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7:15 PM ET, March 11, 2015

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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
AP sues State Department, seeking access to Clinton records  —  1 photo  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
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Fox News:
Embattled Ferguson police chief to resign, sources say  —  FILE 2014: Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson will announce his resignation on Wednesday, sources tell Fox News.  Jackson's department has been criticized after a Justice Department probe.  (Reuters)
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Christine Byers / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson resigns  —  FERGUSON  • Police Chief Thomas Jackson has resigned from the police department effective March 19.  —  In an exclusive interview, Jackson said he felt it was time for the city to move on.  —  “I believe this is the appropriate thing to do at this time,” Jackson said.
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
eGhazi: Why Democrats and Hillary Clinton Need A Contested Primary  —  Share This: Digg! … As Laura Clawson deftly describes, the Media is turrible on its best days, but when the Clintons are involved, they reach seemingly impossible nadirs, and stay down there.
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NBC News:
The Clinton Way: Hillary Follows a Familiar Script
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jean-Luc Renaudie / Agence France-Presse:
As Israel vote looms, centre-left pulls ahead of PM Netanyahu's Likud  —  Jerusalem (AFP) - Less than a week before Israel's second general election in two years, Isaac Herzog's centre-left Zionist Union opened up a lead on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightwing Likud, polls showed Wednesday.
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Gallup:
Story Highlights  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's much-publicized and controversial address to Congress, Americans' opinions of him have worsened.  His favorable rating is down seven percentage points, to 38%, while his unfavorable rating has increased five points, to 29%.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:   Is It Sheldon Adelson's World?
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Morning Joe, Bill Kristol Blame Racist SAE Video on Rap Music  —  The concerned parents on Morning Joe found something to be outraged about over the video of SAE frat members engaged in a racist chant: namely the rapper Waka Flocka Flame's decision not to perform for the fraternity …
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Robert Wilonsky / The Scoop Blog:
Parker Rice, parents of Levi Pettit apologize for ‘horrible mistake’ made in OU SAE video
WTKR-TV:
Portsmouth Sheriff furious with judges after being told to remove American flag display from courthouse … Portsmouth, Va. - Portsmouth Sheriff Bill Watson says he is furious after a group of judges told him to take down an American flag display.  —  Sheriff Watson said his agency got …
Tom LoBianco / Indianapolis Star:
Indiana state rep apologizes for sexting with Sydney Leathers  —  Indiana Rep. Justin Moed is apologizing for sexting with Sydney Leathers, the Evansville woman at the center of the 2013 Anthony Weiner sexting scandal.  —  “I am truly sorry I have hurt the ones I love most with my poor judgment.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:   No, Really: Lawmaker Busted For Sexting With Woman From Weiner Scandal
Benjamin Hardy / ArkansasTimes:
Casting out demons: why Justin Harris got rid of kids he applied pressure to adopt  —  Rep. Justin Harris blames DHS for the fallout related to his adoption of three young girls, but sources familiar with the situation contradict his story and paint a troubling picture of the adoption process and the girls' time in the Harris household.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Secret Service agents investigated for driving car into White House barrier  —  The administration is investigating allegations that two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of President Obama's protective detail, drove a government car into White House security barricades …
Caleb Bonham / Campus Reform:
EXCLUSIVE: California profs ‘unequivocally’ endorse American flag ban  — An online letter supporting students at UC Irvine who wanted to ban national flags, including the American flag, from their organization's lobby, has over 1,200 signatures.  —  In a letter uncovered …
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
“Former Fetus” Signs Cause Stir at Capitol … Signs calling some state lawmakers former fetuses are causing a stir at the Capitol, with one representative accusing another of intimidating his staff by removing them.  —  One of the signs appeared Wednesday morning on the wall outside Rep. Jonathan Stickland's office.
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Aaron Schock: I ‘certainly hope’ I didn't break the law  —  The embattled congressman gets testy in a face-to-face interview.  —  Getty  —  PEORIA, Ill. — The question to Rep. Aaron Schock was simple: Do you think you've broken any rules or federal laws?  But the scandal-plagued congressman did not have a definitive answer.
Des Moines Register:
Lisa Myers: TV journalism deteriorating  —  Let's start with a riddle: How can one spend months in Iowa and not have a favorite restaurant or bar or museum or park?  —  Be a correspondent for a national news network covering the Iowa caucuses, that's how.  —  “I must say that I rarely went …
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and Hot Air
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
IT Expert Says He Traced Hillary's Email Server To Manhattan Government Building [VIDEO]  —  Cyber-security expert Vinny Troia told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren on Tuesday that he traced the IP address of the server Hillary Clinton used to host the private email account she used as secretary …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
David Goldstein / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Precedent for GOP's Iran letter hard to find, historians say  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Historian's Office has so far been unable to find another example in the chamber's history where one political party openly tried to deal with a foreign power against a presidential policy …
Andrew DeMillo / The Baxter Bulletin:
Bill would allow Sen. Cotton to run for president  —  LITTLE ROCK - U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton is barely into his third month in office, but a lawmaker in his home state of Arkansas wants to pave the way for the freshman Republican to run for re-election and the White House in 2020.
Vivian Yee / New York Times:
The Snow Is Melting!  But What a Mess It Left Behind  —  The snow is melting.  Spring has almost sprung!  The mercury pokes upward, and New Yorkers' spirits rise apace.  It would be understandable, after this winter that seemed delivered from deepest Siberia, if all city dwellers walked around …
Discussion: Gothamist and New York Magazine
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
McCain: GOP letter to Iran not ‘most effective’ response  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), one of the signers of the controversial letter to Iran's leadership, admitted Tuesday night that the letter might not have been the way to express frustration that President Obama isn't working with Congress on nuclear negotiations with Tehran.
Discussion: Horizons and Daily Kos
Politico:
Susan B. Glasser  —  Susan Glasser is the Editor of POLITICO.  She was also the founding editor of POLITICO Magazine, the award-winning publication featuring both long-form reporting and opinion journalism.  Launched in November 2013, the magazine publishes daily online and bimonthly in print …
Discussion: Washington Post and FishbowlDC
Igor Bobic / The Huffington Post:
Michele Bachmann Warns Of Impending Sharknado Outside White House  —  WASHINGTON — A star has been born.  —  Former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Tuesday starred in a cameo for “Sharknado 3,” the cult-classic fantasy movie series featuring vicious, airborne sharks riding deadly tornadoes from the sea.
 
 
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The Huffington Post:
Senate Bill Would Effectively End The Federal War On Medical Marijuana
Nick Gass / Politico:
Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney boosts French comedian with anti-Semitic history
Peter Hamby / CNN:
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Ben Shapiro / Townhall.com:
Is Being Gay a Choice?  —  Last week, Dr. Ben Carson stepped onto …
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ProPublica:
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz's claim that the IRS tax code has more words than the Bible
 

 
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