for Racketeering Conspiracy and Corruption — The Defendants Include Two Current FIFA Vice Presidents and the Current and Former Presidents of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) …
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New York Times:
FIFA Inquiry Yields Indictments; U.S. Officials Vow to Pursue More — United States law enforcement officials declared in forceful terms on Wednesday that their broad investigation of FIFA had only begun and pledged to rid the international soccer organization of systemic corruption.
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Jackie Kucinich / The Daily Beast:
Corrupt FIFA Has Clinton Foundation Ties; World Cup Host Qatar Gave Millions — Both Bill Clinton and his family's charity have been tied to soccer's governing body, as well as Qatar's disastrous World Cup bid. — And just like that, another Clinton Foundation donor is in the news.
New York Times:
FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Blatter Isn't Among Them
FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Blatter Isn't Among Them
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The Nation, Daily Mail, Mashable, CNN, The Week, Moon of Alabama, Washington Times and Business Insider
Jeffrey Webb / New York Times:
Here Are the FIFA Officials Indicted on Corruption Charges
Here Are the FIFA Officials Indicted on Corruption Charges
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, BarbWire.com and The Huffington Post
Chris Sanders / Transparency International:
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL: BLATTER MUST STAND DOWN AND ELECTIONS SUSPENDED
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL: BLATTER MUST STAND DOWN AND ELECTIONS SUSPENDED
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Guardian
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The decline of Rand Paul — Rand Paul took a left turn on his journey to the Republican nomination, and now his hopes seem to be headed south. — The libertarian Kentucky senator's new book, “Taking a Stand,” came out Tuesday, and it is chock-full of lines that would position Paul well …
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Gov. Jindal: Senator Paul Unsuited to Be Commander-in-Chief
Gov. Jindal: Senator Paul Unsuited to Be Commander-in-Chief
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Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Bloomberg Business, The American Conservative and Roger Ailes
Nick Gass / Politico:
Chris Christie attacks Rand Paul for ‘siding with’ Edward Snowden
Chris Christie attacks Rand Paul for ‘siding with’ Edward Snowden
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Bloomberg Business and Hit & Run
Nick Gass / Politico:
Rand Paul blames ‘hawks in our party’ for Islamic State's rise
Rand Paul blames ‘hawks in our party’ for Islamic State's rise
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The Week
Peter Wehner / New York Times:
Have Democrats Pulled Too Far Left? — AMONG liberals, it's almost universally assumed that of the two major parties, it's the Republicans who have become more extreme over the years. That's a self-flattering but false narrative. — This is not to say the Republican Party hasn't become a more conservative party.
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Washington Monthly, FOX News Radio, Betsy's Page, No More Mister Nice Blog and Hullabaloo
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
A tiny string of text can disable iPhone Messages — Apple device owners have discovered a string of text characters that, when received on an iPhone in Messages, can lock people out of the app and — reportedly in some cases — crash the phone. Users who receive the string with Messages open …
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
iOS bug causes Messages to crash, iPhone to reboot when a certain text is received
iOS bug causes Messages to crash, iPhone to reboot when a certain text is received
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Mashable and Daily Mail
Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court redistricting case could reduce Latinos' political clout — For 50 years the “one person, one vote” principle has been used to divvy up political power by counting all people in states and putting them into electoral districts of roughly equal size.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama suffers another defeat on immigration in federal court
Obama suffers another defeat on immigration in federal court
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and neo-neocon
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Supreme Court to hear Texas redistricting case
Supreme Court to hear Texas redistricting case
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USA Today, susiemadrak.com and New York Times
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
President Obama's legacy is increasingly in legal jeopardy
President Obama's legacy is increasingly in legal jeopardy
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The PJ Tatler
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Rick Santorum Announcing Run for President … Rick Santorum, the former Republican senator from Pennsylvania, will announce today that he will seek the GOP nomination for president in 2016, ABC News has learned. ABC News' Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos will sit down for an exclusive interview with Santorum this afternoon.
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Rick Santorum Launching Second White House Run
Rick Santorum Launching Second White House Run
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Yahoo Politics and ABC News
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Give the ‘bigot’ bomb a break — Reducing human beings to their worst idea or comment diminishes us all. — A lesbian couple purchased engagement rings from a Christian jeweler.They were so pleased with the service, they referred a friend to the shop to purchase a ring for his girlfriend.
Alana Massey / The New Republic:
The White Protestant Roots of American Racism — he Apotheosis of Washington," painted in 1865 by Constantino Brumidi, is a fresco of the first president of the United States ascending to the heavens. The goddesses of Victory and Liberty, along with 13 maidens who represent America's original colonies …
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Horizons and Progress Pond
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
President Obama asserts power over small waterways — The Obama administration on Wednesday asserted its authority over the nation's streams, wetlands and other smaller waterways, moving forward with one of the most controversial environmental regulations in recent years.
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epa.gov and susiemadrak.com
WUSA9:
Police officer charged in Waldorf McDonald's homicide ID'd — A Prince George's County police officer is charged in a murder at the Waldorf McDonald's and detective say his service weapon may have been used by his mother in the crime WUSA — WALDORF, Md. (WUSA9) — A Prince George's County police officer …
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The Daily Caller
National Review:
Elizabeth Warren Bought Foreclosed Homes to Make a Quick Profit — Before the crash that she blamed on speculators, Senator Elizabeth Warren made a bundle by flipping houses. — Nearly two years after Veo Vessels died, her daughter, 70-year-old Mary Frances Hickman, decided to sell the home her mother had left to her.
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Hot Air
Carol Rosenberg / miamiherald:
Military bans Big Macs, other treats at Guantánamo legal meetings — In this image reviewed by the U.S. military, Guantánamo detainees look out from fenced-in areas as a guard closes a door in Camp Echo detention facility on the U.S. Navy Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008.
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BarbWire.com and The Week
Los Angeles Times:
L.A. labor leaders seek minimum wage exemption for firms with union workers — Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide minimum wage increase approved last week by the Los Angeles City Council, are advocating last-minute changes to the law that could create …
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Hit & Run and The Daily Caller
Emily Brewster / Merriam-Webster Unabridged Blog:
A Growth Spurt — It's happened again: this dictionary has gotten bigger. — As of last week, it's grown by more than 1,700 entries, and existing entries have expanded by more than 700 new senses. We've added 3,200 examples that provide contextual information, and another 200 entries …
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg Business:
Immigration Activists Vow Voter Repercussions Over Ruling — Immigration activists vowed Republicans will pay a political price after a federal appeals court kept President Barack Obama's action to defer deportation on hold. — The 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court …
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Daily Kos
Chicago:
CPD cops posed for photo standing over black man dressed in antlers — It's a racially charged photo the Chicago Police Department didn't want the public to see: two white cops posing with rifles as they stand over a black man lying on his belly with deer antlers on his head.
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Liberaland, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Raw Story and The Intercept
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans Continue to Shift Left on Key Moral Issues — Story Highlights — PRINCETON, N.J. — Americans are more likely now than in the early 2000s to find a variety of behaviors morally acceptable, including gay and lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage and sex between an unmarried man and woman.
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NOLA River, Washington Post and Salon
Caroline Howard / Forbes:
The World's Most Powerful Women 2015 — The world's most powerful woman, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has a lot on her mind these days: Mediterranean migrants, Russian sanctions, homegrown spying scandals, Eurozone stability and the Germanwings crash, to name a few pressing issues.
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Scott Walker: Mandatory Ultrasounds Are ‘Just A Cool Thing’ For Women — Potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said in an interview on Friday that mandatory ultrasounds for women hoping to get an abortion was “just a cool thing.”
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The Week