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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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Christie Won't Help Cory Booker's GOP Opponent In Senate Campaign — New Jersey governor's allies say he will offer an endorsement, but no campaign appearances or fundraising help. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't going to help Cory Booker's GOP opponent, outside a formal endorsement.
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Yahoo! News, Steve Lonegan for U.S. Senate, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, ABC News, Twitchy and Missoulian

Booker Coasts in Primary; ‘Make Me Your Senator,’ He Tells New Jersey — Cory A. Booker, the mayor of Newark, who rose to prominence with his efforts to remake a notoriously troubled city and then used that perch to build a national reputation as a charismatic and media-savvy star in the Democratic Party …
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Post Politics, Booman Tribune, The Week, Jezebel and Prairie Weather


New Jersey Republicans Nominate Koch Brothers Operative For Senate
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Guardian

Cory Booker wins N.J. Senate primary
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National Review, New Jersey Online, Twitchy and WJLA-TV

Cory Booker wins Democratic primary in New Jersey
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Booker aims to shake up Washington
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Cory Booker becomes Democratic nominee for N.J. Senate seat
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Weekly Standard, The Week, bet.com, theGrio and BuzzFeed


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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North Carolina's Attack on Voting Rights
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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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Mayor Bob Filner Returns from Therapy to Find His Office Locks Changed
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Weasel Zippers and Alan Colmes' Liberaland


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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Hillary Clinton power in 2016
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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 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


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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That's a clown question, bro: Rodeo clowns asked to take ‘sensitivity training’
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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


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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Russia's Awful Anti-Gay Policies Could Kill Its Cities
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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

Terry McAuliffe's former car company is signaling problems in his Virginia governor's race — TERRY MCAULIFFE, the Democratic nominee for governor of Virginia, launched an electric-car company shortly after his failure to win the same nomination four years ago.
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GOP uses Virginia governor's race as test ground for Hillary Clinton attacks
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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


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

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


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


Egyptian security forces storm protesters' camps — CAIRO — Egyptian security forces stormed two sprawling sit-ins by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi shortly after dawn Wednesday, firing weapons, bulldozing tents and beating and arresting protesters in raids that Morsi's political party said caused heavy casualties.
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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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Obama pushes ambitious Internet access plan for schools — President Obama liked the idea laid out in a memo from his staff: an ambitious plan to expand high-speed Internet access in schools that would allow students to use digital notebooks and teachers to customize lessons like never before.
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The Daily Caller
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Rubio Warns Obama Could Act to Legalize Immigrants
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Politico