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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Chinese breach data of 4 million federal workers — Hackers working for the Chinese state breached the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management in December, U.S. officials said Thursday, and the agency will notify about 4 million current and former federal employees …
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New York Times:
Data Breach Linked to China Exposes Millions of U.S. Workers — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday announced what appeared to be one of the largest breaches of federal employees' data, involving at least four million current and former government workers in an intrusion …
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Power Line, Associated Press, The Week and The Atlantic
Sam Schumach / U.S. Office of Personnel Management:
OPM to Notify Employees of Cybersecurity Incident — WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has identified a cybersecurity incident potentially affecting personnel data for current and former federal employees, including personally identifiable information (PII).
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Wall Street Journal, Politico, Weasel Zippers, CBS DC, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Hit & Run
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Marco Rubio's moment — Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) is the most interesting GOP presidential candidate in the 2016 field, a field that is becoming a party embarrassment and will soon have more candidates than FIFA has indicted officials. — It includes candidates who are egotistical vanity players …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hillary leans hard into the battle over voting — As you may have heard, Hillary Clinton is already leaning into the ever-simmering battle over voting. Her Democratic allies are preparing to wage a national legal battle against GOP state-level voting restrictions, and she is calling for a national 20-day early voting period.
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msnbc.com, US News, Washington Monthly, Hot Air, The Week and Talking Points Memo
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Says G.O.P. Rivals Try to Stop Young and Minority Voters
Hillary Clinton Says G.O.P. Rivals Try to Stop Young and Minority Voters
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Outside the Beltway and Advocate
Hunter Walker / Business Insider:
Marco Rubio just made another confusing comment about his Middle East policy
Marco Rubio just made another confusing comment about his Middle East policy
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Calls For Universal, Automatic Voter Registration When Americans Turn 18
Hillary Clinton Calls For Universal, Automatic Voter Registration When Americans Turn 18
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ABC News, Bloomberg Business, Balloon Juice and New York Times
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Michelle Duggar Defends Smearing Transgender People As Pedophiles: It's ‘Just Common Sense’ — During Wednesday night's interview with Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar about their son Josh's history of molesting his younger sisters, Fox News' Megyn Kelley pressed the conservative couple to justify their advocacy against LGBT equality.
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Gawker, KTLA, Advocate, Los Angeles Times and The Bob and Chez Show
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Fox News:
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar: Sisters 'weren't even aware' of Josh's ‘wrongdoing’ — Michelle Duggar told Megyn Kelly Wednesday that she and her husband were “devastated” when they learned their then-teenage son Josh had molested several of his sisters. — During an hour-long exclusive interview on …
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Hot Air, Daily Mail, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Salon and FOX News Radio
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Duggar Endorsements Disappear From Huckabee's Campaign Site
Duggar Endorsements Disappear From Huckabee's Campaign Site
In Touch Weekly:
Duggar Interview: 7 Crucial Facts They Didn't Tell You — The Cover-Up Continues
Duggar Interview: 7 Crucial Facts They Didn't Tell You — The Cover-Up Continues
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NBC News, Mediaite, Raw Story, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, The Huffington Post and Slantpoint
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Josh Duggar Molested Four of His Sisters, His Parents Tell Fox News
Josh Duggar Molested Four of His Sisters, His Parents Tell Fox News
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Salon, Bloomberg View, RH Reality Check, Daily Kos, Shakesville, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Raw Story and NBC News
Bristol Palin:
Let's Get This Straight, Liberals - What Kinds of Molestation are Acceptable? — I can't believe how crazy the media is going over the Duggar family compared to the big fat yawn they gave Lena Dunham when she wrote in her book that she sexually experimented with her sister.
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Mediaite, Washington Post, Daily Mail, OnPolitics and Raw Story
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
HEY LENA, WHY NOT LAUGH OFF EVERYONE'S SEXUAL “EXPERIMENTS” AS YOU HAUGHTILY ENJOY REWARDS FOR YOUR OWN PERVERSION? YOU PEDOPHILE, YOU — Radical liberals in media who have total control over public narratives are disgusting hypocrites, so says my daughter. Go get 'em, Bristol! Read her post!
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Little Green Footballs, Bristol Palin and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Media Matters Exec, Editor For ‘The Nation’ Have No Clue Who Marcus Luttrell Is — Former Texas Governor Rick Perry announced the launch of his 2016 presidential campaign today, complete with a freshly painted C-130 behind him and Navy SEALs to his left and right.
