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11:40 PM ET, August 23, 2013

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Ben Smith:
New York Times And Guardian Will Publish More Snowden Revelations  —  “A climate of intense pressure.”  —  Brad Barket / Getty Images  —  The New York Times is in the Snowden game.  —  The paper — which NSA leaker Edward Snowden deliberately avoided over his fear that it would cooperate …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Guardian partners with New York Times over Snowden GCHQ files  —  Some of Edward Snowden cache shared with US paper after ‘climate of intense pressure’ from UK government  —  The Guardian has struck a partnership with the New York Times which will give the US paper access to some of the sensitive cache …
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
The Suit in the Newsroom  —  An unusual Times executive— for unusual times.  —  When Mark Thompson, a former director general at the BBC, was appointed president and CEO of the New York Times Company, the reaction inside the company was a mix of relief and apprehension.
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself
Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
Report: NSA paid tech companies to comply with surveillance
Discussion: The Switch
Brian Beutler / Salon:
The right's black crime obsession  —  There are a few black people up to no good in this country and Fox News is on it!  So is Drudge Report.  Vigilantly on the lookout, 24 hours a day, for stories about black youths behaving badly.  —  This isn't a particularly new phenomenon …
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Daily Mail:
‘Paula Deen SHOOTS Trayvon Martin’ in new SVU that wraps both scandals into one controversial episode... and Cybill Shepard plays gun-wielding TV chef  — Cybill Shepard plays Jolene Castille, a famous southern chef who guns down an unarmed, hoodie-wearing black teen in New York
TMZ.com:
George Zimmerman Shops For Tactical Shotgun
Dylan Wohlenhaus / KHQ-TV:
BREAKING UPDATE: One Suspect In Custody After WWII Veteran Beaten To Death  —  BREAKING NEWS: Major crimes investigators have just confirmed that one teenager has been arrested in the beating death of WWII veteran Delbert Belton.  One suspect remains on the loose.  Charges of 1st degree murder and 1st degree robbery pending.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama: Law School Should Be Two Years, Not Three  —  “This is probably controversial to say, but, what the heck, I'm in my second term, so I can say it.”  —  Jacquelyn Martin / AP  —  BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — President Barack Obama told a town hall crowd in Binghamton, New York …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Julie Pace / ABC News:
Obama Says Law School Should Be 2 Years, Not 3  —  President Barack Obama says law schools in the U.S. should cut down to two years instead of three to cut costs for students.  —  Obama says students do most of their classroom learning in the first two years of law school.
Discussion: CNN and ProfessorBainbridge.com
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama talks race relations in Binghamton
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
NSA Analysts Intentionally Abused Spying Powers Multiple Times  —  Some National Security Agency analysts deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade, contradicting Obama administration officials' and lawmakers' statements that no willful violations occurred.
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Siobhan Gorman / Washington Wire:
NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests  —  WASHINGTON—National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency's enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.  —  The practice isn't frequent — one official estimated a handful …
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Filner steps down in deal with San Diego city council  —  San Diego Mayor Bob Filner stepped down on Friday after the City Council voted to accept his resignation as part of a settlement deal concerning the embattled mayor's future.  —  Eighteen women have so far accused the Democratic mayor …
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USA Today:
Nidal Hasan found guilty in Fort Hood killings  —  The panel voted unanimously to convict the Army psychiatrist for the rampage that left 13 dead and 31 injured.  —  CONNECT  —  Maj. Nidal Hasan, the radicalized Army psychiatrist who turned his gun on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood four years ago …
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Nathan Koppel / Wall Street Journal:   Hasan Found Guilty in Fort Hood Shooting
Rush Limbaugh:
Irrelevant?  Obama Declares Your Host His #1 Obstacle as EIB Inks Deal with Cumulus, Gets New Station in the Big Apple  —  RUSH: So I got in here at the usual time after working very early this morning, late into last night on show prep and stuff, and at about ten o'clock I get an e-mail …
Fox News:
Found: Samantha Power in Ireland during urgent Syria meeting, sources say  —  Mystery solved.  America's ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power was in Ireland on a personal trip when she missed an emergency meeting on the alleged chemical gas attack in Syria, U.N. sources tell Fox News.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Al Gore and ‘Category 6 hurricanes’  —  On Wednesday, I published an interview with Al Gore in which he mentioned that the scientific community was beginning to consider Category 6 hurricanes.  The line has attracted some criticism because there are no official plans to add a sixth category to the 1-5 scale.
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Investor's Business Daily:
Obama's Economy — We've Fallen And Can't Get Up  —  Economy: Household incomes are still down 4.4% since the recession ended four years ago.  Meanwhile, the unemployment picture may be even worse than we think.  The Obama “recovery” continues to impress.  —  According to a report released …
Discussion: The Impolitic
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Blake Neff / The Hill:
Obama joined by Biden in Scranton to close out college tour  —  President Obama closed out his two-day tour of colleges accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden as the two appeared together at Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pa.  —  The president has been promoting a plan to create a system …
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Howard Dean blasts Ted Cruz  —  (CNN) - Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean on Thursday described Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and others who support threatening a government shutdown in order to defund Obamacare as “irresponsible” and “petty, radical-right people.”
Chicago Business:
James Pritzker opens new chapter in her life  —  Col. James Pritzker, the ever-private billionaire and an heir to the Pritzker fortune, has come out in the open about his personal life.  —  In a memo to employees at the Pritzker Military Library and Tawani Enterprises …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Advocate and The Raw Story
 
 
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
NIH Director On Sequestration: ‘God Help Us If We Get A Worldwide Pandemic’
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RT:
Materials implicating Syrian govt in chemical attack prepared before incident - Russia
Andrew Kaczynski:
Republican Congressman: Obama “Raised By The Federal Government His Entire Life”
Joseph Bottum / Commonweal Magazine:
The Things We Share  —  A Catholic's Case for Same-Sex Marriage
Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Stop Defending the NCAA
Alec Macgillis / The New Republic:
Raising the Minimum Wage Could Be a Winning Issue for Democrats. Here's Why.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Rand Paul, heading to South Carolina, talks Lindsey Graham, Egypt
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