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Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Cory Booker Wins But Almost No One Votes — Few New Jerseyans bothered to vote in Tuesday's special primary election for the U.S. Senate. — As a sleeping aid, the New Jersey Senate primary on Tuesday may have been even more effective than warm milk or counting sheep.
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Roll Call, ABC News and Yahoo! News
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Kevin Brennan / NationalJournal.com:
Christie Won't Help Cory Booker's GOP Opponent In Senate Campaign
Christie Won't Help Cory Booker's GOP Opponent In Senate Campaign
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Yahoo! News, Steve Lonegan for U.S. Senate, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, ABC News, Twitchy and Missoulian
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Booker Coasts in Primary; ‘Make Me Your Senator,’ He Tells New Jersey
Booker Coasts in Primary; ‘Make Me Your Senator,’ He Tells New Jersey
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Post Politics, Booman Tribune, The Week, Jezebel and Prairie Weather
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cory Booker wins N.J. Senate primary
Cory Booker wins N.J. Senate primary
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Washington Monthly, National Review, New Jersey Online, Twitchy and WJLA-TV
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
New Jersey Republicans Nominate Koch Brothers Operative For Senate
New Jersey Republicans Nominate Koch Brothers Operative For Senate
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Guardian, bet.com and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Kasie Hunt / NBC Politics:
Booker aims to shake up Washington
Booker aims to shake up Washington
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The Fix, msnbc.com, Esquire, Outside the Beltway and Salon
Sky News:
Sky News Cameraman Killed In Egypt — Sky News cameraman Mick Deane has been shot and killed in Egypt this morning. — Mick had worked for Sky for 15 years, based in Washington and then Jerusalem. — He was part of our team covering the violence in Cairo. The rest of the team are unhurt.
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New York Times:
Egyptian Security Forces Storm Pro-Morsi Sit-Ins
Egyptian Security Forces Storm Pro-Morsi Sit-Ins
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Guardian, Gawker and The Hugh Hewitt Show
Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
Egyptian security forces storm protesters' camps
Egyptian security forces storm protesters' camps
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americanthinker.com, Hot Air and WJLA-TV
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
92-Year-Old Who Once Faced Literacy Tests Sues North Carolina Over New Wave Of Voter Suppression — When Rosanell Eaton was 21 years old and living in segregated North Carolina, she became one of the first African Americans in her county registered to vote, after successfully completing …
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Jamelle Bouie / The Daily Beast:
North Carolina's Attack on Voting Rights
North Carolina's Attack on Voting Rights
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The Fix, @NCCapitol, msnbc.com and The Huffington Post
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
North Carolinians Fear the End of a Middle Way
RIA Novosti / Russia & India Report:
In Russia, American runner dedicates silver medal to gay friends — US middle distance runner Nick Symmonds dedicated his 800-meter silver medal at the world athletics championships Tuesday to his gay and lesbian friends back home, becoming the first athlete to openly criticize Russia's controversial anti-gay law on the country's soil.
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Mark Bisson / World Football Insider:
Exclusive - Russia World Cup Chief Defends Anti-Gay Law — (WFI) Russia World Cup chief Alexey Sorokin defends his country's anti-gay law in an exclusive interview with World Football INSIDER. — Introduced by President Vladimir Putin in June, the law which bans “pro gay” propaganda …
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Gay Star News, Towleroad News #gay, AMERICAblog, Joe. My. God. and The New Civil Rights Movement
Sarah Goodyear / The Atlantic Cities:
Russia's Awful Anti-Gay Policies Could Kill Its Cities
Russia's Awful Anti-Gay Policies Could Kill Its Cities
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msnbc.com, AMERICAblog, On Top Magazine Headlines and LGBTQ Nation
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
GOP Senator Says Defunding Obamacare is Impossible — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said that defunding Obamacare would be “highly unlikely,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. — Said Johnson: “Even if we were to not pass the continuing resolution (to fund the federal government) …
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National Review
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Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
Ron Johnson, other Republicans say government shutdown unlikely — By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson rode opposition to President Barack Obama's signature health care law to victory in 2010. — But Johnson indicated Tuesday that shutting down the federal government …
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The Hill, National Review, Hot Air and The Plum Line
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Clintonworld vs. Weiner — A Hillary Clinton spokesman took a shot at Anthony Weiner on Tuesday for claiming he knew what role his wife Huma Abedin would play in a 2016 Clinton presidential run, denying he had any inside knowledge. — “We have absolutely no clue what he was talking about,” spokesman Nick Merrill said.
