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By David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
The inside story of how the Clintons built a $2 billion global empire — Chevy Chase was on the plane with Bill Clinton. So was a former president of Brazil. The founders of Google. A former president of Mexico. And John Cusack. — They were all going to Davos …
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Bill Clinton's foundation cashed in as Sweden lobbied Hillary on sanctions … Bill Clinton's foundation set up a fundraising arm in Sweden that collected $26 million in donations at the same time that country was lobbying Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department to forgo sanctions that threatened …
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RedState and Weasel Zippers
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Congress turns away from post-9/11 law, retooling U.S. surveillance powers — Congress on Tuesday rejected some of the sweeping intelligence-gathering powers it granted national security officials after the 9/11 terror attacks, with the Senate voting to end the government's bulk collection …
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ThinkProgress, The Week and National Journal
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New York Times:
U.S. Surveillance in Place Since 9/11 Is Sharply Limited
U.S. Surveillance in Place Since 9/11 Is Sharply Limited
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Associated Press, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Guardian, Philly.com, The Week, CANNONFIRE and Washington Post
CNN:
Senate passes NSA reform measure
Senate passes NSA reform measure
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Real Clear Politics, Little Green Footballs and The Week
David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Rand Paul, Ron Wyden Release Nine Amendments to USA Freedom Act
Rand Paul, Ron Wyden Release Nine Amendments to USA Freedom Act
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ABC News, Bloomberg View, Hit & Run, Raw Story, The Hill, Hot Air, ThinkProgress and Townhall.com
Hmsadusky / CBS Denver:
Kitchen Manager Fired For Giving Lunch To Students Without Money — AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) - Della Curry is out of work, and unashamed, after being fired by the Cherry Creek School District. — A married mother of two, Curry is the former kitchen manager at Dakota Valley Elementary School in Aurora.
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Daily Mail and WQAD-TV
Eliyahu Berkowitz / JP Updates:
Obama's Close Advisers Open Up About Strained Obama-Netanayhu Relationship — In advance of an exclusive interview with President Barack Obama, Channel 2's Ilana Dayan interviewed the people who were most close to the president in the past years, finding out what happened to the US-Israel relationship …
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Daily Mail, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, Israel Matzav and American Spectator
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Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Obama: ‘I Am The Closest Thing To A Jew That Has Ever Sat In This Office’ — President Barack Obama apparently thinks he's the closest thing to a Jewish president America has ever had. — Speaking to JPUpdates.com, top Obama confidant David Axelrod described a moment where the president …
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NewsMax.com and The Gateway Pundit
Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
The Democratic Party's Growing Radicalism — For those Democrats who insist their party is utterly mainstream, pragmatic rather than ideological, and right in the center of American politics, I have some news for you: You're not. — The New York Times published a story reporting that Bernie Sanders …
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Washington Post, Common Dreams and Washington Monthly
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
This astonishing chart shows how moderate Republicans are an endangered species
This astonishing chart shows how moderate Republicans are an endangered species
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Daily Kos and The Moderate Voice
Sarah Boesveld / National Post:
Becoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies — Oh, The Humanities: Part of a series showcasing research at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences this week. — OTTAWA — When he cut off his right arm with a …
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Rush Limbaugh, The Federalist, protein wisdom, The PJ Tatler, RedState and The Daily Caller
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
The next wave of “body diversity”: Disabled by choice
The next wave of “body diversity”: Disabled by choice
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Rush Limbaugh and ESPN
Nicole Norfleet / Star Tribune:
Mpls. private school takes students to adult novelty store for sex ed lesson — The field trip upset some parents at Gaia School. “It's just a major breach of trust,” said one parent. — Smitten Kitten owner Jennifer Pritchett. — TEXT SIZE — Some parents are outraged after the leader …
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Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Surveillance planes spotted in the sky for days after West Baltimore rioting — Flight records maintained by the Web site Flightradar24 shows a small Cessna jet flying a precise formation over Baltimore late Saturday night, May 2. Note: This video does not contain audio. (Flightradar24)
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Associated Press, Fusion, The Daily Caller and The Hill
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David Kumbroch / WHNT-TV:
Bill scrapping marriage licenses hits Alabama House after passing Senate — HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) - This month, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on the issue of same-sex marriage. It should settle a lot of questions once and for all. At least, that's the idea.
