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4:45 PM ET, April 23, 2015

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New York Times:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company  —  The headline in Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin's latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when the newspaper served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”
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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Exclusive: Clinton charities will refile tax returns, audit for other errors  —  (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton's family's charities are refiling at least five annual tax returns after a Reuters review found errors in how they reported donations from governments, and said they may audit …
Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Cash Author Is Targeting Jeb Bush Next  —  The past week can't have been very pleasant for Peter Schweizer.  On Sunday, the New York Times revealed that his forthcoming book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich …
Lauren French / Politico:
Trey Gowdy asks Hillary Clinton to appear twice on emails, Benghazi  —  The House Committee investigating Benghazi is asking Hillary Clinton to appear for two public hearings on the 2012 terrorist attacks and her email use, according to a letter sent to her lawyer on Thursday.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Liberaland
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton has a baggage problem
ABC News:
Bill Clinton Cashed In When Hillary Became Secretary of State
Discussion: TVNewser
Adam Entous / Wall Street Journal:
American, Italian Hostages Killed in CIA Drone Strike in January  —  Drone strike kills pair in Pakistan, U.S. officials say; White House orders review of incident  —  A U.S. drone strike in January targeting a suspected al Qaeda compound in Pakistan inadvertently killed an American and Italian …
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Erin Dooley / ABC News:
Obama: ‘I Take Full Responsibility’ For US Operation That Killed Innocent Hostages Held By Al Qaeda … President Obama said today that he takes “full responsibility” for a U.S. government counterterrorism operation that killed two innocent hostages held by al Qaeda.
Bring Warren Home:
Weinstein Family Statement on Disclosure of the Death in Captivity of Warren Weinstein
Discussion: Mashable, Daily Kos and FOX News Radio
Peter Baker / New York Times:
2 Qaeda Hostages Were Accidentally Killed in U.S. Strike, White House Says
Bobby Jindal / New York Times:
I'm Holding Firm Against Gay Marriage  —  BATON ROUGE, La. — THE debate over religious liberty in America presents conservatives and business leaders with a crucial choice.  —  In Indiana and Arkansas, large corporations recently joined left-wing activists to bully elected officials …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
At New York Reception, Ted Cruz Is Said to Strike Different Tone Toward Gays  —  Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential candidate, has positioned himself as a strong opponent to same-sex marriage, urging pastors nationwide to preach in support of marriage as an institution between a man and a woman …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate votes 56-43 to confirm Lynch as attorney general  —  The Senate confirmed Loretta Lynch's long-delayed nomination Thursday, giving the country its first female African American attorney general.  —  Senators voted 56-43 to confirm Lynch, more than 160 days after she was nominated by President Obama.
Discussion: ABC News
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Tom McCarthy / Guardian:
Loretta Lynch confirmed as US attorney general after delay ‘to spite Obama’
Discussion: Progress Pond, Mediaite and The Week
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch as Attorney General After Long Delay
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch To Be The First Black Female Attorney General
Discussion: RH Reality Check
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal  —  Comcast Corp. is planning to walk away from its proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc., people with knowledge of the matter said, after regulators decided that the deal wouldn't help consumers, making approval unlikely.
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New York Times:
Comcast Is Said to End $45 Billion Bid for Time Warner Cable
Discussion: Mashable and Mediaite
USA Today:
Apologetic Petraeus gets probation for leaking secrets to his mistress  —  Petraeus punishment expected Thursday WCNC  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — David Petraeus, the retired four-star general leader who once commanded military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, pleaded guilty Thursday …
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Week
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New York Times:
David Petraeus Is Sentenced to Probation in Leak Investigation
Discussion: Liberaland and The Verge
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘F*ck this court — I AM Justice’: Woman uncorks berserk legal rant after civil rights suit tossed  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A self-described “Floridian-American” sovereign citizen submitted a nine-page, profanity-laced tirade against a judge who dismissed a lawsuit she filed on behalf of her husband and son.
Dave Philipps / New York Times:
Few People Lost Jobs With V.A. in Scandal  —  The nationwide scandal last spring over manipulated wait times at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals led to the ouster of the secretary of veterans affairs and vows from the new leadership that people would be held accountable.
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Why don't we just abolish the VA?  —  The men and women who serve …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Julia Belluz / Vox:
The new surgeon general's 4 rules for health … President Obama nominated him for the post of US surgeon general, the nation's top spokesperson for public health, back in November 2013.  The Senate then promptly blocked his nomination for more than a year, particularly after the National …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Julia O'Donoghue / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
LSU drafting ‘academic bankruptcy’ plan in response to state budget crisis  —  LSU President F. King Alexander says LSU is putting together paperwork to declared financial exigency, essentially academic bankruptcy, this week because of lack of progress on the state budget.
Vincent Schilling / Indian Country Today Media …:
Native Actors Walk off Set of Adam Sandler Movie After Insults to Women, Elders  —  Approximately a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler's newest film production, The Ridiculous Six, on Wednesday.
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
GOP bill would block courts on gay marriage  —  A Republican lawmaker is trying to keep federal courts from hearing same-sex marriage cases.  —  Less than a week before the Supreme Court plans to hear arguments in potentially one of the nation's most influential cases on gay marriage …
 
 
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Simon Neville / London Evening Standard:
Pret A Manger staff give free coffee to their favourite customers, sandwich chain boss reveals
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
The Many Measures of Hillary Clinton
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Senate panel approves trade bill
Discussion: Common Dreams and New Atlanticist
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Bundy Family Heads To Oregon Gold Mine For Newest BLM Confrontation
Wall Street Journal:
China Says Please Stop Hiring Funeral Strippers
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
Ali Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
Tracking Hillary Clinton's Use of Every American Accent East of the Mississippi
Discussion: Booman Tribune
CBS News:
​Deputy who fired gun instead of taser was investigated in 2009
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Paul Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Wealthy Donors Are Throwing Way More Money At The Republican Party This Year
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Obamacare, Hands Off My Medicare
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Aaron David Miller / CNN:
Iran parades military equipment 9 photos
Discussion: Washington Post
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
What will Patty Murray do?  —  Sen. Patty Murray's two decades …
S.V. Dáte / National Journal:
Why Bush and Rubio Can't Count on Florida
Discussion: SaintPetersBlog
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Secret Service took a year to fix broken alarm at George H.W. Bush home
 

 
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