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Rick Perry Has A Rap/Country Song About Rick Perry
Rick Perry Has A Rap/Country Song About Rick Perry
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ABC News, Bloomberg Business, Bloomberg View, No More Mister Nice Blog and Yahoo Politics
Science:
Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus — 1National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Asheville, NC 28801, USA. — 2LMI, McLean, VA, USA. — Much study has been devoted …
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The Carbon Brief, The Verge, New York Times, Vocativ, Greg Laden's Blog, The Daily Caller and Viking Pundit
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Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:
NOAA Fiddles With Climate Data To Erase The 15-Year Global Warming ‘Hiatus’
NOAA Fiddles With Climate Data To Erase The 15-Year Global Warming ‘Hiatus’
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Mashable, Weasel Zippers and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Therese Apel / The Clarion Ledger:
Family members charged for cheering at graduation — Foster: “We just asked them to wait until the end so everyone has an opportunity to hear their graduate's name.” — CONNECT — Senatobia School District's superintendent said he pressed charges on people who cheered out of turn …
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RH Reality Check, Patterico's Pontifications and Slantpoint
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Stephanie Gallman / CNN:
Audience served arrest warrants for graduation cheering - CNN.com
Audience served arrest warrants for graduation cheering - CNN.com
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Outside the Beltway, BarbWire.com and Talking Points Memo
Bfearnowcbs / CBS Houston:
Arrest Warrants Issued To People Who Cheered At High School Graduation
Arrest Warrants Issued To People Who Cheered At High School Graduation
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Common Dreams, Balloon Juice, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, The Intercept, The Week and Joanne Jacobs
Edward J. Snowden / New York Times:
Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance — MOSCOW — TWO years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States.
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Josh Rottenberg / Los Angeles Times:
Josh Trank sets the story straight on why he left ‘Star Wars’ — When Josh Trank announced May 1 that he was dropping out of a planned “Star Wars” spinoff film less than a year after being brought on to direct, it didn't take a Jedi master to intuit that the news would cause a major disturbance in the Force.
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Comicbook.com, /Film and Spinoff Online
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Democrats, Don't Freak Out! — Hillary Clinton's poll numbers were always going to fall a little. That doesn't change anything. — George W. Bush is popular again. — According to a new poll from CNN, the majority of Americans—52 percent—have a “favorable” view of Bush …
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Rush Limbaugh
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Lindsey Graham Compares Hillary Clinton To North Korea's Kim Jong Un
Lindsey Graham Compares Hillary Clinton To North Korea's Kim Jong Un
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The Bob and Chez Show
Elana Schor / Politico:
EPA: Fracking's no big threat to water — For both anti-fracking groups and the industry, it's another example of Obama's mixed messages on fossil fuels. — The Environmental Protection Agency's long-awaited report on fracking dismayed liberal green groups Thursday while pleasing the oil …
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Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, The BRAD BLOG, The PJ Tatler, BarbWire.com, cfpub.epa.gov and Power Line
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Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Black Chicago Pastor: Dems ‘Failing’ Us — A pastor on the South Side is asking Republicans to talk to his flock after what he says are 50 years of disappointment from the other party. — CHICAGO — It is difficult to imagine a less likely GOP presidential campaign stop than O Block.
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Instapundit
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Mike Huckabee's Son Posted YouTube Video Of His Acting In Raunchy Film — John Mark Huckabee — son of presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — posted, then removed, a clip on his YouTube page of his acting in a raunchy, never-released, low-budget film.
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Raw Story, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Mediaite
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
John Cusack Talks ‘Love & Mercy,’ Drug Trips, and How Obama Is ‘Worse Than Bush’ — In a wide-ranging chat, the celebrated film star discusses his excellent biopic on Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson, psychedelics, and why President Obama has let him down. — “I just say what I think, and if people don't like it, that's OK.”
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Mediaite
Gdrosenblum / CBS San Francisco:
Selfie With Parents' Sex Toys? Alameda Teacher Accused Of Assigning Bizarre Extra Credit For Sophomores — ALAMEDA (CBS SF) — Parents of students at Encinal High School in Alameda want a teacher fired after they say he sent them home with an extra credit assignment of finding sex toys …
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Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail and Mashable