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Advocate, Instapundit and Althouse
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Fellow Congressman Was Told About Dennis Hastert Abuses, Source Says — WASHINGTON — At least one member of Congress was likely aware that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) allegedly sexually molested a former male student prior to his time in Congress.
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Mail and Mediaite
Evan Allen / BostonGlobe.com:
Man armed with ‘military-style’ knife shot, killed in Roslindale — A man being followed by the Joint Terrorism Task Force was shot and fatally wounded by a Boston police officer and an FBI agent Tuesday when he approached them with a “military-style” knife and refused to back down, officials said.
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CBS Boston, Daily Mail, NBC News, American Spectator and The Jawa Report
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Mark Garfinkel / Boston Herald:
Boston police: Man killed by FBI agent, cop during active terror probe
Boston police: Man killed by FBI agent, cop during active terror probe
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Megan Apper / BuzzFeed:
Huckabee On Transgender People: I Wish I Could've Said I Was Transgender In HS To Shower With The Girls — “There is something inherently wrong about forcing little children to be a part of this social experiment.” — View Video › — buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com
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CNN, Raw Story, Advocate, Mashable, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Daily Kos, PoliticusUSA, Hit & Run, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, CBS DC, Friendly Atheist, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Texas Lawmakers Pass a Bill Allowing Guns at Colleges — HOUSTON — Students and faculty members at public and private universities in Texas could be allowed to carry concealed handguns into classrooms, dormitories and other buildings under a bill passed over the weekend by the Republican-dominated Legislature.
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The Week and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Joel Snape / Telegraph:
Manspreading arrests: the long arm of the law just invaded our personal space — As two men are arrested for ‘manspreading’ on the New York metro, Joel Snape argues that we should all take a bit of responsibility rather than making anti-social behaviour illegal
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New York Times:
Sepp Blatter, Under Investigation, to Resign as FIFA President — Sepp Blatter, who was re-elected last week for a fifth term as president of world soccer's governing body, said Tuesday that he would resign his position as law enforcement officials confirmed that he was a focus of a federal corruption investigation.
Wall Street Journal:
State Officials Had Secret Huddle on Health-Law Subsidies — Few contingencies were found if the Supreme Court rules some Affordable Care Act credits should be voided — Officials from states across the nation flew to Chicago in early May for a secret 24-hour meeting to discuss their options …
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Daily Kos and Morning Consult
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business:
Amazon Debuts Free Shipping on Small Goods, No Minimum Order — Not just for Prime members — Amazon.com Inc. is introducing free shipping on thousands of popular, smaller items — makeup, mobile phone accessories, earplugs — in its Web store, without requiring a minimum order.
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The Verge, Consumerist and Mashable
Charlie Spiering / BREITBART.COM:
Obama: I Don't Believe In Divisive Racial Politics — President Obama explained to a group of young Asian leaders today that it was important not to betray one's principles while being a leader. — He pointed out that one of his core principles is to “treat everyone fairly” regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or religion.
Boyd Huppert / KARE-TV:
5th grade boys spot a bully and take action — 5th grade boys spot a bully and take action Jonathan Malat, KARE — MANKATO, Minn. - All the students at Franklin Elementary start every day with the Pledge of Allegiance. — But the “justice for all” part belongs to five fifth grade boys.
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Mashable and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
James Rosen / Fox News:
HRC EMAILS: Federal officials voiced growing alarm over Clinton's compliance with records laws, documents show — Over a five-year span, senior officials at the National Archives and Records Administrations (NARA) voiced growing alarm about Hillary Clinton's record-keeping practices as secretary of state …
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Weasel Zippers
OHCHR:
UN experts voice concern over adverse impact of free trade and investment agreements on human rights — A number of free trade and investment agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), are currently being negotiated.
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Common Dreams and Daily Kos
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The TSA Doesn't Work—and Never Has — It's customary among critics to deride the Transportation Security Administration as “security theater.” One has to wonder what kind of theater this is, though. A period drama, satirizing the 2000s? Vaudeville farce?
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NBC News, Department of Homeland … and Washington Post