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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos — The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family's stewardship of one of America's leading news organizations after four generations.
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Jeff Bezos / Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos on Post purchase — To the employees of The Washington Post: — You'll have heard the news, and many of you will greet it with a degree of apprehension. When a single family owns a company for many decades, and when that family acts for all those decades in good faith …
John F. Harris / Politico:
What is Jeff Bezos thinking? — Within minutes of the news going public, I had an email from a recognizable byline at the Washington Post that captured my feelings exactly: “Holy. S**t.” — In the heyday of this singular American institution, those two words were the very phrase …
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The Atlantic Online:
The Politics of New Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos — The Amazon.com founder and CEO is a strong backer of gay marriage and an internet sales tax but otherwise fairly opaque. — In a shocking announcement late Monday, The Washington Post Co. announced that it's selling its eponymous newspaper …
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Laura Bennett / New Republic:
Author of Bezos Book: 'He's Buying a Lot of Political Influence' — Businessweek senior writer Brad Stone has written a book about Amazon—titled The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon—that will be released by Little, Brown in October. Stone spent several years reporting the book …
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Can Bezos Save the Washington Post From Print's Dismal Economics? — It's certainly been a news-filled week for journalists: Newsweek, my former employer, was sold to two guys you've never heard of for an undisclosed sum; the New York Times sold the Boston Globe to Red Sox owner John Henry …
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Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
Bezos In 2012: People Won't Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead In 20 Years — Before Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million, he had some choice words for the ailing print news industry. In a wide-ranging interview with the German paper, Berliner-Zeitung …
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Emily Bell / Business Insider:
Jeff Bezos' Shocking Washington Post Buy Was Not A Business Deal — It Was A Cultural Statement
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Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos
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Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Buys the Washington Post for $250 Million
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Amazon's Founder to Buy The Washington Post
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CNN:
Drone strikes kill militants in Yemen; Americans urged to leave — Britain advises against travel to Yemen Analysis: Dangers of al Qaeda in Yemen Sources: Al Qaeda plot in final stages — (CNN) — A pair of suspected U.S. drone strikes killed four al Qaeda militants in Yemen …
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
The Al Qaeda Obama Forgot — The short distance between the president's rhetoric on terror and its empirical disproof. — In May, Barack Obama told an audience at the National Defense University that the core of al Qaeda was “on the path to defeat.” The “future of terrorism,” …
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Resurgent al Qaeda casts doubt on Obama's national security record — Groups affiliated with al Qaeda have grown in strength over the last year, prompting new challenges for the Obama White House that has touted its record in fighting terror groups. — President Obama declared al Qaeda …
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New York Times:
Qaeda Leader's Edict to Yemen Affiliate Is Said to Prompt Alert
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Des Moines Register:
Family Leader says it could fill straw poll's gap — Gov. Branstad on competing Straw Polls: Gov. Branstad on competing Straw Polls — If state party officials decide to scrap the Iowa straw poll, as Gov. Terry Branstad has suggested, a nonprofit evangelical conservative group is ready to fill in the gap.
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The Hidden Motivation Behind GOP Threats to Boycott NBC, CNN
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
RNC hits NBC, CNN for Hillary films; threatens to pull debate rights
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Wendy Davis: 'I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case' — Texas state senator Wendy Davis spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday afternoon about her 13-hour filibuster of a bill limiting late-term abortion, her life story, and her future in politics.
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Nanci G. Hutson / News-Times:
‘Jeopardy!’ ruling under fire — NEWTOWN — Newtown eighth-grader Thomas Hurley III was thrilled to be chosen as a contestant on the Kids Week episode of the television game show “Jeopardy!” that was filmed in February and aired this week. — He was up against a tough competitor right …
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ThinkProgress:
Congressman Offers Crack Political Advice To Boehner: Attack Obamacare's Tanning Tax As Racist — Obamacare's 10% tax on tanning bed services is racist against white people because darker-skinned people don't need to tan. At least, that's what Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) advised Speaker John Boehner …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an ‘emergency’ — (Reuters) - Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
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New York Times:
Chicago Sees Pension Crisis Drawing Near — CHICAGO — Corporations are moving in, and housing prices are looking better across the region. There has been a slight uptick in population. But a crushing problem lurks beneath the signs of economic recovery in Chicago: one of the most poorly …
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Front Man — Conservatives have for years attempted to put our finger upon precisely why Barack Obama strikes us as queer in precisely the way he does. There is an alienness about him, which in the fever swamps is expressed in all that ridiculous Kenyan-Muslim hokum …
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