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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton, Voting Rights and the 2016 Election — A basic fact often gets lost in the propaganda that swirls around voting laws in this country: between one-quarter and one-third of all eligible voters — more than 50 million Americans — are not registered.
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The Week, The Nation and ThinkProgress
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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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The Moderate Voice and Betsy's Page
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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Shakesville
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hillary leans hard into the battle over voting
Hillary leans hard into the battle over voting
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msnbc.com, Hot Air, Off the Kuff, US News, Washington Monthly, The Week and Talking Points Memo
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 and Balloon Juice
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Democrats, Don't Freak Out! — Hillary Clinton's poll numbers …
Democrats, Don't Freak Out! — Hillary Clinton's poll numbers …
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Commentary Magazine and Rush Limbaugh
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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Associated Press, Reuters, The Week, Power Line, The Atlantic and NPR
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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).
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Suspects Hackers in China Breached About 4 Million People's Records, Officials Say — Described as one of the largest thefts of government data ever seen — U.S. officials suspect that hackers in China stole the personal records of as many as four million people in one of the most far-reaching breaches of government computers.
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Weasel Zippers and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Suspects Hackers in China Breached About 4 Million People's Records, Officials Say
U.S. Suspects Hackers in China Breached About 4 Million People's Records, Officials Say
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Fox News Insider
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, Raw Story and OnPolitics
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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!
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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Advocate, Los Angeles Times, The Bob and Chez Show and KTLA
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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, Salon, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Slantpoint and Talking Points Memo
Fox News:
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar: Sisters 'weren't even aware' of Josh's ‘wrongdoing’
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar: Sisters 'weren't even aware' of Josh's ‘wrongdoing’
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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
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Salon, Towleroad News #gay, Little Green Footballs, Mediaite, Raw Story, BuzzFeed and Reuters
ABC News:
Exclusive: Alleged Dennis Hastert Sex Abuse Victim Is Named By Family … In Steve Reinboldt's 1970 high school yearbook, wrestling coach Dennis Hastert wrote that Steve was his “great, right hand man” as the student equipment manager of the Yorkville, Illinois wrestling team.
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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USA Today, TheBlaze.com, Power Line, Bloomberg Business, Hot Air, Washington Post and RedState
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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, Yahoo Politics, Bloomberg View, No More Mister Nice Blog and Bloomberg Business
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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Informed Comment, The Daily Caller, Vocativ, New York Times, The Verge 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
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.
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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Lanny Davis / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton and the frenzy of the media — “Mobs of reporters and cameramen and other Big Timers were out there wearing bush jackets with leather straps running this way and that and knocking back their Pepsi-Colas and Nehis and yelling to each other and mainly just milling about …
KGW-TV:
Fake orca mission called off for day after engine trouble, capsize — Fake Orca in the water after engine trouble — ASTORIA, Ore. — After a rough start, a fake killer whale finally took to the water off Astoria, in an effort to scare off sea lions. The mission was called off late Thursday …
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Associated Press and NBC News
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The GOP's shifting goal posts — It's said that if you're not liberal when you're young, you have no heart, and if you're not conservative by middle age, you have no brain. — By this standard, our Democratic presidential candidates have lost their minds.
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Democratic Strategist and Guardian
epa.gov:
Hydraulic Fracturing Study - Draft Assessment 2015 — The U.S. Congress urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the relationship between hydraulic fracturing and drinking water. This report synthesizes available scientific literature and data to assess the potential …
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New York Times, The Week, National Journal, US News, ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
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Elana Schor / Politico:
EPA: Fracking's no big threat to water
EPA: Fracking's no big threat to water
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, NPR, The BRAD BLOG, BarbWire.com, Power Line, NY State of Politics and cfpub.epa.gov