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12:05 AM ET, July 19, 2014

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David Remnick / Comment:
AFTER THE CRASH  —  Geography, motive, communications intercepts, and all manner of circumstantial evidence suggest that the likeliest suspect in the horrific deaths of two hundred and ninety-eight people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was the curiously well-armed and well-coördinated …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Just With Real Weapons  —  Following up on my piece from last night about Putin's epic goof, here's an amazing little nugget from David Remnick's post about the Malaysian Air shoot down.  —  The reference is to the puffed up separatist ‘warlord’ who appears to lead the group that shot …
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Russia Today London correspondent resigns in protest at ‘disrespect for facts’ over Malaysian plane crash  —  A Russia Today reporter based in London has resigned with immediate effect in protest at the station's coverage of yesterday's plane crash in Ukraine.
Sara Firth / BuzzFeed:
Russia Today Correspondent Resigns Over Coverage Of Ukrainian Plane Crash  —  Sara Firth, a longstanding London-based correspondent for Russia Today, resigned on Friday in protest at the channel's coverage of the Malaysia Airlines crash.  —  Firth, who joined the channel in 2009 …
Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:   Cover-up: Ukraine rebels destroying all links to MH17 air atrocity
New York Times:
U.S. Is Citing Signs of Russian Links to Jet's Downing
Steve Lillebuen / Sydney Morning Herald:
Crash claims top AIDS researchers heading to Melbourne
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Game Changer
ABC News:
President Obama Says at Least One American On Board Downed Malaysia Airline Plane in Ukraine
Discussion: ABC News, abc11.com and PoliticusUSA
Talking Points Memo:
Why Airlines Didn't Avoid Risky Ukraine Airspace
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Karen Deyoung / Washington Post:
Downing of jet could escalate Ukraine crisis, tension between Russia and West
Emma Roller / NationalJournal.com:
Elizabeth Warren's 11 Commandments of Progressivism  —  Watch Elizabeth Warren give a speech to her fold, and you realize she's one of the rare Democrats who can excite her base in the same way Ted Cruz or Dr. Ben Carson can excite their own.  As Politico's Katie Glueck wrote on Friday …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
CNN Removes Reporter Diana Magnay From Israel-Gaza After ‘Scum’ Tweet  —  NEW YORK — CNN has removed correspondent Diana Magnay from covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after she tweeted that Israelis who were cheering the bombing of Gaza, and who had allegedly threatened her, were “scum.”
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN pulls reporter from Israel over tweet  —  CNN has removed international correspondent Diana Magnay from Israel after she referred to a group of Israelis as “scum.”  —  Magnay, who was covering the Israeli missile attack on Gaza, tweeted Thursday, “Israelis on hill above Sderot cheer …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Power Line
NY Daily News:
Staten Island man dies after NYPD cop puts him in chokehold — SEE THE VIDEO  —  VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: A 400-pound asthmatic Staten Island dad died Thursday after a cop put him in a chokehold and other officers appeared to slam his head against the sidewalk, video of the incident shows.
Hannah Hess / Hill Blotter:
Marino Staffer Arrested for Bringing Gun to Cannon  —  Shucard was arrested Friday.  (Via Facebook)  —  Capitol Police arrested a staffer for Rep. Tom Marino Friday morning on charges of carrying a 9mm handgun and magazine into the Cannon House Office building.
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Lauren French / Politico:
Hill staffer arrested on gun charge
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
McCain: Had I won in 2000, Iraq War might not have happened  —  CNN and National Journal joined forces Thursday to explore the 2014 midterm elections at the first “Politics on Tap” event in Washington D.C. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, joined CNN's Jake Tapper, Brianna Keilar and Peter Hamby …
Byron Tau / Politico:
Microsoft layoffs hit D.C. office  —  Microsoft's massive layoffs have hit the company's Washington policy office.  —  Five policy and government relations staffers were let go in a restructuring process that hit both Microsoft and its subsidiary Nokia.  —  Positions held by Nokia lobbyist …
Discussion: Business Insider
John Leo / Minding The Campus:
An Amazing Diversity Plan at Madison … John Leo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the editor of MindingTheCampus.com, a web magazine dedicated to chronicling developments within higher education in an effort to restore balance and intellectual pluralism to our American universities.
Politico:
Obama's foes on border crisis: Democrats  —  President Barack Obama's response to the southern border crisis is under fire from an unlikely source: fellow Democrats.  —  Republicans have seized on the ballooning number of unaccompanied children crossing into Texas as proof of Obama's failed immigration policies.
Discussion: Hot Air and Fox News
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Halts Recognition Of Utah Same-Sex Marriages During Appeal  —  While the state appeals the trial court decision, Utah will not need to recognize the marriages it granted to same-sex couples.  —  Supreme Court of the United States in Washington  —  peterspiro/peterspiro
 
 
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John Le / New York Times:
John le Carré on Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama to Issue Order Barring Anti-Gay Bias by Contractors
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jeff Shesol / News Desk:
So Sue Me: Republicans Learn to Love Litigation
Katharine Lackey / Associated Press:
World marks Nelson Mandela Day
Discussion: Hullabaloo and kyivpost.com
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
CBS CEO says he will look at CNN if it goes up for sale
Townhall.com:
Elizabeth Warren Backs Corporate Welfare Bank
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
Clinton Papers: Bin Laden, Haiti and Supreme Court
Discussion: CNN
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John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Mexican Consulate Employee Busted Hauling 100 Pounds Of Cocaine Into United States
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Noah Rothman / Hot Air:
Hillary: This plane thing is really Europe's problem
Discussion: Fox News, Ed Driscoll and RedState
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Not the worst of times  —  The world seems very messy these days …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Detroit Free Press:
Schauer closes on Snyder; Peters expands lead over Land for U.S. Senate
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Addicted to Inflation  —  The first step toward recovery …
Michael Levenson / The Boston Globe:
Poll has Martha Coakley, Charlie Baker in dead heat
Discussion: OnPolitics
 

 
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