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8:20 PM ET, July 3, 2013

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John Gregory / KABC-TV:
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi under house arrest - Al Hayat TV  —  CAIRO (KABC) — Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is reportedly under house arrest after the military ultimatum expired Wednesday, reports Al Hayat TV.  —  Morsi's spokesman denied the report, according to ABC News …
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New York Times:
Morsi and Egyptian Generals Edge Closer to Conflict  —  By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, BEN HUBBARD and ALAN COWELL  —  CAIRO — Egypt's top generals summoned civilian political leaders to an emergency meeting Wednesday just hours before the deadline they have set for President Mohamed Morsi to leave power.
Ben Wedeman / CNN:
Egyptian military ousts Morsy  —  Photos: Protests in Egypt … Cairo (CNN) — Egypt's military deposed the country's first democratically elected president Wednesday night, installing the head of the country's highest court as an interim leader, the country's top general announced.
The Daily Beast:
Obama Offers a Revisionist History of His Administration's Approach To Egypt  —  Despite its claims now, the Obama administration has done little to press Morsi's administration to support human rights.  Josh Rogin and Eli Lake report.  —  President Obama said Monday his government makes decisions …
Washington Wire:
Obama's Statement on Egypt  —  President Barack Obama's statement on Wednesday's events in Egypt:  —  As I have said since the Egyptian Revolution, the United States supports a set of core principles, including opposition to violence, protection of universal human rights, and reform that meets the legitimate aspirations of the people.
Discussion: Hot Air
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Military ousts Morsi in Egypt
Discussion: Reuters and Hullabaloo
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:   Egyptian army deposes Morsi
Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:   Egypt's political turmoil puts Obama administration in precarious position
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Political Turmoil in Egypt Is Replay for White House
Discussion: Power Line
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement  —  WASHINGTON — Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: A handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home.
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Obama Lets Loose on Evo Morales  —  I'm late to this and I don't really have anything substantive to add, but just for the record:  —  Did we really, seriously, strong-arm the governments of France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy to deny the president of Bolivia permission to fly over their airspace?
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Jonathan Watts / Guardian:
Bolivian president's treatment stirs up fury in Latin America  —  Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay join in condemnation as Bolivia denounces ‘kidnap’ of Evo Morales  —  Forced to land in Vienna, left waiting for 13 hours and only allowed to leave after agreeing to a search …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Dan Roberts / Guardian:
Bolivian president's jet rerouted amid suspicions Edward Snowden on board
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
White House Memo Shows Obama Administration's Painful Efforts To Defend Valerie Jarrett  —  “Valerie is someone here who other people inside the building know they can trust.  (need examples.)”  As reported in the forthcoming book This Town .  —  Via: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP / Getty Images
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Rubio to Introduce Senate Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks  —  Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today agreed to be the lead sponsor of a Senate bill to ban abortion after an unborn child is 20 weeks old.  A similar measure passed the House last month and a state version is now being debated …
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CBS News:
Obamacare provision delayed: What does postponement mean for health care politics?  —  (CBS News) The delay of a key provision in President Obama's health-care law is being called a major setback for the president's signature issue.  —  The controversial provision that requires companies …
Discussion: The Agonist
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Obamacare's employer mandate shouldn't be delayed. It should be repealed.
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
North Carolina Abortion Bill Passes Senate Despite GOP Governor's Rebuke  —  The North Carolina state Senate quickly voted Wednesday to pass a package of anti-abortion amendments attached to a bill that would ban Sharia law, despite Republican Gov. Pat McCrory's concern that the Senate …
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Cahnman / Cahnman's Musings:
Texas Capital Abortion Supporters chant “Hail Satan”  —  It's been a very interesting day at the Texas State Capitol.  Cahnman's Musings hasn't been following the hearing.  Instead, we've been participating in the surrounding events.  LetTexasSpeak has been doing a live broadcast …
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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Novel imagines Sarah Palin presidency  —  The McCain/Palin ticket lost in 2008, right?  Fiction can change that.  —  “Christian Nation” is a new novel from lawyer Fred Rich that wonders what would happen if the Republican ticket won in 2008.  But Rich goes even further than that …
New York Times:
Listening In on Europe  —  There seems a touch of playacting in the outrage that France, Germany and other European governments have been venting since the online edition of Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, reported last weekend that the National Security Agency had bugged diplomatic offices …
hrw.org/rss/news:
Egypt: Epidemic of Sexual Violence  —  At Least 91 Attacks in 4 Days; Government Neglect Means Impunity Rules  —  (New York) - Egyptian officials and political leaders across the spectrum should condemn and take immediate steps to address the horrific levels of sexual violence against women in Tahrir Square.
Interview / National Review:
The Roe of Marriage  —  Maggie Gallagher is most recently the co-author, with John Corvino, of Debating Same-Sex Marriage, a book published by Oxford University Press whose time has certainly come.  She talks about the future of the debate and the institution in culture and politics with National Review Online's Kathryn Jean Lopez.
Michal Conger / Washington Examiner:
State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook ‘likes’  —  State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook “likes,” prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was “buying fans” in social media, the agency's inspector general says.
 
 
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John Markoff / New York Times:
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Discussion: The Fix
ThinkProgress:
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Discussion: Jezebel and The Huffington Post
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