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Jake Sherman / Politico:
CANTOR LOSES — RICHMOND, Va. — It wasn't enough that Eric Cantor spent $1 million in the weeks leading up to the election, when his conservative foe hardly had $100,000 in his campaign coffers. — It didn't matter that the House majority leader, 51, branded Dave Brat a liberal hack …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Eric Cantor succumbs to tea party challenger Tuesday — In a stunning upset propelled by tea party activists, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was defeated in Tuesday's congressional primary, with insurgent David Brat delivering an unpredicted and devastating loss to the second …
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Eric Cantor Loses To Tea Party Primary Challenger — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-VA) lost to tea party primary challenger David Brat in the Republican primary on Tuesday. — The race was called at about 8:05 p.m. Cantor lost to primary challenger David Brat.
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Business Insider and Hit & Run
Alan Suderman / Associated Press:
House Majority Leader Cantor Defeated in Primary — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost in his Republican primary election Tuesday to a little-known economics professor, a stunning upset for the GOP's No. 2 in the House and a major victory for the tea party.
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Politico, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Vox Popoli and The Mahablog
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Open thread: Tonight's the night we retire Eric Cantor and Lindsey Graham; Update: Cantor in deep trouble early; Update: Cantor loses? Update: AP calls it for Dave Brat — I know that headline's egregiously incorrect, I just ... wanted to experience it. Just once.
Fox News:
Cantor upset in Virginia GOP primary by Tea Party backed challenger — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, at the Siemens Energy Hub in Charlotte, N.C. — In a stunning upset, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost the GOP Virginia primary Tuesday night to Dave Brat, an economics professor and political novice.
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NewsBusters and Fox News Insider
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Eric Cantor Defeated by Dave Brat, Tea Party Challenger, in Primary Upset — WASHINGTON — In one of the most stunning primary election upsets in congressional history, the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia, was soundly defeated on Tuesday by a Tea Party-backed economics professor …
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The Dish
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
For Sen. Lindsey Graham, 50 percent is the only number that matters today — Voters head to the polls today in six states to cast ballots in a the latest round of primary and runoff elections in the heart of nominating season. The marquee congressional contest is in South Carolina …
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz's Staff Seems Pretty Excited That Eric Cantor Lost
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CNN:
Big upset: No. 2 House Republican Eric Cantor loses primary
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Talking Points Memo and Hit & Run
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Eric Cantor Loses Primary to Tea Party Challenger In Huge Upset
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ABC News and susiemadrak.com
Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
News Guide: Primary Elections Tuesday in 6 States
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Politico
Jack Fitzpatrick / NationalJournal.com:
Eric Cantor's Unusually Expensive, Surprisingly Negative Primary Campaign
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Washington Post, National Review, Guardian and Fox News
Washington Post:
One way to end violence against women? Married dads. — The data show that #yesallwomen would be safer with fewer boyfriends around their kids. — The dramatic social media response to the UC-Santa Barbara shooting, captured by the hashtag #YesAllWomen, underlined an important and unpleasant truth …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo Editorial Page Goes Neanderthal For Second Time In A Week — On Tuesday, the Washington Post published a piece by two academics arguing that women would be safer from sexual assaults if they themselves were married or had married fathers. — The Post originally published the piece in its …
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The Other McCain, Washington Post and The Huffington Post
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
ABC News's Diane Sawyer destroys Hillary Rodham Clinton on Benghazi — A standard defense for Hillary Rodham Clinton when facing questions about Benghazi, Libya, has been to cite her commissioning of a report from the State Department's Accountability Review Board (ARB) …
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Eun Kyung Kim / Today:
Hillary Clinton: I refused to ‘attack’ Palin for ‘being a woman’
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The Moderate Voice, The Daily Caller and Althouse
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Why Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Attack Palin ‘For Being A Woman’
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ABC News and Talking Points Memo
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Judge Rejects Teacher Tenure for California — LOS ANGELES — A California judge ruled Tuesday that teacher tenure laws deprive students of their right to an education under the state Constitution and violate their civil rights. The decision hands teachers' unions a major defeat in a landmark case …
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Stephanie Simon / Politico:
California teachers unions lose big in court
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The Daily Signal and Diane Ravitch's blog
KOIN-TV:
Student, shooter dead at Reynolds High School — TROUTDALE, Ore. (KOIN 6) — Troutdale police have identified the student killed in the shooting at Reynolds High School student Tuesday morning as a 14-year-old freshman. — Emilio Hoffman, a freshman soccer player at Reynolds High School, is one of two dead (Instagram)
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Pat Dollard, The Democratic Daily, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Raw Story
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CNN:
Right-wing extremists strike again — Shootings in Las Vegas … (CNN) — On Sunday, Jerad and Amanda Miller, a married couple, allegedly killed two police officers in an ambush at a Las Vegas pizza restaurant and then murdered another person in an adjacent Walmart.
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Hit & Run, Infowars, The Truth About Guns, NewsBusters, emptywheel, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post
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Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
One Of The World's Scariest Terrorist Groups Now Controls Major City In Iraq — ISIS fighters in Fallujah, the first city the group captured — A terrorist group that al Qaeda has deemed too radical and unpredictable now controls the second largest city in Iraq as of Tuesday …
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Jen Psaki / US Department of State:
U.S. Condemns ISIL Assault on Mosul
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, The Long War Journal, Gawker and National Review
Geoff Pender / The Clarion-Ledger:
Cochran goes on offensive, calls McDaniel “an extremist,” “dangerous” — After months of milquetoast statements and letting surrogates do any campaign trash talking, incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran went on the offensive in Hattiesburg on Tuesday, calling his opponent Chris McDaniel …
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National Review, Hot Air, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Week and Talking Points Memo
Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
No, Canada: Sen. Ted Cruz has formally shed his dual citizenship — Sen. Ted Cruz at the Texas GOP Convention in Fort Worth last Friday. (AP Photo/Rex C. Curry) — Alberta-born Sen. Ted Cruz has given up his Canadian dual citizenship. The renunciation became official on May 14 …
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Politico, OnPolitics, Mediaite and The Week
CBS News:
How do Americans view the Bergdahl swap? — Shares - — Just over a week after U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was freed by the Taliban, a CBS News Poll shows 45% of Americans disapprove of the deal that saw him released in exchange for five Taliban militants, while 37% approve of it.
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