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2:40 PM ET, June 24, 2012

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Morsi Is Winner of Egyptian Presidency  —  CAIRO — Election regulators named Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood the winner of Egypt's first competitive presidential elections, handing the Islamist group a symbolic triumph and a new weapon in its struggle for power with the ruling military council.
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Washington Post:
Morsi named new Egyptian president
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Power Line
CNN:
Morsi declared Egypt's new president
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Fox News:
Muslim Brotherhood candidate Morsi wins Egyptian presidential election
Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
GOP Oversight Chair Admits There Is No Evidence Of White House Involvement In Fast And Furious  —  Last week, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) claimed that the White House decision to invoke executive privilege to prevent the release of some documents related to the “Fast and Furious” …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Issa confident House will vote to place Eric Holder in contempt  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) predicted Sunday that Republicans and Democrats would vote to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress this week.  —  “I believe they will …
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama plays 101st round as president  —  President Obama waited for the temperature to cool just a bit before heading to the golf course on Sunday.  —  Obama is golfing at the Fort Belvoir course, according to a White House pool report.  The president is golfing with White House chef Sam Kass …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Past Denials of Vulnerability Raise Health Act What-Ifs  —  WASHINGTON — With the Supreme Court set to render judgment on President Obama's health care law as early as Monday, the White House and Congress find themselves in a position that many advocates of the legislation once considered almost unimaginable.
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Campbell Brown / New York Times:
Planned Parenthood's Self-Destructive Behavior  —  PLANNED PARENTHOOD has a large target on its back.  At no time in the organization's history has it faced such a concerted Congressional challenge to its agenda.  But most worrisome is the organization's shrinking number of defenders, and Planned Parenthood has only itself to blame.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
10 Things You Would Miss About Obamacare  —  The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act this week and could potentially strike down part or the whole of ‘Obamacare.’ Below are 10 things you will miss about the law if the justices invalidate it:
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Six Of One  —  Supporters of the Affordable Care Act are having …
Fox News:
New Hampshire town asks Obama campaign to pay for costs of upcoming visit  —  DURHAM, NH - A New Hampshire town is asking the Obama campaign to foot the up to $30,000 bill for the president's upcoming campaign stop in their city.  —  MyFoxBoston reports the town of Durham is asking Obama's campaign …
New York Times:
What Sheldon Adelson Wants  —  No American is dedicating as much of his money to defeat President Obama as Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate who also happens to have made more money in the last three years than any other American.  He is the perfect illustration of the squalid state of political money …
Washington Post:
Members of Congress trade in companies while making laws that affect those same firms  —  One-hundred-thirty members of Congress or their families have traded stocks collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars in companies lobbying on bills that came before their committees …
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Romney Adviser Faults Obama For Failing To Pass DREAM Act, Which Romney Pledged To Veto  —  Throughout the GOP presidential primary, Mitt Romney has repeatedly said that he opposes the DREAM Act and has even pledged to veto the measure if it ever found its way to his desk.
Clarice Feldman / American Thinker:
Obama and the Kingdom of the Concrete Skull  —  My friend Jane Woodworth looked over her newspaper, put down her coffee mug, and said , “ Imagine being so down and out that you have to deter people from talking about the economy with the news that you are an accessory to murder.”
 
 
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Mark Ames / THE EXILED:
The Left's Big Sellout: How The ACLU & Human Rights Groups Quietly Exterminated Labor Rights
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Poll: 1-in-4 uncommitted now in White House race
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Reason's Nick Gillespie Schools Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher on Fast and Furious
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Jonathan Martinand Alexander Burns / Politico:
Mitt's no policy problem
Jacqueline Stevens / New York Times:
Political Scientists Are Lousy Forecasters
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G/O Media sells The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, a new Chicago firm owned by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson; former NBC News senior reporter Ben Collins is CEO

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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