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Culture Desk:
Cover Story: John Cuneo's “Carlos Danger”  —  “With a topic like Anthony Weiner, how can you find anything broad or funny that he hasn't already personally breached?” says John Cuneo, the artist who painted next week's cover.  He continues: “Free association made me think of the Empire State Building …
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Inside Edition:
EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Leathers Details Being At Center Of Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal  —  We're hearing for the first time from the young woman at the center of the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal.  —  Twenty-three-year-old Sydney Leathers spoke exclusively to INSIDE EDITION about the raunchy text messages …
Talking Points Memo:   Anthony Weiner Graces New Yorker Cover As King Kong Atop Empire State Building (PHOTO)
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Chris Christie: Rand Paul ‘dangerous’  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is ripping libertarians - including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). - for challenging government surveillance programs and failing to understand the dangers of terrorism.  —  “This strain of libertarianism that's …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Christie Cites 9/11 in Assailing Libertarian Trend in G.O.P.  —  ASPEN, Colo. — Invoking the families of 9/11 victims, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey on Thursday heatedly denounced the growing libertarian drift on national security in the Republican Party that is favored by Senator Rand Paul …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Rand Paul to Chris Christie: You need to talk to more real Americans
Discussion: msnbc.com and Mediaite
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Fiscal Armageddon could remake Hill in 2014 elections  —  Not again.  —  That's the message several national GOP strategists and some lawmakers have for Republicans hell bent on waging another fiscal fight this fall.  —  The 2014 midterm season is about to heat up - and President Barack Obama …
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
GOP's state victories haunt Obama
Discussion: First Read
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Fed-up Silda Spitzer plans to divorce Eliot after election  —  Silda Spitzer is privately telling friends she plans to divorce her hooker-loving husband, Eliot Spitzer, Page Six can exclusively reveal.  —  Multiple sources tell us long-suffering Silda — who, he last night admitted …
KPBS San Diego:
Four More Women Accuse Filner … Four prominent San Diego women came forth today accusing Mayor Bob Filner of unwanted sexual advances.  They related specific incidents in an exclusive interview with KPBS News.  —  The latest accusers —a retired Navy rear-admiral, a dean at San Diego State University …
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Work To Turn “War On Women” Attack Back On Democrats  —  Could “Carlos Danger” undermine the Democrats' message with women?  The RNC is trying to make sure he does.  —  Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin  —  Via: Eric Thayer / Reuters  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans are hoping …
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
U.S. Tells Russia It Won't Torture or Kill Snowden  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a letter sent to the Russian minister of justice this week that the United States would not seek the death penalty against Edward J. Snowden, and would issue him a passport immediately …
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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Says Snowden Wouldn't Face Death Penalty
Washington Post:
Lincoln Memorial vandalized with splashes of green paint  —  The Lincoln Memorial was shut down Friday morning after vandals splashed the statue of the nation's 16th president and the marble floor around it with green paint, U.S. Park Police said.  —  Police are reviewing surveillance footage …
Wall Street Journal:
Student Drought Hits Smaller Universities  —  By - CAMERON MCWHIRTER and - DOUGLAS BELKIN -  —  Loyola University New Orleans faces a $9.5 million budget gap caused by 25% fewer freshmen this fall than it had expected.  —  As Loyola University New Orleans gears up for fall classes next month …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers
Discussion: Gawker
New York Times:
In Tug of War Over New Fed Leader, Some Gender Undertones  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's choice of a replacement for the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, is coming down to a battle between the California girls and the Rubin boys.  —  Janet L. Yellen, the Fed's vice chairwoman …
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Associated Press:
Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed Students At Occupy Protest Wants Worker's Compensation For ‘Psychiatric Injury’  —  DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is appealing for worker's compensation …
Discussion: The Raw Story
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
IRS employee union: We don't want Obamacare  —  IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law.  —  National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama's health care law.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Roberts's Picks Reshaping Secret Surveillance Court  —  WASHINGTON — The recent leaks about government spying programs have focused attention on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its role in deciding how intrusive the government can be in the name of national security.
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords  —  Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form.  —  The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet …
Charlie LeDuff / New York Times:
Come See Detroit, America's Future  —  DETROIT — I KNOW an old woman who hasn't opened her windows in a decade, afraid that what's outside will climb inside.  Inside, there is the stale odor of dead air.  —  I know another woman who called me about a corpse lying outside her window for six and a half hours.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and THEROOT.COM
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republican Health Care Panic  —  Leading Republicans appear to be nerving themselves up for another round of attempted fiscal blackmail.  With the end of the fiscal year looming, they aren't offering the kinds of compromises that might produce a deal and avoid a government shutdown; instead …
Politico:
House ethics panel investigating four members  —  The House Ethics Committee is reviewing cases against four members of Congress, including Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and one member of GOP leadership, the panel announced Friday.  —  Ethics is probing Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) …
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Patrick Healy / ArtsBeat:
Larry Kramer Is Married in Hospital Ceremony  —  Larry Kramer, the award-winning playwright of “The Normal Heart” and longtime gay rights advocate, married his partner, David Webster, on Wednesday in the intensive care unit of NYU Langone Medical Center, where Mr. Kramer has been recovering from surgery for a bowel obstruction.
Sandhya Somashekhar / Wonkblog:
Exclusive: Kathleen Sebelius on Obamacare's ‘very tight’ deadlines  —  Update: This post was initially published with a typo in the headline.  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently began ramping up her travel around the country to promote the Affordable Care Act …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Twitchy
Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Unions ask Obama for Detroit bailout  —  Union leaders are calling on Congress and President Obama to provide a federal bailout to the city of Detroit.  —  The executive council of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation, called for an “immediate infusion of federal assistance for Detroit” …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Steve King Says He Has Personally Caught Undocumented Drug Mules With Cantaloupe Calves  —  Rep. Steve King (R-IA) defended his claim that undocumented youths are drug mules with cantaloupe-sized calves on Friday, telling The Laura Ingraham Show that he would not apologize for the remarks.
 
 
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Pro-marijuana ad to appear outside big NASCAR race
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Oliver Darcy / Campus Reform the #1 Source …:
WATCH: Students sign petition to legalize abortion after childbirth
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
An Obama-McCain Alliance: Two Bitter Rivals Team Up To Upend The Status Quo
Discussion: Hit & Run
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Fortress IRS  —  Agency stonewalling could permanently harm …
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Weiner Admits to More Lewd Exchanges but Denies an Addiction