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10:20 PM ET, April 16, 2014

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Matt Viser / The Boston Globe:
Warren memoir offers revealing inside tales  —  WASHINGTON - Summoned to the White House in September 2010, Elizabeth Warren met President Obama in the Oval Office and he escorted her outside to a garden patio.  Obama described it to Warren as a hidden retreat.
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MJ Lee / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren: ‘I was hurt, and I was angry’  —  Elizabeth Warren “was hurt” and “angry” about attacks on her family and ancestry in the 2012 Senate race, she writes in a new book, defending at length her characterization of her background as rooted in Native American ancestry.
Bill Buzenberg / The Center for Public …:
The Center for Public Integrity's response to ABC News  —  On April 14, 2014, Chris Hamby of the Center for Public Integrity was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his investigation detailing controversial denials of black lung benefits to coal miners.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
CPI Director On ABC Pulitzer Feud: 'I Don't Take Well To Being Bullied' (VIDEO)  —  Center for Public Integrity Director Bill Buzenberg on Wednesday criticized ABC News for demanding credit for an investigative series that won a Pulitzer Prize this week.  —  “I will say that I don't take …
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
Chris Hamby joins Buzzfeed, Pulitzer in hand
Discussion: Mediaite and Politico
Jo Becker / New York Times:
How the President Got to ‘I Do’ on Same-Sex Marriage  —  Photo illustration by Daan Brand for The New York Times.  Obama: Mark Wilson/Getty Images.  —  By presidential fund-raising standards, the dinner at the St. Regis hotel in Washington in April 2011 was an intimate one.
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Abortion Endures as a Political Tripwire
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
White House: More Russia sanctions likely  —  Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to Geneva to meet with his Russian counterpart Thursday as part of the Ukraine contact group — but administration officials said Wednesday they're already expecting the result will be more sanctions, not any kind of breakthrough.
Discussion: CNN
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
President Obama, Eric Cantor talk immigration - sort-of
Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP right: Where's O-Care bill?
Michelle Kosinski / CNN:
U.S. supports Ukraine's military moves for now, urges caution
Discussion: Politico and Marist Poll
Judicial Watch:
JW Obtains IRS Documents Showing Lerner in Contact With DOJ about Potential Prosecution of Tax-Exempt Groups  —  May 9, 2013, email reveals IRS plans to meet with Department of Justice over whether to prosecute groups that “lied” about plans for political activity
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: New Emails Show Lois Lerner Contacted DOJ About Prosecuting Tax Exempt Groups  —  According to new IRS emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch, former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner contacted the Department of Justice …
Fox News:
Feds accused of leaving trail of wreckage after Nevada ranch standoff  —  The federal agency that backed down over the weekend in a tense standoff with a Nevada rancher is being accused of leaving a trail of wreckage behind.  —  Fox News toured the damage — allegedly caused by the Bureau …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Sebelius Said to Weigh Run for Kansas Senate Seat  —  WASHINGTON — In her darkest hour last fall, Kathleen Sebelius suffered one of the deepest cuts from an old family friend who accused her of “gross incompetence” over the rollout of the Affordable Care Act and demanded that she resign as secretary of health and human services.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Scarborough blasts Krugman  —  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough is returning fire on Paul Krugman after the New York Times columnist accused him of being an “Obamacare truther” who was didn't know his facts and was “against covering the uninsured.”  —  In an email to POLITICO, Scarborough suggested …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Income Inequality Institute Will Pay Paul Krugman $25,000 Per Month  —  In late February, the City University of New York announced that it had tapped Princeton economist and New York Times blogger Paul Krugman for a distinguished professorship at CUNY's Graduate Center and its Luxembourg Income Study Center …
Local News/State News:
Marionville Mayor: I agree with Frazier Miller's beliefs, not behaviors  —  Kansas prosecutors filed state murder charges against the white supremacist accused in a shooting spree that left three people dead at two Jewish community sites over the weekend.  —  Johnson County District Attorney …
Tom Levenson / The Atlantic Online:
John Roberts and the Color of Money  —  Applying the history of white supremacy in America to the Supreme Court's McCutcheon decision  —  There has been plenty of talk about the Ta-Nehisi Coates-Jonathan Chait argument over the term “black culture” in the context of the ills of poverty …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Is New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez the Next Sarah Palin?  —  Petty.  Vindictive.  Weak on policy.  And yet she's being hailed as the Republican Party's great new hope.  —  AS SHE LIKES TO TELL anybody who'll listen, Susana Martinez, the governor of New Mexico, didn't start out a Republican.
