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Guardian:
Edward Snowden: ‘The US government will say I aided our enemies’ - video interview — In the second part of an exclusive interview with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden contemplates the reaction from the US government to his revelations …
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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 …
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Tal Kopan / Reuters:
Edward Snowden: I believed in U.S. ‘nobility’ — In a new video released by The Guardian, Edward Snowden says he once believed in the “nobility” of the U.S. government's causes but grew disillusioned. — The video contains more excerpts from a June 6 interview with Snowden in Hong Kong that The Guardian had previously not released.
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Jeff Cohen / The Huffington Post:
How Do You Know When President Obama Is Lying? MSNBC Won't Tell You — I was a young person when I first heard the quip: “How do you know when the President is lying? His lips are moving.” At the time, President Nixon was expanding the war in Vietnam to other countries and deploying the White House …
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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 …
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Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Rand Paul slams ‘military junta’ support — Sen. Rand Paul lashed out Monday against neoconservatives on Twitter for supporting the “military junta” in Egypt and arguing for continued monetary aid to the country, whose armed forces recently ousted the sitting president, Mohamed Morsi.
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New York Times:
The Perils of a 'People's Coup'
The Perils of a 'People's Coup'
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Al Jazeera English:
Massacre in Cairo deepens Egypt crisis
Massacre in Cairo deepens Egypt crisis
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Reuters:
At least 42 killed in Egypt, Islamists call for uprising
At least 42 killed in Egypt, Islamists call for uprising
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Peter Baker / The Caucus:
Obama Administration Rules Out Suspension of Aid to Egypt in Near Term
Obama Administration Rules Out Suspension of Aid to Egypt in Near Term
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Catalina Camia / Associated Press:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry to declare political plans — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to announce Monday plans for his political future, leaving open the question of whether he'll seek an unprecedented fourth term next year or try again to seek the White House.
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Jay Root / The Texas Tribune:
Rick Perry Won't Run for Re-election … SAN ANTONIO — Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday that he will not run for re-election next year, creating the first open race for Texas governor since 1990 and making Attorney General Greg Abbott the instant favorite to replace him.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Perry Will Not Seek Re-election as Texas Governor — SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor of Texas and an unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate in 2012, announced that he would not seek another term in Austin but would instead “pray and reflect and work to determine my own future path.”
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Steven Yaccino / New York Times:
Schools Seeking to Arm Employees Hit Hurdle on Insurance — As more schools consider arming their employees, some districts are encountering a daunting economic hurdle: insurance carriers threatening to raise their premiums or revoke coverage entirely. — During legislative sessions this year …
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Victor Epstein / USA Today:
Kansas law thrusts Iowa insurer into gun debate
Kansas law thrusts Iowa insurer into gun debate
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
TV Is Americans' Main Source of News — Preferred news source varies by age, education, and politics, among other factors — PRINCETON, NJ — Television is the main place Americans say they turn to for news about current events (55%), leading the Internet, at 21%.
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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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John Fund / National Review:
Why Obamacare Threatens Immigration Reform
Why Obamacare Threatens Immigration Reform
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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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Radley Balko / Salon:
“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control — Overwhelming paramilitary force is on the rise — Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn't a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him …
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Reprieve:
Yasiin Bey force-feeding video launches campaign to support Guantanamo hunger-strikers — Yasiin Bey appears in a video launched today demonstrating the Standard Operating Procedure for force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. — Made by human rights charity Reprieve …
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Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
101M Americans Get Food Aid from Federal Gov't; More Than the Number of Private Sector Workers — (CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population.
Fred Burton / Vanity Fair:
40 Minutes In Benghazi — When U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed in a flash of hatred in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, the political finger-pointing began. But few knew exactly what had happened that night. With the ticktock narrative of the desperate fight to save Stevens …
NBCNews:
July 7: Bob Menendez, Raul Labrador, Robin Wright, Tom Friedman, Jeff Goldberg, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, EJ Dionne, David Brooks, Gene Robinson — Below: — MR. DAVID GREGORY: This Sunday, breaking news on two fronts this morning; the crash landing in San Francisco and the chaos …
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Lautenberg's son blasts ‘show horse’ Booker as family endorses Pallone — The family of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) on Monday endorsed Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D) in the New Jersey Senate race and criticized frontrunner Cory Booker (D) as a glory-seeking “show horse” who lacks their father's work ethic.
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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Carl Malamud / Bulk.Resource.Org:
Statement of Public.Resource.Org — Why We Asked the I.R.S. to Temporarily Turn the Lights Off on Section 527 Data — Public.Resource.Org has discovered that the Internal Revenue Service has posted the Social Security Numbers of tens of thousands of Americans on government web sites.
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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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Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
Recovery woes: America's second-largest employer is a temp agency — Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider. — Friday's disappointing jobs report showed that part-time jobs are at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans now working part-time.
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