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12:40 PM ET, April 8, 2015

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New York Times:
South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder in Black Man's Death  —  WASHINGTON — A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting and killing an apparently unarmed black man in the back while he ran away.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Everything The Police Said About Walter Scott's Death Before A Video Showed What Really Happened  —  CREDIT: Charleston County Police Department  —  On Tuesday, South Carolina police officer Michael Thomas Slager was charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of Walter Scott.
Andrew Knapp / Post and Courier:
North Charleston officer faces murder charge after video shows him shooting man in back  —  A North Charleston police officer was arrested on a murder charge Tuesday after video surfaced of the lawman shooting eight times at 50-year-old Walter Scott as he ran away.
ABC News:
Video Cited By Police in Murder Charges Shows Officer Shooting Driver
Discussion: Hit & Run
Nick Gass / Politico:
Rand Paul clashes with Savannah Guthrie over changing views  —  Rand Paul clashed with Today Show host Savannah Guthrie over her line of questioning during an interview Wednesday morning, criticizing her for editorializing over perceived changes in his political views since his election to the Senate.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sean Hannity shows his influence  —  Something to keep in mind: When Ted Cruz announced that he was running for president two weeks ago, reporters weren't allowed to publish their interviews with the candidate until 10 p.m. ET, several hours after the Texas senator's announcement.
Discussion: The Hill and TVNewser
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   The Rand Paul test: Clues to future of GOP
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Tom Cotton: Bombing Iran Would Take “Several Days,” Be Nothing Like Iraq War  —  “All we're asking is that the president simply be as tough as in the protection of America's national security interest as Bill Clinton was.”  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Sen. Tom Cotton says bombing Iran's nuclear facilities …
Joshua Spivak / The Hill:
New York's political resurgence  —  New York, once a center of America's political world, long ago fell on hard times.  Where the state was once practically guaranteed a slot on at least one of the presidential tickets, it has been many years since a New Yorker was a real contender for the presidency.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems waver on Iran bill  —  The White House is trying to bottle up bipartisan legislation that would give Congress 60 days to review a final Iran nuclear deal.  —  The pushback may be having an effect — Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, is now undecided about the legislation …
Discussion: Washington Post and Horizons
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Last-minute lobbying threatens $200B Medicare package
Discussion: Daily Kos
Stephen Deere / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
High voter turnout in Ferguson adds two black council members, for three total  —  FERGUSON  • For the first time in Ferguson's 120-year history, the City Council will have three African-American members, but even so, Tuesday's election was less than a clear victory for the throngs …
Mark Halperin / Bloomberg Business:
Exclusive: New Ted Cruz Super-PACs Take in Record Haul  —  Ted Cruz's presidential effort is getting into the shock-and-awe fundraising business.  —  An associate of the Texas senator, a recently announced presidential candidate, tells Bloomberg that a cluster of affiliated super-political action committees …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Dick Cheney calls Obama ‘worst president’ on foreign policy  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney says President Barack Obama is the worst commander in chief the United States has ever had, in view of the recent Iranian nuclear agreement.  —  Asked about the deal by Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
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CNN:
How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House  —  Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.
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J. Michael Waller / Investor's Business Daily:
Hillary Clinton's Private Server A Foreign Spy Magnet
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Ed Driscoll
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Harry Reid: I'm Blind in One Eye  —  Senate minority leader Harry Reid is blind in one eye.  The news comes a week after Reid announced that he will retire at the end of this session of Congress and not run for reelection.  —  “It looked like somebody had hit you,” Fusion newscaster Jorge Ramos told Reid in a recent interview.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Sen. Harry Reid says he's ‘sightless’ in right eye
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Israel's Unworkable Demands on Iran  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has gone into overdrive against a nuclear agreement with Iran.  On Monday, his government made new demands that it claimed would ensure a better deal than the preliminary one that Iran, President Obama …
Lonnae O'Neal / Washington Post:
Book author Joan Walsh Anglund says of Angelou stamp: 'That's my quote'  —  A number of luminaries are expected at Tuesday morning's unveiling ceremony for the new stamp honoring the late author Maya Angelou, among them first lady Michelle Obama.  An 89-year-old children's book author named Joan Walsh Anglund won't be there.
Fox News:
Federal judge denies request to lift hold on Obama immigration action  —  A federal judge in Texas denied a Justice Department request Tuesday to lift his temporary hold on President Obama's executive action preventing the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants.
Chicago Tribune:
‘Second chance.’ Emanuel says he's ‘humbled’ by victory  —  Mayor Rahm Emanuel soundly defeated challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia on Tuesday, capturing a second term in Chicago's first runoff election and striking a note of humility by thanking voters for “a second term and a second chance.”
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Windy City / Bloomberg Business:
Emanuel Wins Second Term as Mayor of Fiscally Ravaged Chicago
Discussion: Hit & Run
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
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Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Phantom Public
Wall Street Journal:
The Iran Deal and Its Consequences
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review
Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project:
Americans, Japanese: Mutual Respect 70 Years After the End of WWII
Bloomberg Business:
U.S. Dot-Com Bubble Was Nothing Compared to Today's China Prices
Discussion: USA Today and FT Alphaville
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Foreign Policy Factions Tussle for Sway in Jeb Bush Campaign Team
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Washington Post
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Let Them Eat Waste: Chefs Turn Trash Into Haute Cuisine
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Democrats Have an Identity-Politics Problem
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Florida taxpayer-funded school: ‘Awesome God’ wanted lesbian teacher fired for ‘lifestyle choices’
Discussion: www.wftv.com and Liberaland
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Tom DeLay: I have a ‘right’ to not serve gay sinners because they ‘undermine’ my religious liberty