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New York Times:
Spitzer Seeks Ballot for City Comptroller's Race — Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York five years ago amid a prostitution scandal, is re-entering political life, with a run for the citywide office of comptroller and a hope that voters have forgiven him his previous misconduct.
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Eliot Spitzer Is Nothing Like Anthony Weiner — He's a f**king steamroller. — Spitzer poses for a selfie after watching Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testify on Capitol Hill last July. — Via: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters — Eliot Spitzer's attempt to return to public life …
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Dan Abrams / ABC News:
Analysis: George Zimmerman Probably Won't Be Convicted of Murder or Manslaughter — Here's Why — I drew a legal conclusion on “Good Morning America” Saturday that would have surprised the Dan Abrams who covered the George Zimmerman case leading up to, and shortly after, his arrest.
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Andrew Branca / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Why Zimmerman's Motion for Acquittal Should Have Been Granted — Immediately following the close of the State's case on Friday, Mark O'Mara, the lawyer leading George Zimmerman's defense team, stood before Judge Nelson and made his oral motion for a judgment of acquittal for his client …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Defining Prosperity Down — Friday's employment report wasn't bad. But given how depressed our economy remains, we really should be adding more than 300,000 jobs a month, not fewer than 200,000. As the Economic Policy Institute points out, we would need more than five years of job growth …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Obama loses altitude, needs solid wins six months into second term — Six months into his second term, the momentum that President Obama gained from his reelection win is a fading memory. — Few could have foreseen this White House struggling so much after Obama's convincing 332-206 electoral vote victory …
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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama's summertime push: Immigration and the economy — With several controversies fading and a period of intense foreign travel over, President Obama is narrowing his focus this summer to two issues, immigration and the economy, that could help determine the success or failure of his second term.
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New York Times:
At Least 43 Die as Soldiers Said to Open Fire on Morsi Backers — By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and KAREEM FAHIM — CAIRO — Egyptian soldiers opened fire on hundreds of unarmed supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi early Monday as they were praying before dawn outside the facility …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Kerry's Wife Is Flown for Emergency Care — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, became ill with a serious medical condition during a vacation on Nantucket on Sunday and was flown to a hospital in Boston for emergency treatment, the State Department said.
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John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower's Law Firm — The offices of a Dallas law firm representing a high-profile State Department whistleblower were broken into last weekend. Burglars stole three computers and broke into the firm's file cabinets.
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BBC:
Egypt unrest: Tensions soar amid Cairo killings — At least 42 people have been shot dead near a military barracks in Cairo, amid ongoing unrest over the removal of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi. — The Muslim Brotherhood says its members were staging a pro-Morsi sit-in at the barracks …
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CNN:
Pilot in deadly plane crash had no experience landing 777 in San Francisco — San Francisco (CNN) — [Breaking news update at 11:33 p.m.] — (CNN) — The pilot of the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed in San Francisco on Saturday was making his first landing with a Boeing 777 …
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Beth Matusoff Merfish / New York Times:
My Mother's Abortion — BOULDER, Colo. — ON June 25, I sat with my mother and sister in the gallery of the Texas State Senate to support Wendy Davis, a Democratic senator, in her filibuster against legislation that would limit abortions after 20 weeks and impose new regulations that would leave just a few abortion clinics open.
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Pirate's Cove
Daniel Ellsberg / Washington Post:
Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S. — Daniel Ellsberg is the author of “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.” He was charged in 1971 under the Espionage Act for theft and conspiracy for copying the Pentagon Papers. The trial was dismissed in 1973 after evidence …
Wall Street Journal:
The White House says you can sign up ‘without further verification.’ — The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write. On the heels of last week's one-year suspension of the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate to offer insurance to workers …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A Hidden Consensus on Health Care
A Hidden Consensus on Health Care
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Clarice Feldman / American Thinker:
White House Down: Obama Version
White House Down: Obama Version
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's answer to the has-been charge — Republicans in search of an attack line against Hillary Clinton have begun to cast her as a tired relic of the past — an implicit contrast to their own bench of up-and-comers like hip hop-listening Marco Rubio and libertarian-leaning Rand Paul.
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New York Times:
Immigration in the House — The Republican caucus of the United States House of Representatives is holding a private meeting on Wednesday. The subject will be immigration. Perhaps it will be a showdown or a summit that will reset the party's direction on this issue.
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Rep. Labrador: Bad immigration bill could be ‘the death’ of the GOP
Rep. Labrador: Bad immigration bill could be ‘the death’ of the GOP
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