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2:43 AM ET, June 26, 2014

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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
It Looks Like African-Americans Really Did Help Thad Cochran Win  —  Tuesday night, Republican Sen. Thad Cochran defied the polls and defeated tea party challenger Chris McDaniel in the Mississippi Senate primary runoff by a 51 percent to 49 percent margin.  Cochran couldn't have done …
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Conservative Freakout Blames ‘Uncle Tom’ And Voter Fraud For McDaniel Loss  —  Some conservatives aren't happy that their preferred candidate, state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) lost to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the runoff of the GOP primary for U.S. Senate in Mississippi.
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Tea Party's Poll Setbacks Don't Limit Its Washington Clout  —  Conservatives in Congress Threaten Several Programs that Chamber of Commerce Supports  —  Republican Sen. Thad Cochran's runoff victory Tuesday exposed the limits of tea-party power at the polls, but conservative activists retain …
Alexander Burns / Politico:
How Cochran bounced back from disaster
Discussion: Business Insider
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Sarah Palin hits Thad Cochran ‘shenanigans’
Eric Katz / Government Executive:
EPA Employees Told to Stop Pooping in the Hallway  —  Environmental Protection Agency workers have done some odd things recently.  —  Contractors built secret man caves in an EPA warehouse, an employee pretended to work for the CIA to get unlimited vacations and one worker even spent …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
EPA Memo To Employees: Please Stop Pooping In The Hallway  —  An administrator at a regional Environmental Protection Agency office in Denver, Colo. had to educate employees about bathroom etiquette.  —  Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor wrote an email to staff earlier this year lecturing …
Annalyn Kurtz / CNNMoney.com:
3 reasons not to freak out about -2.9% GDP  —  Well, this picture keeps getting uglier.  —  Gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic growth — contracted at a 2.9% annual rate in January through March, according to the latest revision from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Jeanna Smialek / Bloomberg:
U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter by Most in Five Years
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
The Economy Tanked Last Quarter And It's Everybody's Fault But Obama's
Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
Today's GDP Number Is Not as Bad as it Sounds. But the Recovery Is Still Weak.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
jaredbernsteinblog.com:
Whoa! Whassup With That Big Negative Q1 GDP Revision?
Discussion: Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
waysandmeans.house.gov:
REVEALED: GOP Senator Targeted by Lerner Ways and Means investigation uncovers push to audit Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)  —  f t # e  —  Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) targeting of conservative individuals includes …
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Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
EMAILS: IRS OFFICIAL SOUGHT AUDIT OF GOP SENATOR  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional investigators say they uncovered emails Wednesday showing that a former Internal Revenue Service official at the heart of the tea party investigation sought an audit involving a Republican senator in 2012.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
New York Times:
Aereo Loses at Supreme Court, in Victory for TV Broadcasters  —  WASHINGTON — Aereo made an all-or-nothing bet.  The digital start-up threatened to upend the media industry and transform the way people watch television.  —  It likely will end up with nothing.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Says Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox Host Yells At Michele Bachmann For Trying To Sue Obama: 'You're Being Silly'  —  “Fox Host Yells At Michele Bachmann For Trying To Sue Obama: 'You're Being Silly'” Share:  —  Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto blasted Republicans on Wednesday for preparing to file a federal lawsuit challenging …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Another agency tells Congress: File not found  —  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the IRS share a problem: officials say they cannot provide the emails a congressional committee has requested because an employee's hard drive crashed.  —  EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy confirmed …
Discussion: Twitchy and BizzyBlog
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Erica Martinson / Politico:
EPA joins IRS lost emails club  —  Move over, IRS — now the EPA is having its own problems with missing emails.  —  The environmental agency is having trouble locating emails belonging to a former agency employee and pulling information from his crashed hard drive, House members revealed Wednesday …
Lauren French / Politico:
John Boehner: President Obama hasn't ‘faithfully’ executed laws  —  House Speaker John Boehner said he plans to move forward with a lawsuit against President Barack Obama for misusing executive powers.  —  “The Constitution makes it clear that a president's job is to faithfully execute the laws.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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The Indianapolis Star, Indystar:
Judge throws out Indiana ban on same-sex marriage  —  A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Indiana's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, immediately allowing same-sex couples across the state to receive marriage licenses.  —  U.S. District Judge Richard Young did not issue a stay on his ruling.
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
US: SYRIA MAY HAVE LAUNCHED AIRSTRIKES IN IRAQ  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say there are indications that Syria launched airstrikes into western Iraq Tuesday in an attempt to slow the al-Qaida-inspired insurgency fighting both the Syrian and Iraqi governments.
Discussion: Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Obama mocks climate skeptics at LCV dinner  —  President Barack Obama lit into GOP climate change skeptics in a speech tonight, delighting a crowd of 800 to 900 environmentalists in Washington's Ronald Reagan Building.  —  He said Republicans in Congress are out of touch with the American public …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
Mario Moretto / Bangor Daily News:
Susan Collins becomes fourth GOP senator to publicly support same-sex marriage  —  AUGUSTA, Maine — After receiving the endorsement of the nation's largest LGBT advocacy group, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday indicated for the first time her personal support for same-sex marriage.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CNN
 
 
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Ryan Maye Handy / Coloradoan Online:
Loveland voters strike down fracking moratorium
Discussion: ThinkProgress and KDVR.com
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Workforce bill clears Senate
Discussion: CNN
Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
it's Dallas v. Cleveland for 2016 GOP convention. Denver, Kansas City eliminated
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Should President Obama veto spending bills?
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Variety:
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