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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Breakthrough in Senate immigration talks; announcement set for Thursday — Senators seeking a solution to a deadlock over border security have reached a tentative agreement they believe could win the votes of a significant number of Republican lawmakers for the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill.
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Kasie Hunt / First Read:
Senators reach border deal, smoothing path to immigration overhaul — A U.S. Border Patrol agent monitors the border structures separating Tijuana, Mexico, from San Diego. Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Right rips Rubio as Republican immigration votes slip away — Republican colleagues who were previously viewed as possible “yes” votes are keeping their distance from the 1,075-page measure. — On Wednesday, conservative activists ripped Rubio and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) …
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Two G.O.P. Senators Are Close to a Deal on Border Security
Two G.O.P. Senators Are Close to a Deal on Border Security
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Washington Monthly, The Plum Line and msnbc.com
Exodus International:
Exodus International to Shut Down — Thirty-seven-year-old ministry for those with same-sex attraction marks its last national conference — Irvine, Calif. (June 19, 2013) — Exodus International, the oldest and largest Christian ministry dealing with faith and homosexuality announced tonight …
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Alan Chambers / Exodus International:
I Am Sorry — Three years ago, Leslie and I began a very public conversation with Our America's Lisa Ling, from the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) regarding some of our deeply held beliefs about Christianity and the LGBT community. Today, we have decided to carry this public conversation even further.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Group That Had Aimed To “Change” Gays To Shut Down, Leader Also Offered Apology
Group That Had Aimed To “Change” Gays To Shut Down, Leader Also Offered Apology
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The Week, Truth Wins Out, Exodus International and Dependable Renegade
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
James Gandolfini Is Dead at 51; a Complex Mob Boss in ‘Sopranos’ — James Gandolfini, the Emmy Award-winning actor who shot to fame on the HBO drama “The Sopranos” as Tony Soprano, a tough-talking, hard-living crime boss with a stolid exterior but a rich interior life, died on Wednesday. He was 51.
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James Gandolfini dead at 51: ‘Sopranos’ star suffers massive heart attack in Italy
James Gandolfini dead at 51: ‘Sopranos’ star suffers massive heart attack in Italy
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Pat Saperstein / Variety:
James Gandolfini Dead at 51
James Gandolfini Dead at 51
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Deadline.com:
R.I.P. James Gandolfini
R.I.P. James Gandolfini
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CNN:
Actor James Gandolfini dead at age 51
Actor James Gandolfini dead at age 51
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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
Power — You should decide now what kind of Supreme Court you want. Don't wait until after the Justices hand down the Term's major decisions. That will be too late. Make a real choice now about how much power you think the Court should have - before your judgment is skewed by either elation or outrage at the results.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Strategist Out of Closet and Into Fray, This Time for Gay Marriage
Strategist Out of Closet and Into Fray, This Time for Gay Marriage
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Politico
Matthew Cooper / NationalJournal.com:
The GOP Dilemma Over the Voting Rights Act
The GOP Dilemma Over the Voting Rights Act
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Telegraph:
Barack Obama bombs in Berlin: a weak, underwhelming address from a floundering president — When John F. Kennedy delivered his “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate on June 26, 1963, 450,000 people flocked to hear him. Fifty years later a far more subdued invitation …
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Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
Barack Obama keeps calling Chancellor George Osborne ‘Jeffrey’ at G8 summit …
Barack Obama keeps calling Chancellor George Osborne ‘Jeffrey’ at G8 summit …
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BBC, National Review and Guardian
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's Turbulent European Vacation
Obama's Turbulent European Vacation
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Hot Air, Yahoo! News, Weekly Standard, New York Times and CNN
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate Says Social Programs Hurt ‘Black Family’ More Than Slavery (Video) — The Virginia GOP's nominee for lieutenant governor, E.W. Jackson, gave a speech Wednesday in which he claimed government social programs have done more harm to the “black family” than slavery.
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Todd Allen Wilson / Hampton Roads Daily Press:
E. W. Jackson marks Juneteenth at Newport News event
E. W. Jackson marks Juneteenth at Newport News event
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Taegan Goddard's … and The Raw Story
Republican News Watch:
Rodney Davis team member issues racist rant attacking Erika Harold — To understand why the Illinois Republican Party keeps losing elections - look no further than the racist rant (copied below) from a GOP party official. — The email was sent to Republican News Watch's Editor …
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Illinois GOP official pens allegedly racist attack on black GOP candidate
Illinois GOP official pens allegedly racist attack on black GOP candidate
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ABCNEWS, Taegan Goddard's … and The Hinterland Gazette
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
The Do-Nothing Congress Has Done a Lot — Perhaps, like approximately 80 percent of Americans, you disapprove of Congress. Beholding the nation's capital, you are apt to see a sleazy, gridlocked mess, a Boschian hellscape of partisan acrimony and special-interest greed.
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Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Democrats start transition from President Obama to Hillary Clinton — Democrats in Washington are starting to shift from the Obamas to the Clintons. — Hillary Clinton has already racked up a couple of endorsements for the 2016 presidential race — and she hasn't even announced she's running yet.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Manchin hits back at NRA in new TV ad — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Thursday hit back at the National Rifle Association, accusing its leaders of shifting their stance on background checks for political gain, and unveiling a new television ad defending his bipartisan gun-control measure.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Paranoia Strikes Deep: The Press and Rand Paul — The absurd lengths journalists have gone to portray the Kentucky senator as if he's hiding something dangerous — Critiques of democracy are as old as the excesses of the Athenian variety. Here's a classic: The unmediated masses …
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Democratic groups launching ad against McConnell — Senate Majority PAC and Patriot Majority USA are launching a sustained campaign against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), starting with a television ad launched Thursday that hammers him for his decades-long tenure in Congress.
Betsy McCaughey / Investor's Business Daily:
Using ObamaCare To Create A Permanent Democratic Majority — If you have to keep it a secret, you probably shouldn't be doing it. — But the California legislature and the new Covered California health insurance exchange are conspiring to keep secret how they will dole out more than half …
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Power Line, National Review and Overlawyered
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Sex, Lies and the War on Men — The rights of the accused are under vicious attack. — A massive twit-storm washed over your humble columnist yesterday, set off by our Wall Street Journal op-ed defending an Obama nominee and the rights of criminal defendants.
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Jeffrey Lord / American Spectator:
Heritage, Levin Call for Immigration Debate — Paul Ryan issued a challenge. — The Heritage Foundation picked up the challenge. — Mark Levin wants to see this debate as well. — It's time — past time — for a full and open discussion in the conservative family about immigration.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Chuck Hagel Jokes That Indian Man Asking Him A Question Is A Member Of The Taliban — He was a college professor. Hagel was speaking at the University of Nebraska where he went to school. He had previously answered a question on Afghanistan and negotiating with the Taliban before the exchange.
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