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7:30 AM ET, February 25, 2015

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Steven Dennis / The World's Greatest Deliberative Body:
McConnell Throws in Towel on DHS Fight, but Reid Is Waiting for Boehner to Cave (Updated)  —  Updated 5:20 p.m. |  In an extraordinary sequence of events, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered Democrats exactly what they have been asking for Tuesday — “clean” full-year funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Right turns fire on McConnell  —  Conservative hardliners laid into Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Tuesday night for what they view as capitulating to Democrats on immigration.  —  McConnell announced earlier in the day that the Senate would vote on a “clean” …
National Journal:
Mitch McConnell Announces a Vote on Clean DHS Funding Is Coming  —  The Senate majority leader is making his move to try and prevent a shutdown.  —  With the Homeland Security Department set to shut down on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday offered Senate Democrats everything they wanted.
Associated Press:
Pressure Centers on House GOP on Homeland Security Bill
Discussion: Washington Times and ABC News
Sam Youngman / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Mitch McConnell endorses Rand Paul's call for GOP presidential caucus in Kentucky
Discussion: Hit & Run
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Obama: Keystone pipeline bill ‘has earned my veto’  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have approved the Keystone XL pipeline, making good on a threat to reject a proposal embraced by Republicans as a jobs measure but opposed by environmentalists as contributing to climate change.
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Most Keystone oil would stay in U.S., study says
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net Neutrality  —  WASHINGTON — Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers were about to get the right …
Discussion: Guardian, Gawker, Gizmodo and Eschaton
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Slate:
The FCC's Plan to Protect the Internet
U.S. Department of Justice:
Federal Officials Close Investigation Into Death of Trayvon Martin  —  The Justice Department announced today that the independent federal investigation found insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida.
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USA Today:
No federal charges for Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin death
Discussion: Hot Air
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site’  —  The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
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Tanya Basu / The Atlantic Online:
Behind ‘the Disappeared’ of Chicago's Homan Square  —  The Guardian's Spencer Ackerman published a scathing account of Homan Square in Chicago on Tuesday, detailing a ‘black site’ in which Guantanamo-esque interrogation techniques are used to question suspected criminals.
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Nevada Lawmaker Says Cancer Is A Fungus, Recommends Simply Washing It Out  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File  —  Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R) wants to reform the rules of end-of-life medical care so that more cancer patients can simply flush out their disease using baking soda.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
Dr. Fiore is in: Cancer is a fungus that can be flushed out!  —  I think we should start a betting pool on just how many insane effusions will come out of Assemblywoman Michele Fiore's mouth every week.  —  Last week it was the “hot little girls” on campus remark to the paper of record.
Michael W. Chapman / CNSNews:
Rev. Graham: America is ‘Morally Crumbling Within ... We Have Turned Our Back on God’  —  “Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has taken a lot of heat from the media for his remark that he's not sure if President Obama really loves America,” said Rev. Graham in a Feb. 24 Facebook post.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Do Voters Believe Obama Loves America?
Susan Page / USA Today:
50 years after Selma, John Lewis on unfinished business  —  Shannon Rae Green, Darr Beiser, Paulo Fugen  —  WASHINGTON — John Lewis rubs the scar, still visible on his forehead, from the blow of a nightstick as Alabama state troopers assaulted the civil-rights marchers he was leading across …
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Andrew Desiderio / Mediaite:
John Lewis: Giuliani's Comments Show ‘Scars and Signs of Racism’ Still Present in U.S.
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won't run for U.S. Senate  —  Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Tuesday that he would not enter the race for Barbara Boxer's seat in the U.S. Senate, leaving state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris as the only major candidate.
Discussion: Washington Post and KTLA
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Antonio Villaraigosa / Facebook:
My grandfather came to this great state more than 100 years ago …
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
BuzzFeed:
Ron Paul: Black Caucus Only Against War Because They Want That Money For Food Stamps  —  “They are really against war because they want all of that money to go to food stamps for people here.”  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Former Republican Rep. Ron Paul, the father of potential presidential candidate Rand Paul …
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Eric W. Dolan / Raw Story:
Ron Paul: Congressional Black Caucus opposes war because they want food stamps
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Ian Ayres / New York Times:
Research Shows White Privilege Is Real  —  NEW HAVEN — THE recent reunion show for the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” re-aired a portion of Eddie Murphy's 1984 classic “White Like Me” skit, in which he disguised himself to appear Caucasian and quickly learned that …
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama Aide Calls Netanyahu's Planned Visit ‘Destructive’ to U.S.-Israel Ties  —  WASHINGTON — Susan E. Rice, President Obama's national security adviser, sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Tuesday over his plans to address a joint meeting of Congress next week …
Discussion: Political Wire and Israel Matzav
New York Times:
Clinton '16 Would Give Gender More of a Role Than Clinton '08 Did  —  SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The last time Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for president, she seemed torn over whether to emphasize her chance to make history, or to play down her gender and reassure voters that she was tough enough for the job.
Discussion: Hit & Run
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Chicago Tribune:
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
House Dems: Did Big Oil seek to sway scientists in climate debate?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
GOP Lawmaker Urges Constituents To Monitor Food Stamp Users At Grocery Stores
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Daily Kos
BBC:
UN climate head Rajendra Pachauri resigns
Discussion: Power Line and The Agonist
Bruce Golding / New York Post:
Company plans to sell kosher marijuana in NY
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and FOX News Radio
Reuters:
Special Report: How Iran's military chiefs operate in Iraq
Eli Lake / Bloomberg View:
White House Lowers Bar for Iran Nuke Deal
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
That Time Harry Reid Wore Dark Sunglasses to a News Conference
Discussion: Politico
Salim Furth, Ph.D. / Heritage Foundation:
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