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Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
Obama Calls Boehner Lawsuit Threat a ‘Stunt’ … Despite Republican House Speaker John Boehner's threat this week to sue President Obama over his use of executive orders, the president refused to apologize for his actions during an exclusive interview with ABC News and took the Republican Party …
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Katherine Connell / National Review:
Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Against Obama for 12th and 13th Time Since 2012  —  Did you know the Obama administration's position has been defeated in at least 13 - thirteen — cases before the Supreme Court since January 2012 that were unanimous decisions?
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BBC:
Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki: Russian jets will turn tide  —  Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Maliki talks to the BBC  —  Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has told the BBC that he hopes jets from Russia and Belarus will turn the tide against rebels in the coming days.
Discussion: Informed Comment and ParaPundit
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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Redrawn Lines Seen as No Cure in Iraq Conflict  —  ISTANBUL — Over the past two weeks, the specter that has haunted Iraq since its founding 93 years ago appears to have become a reality: the de facto partition of the country into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish cantons.
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Panelist: World Cup Is A Way For Obama To ‘Distract People’ (VIDEO)  —  It was only a matter of time before a Fox News panelist suggested the FIFA World Cup presented a convenient distraction from the problems facing President Barack Obama.  —  “I'm suspect,” Dr. Keith Ablow said Thursday on …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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ABC News:
Obama: World Cup Impacting Some Foreign Policy Moves
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
More in U.S. Would Decrease Immigration Than Increase  —  Support for increasing immigration is up, yet more would still curb it  —  PRINCETON, NJ — While illegal immigration typically dominates debates over immigration policy, the issue of legal immigration came to the forefront …
Discussion: Politico
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Proud to be an American?  You're probably not a true liberal.  —  Michelle Obama took some heat in 2008 for saying that, “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country...”  —  As it turns out, that sentiment isn't all that unusual on the far left of American politics.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology
Discussion: CNN
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
The Maddening Illogic of the IRS ‘Coverup’ Conspiracy Theory  —  We know that there aren't many scientists in the Republican congressional delegation, because if there were, they couldn't use the “I'm not a scientist” excuse to duck questions about climate change.
Discussion: American Spectator and Hullabaloo
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Matt Lauer Asks GM CEO If She Can Do Her Job And Be A Good Mom (VIDEO)  —  Today Show host Matt Lauer on Thursday asked General Motors CEO Mary Barra if she felt she could run a company and be a good mother during an interview about the company's controversial recalls.
Discussion: TODAY, Matt Lauer, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
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David Barton / Salon:
Rise of a right-wing quack: Faux-historian David Barton's shocking new influence  —  Back when Glenn Beck was one of the most admired men in America and Fox News' No. 1 celebrity, he introduced to the nation at large a “historian,” well known among the Christian right, by the name of David Barton …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon to Train, Arm Syria Rebels  —  Program to Train and Equip Moderate Opposition Would Expand U.S. Role in Civil War  —  WASHINGTON—The White House on Thursday proposed a major program to train and arm moderate Syrian rebels, in a significant expansion of the U.S. role in a civil war …
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Reuters:   Obama seeks $500 million from Congress to help moderate Syrian rebels Reuters 47 mins ago
Lauren French / Politico:
Nancy Pelosi to travel to border, meet detained minors  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will travel to the southern border of the U.S. on Saturday to be briefed by Customs and Border Protection on the flood of unaccompanied minors entering the country.
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
China Blocks Hillary Clinton's Book  —  Distributors and publishers impose an “effective ban” on Hard Choices , which is critical of the Chinese government.  “It's outrageous and unfortunate.”  —  Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state, talks with with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi during …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Guardian
Washington Post:
How the Clintons went from ‘dead broke’ to rich: Bill earned $104.9 million for speeches  —  Over seven frenetic days, Bill Clinton addressed corporate executives in Switzerland and Denmark, an investors' group in Sweden and a cluster of business and political leaders in Austria.
The Times of Israel:
Israel names suspects in kidnapping of three teens  —  Hamas operatives Amer Abu Aysha and Marwan Kawasme have been absent from their homes in Hebron since youths went missing  —  Israeli authorities on Thursday named two West Bank Palestinians as prime suspects in the kidnapping …
James Hohmann / Politico:
Lawyer clarifies Walker not target  —  A Wisconsin special prosecutor clarified Thursday that GOP Gov. Scott Walker was not the target of his investigation into what he described in earlier court papers as a “criminal scheme.”  —  Francis Schmitz, who is being accused of prosecutorial misconduct …
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Scott Walker / CNN:   Walker not focus of fundraising probe, prosecutor says
David Stout / New York Times:
Howard H. Baker Jr., ‘Great Conciliator’ of Senate, Dies at 88  —  Howard H. Baker Jr., a soft-spoken Tennessee lawyer who served three terms in the Senate and became known as “the great conciliator” in his eight years as the chamber's Republican leader, died on Thursday at his home in Tennessee.
Discussion: CNN
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James Gerstenzang / Washington Post:
Sen. Howard Baker dies at 88; majority leader and Reagan's chief of staff
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 
 
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Mark Sanford's Path of Most Resistance
Discussion: OnPolitics and ABC News
Lee Enterprises / La Crosse Tribune:
GOP candidate sounds warning on same-sex marriage
Rebecca Traister / The New Republic:
A Woman Should Run for President Against Hillary Clinton. Or Many Women.
Mary Troyan / Montgomery Advertiser:
Sessions opposes update to Voting Rights Act
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING!  There May Be Enough Invalidated Votes to Overturn Cochran Victory ...Update …
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Eric Russell / The Portland Press Herald:
LePage includes Social Security among ‘welfare’ programs
Discussion: Daily Kos
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Massachusetts high court orders suspect to decrypt his computers
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Jamie Dettmer / The Daily Beast:
ISIS May Open a Third Front in Lebanon
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