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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Planned Parenthood Head Shuts Down GOP Chair Over Abortion Chart (VIDEO) — Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) stumbled near the start of a tense hearing on Tuesday when Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards told him to check his sources on a chart that he said showed a decrease in breast exams …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Chair Repeatedly Interrupts Planned Parenthood Head At Hearing (VIDEO) — Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) repeatedly interrupted Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards as she tried to answer his questions Tuesday in front of the House Oversight Committee.
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Missouri Finds Planned Parenthood Didn't Mishandle Fetal Tissue — An investigation by the attorney general's office in Missouri has found no evidence that a Planned Parenthood clinic in the state illegally handled fetal tissue. — The conclusions of the attorney general, Chris Koster …
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Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Whatever you think of Planned Parenthood, this is a terrible and dishonest chart
Whatever you think of Planned Parenthood, this is a terrible and dishonest chart
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Planned Parenthood Chief Takes On G.O.P. Critics at Congressional Hearing
Planned Parenthood Chief Takes On G.O.P. Critics at Congressional Hearing
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep On Abortion: ‘The Last Issue That Tore Us Apart Like This Was Slavery’ (VIDEO)
GOP Rep On Abortion: ‘The Last Issue That Tore Us Apart Like This Was Slavery’ (VIDEO)
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Stan Collender / Politico:
We'll Still Have a Shutdown — The speaker's resignation has merely delayed it.
We'll Still Have a Shutdown — The speaker's resignation has merely delayed it.
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TMZ.com:
Jim Carrey — Girlfriend Cathriona White Commits Suicide — GIRLFRIEND COMMITS SUICIDE — EXCLUSIVE — 9:43 AM PT — Jim Carrey released a statement — “I am shocked and deeply saddened by the passing of my sweet Cathriona. She was a truly kind and delicate Irish flower …
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Plans to Go Beyond Its 140-Character Limit — Twitter is building a new product that will allow users to share tweets that are longer than the company's 140-character limit, according to multiple people familiar with the company's plans. — It's unclear what the product will look like …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Rand Paul super PAC goes dark — One of the three super PACs supporting the Kentucky senator's presidential bid has stopped raising money. — One of the three super PACs supporting Rand Paul's presidential campaign has stopped raising money, dealing a damaging blow to an already cash-starved campaign.
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Sanders: I won't be as naïve as Obama was with Congress
Sanders: I won't be as naïve as Obama was with Congress
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Pointless Cowardice of John Boehner — The mainstream reaction to the forced resignation of John Boehner as the Speaker of the House has been a kind of weary admiration. He fought the good fight against the extremists in his Republican caucus, the narrative goes, but his solid Midwestern virtues …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz sternly rebuked by GOP
Cruz sternly rebuked by GOP
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Chaffetz: Trey Gowdy could be next majority leader
Chaffetz: Trey Gowdy could be next majority leader
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump Says He's Been ‘Childish,’ Raises Possibility of Dropping Out — With summer over, so might be the “Summer of Trump” — and now the man himself appears to be accepting it might not be a kind Fall. — “This is going to be an ebb and flow, how can I continue to lead by such wide margins? …
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Not Going Anywhere
Donald Trump Is Not Going Anywhere
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Donald Trump Will Appear on Fox Again After All
Donald Trump Will Appear on Fox Again After All
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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
You Can't Handle the Trump! — Vox's Ezra Klein wrote a good piece of analysis Monday about how unpredictable politics has become. He notes that the four surprising political developments we've seen in the last few months—Speaker of the House John Boehner resigning from Congress …
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Big Donors Seek Larger Roles in Presidential Campaigns
Big Donors Seek Larger Roles in Presidential Campaigns
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush camp moves to ease donor angst
Bush camp moves to ease donor angst
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Chris Tye / WKYC-TV:
Stepdad's Surprise: Stunning invite down wedding aisle — LaGrange, Ohio — Planning for wedding day joy often comes with pain, when you're the step-father of the bride. — “Every time we tried on tuxes — or did some planning — it crossed my mind that I'd be sitting in the crowd …
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Louise Boyle For / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: 'I's just a n****r following orders around here, master - It's 12 Years a Whoopi!' The View host Whoopi Goldberg uses slave dialect to voice her frustration during a rampage against ABC execs — Whoopi acted out after the meeting for the Hot Topics segment was moved to an earlier time - outside of her contracted hours
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The Intercept:
Edward Snowden Is On Twitter: @Snowden — Edward Snowden isn't just a hashtag anymore. The NSA whistleblower joined Twitter on Tuesday, using the @snowden Twitter handle. — Snowden, who has lived in Russia since turning over a trove of top secret documents to reporters more than two years ago …
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L. Todd Wood / Washington Times:
ISIS planning ‘nuclear tsunami’ — Nuclear annihilation across the globe. This is what a German reporter who successfully embedded with the Islamic State says the terror group is planning. Jurgen Todenhofer released his findings in a book titled “Inside IS - Ten Days in the Islamic State,” reports the UK's Daily Express.
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Daily Mail:
Is an ISIS top commander an AMERICAN jihadi? — A Yazidi slave girl has claimed the high-ranking ISIS commander who held her prisoner was a white American who directed the terror group's attacks and received personal letters from its leader. — Nada, 19, told MailOnline …
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Jane J. Lee / National Geographic:
Exclusive Video: First “Glowing” Sea Turtle Found — Scientists diving recently near the Solomon Islands made an illuminating discovery: The first biofluorescent reptile ever recorded. — Yes, this sea turtle is glowing neon green and red. No, it's not radioactive.
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Billy Hallowell / TheBlaze.com:
Texas Police Chief's Absolutely Defiant, Four-Word Insult to Atheists Who Demand That He Ban ‘In God We Trust’ Decals — A Texas police chief has officially responded to atheists' demands that he remove “In God We Trust” decals from patrol vehicles, telling critics to “go fly a kite.”
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