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5:50 PM ET, June 24, 2014

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David Catanese / U.S. News:
'She'd Probably Get Shot At The State Line'  —  A local district chairman says there's no love for Hillary in the Natural State.  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has apparently worn out her welcome in the state where her husband served as governor.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
President Clinton: ‘Dead broke’ comments were ‘factually true’  —  DENVER — Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday defended his wife Hillary Clinton's recent comments on wealth, saying she is “not out of touch.”  —  In a discussion with NBC's David Gregory as part of the Clinton Global Initiative …
lohud.com:
Hillary Clinton sign defaced: ‘Benghazi’ scrawled in red
Jon Murray / Denver Post:
BILL CLINTON OFFERS ADVICE FOR UDALL, TALKS POTENTIAL HILLARY RUN
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Hillary Clinton to collect $225,000 for keynote at UNLV fundraiser
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Porn star's tweet prompts Steve Stivers aide Adam Kuhn to resign  —  The chief of staff to Ohio GOP Rep. Steve Stivers has resigned after a former porn actress posted an explicit photo of the aide online.  —  Adam Kuhn, a longtime Stivers' aide and chief of staff, resigned on Tuesday.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:   GOP Rep's Chief Of Staff Resigns After Porn Star Tweets Photo Of His Penis
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Democrat: IRS chief ‘arrogant’  —  Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said Tuesday that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has done “a terrible job communicating” in the investigation into former IRS official Lois Lerner's missing emails.  —  “Obviously, I think he is doing a terrible job communicating …
Discussion: American Spectator and Hot Air
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Testy Exchange Erupts as I.R.S. Chief Is Questioned on Messages
New York Times:
2nd Bridge Inquiry Said to Be Linked to Christie  —  Investigations into the Christie administration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have zeroed in on possible securities law violations stemming from a $1.8 billion road repair agreement in 2011, according to people briefed on the matter.
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
BridgeGate II: Pulaski Skyway Reportedly At Center Of Separate Christie Probes
Discussion: Mediaite
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Will Mississippi mudslinging give Dems a chance in South?  —  If Chris McDaniel on Tuesday knocks off Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), national Democrats will have a rare offensive opportunity in the Deep South.  —  The nasty, divisive primary fight comes to a close in tonight's runoff election …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Cochran Courts Blacks, Tea Party Vows to Police Polls
Discussion: CNN and Prairie Weather
Gallup:
After Exchanges Close, 5% of Americans Are Newly Insured  —  More than half of newly insured in '14 got insurance through exchanges  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Five percent of Americans report being newly insured in 2014.  More than half of that group, or 2.8% of the total U.S. population …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Law Is An Ass  —  There's been a bubbling hum of controversy surrounding the Senate Daily Press Gallery's decision to deny credentials to SCOTUSBlog.  And as it happens, the issues involved here are ones I know fairly well since I'm the owner of a new media company and had to navigate …
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Drunk Fox News Anchor Brawls With Airport Cops In Jailhouse Video  —  Remember the middle-aged Fox News anchor who was arrested while intoxicated at an airport bar in St. Paul, Minnesota?  You may have even seen Gregg Jarrett's mugshot floating around last month.
Karoli / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Scott Walker Fan Indicted For Massive Voter Fraud  —  True the Vote was nowhere to be found when Robert Monroe stuffed the ballot box for Scott Walker and Alberta Darling?  —  Repeat after me: Consistently documented voter fraud is a Republican phenomenon, not a Democratic one.
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Bruce Vielmetti / JSOnline:
Shorewood man charged with 13 counts of voter fraud
Discussion: WISN Channel 12 and The Raw Story
CNN:
Sudanese Christian woman rearrested, legal team says  —  (CNN) — A Sudanese Christian woman who'd been sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her faith — and then released — was rearrested Tuesday at an airport as she was trying to leave the African country, her legal team told CNN on Tuesday.
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Cool at 13, Adrift at 23  —  At 13, they were viewed by classmates with envy, admiration and not a little awe.  The girls wore makeup, had boyfriends and went to parties held by older students.  The boys boasted about sneaking beers on a Saturday night and swiping condoms from the local convenience store.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Kerry: 'We Don't Do Foreign Policy By Polls'  —  Secretary of State John Kerry tells Fox News's James Rosen that the Obama administration does not “do foreign policy by polls.”  That, the sescretary of state said, is “a good thing.”  —  The claim came in a response to a question …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
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Rebecca Leber / The New Republic:
What Climate Change Looks Like on Your Front Porch  —  If you are like the typical American, then you think climate change is a real problem, but you're not clamoring for action.  Yes, you've heard that the planet is getting warmer—that the sea levels are rising and, somewhere, storms probably getting worse.
Alecia Phonesavanh / Salon:
A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son  —  After our house burned down in Wisconsin a few months ago, my husband and I packed our four young kids and all our belongings into a gold minivan and drove to my sister-in-law's place, just outside of Atlanta.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Hullabaloo and Guardian
Ken McIntyre / The Daily Signal:
IRS Admits Wrongdoing, to Pay $50,000 in Leaking of Marriage Group's Tax Return  —  Two years after activists for same-sex marriage obtained the confidential tax return and donor list of a national group opposed to redefining marriage, the Internal Revenue Service has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to settle the resulting lawsuit.
David Hochman / Playboy:
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: GARY OLDMAN  —  When actors list other actors they deeply admire, Gary Oldman's name inevitably shoots to the top.  Sid Vicious, Dracula, Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald, The Dark Knight's Commissioner Gordon, Harry Potter's Sirius Black—Oldman's range is so staggering …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Reality of Student Debt Is Different From the Clichés  —  The deeply indebted college graduate has become a stock character in the national conversation: the art history major with $50,000 in debt, the underemployed barista with $75,000, the struggling poet with $100,000.
Sam Borden / New York Times:
Apparent Bite by Luis Suárez Mars Uruguay's Victory Over Italy  —  NATAL, Brazil — It seems almost impossible to consider, almost inconceivable to fathom.  A soccer player, one of the best in the world, jockeys for position in a World Cup game and, at just the right moment …
Jonathon Sharp / CBS Minnesota:
Police: Thief Forgets To Log Off Facebook After Burglarizing Home  —  MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minnesota man is in jail because he logged on to Facebook.  —  Police say 26-year-old Nicholas Wig checked his profile from a home he broke into, and then he didn't log off.  It happened June 19 in South St. Paul.
Discussion: Gawker, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
 
 
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Peter Olsen-Phillips / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Campaign Intelligence: Mississippi race hits $17 million
Tim Hanrahan / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Accused of ‘Overreach’ in Chipotle Stop
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Poor care at VA hospitals cost 1,000 veterans their lives, report says
Discussion: Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
ABC News:
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Geoffrey Nunberg / The Atlantic Online:
When Slang Becomes a Slur
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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
Should Principals Be Treated Like CEOs?
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Washington Post:
McDonnell prosecutors allege undisclosed gifts from people other than Williams
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Rebekah Brooks Found Not Guilty in Phone Hacking Case
Dennis Welch / KASW-TV:
Pressure builds for Huppenthal to quit
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Disastrous Iraq Policy: An Autopsy
Matt Lamb / The College Fix:
Gay Activists Target Campus Building Named After Polish Anti-Communist Hero
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Politico:
The existential crisis of the liberal millionaire
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