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Beth Farnsworth / KEYT-TV:
Sheriff Confirms Seven Dead in Isla Vista Shootings — “Mass Murder Situation” — ISLA VISTA, Calif. - — Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown revealed new details about Friday night's drive by shootings in Isla Vista during a Saturday morning news conference, including a new death toll …
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‘I will slaughter every single blonde s**t I see’: Seven people killed as son of Hunger Games assistant director carries out drive-by shooting ‘because women rebuffed his advances and he was a virgin at 22’ — Rodger also died of gunshot wound to the head; authorities have not confirmed if it was self-inflicted
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KEYT-TV:
Alleged Gunman's Apartment Now A Crime Scene — Three Bodies Pulled From The Capri Complex In Isla Vista … ISLA VISTA, Calif. - — UPDATE: Santa Barbara County's Sheriff's scheduled news conference postponed until 5:00 p.m. — The Santa Barbara County Coroner's team has established …
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Associated Press:
DIRECTOR SAYS SON RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING RAMPAGE — You are here — Home » Santa Barbara » Director says son responsible for shooting rampage — GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — A Hollywood director believes his son was the lone gunman who went on a shooting rampage near the University …
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USA Today:
Police identify Calif. shooting suspect as Elliot Rodger — ISLA VISTA, Calif. — Santa Barbara Police Saturday identified Elliot Rodger, 22, as the man suspected of killing six people during a Friday night drive-by rampage. — The attack ended with Rodger dead in his BMW …
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Daily Kos:
Elliot Rodger, Gunman in California Mass Shooting, was influenced by the “Men's Rights Movement” — Trigger Warning: Violence against Women — Last Night in Santa Barbara California, a Gunman in a BMW opened fire on students near the UC Santa Barbara campus in Isla Vista.
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CNN:
7 dead in California shooting rampage called ‘premeditated mass murder’
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Shooter kills at least six people in rampage near UC Santa Barbara
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Cynthia Johnston / Reuters:
Gunman kills six in drive-by shooting in California college town
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Sam Foote / New York Times:
Why I Blew the Whistle on the V.A. — PHOENIX — MY decision to become a whistle-blower after 24 years as a physician in a Veterans Affairs hospital was, at first, an easy one. I knew about patients who were dying while waiting for appointments on the V.A.'s secret schedules, and I couldn't stay silent.
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Jessica Wehrman / The Columbus Dispatch:
Privatizing VA still appeals to Boehner
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Elias Isquith / Salon:
Greenwald's haters, exposed: The real reason Michael Kinsley hates him — In his New York Times attack, the former “Crossfire” star reveals some of the elite media's deepest insecurities — People tell me — they insist, in fact — that there was a time, long ago, when Michael Kinsley wrote …
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Timothy Noah / msnbc.com:
VA wait times are bad. The private sector isn't much better. — The Department of Veterans Affairs, long touted by experts as providing health care superior to most private providers, is suddenly engulfed in scandal. — Records on wait times for appointments were allegedly falsified at the Phoenix VA …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Veterans aren't the only ones waiting for health care
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
The 2016 presidential candidate we need — All modern presidents of both parties have been too much with us. Talking incessantly, they have put politics unhealthily at the center of America's consciousness. Promising promiscuously, they have exaggerated government's proper scope and actual competence …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Is Piketty All Wrong? — Great buzz in the blogosphere over Chris Giles's attack on Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century. Giles finds a few clear errors, although they don't seem to matter much; more important, he questions some of the assumptions and imputations Piketty uses to deal …
Larry Rohter / New York Times:
Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins’ — For more than 40 years, Eduardo Galeano's “The Open Veins of Latin America” has been the canonical anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist and anti-American text in that region. Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's populist president …
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