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New York Times:
Sharp Changes in Altitude and Course After Jet Lost Contact — SEPANG, Malaysia — Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 experienced significant changes in altitude after it lost contact with ground control, and altered its course more than once as if still under the command of a pilot …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Radar data suggests missing Malaysia plane deliberately flown way off course - sources — (Reuters) - Military radar data suggests a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course, heightening suspicions of foul play among investigators …
CNN:
Missing Malaysian plane: Could it have landed?
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Issues Temporary Order That Tennessee Recognize Several Same-Sex Couples' Marriages — Judge issues preliminary injunction in case over state's recognition of same-sex couples' marriages performed out of state. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Tennessee Friday ordered state officials …
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Mike Spies / Vocativ:
Five Minutes With Rand Paul http://voc.tv/1cD7eTX — Five Minutes With Rand Paul http://voc.tv/1cD7eTX — Post It — “Festooned” (Reuters/Gary Cameron) — There was a consensus among young people at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference that the GOP needs to get out of social issues.
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Mitch McConnell's Modest Contract with America
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Confidante's ‘Screaming Siren’: Dems Could Face Another 2010 — Democrats face strong headwinds in the 2014 mid-term elections and could suffer a similar fate as their crushing defeat in 2010 if their voters don't turn out, according to a longtime confidant of President Barack Obama.
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:NEW!
You Don't Need a Weatherman — What the seasonal and cyclical forces in American politics suggest about the coming elections. — The political chatter these days is about the special election in Florida's 13th Congressional District, which was held to fill the vacancy left by the late GOP Rep. Bill Young.
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Sarah Palin plans ‘Rogue TV’ — Fox News contributor and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be launching her own digital video channel, tentatively called “Rogue TV,” a source familiar with the project told Capital. — The channel will be available through Tapp …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Catholic Leader: I Wasn't Saying That I ‘Literally’ Wanted Liberal Professors Shot — The leader of the Catholic organization who said earlier this week that liberal academics should be “taken out and shot” is willing to admit that he messed up. — In a statement provided to TPM …
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Peter Coy / Businessweek:
Is Russia Pulling Money Out of U.S. for Safekeeping? — There's circumstantial evidence that Russia may have yanked tens of billions of dollars in assets out of a custodial account at the U.S. Federal Reserve, possibly to keep it from being frozen by U.S. authorities in case of heightened conflict in Ukraine.
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Liberaland and The Daily Caller
Ethan Skolnick / Bleacher Report:
LeBron James to Promote Affordable Care Act at President Obama's Request — MIAMI — President Barack Obama has called upon LeBron James to come through in the clutch. — The president's signature initiative, the Affordable Care Act, is facing a critical deadline, as open enrollment …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Most see Russia as a threat to U.S. — Washington (CNN) - As the crisis in the Ukraine continues, a new national poll indicates that for the first time in more than a decade, more than half of Americans see Russia as a serious threat to the U.S. — A CNN/ORC International survey …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Most Do Not See Global Warming as Serious Threat
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Obama: ‘My jeans fit very well’ — President Barack Obama on Friday said critics of his “mom jeans” should zip it. — “I've been unfairly maligned about my jeans,” Obama told radio host Ryan Seacrest in an interview. “The truth is, generally I look very sharp in jeans.
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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
While the West Watches Crimea, Putin Cleans House in Moscow — While the world awaits Sunday's referendum in Crimea and nervously watches the Russian troops massing on Ukraine's eastern border, the world is missing that, in Moscow, Vladimir Putin is busily cleaning house.
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