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Ramona Shelburne / ESPN:
Shelly Sterling to negotiate sale — Disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has agreed to allow his wife, Shelly, to negotiate a forced sale of the team, sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN. — Shelly Sterling and her lawyers have been negotiating with the NBA since …
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Los Angeles Times:
Mark Cuban discusses his own prejudices in startling terms — It turns out, regarding race-related views among NBA owners, Donald Sterling may have company. — Less than a month after Sterling rocked the sports world with racist remarks, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has openly acknowledged his own prejudices.
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Mark Cuban / USA Today:
'I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways'
'I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways'
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Obama slams ‘false equivalence’ media — At a fundraiser last night, President Obama unleashed a surprisingly spirited and comprehensive attack on both-sides-to-blame media coverage. While he has taken issue with Beltway coverage before, what was particularly noteworthy …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Barack Obama's early VA response: Executive inaction — President Barack Obama wants to talk about flexing his administrative and executive power to do more. Instead, he got stuck talking about a clear administrative and executive failure that, at least so far, he hasn't done much about.
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J.D. Gordon / Fox News:
Al Qaeda terrorists at Guantanamo treated better than our vets
Al Qaeda terrorists at Guantanamo treated better than our vets
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer: Obama will act on immigration if GOP doesn't
Schumer: Obama will act on immigration if GOP doesn't
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Gregg Zoroya / USA Today:
Shinseki pledges to fix VA's problems
Shinseki pledges to fix VA's problems
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
A Response to Michael Kinsley — In 2006, Charlie Savage won the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles in The Boston Globe exposing the Bush administration's use of “signing statements” as a means of ignoring the law. In response to those revelations, Michael Kinsley …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
How right-wingers are amping up their war on science — From climate change to reproduction, Republicans are increasingly deciding “science” is whatever they say it is — No longer content just to claim to be “skeptical” of scientific findings they find disagreeable …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Georgia Senate: Nunn (D) Holds Slight Edge Over GOP Finalists — Georgia Republicans won't have a specific nominee for a couple more months, but the final two contenders are running slightly behind Democrat Michelle Nunn in Rasmussen Reports' first look at the U.S. Senate race in Georgia.
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John Fund / National Review:
The Hard Sell on Climate Change — Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, was very forthright about his media priorities at a Society of Professional Journalists dinner in New York City on Monday. — He told Bill Carter of the New York Times: “Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about.
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Scarborough: I've Never Heard Anyone Object To Obamacare Over Race (VIDEO) — Joe Scarborough said Friday that he doesn't understand what evidence Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has to back up his claim that opposition to President Barack Obama's signature health care law is driven by his race.
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Politico:
Michael Grimm probe panel announced — The House Ethics Committee announced Friday the creation of a special investigatory panel to probe allegations of wrongdoing by New York Republican Rep. Michael Grimm. — But the panel will “defer action on its investigation at this time,” because Grimm is under federal indictment.
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David H. Autor / sciencemag.org:
Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent” — The singular focus of public debate on the “top 1 percent” of households overlooks the component of earnings inequality that is arguably most consequential for the “other 99 percent” of citizens …
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Peter Dizikes / MIT News Office:
Q&A: David Autor on inequality among the “99 percent”
Q&A: David Autor on inequality among the “99 percent”
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Ed Payne / CNN:
Tennessee brings back electric chair — Editor's note: CNN's original series “Death Row Stories” explores America's capital punishment system at 9 p.m. ET/PT Sundays, beginning July 13. Join the conversation about the death penalty at facebook.com/cnn or Twitter @CNNorigSeries using #DeathRowStories.
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Erik Schelzig / Associated Press:
Gov. Haslam signs bill to allow electric chair in Tennessee
Gov. Haslam signs bill to allow electric chair in Tennessee
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detroitnews.com:
Michigan SOS: Conyers will remain off Aug. 5 ballot — Conyers (Elizabeth Conley / The Detroit News) — U.S. Rep. John Conyers will remain off the Aug. 5 ballot after Secretary of State Ruth Johnson decided Friday that the Detroit Democrat still lacks enough valid signatures to participate in the primary election.
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Matt Chorley / Daily Mail:
‘The Ukip fox is in the Westminster hen house’: Jubilant Farage taunts Cameron, Clegg and Miliband after his party takes council seats from Tories in the south and Labour heartlands in the north — A surge in support for Ukip has cost all the mainstream parties seats and control of councils …
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James Hibberd / PopWatch:
Morgan Freeman on helium — We could tell you that this clip below is from the fifth season of Science Channel's Through the Wormhole, a documentary series exploring the mysteries of of the universe that returns June 4. But all that does is delay getting to the point …
Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Did a Pennsylvania Republican Lose Because He's Openly Gay? — Mike Fleck ran unopposed three times, but appears to have been beaten by a write-in candidate after coming out in 2012. — Pennsylvania may have become the 19th state to allow same-sex couples to marry Tuesday but did it also vote …
Richard Rubin / Bloomberg:
IRS Will Revise Proposal on Political Nonprofit Groups — The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said today that it will revise proposed rules governing nonprofit groups' involvement in politics. — The rules, released last year, were an attempt to provide guidance for how much political …
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Sara Carter / TheBlaze.com:
$1 Million Bounty to Be Offered for ‘Smoking Gun’ in IRS Targeting Scandal
$1 Million Bounty to Be Offered for ‘Smoking Gun’ in IRS Targeting Scandal
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