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10:55 AM ET, June 20, 2013

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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Breakthrough in Senate immigration talks; announcement set for Thursday  —  Senators seeking a solution to a deadlock over border security have reached a tentative agreement they believe could win the votes of a significant number of Republican lawmakers for the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill.
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Kasie Hunt / First Read:
Senators reach border deal, smoothing path to immigration overhaul  —  A U.S. Border Patrol agent monitors the border structures separating Tijuana, Mexico, from San Diego.  Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Right rips Rubio as Republican immigration votes slip away  —  Republican colleagues who were previously viewed as possible “yes” votes are keeping their distance from the 1,075-page measure.  —  On Wednesday, conservative activists ripped Rubio and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) …
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Two G.O.P. Senators Are Close to a Deal on Border Security
Jim Avila / ABCNEWS:
Senate Agreement to Bolster Border Security
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Exodus International:
Exodus International to Shut Down  —  Thirty-seven-year-old ministry for those with same-sex attraction marks its last national conference  —  Irvine, Calif. (June 19, 2013) — Exodus International, the oldest and largest Christian ministry dealing with faith and homosexuality announced tonight …
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Alan Chambers / Exodus International:
I Am Sorry  —  Three years ago, Leslie and I began a very public conversation with Our America's Lisa Ling, from the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) regarding some of our deeply held beliefs about Christianity and the LGBT community.  Today, we have decided to carry this public conversation even further.
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Group That Had Aimed To “Change” Gays To Shut Down, Leader Also Offered Apology
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
Power  —  You should decide now what kind of Supreme Court you want.  Don't wait until after the Justices hand down the Term's major decisions.  That will be too late.  Make a real choice now about how much power you think the Court should have - before your judgment is skewed by either elation or outrage at the results.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: Judging the Supreme Court
Discussion: Washington Wire
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Strategist Out of Closet and Into Fray, This Time for Gay Marriage
Discussion: Politico
Matthew Cooper / NationalJournal.com:
The GOP Dilemma Over the Voting Rights Act
Telegraph:
Barack Obama bombs in Berlin: a weak, underwhelming address from a floundering president  —  When John F. Kennedy delivered his “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate on June 26, 1963, 450,000 people flocked to hear him.  Fifty years later a far more subdued invitation …
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Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
Barack Obama keeps calling Chancellor George Osborne ‘Jeffrey’ at G8 summit …
Discussion: BBC, National Review and Guardian
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
James Gandolfini Is Dead at 51; a Complex Mob Boss in ‘Sopranos’  —  James Gandolfini, the Emmy Award-winning actor who shot to fame on the HBO drama “The Sopranos” as Tony Soprano, a tough-talking, hard-living crime boss with a stolid exterior but a rich interior life, died on Wednesday.  He was 51.
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate Says Social Programs Hurt ‘Black Family’ More Than Slavery (Video)  —  The Virginia GOP's nominee for lieutenant governor, E.W. Jackson, gave a speech Wednesday in which he claimed government social programs have done more harm to the “black family” than slavery.
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Illinois GOP official pens allegedly racist attack on black GOP candidate
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
The Do-Nothing Congress Has Done a Lot  —  Perhaps, like approximately 80 percent of Americans, you disapprove of Congress.  Beholding the nation's capital, you are apt to see a sleazy, gridlocked mess, a Boschian hellscape of partisan acrimony and special-interest greed.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Democrats start transition from President Obama to Hillary Clinton  —  Democrats in Washington are starting to shift from the Obamas to the Clintons.  —  Hillary Clinton has already racked up a couple of endorsements for the 2016 presidential race — and she hasn't even announced she's running yet.
Discussion: Politico
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Manchin hits back at NRA in new TV ad  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Thursday hit back at the National Rifle Association, accusing its leaders of shifting their stance on background checks for political gain, and unveiling a new television ad defending his bipartisan gun-control measure.
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:
Do Unpaid Internships Lead to Jobs?  Not for College Students  —  Unpaid interns of the world!  Get up and leave the office.  You have nothing to lose.  Literally.  Nothing.  —  The common defense of the unpaid internship is that, even if the role doesn't exactly pay, it will pay off eventually in the form of a job.
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House votes to let states run drug tests on food stamp applicants  —  The House late Wednesday voted to give states the authority to conduct drug testing on people applying for food stamps under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).  —  By voice vote, members approved the idea …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and AL.com
Betsy McCaughey / Investor's Business Daily:
Using ObamaCare To Create A Permanent Democratic Majority  —  If you have to keep it a secret, you probably shouldn't be doing it.  —  But the California legislature and the new Covered California health insurance exchange are conspiring to keep secret how they will dole out more than half …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Paranoia Strikes Deep: The Press and Rand Paul  —  The absurd lengths journalists have gone to portray the Kentucky senator as if he's hiding something dangerous  —  Critiques of democracy are as old as the excesses of the Athenian variety.  Here's a classic: The unmediated masses …
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Hit & Run and The Week
Caroline Baum / Bloomberg:
Why Government Spending Does Nothing for Jobs  —  While most economists and policy makers are focusing on the International Monetary Fund's epiphany on the perils of austerity, some researchers at the IMF have offered another take on the fiscal-policy debate.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Sex, Lies and the War on Men  —  The rights of the accused are under vicious attack.  —  A massive twit-storm washed over your humble columnist yesterday, set off by our Wall Street Journal op-ed defending an Obama nominee and the rights of criminal defendants.
Discussion: alicublog and The Huffington Post
Jeffrey Lord / American Spectator:
Heritage, Levin Call for Immigration Debate  —  Paul Ryan issued a challenge.  —  The Heritage Foundation picked up the challenge.  —  Mark Levin wants to see this debate as well.  —  It's time — past time — for a full and open discussion in the conservative family about immigration.
 
 
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Dylan Matthews / Wonkblog:
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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
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