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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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BBC, Guardian, Poynter and Committee to Protect …
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Agence France Presse:
Morsi supporters ‘torch three churches’ in Egypt
Morsi supporters ‘torch three churches’ in Egypt
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National Review and Jihad Watch
Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
Egyptian security forces storm protesters' camps
Egyptian security forces storm protesters' camps
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The Week, americanthinker.com, Hot Air and WJLA-TV
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, msnbc.com, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, ABC News, Twitchy and Missoulian
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cory Booker wins N.J. Senate primary
Cory Booker wins N.J. Senate primary
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Washington Monthly, New Jersey Online, National Review, Twitchy and WJLA-TV
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, Outside the Beltway, Salon and Prairie Weather
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
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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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
North Carolinians Fear the End of a Middle Way — EDEN, N.C. — When Pat McCrory, a Republican former mayor of Charlotte, was elected governor last year, he pledged to “bring this state together,” and to focus on bread-and-butter issues amid an ailing economy.
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
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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Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
Ron Johnson, other Republicans say government shutdown unlikely
Ron Johnson, other Republicans say government shutdown unlikely
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The Hill, National Review, Hot Air and The Plum Line
Michael O'Brien / First Read:
Conservative activists say data shows GOP shouldn't fear shutdown over Obamacare
Conservative activists say data shows GOP shouldn't fear shutdown over Obamacare
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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
Exclusive - Russia World Cup Chief Defends Anti-Gay Law
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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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AMERICAblog, msnbc.com, On Top Magazine Headlines and LGBTQ Nation
Peter Grier / Christian Science Monitor:
Obama-mask clown gets lifetime Missouri fair ban. Just, or too harsh? — An Obama-mask clown at the Missouri State Fair was banned for life, after photos and video asking a crowd if they wanted to see Obama ‘run down by a bull’ went viral. The crowd cheered. Fair officials dubbed the stunt ‘unconscionable.’
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The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, American Glob and National Review
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Dave Helling / Kansas City Star:
Missouri rodeo cowboy official resigns amid Obama-masked clown furor
Missouri rodeo cowboy official resigns amid Obama-masked clown furor
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The Daily Caller, americanthinker.com, Israel Matzav, @lowtax, The Gateway Pundit, No More Mister Nice Blog and Instapundit
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
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, Taylor Marsh, First Read, 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.
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Washington Wire and Althouse
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
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Air Travel Is Worse Than a Hummer With Wings — Christie Aschwanden decided to stay home for a year. Not because she doesn't like to travel, but because she doesn't like what travel does to the environment: … Why does air travel get left out of the mix when we're talking about reducing our carbon footprint?
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Althouse and National Review
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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First Read, Taegan Goddard's … and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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 …
Josh Eidelson / Salon:
Fast food strikes to massively expand: “They're thinking much bigger” — Top union officials tell Salon the largest mobilization of fast food workers in U.S. history is about to get huge — Fast food strikers will escalate their campaign within the next week and a half, according to the key union backing their recent walkouts.
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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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The Raw Story, msnbc.com, Taegan Goddard's … and Associated Press
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
Democracy Now:
EXCLUSIVE: Owner of Snowden's Email Service on Why He Closed Lavabit Rather Than Comply With Gov't … Lavabit, an encrypted email service believed to have been used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, has abruptly shut down. The move came amidst a legal fight that appeared …
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Macleans.ca, Guardian, Boing Boing, Informed Comment, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post and Hit & Run
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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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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