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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
What's Happening In Turkey? — As some longtime readers know, I'm a turkophile. So I've been extremely eager to get a grip on just what's going on there over the last 48 hours (quick version: massive street protests in Istanbul, perhaps spreading to other parts of the country).
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Guardian and Balloon Juice
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
Police Retreat in Istanbul as Protests Expand Through Turkey
Police Retreat in Istanbul as Protests Expand Through Turkey
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Al Jazeera English, Gawker, Firedoglake, Taylor Marsh and Amnesty International
Conal Urquhart / Guardian:
Turkey protests rage for second day
Turkey protests rage for second day
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Truthdig, Via Meadia and Atlas Shrugs
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Jean Stapleton, Who Played Archie Bunker's Better Angel, Dies at 90 — Jean Stapleton, the character actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series “All in the Family” made her, along with Mary Tyler Moore and Bea Arthur …
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Outside the Beltway, The Moderate Voice, NY Daily News, Scared Monkeys, Booman Tribune, Althouse and Hollywood Life
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Greg Botelho / CNN:
Actress Jean Stapleton, known as Edith Bunker on ‘All in the Family,’ dies — (CNN) — Actress Jean Stapleton, best known for her role as Archie Bunker's wife in the groundbreaking 1970s sitcom “All in the Family,” has died, her son said Saturday. — She was 90 years old.
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Wake up America
Ryan Lenora Brown / Christian Science Monitor:
Massachusetts Senate race called ‘toss up’: Could GOP surprise again? — The Cook Political Report has announced it's shifting its prediction for the Massachusetts Senate race from ‘leaning Democrat’ to ‘toss up.’ In 2010, Republican Scott Brown won a similar special election. — BOSTON
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Reaction and Weekly Standard
New York Times:
China's Economic Empire — HONG KONG — THE combination of a strong, rising China and economic stagnation in Europe and America is making the West increasingly uncomfortable. While China is not taking over the world militarily, it seems to be steadily taking it over commercially.
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Daily Kos
Byron Tau / Politico:
Issa dismisses Carney as a ‘paid liar’ — The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee blasted White House press secretary Jay Carney on Sunday, calling him a “paid liar” who is not being truthful about the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service.
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Taegan Goddard's …
New York Times:
Goals to Fulfill and Foes to Foil Keep Holder Going — WASHINGTON — At the end of last year, with the election decided and the Obama administration in office for four more years, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. considered stepping down. He decided against it, in part because before he left …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Right Wing News
BBC:
Iraq ‘saw 1,000 killed in May’ — The United Nations says more than 1,000 people were killed in Iraq in May, the highest death toll for years. — The violence make it the deadliest month since the wide sectarian violence of 2006-7, and raising concern that the country is returning to civil war.
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New York Times, Booman Tribune and Truthdig
Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
Bloomberg's Push for Tighter Gun Laws Shifts to Other States — CARSON CITY, Nev. — John W. Griffin is a fast-talking, whiskey-loving, fifth-generation Nevadan who spends his days as a lobbyist courting lawmakers in Stetsons. He advocates for luxury casinos, once brokered a dispute between …
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The Reaction
International Business Times:
Far-Right Extremists Chased Through London by Women Dressed as Badgers — Political extremists were outnumbered and outgunned by protesters against the badger cull (Reuters) — A rally by extremists from the British National Party and the English Defence League was dwarfed …
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Little Green Footballs
Patricia Mazzei / MiamiHerald.com:
Congressman Joe Garcia's chief of staff implicated in phantom absentee-ballot requests scheme — Congressman Joe Garcia's chief of staff abruptly resigned Friday after being implicated in a sophisticated scheme to manipulate last year's primary elections by submitting hundreds of fraudulent absentee-ballot requests.
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CNN, Restoring Liberty, Discourse.net, Political MoneyLine Blog, Roll Call and The Hill
CBC News:
Canadian relief for Moore tornado victims denied at border — U.S. border officials want 20,000 kg of food itemized, physically inspected before entering — A tornado in Moore, Okla., killed 24 people and injured nearly 400 more on May 20. It destroyed 1,200 homes and damaged another 10,000.
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Hot Air and Outside the Beltway