Walt Bogdanich / New York Times:
A Star Player Accused, and a Flawed Rape Investigation  —  Tallahassee, Fla. — Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 2012, a freshman at Florida State University reported that she had been raped by a stranger somewhere off campus after a night of drinking at a popular Tallahassee bar called Potbelly's.
Dan Witters / Gallup:
Uninsured Rate Drops More in States Embracing Health Law  —  Medicaid expansion, state exchanges linked to faster reduction in uninsured rate  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate among adults aged 18 and older in the states that have chosen to expand Medicaid and set up their own exchanges …
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Glenn Beck Moves Into Movie Production (Exclusive)  —  The conservative radio host tells THR he is developing three original stories as theatrical films: one set in ancient history, one in modern history and a third he considers “faith-based.”  —  A version of this story first appeared …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Washington Examiner:
13 tax deductions you never knew existed  —  It's tax day!  And if you waited until today to file, these weird deductions might be helpful.  Or you might not want to deal with them and just get your taxes done as fast as possible.  Whatever floats your boat.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Jimmy Carter comes out against Keystone XL pipeline  —  Former president Jimmy Carter has joined a group of Nobel laureates who oppose construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, warning President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry, “You stand on the brink of making a choice that will define …
Melissa Hayes / NorthJersey.com:
Law firm hired by Christie for internal probe donated $10K in 2014 to RGA  —  Nine days before a team of its top lawyers made public a report clearing Governor Christie in the George Washington Bridge scandal, the law firm donated $10,000 to the Republican Governors Association, a group he heads.
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite, ABC News, Daily Kos and Liberaland
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
An update on our press pass  —  Last week, the Senate Press Gallery denied SCOTUSblog's application for a press pass, and advised us that it would refuse to renew the credential it had previously granted Lyle when it expires next month.  We were disappointed in that decision …
Kansas City Star:
Records suggest that F. Glenn Miller Jr. was once in witness protection program  —  The federal government appears to have shielded murder suspect F. Glenn Miller Jr. in the early 1990s as part of its witness protection program, potentially providing money for his family — and causing lingering confusion over his name.
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers  —  Buried deep on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau is a number every American citizen, and especially those entrusted with public office, should know.  It is 86,429,000.  —  That is the number of Americans who in 2012 got …
 
 
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Stephanie McNeal / Fox News:
Sen. Landrieu takes heat for reenacting Senate hearing in campaign ad
E.W. Jackson Sr / American Thinker:
Last week we witnessed repeated efforts by Democrats to polarize …
Discussion: American Power
Chris Chocola / Wall Street Journal:
The Spending Bender Also Known as the ‘Tax Extender’
James Kanter / New York Times:
Citing Russian Moves, NATO Plans New Deployments
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox News Launching New Noon Show Outnumbered
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Is there a high-minded justification for Dems' divisive rhetoric?
New York Times:
Unfinished Business Complicates Hillary Clinton's Diplomatic Legacy
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Can Facebook Innovate? A Conversation With Mark Zuckerberg
Discussion: Mashable, Gigaom and The Verge
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Jeb Bush's wife, family issues key to 2016
Discussion: Liberaland
Micah Mertes / Omaha World-Herald:
Missing 3-year-old boy found in claw machine at Lincoln bowling alley
Discussion: The Raw Story
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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