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Kyle Wagner / Deadspin:
Exclusive: The Extended Donald Sterling Tape — Deadspin has acquired an extended, 15-minute version of the conversation between Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his then-girlfriend V. Stiviano. If the original nine-minute tape acquired by TMZ left any questions about Sterling's opinions …
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Obama responds to alleged racist comments by Clippers' Don Sterling
Obama responds to alleged racist comments by Clippers' Don Sterling
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Obama: Alleged Sterling comments ‘incredibly offensive’
Obama: Alleged Sterling comments ‘incredibly offensive’
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Should NBA Clippers Owner Donald Sterling be Fired for Racist Remarks? Scheduled to Get NAACP Award on May 15
Should NBA Clippers Owner Donald Sterling be Fired for Racist Remarks? Scheduled to Get NAACP Award on May 15
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The Point Forward, Deadspin, Fox News and Hot Air
Alex Greig / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Shocking moment a Tennessee police officer choked an unresisting college student until he fell UNCONSCIOUS — Deputies were called to a University of Tennessee student party that spilled out onto a residential street — A photographer on the scene took a series of photos …
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The Daily Caller
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Sheriff's office fires deputy in Ft. Sanders party incident — KNOXVILLE (WATE) - The Knox County Sheriff's Office says they have fired the deputy involved in Saturday night's block party in Fort Sanders. — Frank Phillips, 47, has been with the Knox County Sheriff's Office since 1992.
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The Raw Story
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Warren blasts financial services industry — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has been worried for 25 years about the power of the financial services industry, and that's not going away. — On Sunday, Warren reiterated those concerns while promoting her new book, “A Fighting Chance,” on ABC's “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Warren hopes Hillary Clinton will run in 2016
Warren hopes Hillary Clinton will run in 2016
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Outside the Beltway
Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Bob Schieffer: Romney may consider 2016 run if Jeb Bush doesn't — Mitt Romney has said time and time again that he has no interest in running for president a third time. — But, on Sunday morning, CBS' Bob Schieffer said not to write off the idea of a 2016 campaign by Romney so quickly.
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Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Kerry Warns Israel Could Become ‘An Apartheid State’ — The secretary of state said that if Israel doesn't make peace soon, it could become ‘an apartheid state,’ like the old South Africa. Jewish leaders are fuming over the comparison. — If there's no two-state solution …
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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Establishment Has Upper Hand in May Primaries — Circle May 20 on your calendar; it is shaping up as a good day for the Republican “establishment.” — That's the day Republican primary voters in Georgia, Idaho and Kentucky pick their nominees for the fall campaigns - and, in the process …
CNN:
Tornadoes slam several states; multiple deaths reported — Are you there? Please send your videos, pictures and text to iReport, but please stay safe. — Mayflower, Arkansas (CNN) — Tornadoes tore through several states Sunday evening as severe weather slammed into parts of the central United States.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Taking Up Police Searches of Data Troves Known as Cellphones — WASHINGTON — In a major test of how to interpret the Fourth Amendment in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider two cases about whether the police need warrants to search the cellphones of the people they arrest.
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Outside the Beltway
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The UK in the Balance — The colorful Nigel Farage and his UKIP are getting most of the attention as the insurgent party of the populist right in the UK these days, but another fringe party, Liberty GB, is making some headlines. Apparently party leader Paul Weston was arrested recently …
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Enza Ferreri / Liberty GB:
WINCHESTER: CHURCHILL QUOTATION GETS LIBERTY GB LEADER PAUL WESTON ARRESTED
WINCHESTER: CHURCHILL QUOTATION GETS LIBERTY GB LEADER PAUL WESTON ARRESTED
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
High Plains Moochers — It is, in a way, too bad that Cliven Bundy — the rancher who became a right-wing hero after refusing to pay fees for grazing his animals on federal land, and bringing in armed men to support his defiance — has turned out to be a crude racist. Why?
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Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Palin at NRA meeting: ‘Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists’ — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) defended the controversial enhanced interrogation technique of waterboarding this weekend, and implied that the practice would still be commonplace “if I were in charge.”
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The GOP has a demographic problem, and it looks like it could get even worse — It's no secret that Republicans have a demographic problem when it comes to national elections. But what many people don't realize is that the GOP's issues will be worse in 2020 than in 2016 — unless things change dramatically.
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