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1:20 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.
CNN:
S. Carolina cop charged with murder for shooting black man; protesters gather  —  Video shows cop shoot unarmed man in the back 03:04  —  Story highlights (CNN)New developments:  —  • 11:33 a.m.: The police chief of North Charleston, a chaplain and the mayor of North Charleston …
Discussion: Raw Story and American Spectator
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.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Walter Scott's Family Holds Presser on Shooting: ‘Justice Will Be Served’
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
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and TVNewser
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Rand Paul campaign: He wasn't talking about murder
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   The Rand Paul test: Clues to future of GOP
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 …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: When it comes to war, Congress has a double standard  —  The debate is intensifying in Congress over what lawmakers should do to place limits on President Obama's authority to implement a deal with major world powers and Iran over the future of that country's nuclear program.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems waver on Iran bill
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
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 …
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.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Court declines to lift hold on Obama's immigration actions
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 …
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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