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Politicker, The Other McCain, First Read, Taylor Marsh, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and CNN
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton power in 2016 — Three years out and you'd think the deed was done: Madame President Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton. — She's everywhere these days because: (a) It's August; (b) reporters are bored with President Obama; (c) reporters are bored with Joe Biden; (d) Clintons are never boring.
Discussion:
Washington Wire and Althouse
David Weigel / Slate:
Photo: Hooters Restaurants in San Diego Won't Serve Bob Filner — Earlier today, the executive director of the San Diego Republican Party tweeted this image from in front of the Hooters in Rancho Bernardo. — According to the manager of that restaurant, all of the Hooters locations in the city …
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Cord Jefferson / Gawker:
Mayor Bob Filner Returns from Therapy to Find His Office Locks Changed
Mayor Bob Filner Returns from Therapy to Find His Office Locks Changed
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Weasel Zippers and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Dave Helling / Kansas City Star:
Missouri rodeo cowboy official resigns amid Obama-masked clown furor — Outrage over a rodeo clown's masked performance as President Barack Obama at the Missouri State Fair spilled into Tuesday as the president of the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association announced his resignation.
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Jessica Chasmar / Washington Times:
That's a clown question, bro: Rodeo clowns asked to take ‘sensitivity training’
That's a clown question, bro: Rodeo clowns asked to take ‘sensitivity training’
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Vox Popoli, TheBlaze.com, Weasel Zippers, The Right Scoop and The Gateway Pundit
Jeffrey Rosen / The New Republic:
The Lies Aren't What Makes Obama's NSA Stance So Awful — President Obama's repeated comments that “there is no spying on Americans” and that “we don't have a domestic spying program,” as he told Jay Leno, were contradicted by two revelations at the end of last week.
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Yahoo! News and emptywheel
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Fonda to pols: Watch ‘Newsroom’ — Jane Fonda says conservative icons like Sarah Palin and Bill O'Reilly would benefit from watching Aaron Sorkin's show “The Newsroom,” on which she plays a CEO of the company that owns the cable network. — “Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck …
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Los Angeles Times and Mediaite
New York Times:
Unease at Clinton Foundation Over Finances and Ambitions — Soon after the 10th anniversary of the foundation bearing his name, Bill Clinton met with a small group of aides and two lawyers from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Two weeks of interviews with Clinton Foundation executives …
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Taegan Goddard's …, First Read and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
Agence France Presse:
Morsi supporters ‘torch three churches’ in Egypt — CAIRO (AFP) - Supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi torched three churches in central Egypt on Wednesday in reprisal attacks as police dispersed demonstrations in Cairo, reports said. — The assailants threw firebombs …
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National Review and Jihad Watch
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
Nearly Every Major Agency Has Reduced Furloughs — The Treasury Building in Washington. The Treasury Department has cut its number of furlough days from five to three. Jacquelyn Martin/AP File Photo — When sequestration was about to kick in, the Obama administration began a nearly across …
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Weekly Standard
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Rand Paul: 'I'm not a birther,' declines to address Cruz's eligibility for president — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday sidestepped questions about fellow Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) eligibility to run for president, saying he was not a “birther.” — “You won't find me questioning his eligibility.
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Politico and The Raw Story
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Obama, Snowden and Putin — You only get one chance to make a second impression. It seems to me that Edward Snowden should use his and that Russian President Vladimir Putin has blown his. — Considering the breadth of reforms that President Obama is now proposing to prevent privacy abuses …
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msnbc.com
Chicago Tribune:
Jesse Jackson Jr., wife Sandi, await sentencing — WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who pleaded guilty to misspending about $750,000 in campaign funds, will learn today how much his crime will cost him. — A federal judge will sentence Jackson on a felony conspiracy count …
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Washington Free Beacon and Taegan Goddard's …
Adam Beam / The State:
SC state senator taking on Graham — State Sen. Lee Bright announced his candidacy Tuesday for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate, calling incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham “a community organizer for the Muslim Brotherhood.” — “During the (congressional) recess …
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msnbc.com and Taegan Goddard's …
Erika Eichelberger / Mother Jones:
Lobbyist Secretly Wrote House Dems' Letter Urging Weaker Investor Protections — Thirty-two liberal Democrats signed onto a letter drafted by a financial-industry lobbyist that aims to block protections for millions of Americans' retirement accounts. — June 14 letter from 32 House Democrats to the Department of Labor.
Kerry M. Flynn / The Day newspaper:
Returning submariner celebrates with marriage proposal — USS New Mexico crew member surprises partner at dock — Groton — After six months aboard the USS New Mexico (SSN 779), MM2 2nd class Jerrel Revels stepped onto Pier 31 at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton Monday afternoon …