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12:30 AM ET, March 6, 2014

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James Kirchick / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: RT Anchor Liz Wahl Explains Why She Quit  —  Liz Wahl wasn't just disgusted by the Kremlin-funded TV network's handling of Ukraine, she says in an exclusive interview.  RT's coverage of the entire world “made me feel sick.”  —  American journalist Liz Wahl just made Vladimir Putin's enemies list.
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air  —  “I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government which whitewashes the actions of Putin.”  —  youtube.com  —  WASHINGTON — Russia Today America anchor Liz Wahl resigned Wednesday live on air, saying she could no longer work …
ThinkProgress:
Meet The 7 Democrats Who Just Voted Down A Civil Rights Nominee For Supporting Civil Rights  —  Civil Rights nominee Debo Adegbile speaks before the Supreme Court  —  Debo Adegbile, who previously served as the acting head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, is one of the nation's top civil rights attorneys.
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Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Senate rejects Obama nominee who defended cop killer  —  The Senate voted 47-52 Wednesday to reject controversial nominee Debo Adegbile as an assistant attorney general.  —  Seven Democrats voted against moving forward with President Obama's nomination of Adegbile, which the Fraternal Order …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats help block Obama's DOJ pick
New York Times:
Democrats in Senate Reject Pick by Obama
Discussion: The Plum Line and Bloomberg View
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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Darrell Issa Holds Absurd IRS Hearing In Which He Is The Only One Allowed To Speak
Discussion: Mediaite and Liberaland
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Darrell Issa silences Democrats and hits a new low
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Raw Story
David French / National Review:
The IRS: The Government's Most Pathetic Agency
Discussion: Fox News
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton: I'm Not Comparing Putin To Hitler, I'm Just Saying He's Acting Like Hitler  —  “I'm not making a comparison certainly, but I am recommending that we perhaps can learn from this tactic that has been used before.”  —  View Video ›  —  Former Secretary …
Discussion: Politico and PoliticusUSA
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Why Putin Doesn't Respect Us
Max Seddon / BuzzFeed:   Inside Vladimir Putin's Paranoid Vision
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
How to Punish Putin  —  Ignore him.  He's running a regional power …
Mark Pratt / WBUR:
‘Upskirt’ Photos Not Illegal, Mass. High Court Rules  —  BOSTON — A man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of women riding the Boston subway did not violate state law because the women were not nude or partially nude, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Wednesday.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Althouse
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CBS News:
Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize  —  Shares -  —  OSLO — Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize — but the conflict in Ukraine is also likely to be on the Nobel committee's agenda.  —  A record 278 candidates, including 47 organizations …
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims  —  White House declines to comment after Mark Udall says agency spied on staffers preparing scathing report into CIA torture after 9/11  —  A leading US senator has said that President Obama knew of an “unprecedented action” …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Probe: Did the CIA spy on the U.S. Senate?
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
27 Democrats support House GOP measure to delay ObamaCare penalty  —  Twenty-seven Democrats on Wednesday sided with House Republicans on a bill to delay tax penalties for failing to buy health insurance this year under ObamaCare.  —  The vote, which reflects growing Republican frustration …
CNN:
Republican Rand Paul: There ‘should be a struggle to make the party better’  —  Washington (CNN) - Sen. Rand Paul delivered a fervent plea Wednesday to expand the Republican Party and make the GOP more compassionate toward those “who aren't treated fairly by the criminal justice system,” …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Politico
Natalie DiBlasio / USA Today:
Facebook cracks down on gun posts, sales  —  Facebook is cracking down on gun-related posts.  —  The social media giant is blocking minors from seeing postings of gun sales and will take down sales that don't require a background check or cross state lines.
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Telegraph:
Welcome to Paradise  —  When Germany legalised prostitution in 2002 it triggered an apparently unstoppable growth in the country's sex industry.  It's now worth 15 billion euros a year and embraces everything from 12-storey mega-brothels to outdoor sex boxes.  Nisha Lilia Diu visits some of them to find out who won and who lost
Mary Jo Pitzl / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Sen. Gallardo discloses he's gay  —  FONT:  —  State Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, disclosed he is gay at a news conference Wednesday morning, saying the furor over Senate Bill 1062 prompted his decision to go public.  —  “Two weeks ago was a difference, Feb. 19 was an actual game changer …
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
A New SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork  —  Saying its college admission exams do not focus enough on the important academic skills, the College Board announced on Wednesday a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong, cutting obscure vocabulary words and making the essay optional.
Discussion: News Desk, CNN, Bloomberg View and The Verge
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
New Democratic Strategy Goes After Koch Brothers  —  WASHINGTON — Charles G. and David H. Koch, the billionaire brothers who are perhaps the best-known patrons of conservative Republican politics, are bespectacled and in their 70s.  They look genial enough.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Obama Extends Renewal Period for Noncompliant Insurance Policies  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, grappling with continued political fallout over its health care law, said Wednesday that it would allow consumers to renew health insurance policies that did not comply with the new law …
Discussion: Roll Call and Josh Blackman's Blog
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Americans will be able to keep old insurance plans longer under rewrite of health-care rules
 
 
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Roanoke College:
RC Poll: Virginians support same-sex marriage, Warner leads Gillespie in possible Senate race
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Francis: the Pope is “a normal person”, not Superman
Fox News:
Judge rejects financial support requests by New Jersey teen suing parents
Politico:
Ted Cruz congratulates John Cornyn
Discussion: RedState, OnPolitics, CNN and Post Politics
Bloomberg:
Highest Minimum-Wage State Washington Beats U.S. in Job Creation
Discussion: ThinkProgress
 Earlier Items: 
Peter Weber / The Week:
Watch The Daily Show ask Fox News why the poor shouldn't eat seafood
Discussion: The Raw Story
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Refusing to Photograph a Gay Wedding Isn't Hateful
Washington Post:
Support for same-sex marriage hits new high; half say Constitution guarantees right
 

 
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