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Christina Ng / ABCNEWS:
ABC News Exclusive: First Video of Colorado Shooting Suspect James Holmes Emerges — ABC News has obtained exclusive video and photos of Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes. The video was recorded six years ago when Holmes was 18. — Federal authorities and local police today …
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KDVR.com:
Police interview associate of movie theater suspect — AURORA, Colo. — Aurora Police said they interviewed an associate of the suspect in the shooting spree Friday at the Century 16 Movie Theaters. — Sources tell FOX31 Denver reporter Justin Joseph that a second man is now a person …
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Twitchy, Mediaite, The PJ Tatler and The Hinterland Gazette
NY Daily News:
Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes jailed in solitary: ‘All the inmates were talking about killing him’ — ‘He was spitting at the door and spitting at the guards,’ a just-released inmate told the Daily News. 'He's spitting at everything. Dude was acting crazy.'
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CANNONFIRE, The PJ Tatler, American Power, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Scared Monkeys, TMZ.com and New York Magazine
Sam Quinones / L.A. NOW:
Colorado shooting suspect worked for a summer as camp counselor in L.A. County
Colorado shooting suspect worked for a summer as camp counselor in L.A. County
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Los Angeles Times, newsfeed.time.com and TMZ.com
CBS News:
NCAA source: “Unprecedented” penalties against Penn State — (CBS News) CBS News has learned that the NCAA will announce what a high-ranking association source called “unprecedented” penalties against both the Penn State University football team and the school.
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CollegeFootballTalk, Sporting News Feed RSS, RedState, Outside the Beltway, The Raw Story, Deadspin, TMZ.com and New York Magazine
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Associated Press:
Statue of Hall of Fame Penn State coach Joe Paterno taken down from outside football stadium — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium Sunday, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding …
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Outside the Beltway, Scared Monkeys and Sense of Events
Jason Riley / Courier-Journal:
Sexual assault victim's tweets about attackers prompt contempt case against Louisville's Savannah Dietrich — Frustrated by what she felt was a lenient plea bargain for two teens who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her and circulating pictures of the incident, a Louisville 17-year-old lashed out on Twitter.
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The Volokh Conspiracy, The Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Former McCain adviser: Romney's taxes not like ‘the average American’ — A top campaign official who worked for Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) 2008 presidential bid and helped select his running mate said Sunday that Mitt Romney's tax returns “do not look anything like the average American.”
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Politico
New York Post:
THE VICTIMS: Real movie heroes saved their sweethearts during Colo. ambush — By CAITLIN GIBBONS in Aurora, Colo., and SUSAN EDELMAN and MICHAEL GARTLAND in NY — JON BLUNK, 26, with girlfriend, Jansen Young — They took bullets for their beloveds. — Three young men are being hailed …
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Althouse
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Senator: Keeping Guns From ‘Demented Individuals’ Will ‘Restrict Our Freedoms’ — Responding to the tragic shooting in Colorado during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he would oppose gun control efforts that could be used to “restrict our freedoms” …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Feinstein urges assault weapons ban renewal after Colo. shootings
Feinstein urges assault weapons ban renewal after Colo. shootings
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Jammie Wearing Fools
New York Times:
U.S. to Focus on Forcibly Toppling Syrian Government — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has for now abandoned efforts for a diplomatic settlement to the conflict in Syria, and instead it is increasing aid to the rebels and redoubling efforts to rally a coalition of like-minded countries …
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Guardian, Prairie Weather, Mondoweiss and Israel Matzav
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McCain blasts Obama handling of Syria, warns of chemical weapons threat
McCain blasts Obama handling of Syria, warns of chemical weapons threat
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CNN
Jgalloway / Political Insider:
A rare word from Zell Miller: ‘I had a late life conversion’ — Buford, Ga. - There was no mistaking the man who walked through the glass doors of the hotel complex on the shores of Lake Lanier. — The trademark shock of white hair remains neatly groomed. The hawk-like nose still juts out over a tight jaw.
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The Gateway Pundit and Politico
Heather Stewart / Guardian:
£13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite — • Study estimates staggering size of offshore economy — • Private banks help wealthiest to move cash into havens — A global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary £13 trillion …
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Firedoglake and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
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John D. McKinnon / Washington Wire:
Tax Justice Network: Wealth Held in Tax Havens Skyrockets
Tax Justice Network: Wealth Held in Tax Havens Skyrockets
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Prairie Weather
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Rupert Murdoch Tweets Support for Gun Control — Conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch has Tweeted his support for gun control: … I guess this makes him a short-sighted, liberal, tree hugger. — Or are some things too important to remain in the septic tank of American political polemics?
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Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, Mashable! and The Agonist, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
U.S. Expands Drug Fight in Africa — WASHINGTON — In a significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counternarcotics police in Ghana and planning similar units in Nigeria and Kenya as part of an effort to combat the Latin American cartels …
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The Huffington Post and Hullabaloo
Los Angeles Times:
Obama's campaign attack on Romney was costly — President Obama's campaign spent $58 million in June, chiefly in TV advertising assailing his GOP rival's business record and personal finances. Romney spent less, but raised more than Obama. — Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife …
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The Other McCain, Hot Air and Politico
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Democratic billionaires boost pro-Obama super PAC
Democratic billionaires boost pro-Obama super PAC
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New York Magazine