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Rodney King dead at 47 — Los Angeles (CNN) — Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked riots after the acquittal of the four officers involved, was found dead in his swimming pool Sunday, authorities and his fiancee confirmed. He was 47.
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Rodney King Dead — Face of L.A. Riots Dies at 47 — DEAD AT 47 — EXCLUSIVE — UPDATE 9:27 AM PT — According to our sources, King's fiancée is telling friends King had been drinking and smoked weed in the hours before his death. — Rodney King — the man who was at the center …
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Romney dodges immigration questions — Mitt Romney refuses to say whether he'd repeal the Obama administration's decision to stop deporting certain undocumented immigrants. — In an interview with Bob Schieffer aired Sunday on CBS's “Face the Nation,” the presumptive Republican presidential …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Top GOP Pundit Bill Kristol Praises Obama Immigration Order As ‘The Right Thing To Do’ — On Fox News Sunday this morning, host Chris Wallace asked Bill Kristol, a leading GOP pundit and apologist for the Iraq War, how he felt about President Obama's recent announcement that the Department …
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Ben Geman / Ballot Box:
Immigration ruling ‘fully within’ Obama powers, says adviser Plouffe
Immigration ruling ‘fully within’ Obama powers, says adviser Plouffe
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Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Romney: Immigration needs long-term fix, not stop-gap
Romney: Immigration needs long-term fix, not stop-gap
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
GREECE: Conservatives Win The Vote, But There's Still No Government — If you thought for a moment that the Greek election would end in a clean outcome tonight, the joke was on you. — In the first wave of exit polls that came out at 12:00 PM ET, the pro-bailout, conservative …
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Greek election results: What they mean for Greece, the euro, the EU — and beyond — Based on final exit polls, Greece's New Democracy party will — narrowly — be the leading vote getter in today's big elections in Greece, edging out left-wing coalition Syriza.
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Financial Times:
Greece exit polls too close to call — Greece's centre-right New Democracy party was in a neck-and-neck struggle on Sunday with Syriza, its radical leftist opponents, in an election whose uncertain outcome threatened to scupper Europe's efforts to hold the eurozone together.
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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Greek Deadlock Seen in Exit Polls
Greek Deadlock Seen in Exit Polls
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BuzzFeed:
The Real Story Of Barack Obama — A new biography finally challenges Obama's famous memoir. And the truth might not be quite as interesting as the president, and his enemies, have imagined. — David Maraniss's new biography of Barack Obama is the first sustained challenge to Obama's control …
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CNN:
Romney sees bright side of rain-soaked campaign event — Brunswick, Ohio (CNN) - Everyone was drenched by the time Mitt Romney arrived at his Father's Day pancake breakfast in Ohio, but the GOP candidate turned the lousy weather into a metaphor for the 2012 presidential race.
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David Plouffe / CNN:
TRENDING: Immigration change not political, Plouffe asserts
TRENDING: Immigration change not political, Plouffe asserts
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Bonnie Kavoussi / Reuters:
Roberto Unger, Obama's Former Harvard Law School Professor, Says The President ‘Must Be Defeated’ … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Barack Obama , Elections 2012, Video, Obama Roberto Unger, Obama Unger, Obama Unger HLS, Obama Unger Harvard Law School, President Obama Roberto Unger …
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Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:
C.E.O. Pay Is Rising Despite the Din — YOU call this a revolution? — Probably the most-heard complaint about big business these days, one seemingly tailored for the 99 percent, is how much money corporate C.E.O.'s routinely pull down. Many ordinary Americans probably cheered when stockholders …
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Cristina Corbin / Fox News:
Conservative bloggers taking precautions over ‘SWAT-ing’ attacks — LAS VEGAS - Conservative bloggers are on heightened alert following a string of so-called “SWAT-ing” incidents and are taking precautionary measures to ensure they don't fall victim to the potentially dangerous prank …
John_Frank / Raleigh News & Observer:
Beau Biden takes shot at Mitt Romney, hits Gov. Bev Perdue — Beau Biden, the son of the Democratic vice president, went “off script,” as he called it, to fire a shot a Republican Mitt Romney but hit Gov. Bev Perdue at the same time. — At the N.C. Democratic Party's annual fundraising dinner …
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Shay / CBS Charlotte:
New Law To Keep Booze Flowing For Democratic Convention — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Adding a twist to blue laws in an increasingly red state, North Carolina's Republican-led legislature is toasting a measure intended to keep the booze flowing at the Democratic National Convention.
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Playbook: Prankster Mitt leaves note — How ya doin', Knucklesnorts?" http://mi.tt/LS1tAU — ROMNEY TO SCHIEFFER: “Europe is capable of dealing with their banking crisis if they choose to do so” ... PLOUFFE TO STEPHANOPOULOS: “This is within the power of the Europeans to act”
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama plays 100th round of golf as president — CHICAGO — President Obama is spending Father's Day in his hometown playing the 100th round of golf of his presidency. — After a late night at the wedding of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett's daughter Laura, the president was out of the house …
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